What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

When you have goals to really clean your truck.

Bust out pressure washer ✓
Connection to hose broken ✓
Say fuck it grab hose with foam gun attachment and see mice ate that shit ✓
Wash truck old school with buckets only ✓
Hose shut off at house breaks✓

Still happy to have cleaned the taco

 

Power windshield, does that count?

 

Brought home a Tundra in the bed of my Tacoma last night. Now I need to start modding a baby Tundra next.

 

Chrome delete please

 

For the Mazda B series nostalgia peeps from a few pages back, I found one picture in my digital archives. Pretty sure this is pre-digital cameras and I scanned this years ago. This is at some hotel around Lake Isabella. I think pre-2000 wedding to the wifey, we were in town to do a 3-day white water rafting trip on the Kern River.

1997 B2300, 2WD, manual 5-speed. Paid $14k new.

Trips Included:
- Mammoth
- Tahoe
- Napa Valley
- Yosemite
- Sequioia and Kings Canyon
- Zion
- Bryce Canyon
- Arches
- Moab
- Sedona
- Grand Canyon
- Joshua Tree

The cap topper is a Vista shell, out of business I think. The topper had no front section (i.e. no area where the window would be.) Just a bulb seal that went up against the cab. It never leaked in the 7 years I owned it. Camped a number of times solo and with the wife in the back but it was rough with the low ceiling. Convenient but rough. And I had no where to store things.

Bonus pic from the scans of me trying to look cool at camp on the side of the river and about 30-40 pounds lighter than I am today. FutureGoals!

 

I feel your pain. I went to turn on the "frost free" tap and heard an unusual gush of water coming out of somewhere but not the tap. Discovered this and had to put on my plumber's cap before I could wash the winter off my Taco.


Before pic.

 

Future off-roaders!

 

I knew that would be coming.

 

Ford owned part of Mazda from 1979 until 2015. They have a long history of sharing various different platforms with Ford using Mazda developed products for vehicles in their line up. The Escort, and Probe were based on the 323 and 626. The Navajo was the same as the Explorer, Ranger and B-Series trucks and later the Mazda Tribute was based on the Ford Escape. The original Ford Courier pickup was based upon a Mazda truck. The B-Series sharing the platform with the Ranger ran from 1994 until 2009. I owned a 1994 B-4000 up until last year. The Mazda beds were known for rusting out above the wheel wells so I replaced mine with a Ford Ranger bed at one point. I changed out the radio/cassette player when I bought it in 1996. The cassette door read Mazda and the back of the radio was stamped with the Ford logo. The B4000 also shared parts with the Ford Explorer. One of the many things I learned about the truck from the local you pull it salvage yard.

 

https://www.ktjo4x4.com/tacoma-power-outlet-2016

 

When you replace it check to make sure that the sillcock is sloped downward from where it is connected. I have had the same problem and had to do the same repair. If you have a basement it might not be too bad. A crawlspace? Then it really sucks.

 

Installed a Voswitch Switch Panel in my truck! Super easy install and makes the wiring super clean compared to before.

 

I'm considering swapping out the halogen low beams and fogs for LEDs. I don't want to blind oncoming traffic. Can anyone recommend a brand/model that is configured correctly to be used as a halogen style reflector beam?
TIA

 

Yep, it counts. Who needs A/C when the wind is blowing while going down the road.

 

Nothing. Leaving it alone.

 

Yeah.

 

Fixed the wire harness for the gear selector lights.

 

Consider the OEM LED fogs as seen

$124 Toyota PT413-42191 Fog Light (Black), 1 Pack

here. They're pretty nice! And, no LED in the headlights, please. Only brighter halogen bulbs. Unless, of course, they're OEM LED headlights. GL!

 

Post that scoop hood on the hood-swap thread and see if you get any takers.