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

That thing needs the TW treatment : blue LED's, plasti-dip, and a snorkel

 

And 5100 with ome coils...

 

Rear end is looking proper dude!

 

It needs a deckplate to be TW official

 

Fuzzy dice?

 

Replaced the Driver's side engine perch, timing belt (etc) and the valve cover gaskets. Replaced the motor oil change and front diff gear oil while I was at it.

 

Did your perch break off?

 

Added some @CBI Offroad Fab frame plates to the rear frame for support. Several fun bits about this project - help from @Digiratus, @Speedytech7, and @drr getting the bedoff. Got to use a sandblaster for the first time, and found out that I can lift the rear of the truck off the ground using the swing-out on the driver side.

Story and pics in the usual place - Don't Skip Leg Day - Reinforcing the Rear Frame

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Depending on where the jack stands are on the front be careful it doesn't nose dive lol! The rear end is very light

 

Sorry, I don't follow...

 

Broke the bitch off the frame.

 

Damn how much skinny pedal were you using when you did that lol

 

Honestly I think the mount was already broken. It gave as much as it could then it just sheered off.

 

Is your front end on jack stands too? If you do and those are behind the front wheels just be careful because the weight of the engine can make the whole thing tip forward

 

This for sure haha. I could lift my truck up off the rear stands so I put a couple more under my front rails for safety.

 

New headlights and taillights for my birthday

 

Wow, that's such a weird breakage for stock motor mounts, they usually stop that much force from transmitting to anything.

 

Yea man, I don't know what could have happened. I went ahead and replaced both mounts plus the transmission one to be safe

 

I'd chalk it up as a fluke if you don't remember doing anything that could cause that haha. I need to think about beefing up the frame side of my perches soon with the hard poly mounts in there, trans is already taken car of though.

Nightmare of a job but love the difference they make...

 

We had planned on beefing up the frame perches but when it came time to it we just didn't have the time. Hopefully this won't ever occur again. I might just buy another set of perches from Toyota before they stop making them.