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

Growing up in a mechanic shop....never listen to the people at auto parts stores unless you know for sure they have a background in automotive. In 3 counties I’ve gotten parts from I’ve only known 2 people at parts houses that barely know stuff about cars

 

I want to go camping so bad, but I was enrolled in a military school that lasts till August. Wiped out most of the camping season for me...

 

Isn’t it always summer in AZ?

 

I would love to pick one of those up, but they want an arm and two legs for them.

 

What... you don't like being compared to my mall crawler, yo?

 

Glad i did the plugs in the autozone parking lot bc the ign coil bolts were snapping retightening them

 

I'm in the mountains, my front yard is 7000 feet. And I'm not a fan of the desert...

 

What are you using for sliders, guilders, or rollers for that? I'm debating building a set of drawers for mine.

 

I just giving you shit.

Why don’t you come up here and visit this winter, kill something

 

I would love too

 

Give you the TW discount

 

I snugged down the plugs p decent after putting a lil anti seize on it. Saw they are 15 ft lb trq recommended, they arent known to back out at all after doing them right?

 

Heeheee...... My malls have bigger speed bumps

Wanna hit the mall on the 4th?

 

Roughed on a spare tire stabilizer this afternoon. It's just cheap bed frame material, so I am going to add some gussets, one front and one rear(red circles), before I finish welding and call it good. Not supporting any weight, just keeping the tire from swinging around. But, I want it to be strong enough to take a hit if the tire were to come in contact with something like snow or mud. Original one was rusted away. Black paint also.

 

You could probably do drawers way lighter using skateboard bearings instead. Cause well, a drawer, especially in a short bed wont have anywhere near the load. But on this thing I have 3 huge ball bearings per side, two on the sled, one on the mount. Makes it so it can hold itself up fully extended with up to 2k lbs. Not that the truck could hold that.





This is an older CargoBed slider that I've refreshed and modified for my own uses.

 

I don’t have enough extensions to get my torque wrench anywhere near this application.

I always hand tighten the spark plug down then snug it up with the socket wrench. Don’t know if that’s the proper way to do it but it’s worked for a few decades.

Also: I always tape the hell out of the spark plug socket to the extension. Pulling the extension out of the block only to see there’s no socket at the end of it really sucks. Ask me how I know...

 

Mine was Free.99

 

8psi and that snow will be no problem for 35's

 

Cheapest use one I have found locally was around $1000.00

 

I only got this one because it came with a $400 truck a buddy bought. He was gonna toss it. I said I'll take it, I just fixed er up and she's good. Only really needed a new deck and a paint job.