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

Assembly line em, anytime I have to do more than two of something, I get it all laid out and do the same step down the line come back and do the next thing down the line. Helps get it done quickly so you're not switching tools and such all the time.

 

Cutting the wires to length is honestly the most monotonous part of the whole thing. Made this cool wire rack out of the budget lumber at Home Depot when I found out professional wire racks are like $100.

 

fast way for cutting wire lengths is buying some 1'' PVC or 1/2'' and cut it to the length the wire needs to be. Then thread the wires you need through and cut them all.

 

use a cutter like that and you could do a lot of cables at once.

cut notches in the end of the pipe to hold the ends of the wires.

 

Mounted my light bar up front. Just need to wire it up.

 

Genius. I'll definitely be doing this.

 

That’s a cool idea, I like how that looks. I’m gonna use that.

 

Solid mounts?

 

Damn near, just a super hard poly bushing in there. Funny part is my stock mounts were so screwed that it feels smoother now than it ever had, and my FROR transfer case mount fit better after the new mounts.

 

Looks way sexier with the stock bumper, she’s looking damn good btw.

 

Yes they are different

Yes they are different

$193 43330-39815 Toyota Genuine Parts - Joint Assy, Lwr Ball (43330-39815)

43330-39815 $108.47

$202 43340-39585 Toyota Genuine Parts - Joint Assy, Lwr Ball (43340-39585)

43340-39585 $108.47

 

Those are the part numbers for 98-00, right?

 

Those are for 95-00 4x4

 

Kinda. I cut mine to fit a dual setup though.

Fancy shmancy drone shots.

 

I’m sure this have been covered a thousand times but what’s the best bet for O.E. style replacement headlights. Mine are hazzed over and I just want to replace them but don’t want something with cheap crappy mounting / adjustment

 

TYC and Depo are considered nice. But OEM has the best mounting/back half of any headlight.

 

Looks better than the one i was looking at in my neck of the woods, had 100k on it and dude wanted 1100, im sure it needs a rebuild and he wouldnt negotiate...with the possibility of a rebuild not sure it was worth it

 

now that magnueson sells parts for them. Finding one used and not complete isn't as expensive as it used to be.

 

Yeah i was seeing them on ebay for $700 but the guy didnt wanna budge. When i get caught up with all my other upgrades I will look for one.