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

looks good for a '98 too
it must not see many hard winters

 

I had some on the strut tower that I wanted to clean up a bit, but then had extra por-15 so went ham on everything in the surrounding area after prep. Using Por-15 where there is rust and regular paint where there is none. Frame is pretty mint to be honest. It's a 98' i just bought and has been garage kept for 20 years. Got a killer deal

 

Look at your text deal below your username... Lol

 

i am not liking these frames with rust under paint, i am finding mine has been creeping behind what I thought was good paint in spots

 

Thanks! The truck is pretty mint, original owner kept great care of it. It was garage kept it's whole life. I was lucky to stumble into a deal where he didn't know its worth and picked it up for $5k!

 

Oh yea thats a bummer, I stripped all the rust off with a wire brush before painting! So no actual rust below the paint. Picture below

 

oh ok i wasn't sure from the other post if you just painted over the top like por-15 is used for sometimes
dumbasses here want to do that to my truck

 

I'm trying to evolve as a person, not be striken to my old ways once you go through your 4th CVJ, they start rolling their eyes at your emails

 

Noooo

we want you to sell your truck

 

Yea thats a shame, no half assing from me on my truck lol. Going all out to make this thing perfect

 

Thanks! I'm terrible about updating it. I had planned on doing some sort of write up for the swap but I was in a time crunch. I'm sure you've found it, but @SafetyDang and a few others over in ttora had a bunch of good info. Off the top of my head, rear drive shaft needs shortening or lengthening, I forget, but I'll pull measurements as all three are on my workbench. Also the thing I didn't see anywhere are the starter bolts are different lengths, I ordered from McMaster, I can find out what length tomorrow.

 

testing the FF thorough the underbody pressure washer
day 2 of fluid film testing for durability

looks as though some spots are already wearing off after the drizzle it got
bottom looks ok, possibly because the underwash does not hit it with the high pressure like it does on the rockers


wish there was some hard rain in the forecast to really test it out!

 

How many cans did you use for your frame?

 

maybe half a spray can so far, but i did not spray the whole thing, just where i had naked steel with a zinc coating on half the passenger side, (first time user it seems like i overdosed it lol, just gooped it on all over)
trying to prevent flash rust until the weather gets over 70s for several days to primer and maybe paint weather permitting

 

Nice! Good luck. Ill be doing a full fluid film after I finish painting my frame. Hoping 3-4 cans will be enough for inside and out of frame

 

i have heard on TW that is approximately how many cans it takes

 

I don't know how you plan on getting all that FF cleaned off enough to be ready for paint.

 

i don't either! i am going to see how the phosphoric acid works and what i get on the white rag wipe off
somebody in St Louis told me to use hot pressure water

 

We have steering stops? My steering stops when I hit the frame.

 

Just picked up my truck this morning from getting the clutch installed. The factory clutch was still in at 420k miles according to the guy that put it in. The pressure plate had 2 of the 4 springs gone. They fell out when he removed the trans. What’s next???