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

Lol, you mean not actually speaking Japanese.

 

Temporary fix for a cracked/broken door handle... I used a 1 1/4" sheet metal screw. Pre-drilled a 1/8" hole so that the screw wouldn't crack the plastic.

 

Picked up the center caps this afternoon

 

For all the LED headlight lovers out there.

 

Those are the size of the wheels I use...what size are they? Wondering what will be the smallest KO2 that can fit in these ?

 

This is kind of different because most people post in this thread when they do cool shit to their truck. Today I Removed the rear Icon 1.5” AAL and lowered the front to match the stock rear. I recently went back to 31’s and wanted to bring it down. My stock leafs are actually not in as bad of shape as I was expecting (flat not negative). I went from about 2” of threads showing on the front coil overs to about 1” of threads. It’s level with the rear. Truck rides wayy smoother. I like It. I’ve never had it at stock height with stock tires since I’ve owned it. My drive to work recently doubled so it makes The ride a lot easier. May have future plans for the truck once I have another vehicle and it’s not my DD. Getting an alignment in the morning. Also greased the TC UCA bushings. Will post pics tomorrow of ride height difference.

 

put my bilsteins on. only the rear ones for now until bilstein ships me the missing part

 

Not that it matters, but theyre upside down...

 

lmfaoo well dont drink too much and work on ur truck i guess lol

 

Upgraded my headlights today with a better harness and bulbs. Removed the LED bulbs installed by the PO.



These were the LED bulbs. They worked good and have the shield things for the high beams but I still wasn't happy with them. Still scattered and not correct for the OEM housings. I also didn't have a working high beam indicator on the dash, now I do which I much prefer.





Then I put new Marlin Crawler shifter bushings and t-case shifter bushings in, along with replacing the origial boots that attach to the trans and t-case. Glad I ordered those since the t-case boot tore while I was pulling it off the t-case.



This is what was left of the OEM t-case shifter bushing. That was a pain to clean out, I ended up grabbing the shop vac to keep that all out of the t-case while scrapping it loose with a screwdriver.



I didn't think either of the shifters were working bad but the t-case definitely is a huge difference in shifting, much more positive now.



Then I installed these fancy spot mirrors. I've always used them on my trucks but these are much better than any of the ones I have used previously. Glad I mistakenly ordered 2 sets, now I have a set to replace the old ones on my Ram.



Credit to @turbodb for the spot mirrors link on Amazon.

 

Fixing shitty wiring jobs, that were causing leaking into the cab through the firewall. Suppose to rain tomorrow. That will be the real test.

 

How are you fixing it? Replacing the boot and bundling the wires better or just gooping the shit out of it with RTV sealant or something?

 

Those Bilsteins are nitrogen charged shocks. Which means they can be mounted shaft up or shaft down. They will work equally well either way. In fact, I would not run them shaft down because the blue shaft cover will act like a cup and will retain water/debris/mud etc.

 

I cut the boots off mine. Shaft down.

 

ahh never thought of that. cool so i did get it right. thx sir

 

I cut them, put them through the boot, sodered them back together, heat shrinked them and siliconed the boot. I originally put the wires on the outside of the boot and it was leaking water

 

It doesn't matter which way you mount them. My 5100's are mounted "upside down".

 

What harness did you go with?