What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Not a peep, they are not squeezed all that tight or carrying big loads like straight up poly spring or control arm bushings.
Amazing how much more, off the shelf, trade sized bearings go for when the vendor has "Off Road" in their name.

This is the stuff I use inside. Keeps everything inside bright, shinny and unstuck. Spacers, retainers, the bearing and the bolt.
The stuff also does wonders for chapped lips, cold sores, hickies and hemorrhoids.


Sure is a pain in the butt, building a Flickr account after Photobucket.

 

Got a little snow in north ga

 

anybody have one of these installed in their dual cab? (kicker hideaway sub)

$270 Kicker Hideaway Powered Enclosure HS8 - Used Acceptable

https://www.amazon.com/Hideaway-Powered-Subwoofer-Enclosure-HS8/dp/B007LQWSYC

 

My bro has this one in his 4runner and its amazing how good it is for being so compact.

https://www.amazon.com/Kenwood-KSC-...&qid=1512762114&sr=1-1&keywords=underseat+sub

 

I had one in my dc and now in my extra cab. I think it works well for it's compact size. Price was a bit steep when I got it ($299) but Amazon forgot to charge me for my Alpine head unit. At the current price, I'd buy it all over again. If it was still at $299, I'd highly consider the Kenwood in the post above.

*EDIT*
I just have it sitting under the passenger seat.

 

Got a roll of tool box liner and made some wheel well aprons.

 

When the cops tell you that you need mudflaps

 

Ordered new tires: 225/75R-15 WRL TRAILRNR AT finally... thinking about shocks, but not sure that I need them, and not clear which ones I would want for mostly around town on wet roads (Everett, WA!) - I have always driven my 2 WD Tacomas like they were sports cars and would like to approach that with my new (2000) 4 WD... LesSchwab printed out a recommendation of either (1)

$34 KG5462 Gas-a-Just Gas Shock

KG5462 GAS-A-JUST SHOCK w/ KG9024 GAS-A-JUST STRUT, or (2) 565052 MONO MAX SHOCK w/ 564001 MONO MAX STRUT. It looks like they want to charge me about twice what I could buy the same thing for at Amazon...

Input welcome (as long as it is civil

 

Bilstein 5100 and some Eibach coils. If your gonna do it may as well get some decent parts

 

Thanks. I will check into that with my mechanics...

 

Pulled my tundra calipers apart, one cylinder was seized and I wasn’t pleased with the condition of the others. So I got annoyed and went down to napa and got some remans. Used the ones I had as cores.

 

Looks good. Looks just like the design of mine from Stubbs welding.

 

Could not recommend against that combination more for a truck with no armor and no extra weight way to long and stiff of a coil.

OME 881s would be best

 

With OME shocks too, don't waste time with the Billies

 

Awesome truck man! How’d you mount your racks?

 

Woot! Finally got this off! Reposition the winch to pull from the top and have it a shake and bake that would make Ricky Bobby proud and it popped off!

I'm kind of surprised how little dirt is inside. I never knew how well ventilated the bellhousing was.

20171208_175757 by Ryan Heintzelman - Flickr2BBcode


This guy is more or less seized.


20171208_175819 by Ryan Heintzelman - Flickr2BBcode

 

Wow yours was much cleaner inside than mine was. Mine was trashed, I used a lot of industrial cleaner on the body and bell housing when I did my clutch.

 

For all of the stupid mud I used to play in I was surprised.

 

Thanks. I did copy their design. Best looking sliders in my opinion, I like the more subtle kickout