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

That road salt gave your truck leprosy. If you’re rehabbing the truck I’d follow the build thread.

 

you should see the frames that come into work up here in in indiana..

 

https://www.ebay.com/i/193311398216...6KkDPXxzgGAf5UA2WpwngfGvS_TwyZUxoCvvoQAvD_BwE

Any1 know if these would fit?

do you think $400 is a good price for a pair of 06 sti seats?

 

I think I spent 200, but... Depending on how bad you want them, 400 would not be out of line asking price.

I passed over a few seats before finding these on FB marketplace. I also wasn't in a hurry.

 

You could always use this as a good excuse for SAS and tube chassis. I know a guy...

 

not exactly a mod that i completed today, but i'm getting pretty close to having the funds to order my new Windoors for my canopy. Planning on calling Canopy West this week to get those on order. hopefully they don't take too long to get here!

 

The cam plugs under the collar you have pictured can absolutely be replaced and should be if you're seeing leaking from there. Since you've gone to the trouble of getting under your VCs I would highly recommend replacing those plugs. It doesn't require removing the timing belt either. Per the FSM you will want to use that FIPG to re-establish a seal at those camshaft plugs in addition to the semilunar plugs.

 

When you say cam plugs, are you referring to the ones at the back of the motor? Because I am indeed replacing those, but the leak I’ve tried to picture is in the front of the motor. Behind the cam pulley.

 

I’ve started taking my truck apart to raptor line and I’ve been thinking about putting retro badges in place of my current factory ones. Printed this one last night.

 

Oh right sorry I wasn't oriented correctly. If that's toward the front then disregard my previous comment. Although it may be your cam seal, it's also possible that your vc gasket degraded there or your vc was loose and allowed leakage. I'd probably do the VC gasket job, clean everything off super well, and see if that stopped the leak before getting into the cam seal but that just me.

 

Question... what are those hex plugs? Oil gallerys?

 

Over did it with the oil change

 

Oil or coolant. Don’t know. Don’t care. Lol

 

That’s what I’ve decided to do. I found a video on the front cam seal, it wouldn’t be hard to do, but would involve taking off the timing belt and the cam pulleys. However, It can be done with the VC on, from the video I found.

 

The genuine Toyota filter is only like 7 bucks at walmart

 

Starting to prep and prime for raptor liner.

 

Update on BMW seats.

Wiring ✔
Interior put back together ✔
Fully functional BMW seats in 96 T4R ✔

I ran it to the 4wd fuse under the dash. It's a 20A circuit. With the size of the power wire coming off the BMW plug (and considering it's a motor) I figured a 20A circuit was better than a smaller circuit. The 4wd circuit is not constant power, so he'll have to have to key turned to ACC to give power to the seats.

Normally seats are constant power. But I figured this will work fine. Also, if the diver seat locks up like the problem @Seagull233 was having... we can cut power by turning off the key, to what I assume is clear the memory fault.

So far though the seats are fully fuctional, and not giving any problem on the driver seat (with memory).

 

That’s badass. Definitely unique.

 

There's a few other other's who have done this one. The others who have done it definately played a part in my decision to try it.

Now that I've done it once though... and my kid's truck was the guinea pig... I'm DEFINATELY doing this shit to my truck, as soon as I can find these seats in grey.

 

Nice!! My manual 60/40 bench is getting old and worn out. I’m thinking of doing some sort of swap. At the ripe old age of 25 my back doesn’t like the seats like I did when I was 16 lol.