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

Today it's what I did to my other Tacoma - sold the wreck that became my parts truck 10 years ago. It's been taking up space in my driveway and getting parts swapped long enough. One of my neighbors told me he's been eyeing that truck for 10 years, and finally stopped by to make an offer. He got a deal on a pretty easy rebuild project with 120k miles on it, and I got lots of good body parts. A win-win.


Oh yeah, we did make it drivable to his house down the road, but not before cleaning 10-year-old gas gunk out of the tank and replacing the fuel pump, of course. Knew that would happen...

 

A limited. Damn.

 

Yes, my (and my wife's!) feelings, exactly. I am really glad to be able to sell it to someone who will trick it out - he's going to do a 5" lift on it. As a pro welder, he will make short work out of fixing the very minor frame damage that got it totaled. I can't wait to post a few pics here when he comes by with it.

 

Thanks for sharing. This is a project I will be digging into someday. Happy to learn from others

 

started making some skid plates

 

I’ll let you know how well it worked. Plan on throwing the bumper back on tonight

 

jus'some front end facelift footy

 

It’s finally back together, loctited and sealed. I’m fairly happy with the pattern. I had a shim stack picked out yesterday and spent about 4 hours yesterday trying another 5 or 6 shim stacks. Slept on it and decided my original pick from yesterday was the right one. Took everything apart and really cleaned it for final assembly. Spent about an hour getting the solid spacer shims to the right setting. I learned a lot and have a lot of things that I’ll do different next time, including making set up bearings so I don’t have to press them off every time while setting up the pinion depth. Going to save my old bearings and will use them as set up bearings next time I have one apart.

Going to go steal some fresh cardboard from the furniture store to cover the work bench for the front diff and study the air locker install guide one more time. Will probably start on it tonight, but I’m still waiting for my dial indicator 90 degree tool to show up.

 

Installed this momentary switch that goes to a Pop & Lock to my tailgate. I didn't like the idea of it locking every time I locked my truck door. I know it's not centered because I still wanted to use at least one of the structural plastic ridges underneath the panel. Worked out pretty well. I'm going to be painting the power door/window panel here soon along with a couple of other pieces in my truck interior. Probably the speaker covers and the kick plate. Just trying to get rid of the full grey interior as most people have. Snazzy it up a bit eh?!

 

Got any side pics ? I want to see that visor.

 

Wiring up the blinkers that came with the AP apex bumper. Gr to Blk and Wht to wht right?

 

I don’t think it matters, atleast I never paid attention when had my TG bumper on




Could be wrong

 

I think I should leave some paper towels inside the intake runners for good measure, and forget about them when I put the supercharger back.



Off to the machine shop ya go, you magnificent piece of crap.

 

White wire with the black stripe is your ground (coming from the truck), that connects to the white wire coming from the turn signal. Green connected to black. At least that's how I'm 99% sure I did mine, without undoing it to check.

You're going to have a hyper flash afterward, need an ep35 relay or install resistors to fix it

 

Thanks man! I just got the hyper flash and figured I’d check on this post to see if I did something wrong!

 

No worries, its just because LED lights draw so little power that the truck thinks the bulb is low...so you get the hyper flash. An EP35 relay will fix it, I still need to install mine lol

$21 Novita EP35 Flasher

https://www.amazon.com/Novita-EP35-Flasher/dp/B00064LQL2

 

Do I need one or two?

 

one

 

New truck mask! Top filter was installed in 2015... Snorkel pre-filter does an amazing job at keeping larger debris out of the air box. Pretty much only deposits from smoke and smog Probably didn't even need to replace, but I got nothing better to do right now. Totally worth all the weird questions people ask

Also keeping occupied with cheap mini taco mods! I swapped out the worn out banged-up decals on my wheels and replaced them with navigation app arrows! ⛰️ I got hey small kick out of it. I'll never get lost again! Feel like you could play spin the wheel or wheel of Fortune now

Swapped out the double stacked and cut in half lugs nonsense on the back end. Luckily axle has 1/2" x 3" studs plenty of beef and thread. Swapped in one sold spacer with extended open ended lug nuts. Now using all available thread to hold the wheels on, about 10mm extra per lug, so an extra 60mm of contact per wheel! One less thing to worry about in the back of my head.

 

Would of loved to have grabbed those Limited side view mirrors.