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

I deleted my EGR and am adding a catch can to mine. Bc I don’t want my 3rz to suffer from black lung disease.

 

Yeah I know you can get interference I just don't see it able to kill the unit as Jaxon implied.

As for the housings, I think you're right as well, the 98-00 had diffusing lenses and the 01-04 did not. Granted, I'm not on OEM housings and do have a couple light defects but that occurs both for halogen and led bulbs when I tested it. I do need to pick up a handheld ham at some point as all my hams have died.

 

A lot of drivers have the bad habit of having low angle vision, and never look down the road. These drivers are probably the ones that think they are better. The light doesn't project down the road, but they never look down the road. Their focus is right in front of their bumper, just like their headlights.

 

Interesting. It definitely looks a lot better. Thanks!

 

I had to aim my left headlight down because it was shining in peoples eyes with halogens lol

 

Yes. Part of this is due to your eyes being naturally drawn to the brightest area of illumination. If that is short range right in front of your vehicle due to poor lighting, we’ll then you end of driving looking there instead of focusing down range.

 

There is science to back it up too. The warmer tones actually allow your pupil to open up more.
https://www.thedrive.com/guides-and-gear/how-do-yellow-off-road-lights-work

My dd came with 5k HID and I swapped to 4300s, so much nicer.

 

Is this for the 63? Which bulbs did you go with?

The bulbs will fade with age. I'm considering replacing the ones in my D2Ss since the ones in there are going on 8 years old. Thinking of going with a set of these:

$150 OSRAM Xenarc Night Breaker Laser D2S Xenon Car Headlight Bulbs (Twin)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07FYTN7VF/?coliid=I1Y61CEI7ZEWRD&colid=1P5D39KHH5V3M

 

You might find post #5506 in the 3rd Gen headlight thread covering D2S comparisons interesting.

 

Interesting. I recall reading this last year but it was good to revisit as I had forgotten about ballast requirements and the possible need to upgrade the wiring harness.

I am still running the ballasts and harness that came in the Morimoto kit. I suppose that might be an issue with the Osram bulbs.

 

One of my lights would intermittently fail to fire so I pulled the trigger on these:

 

The Morimoto ballasts and harness will work fine with the Osram bulbs. You should still get about the same/similar stable performance with the Osrams. The OEM ballast vs Morimoto demonstration was just showing the performance difference in startup with an OEM ballast.

Reasonable basic bulb, but not up to par on performance vs the performance bulbs from Osram and Philips.

 

Got my sliders welded on, a new cb coax cable, welded on some zip tie tabs down the frame and swapped in a cv axle with out torn boots for one that had a torn inner.

Going to try to get all of my welds painted tomorrow. More pictures to follow.

 

Some misc stuff since I've fixed all the big things. Need to do the latches on both sides of the tailgate they're binding up. Hoping I can blow them out and grease rather than replace. Also installed a couple small molle panels on the rear cushion. Will probably build out with more medical gear.

 

Where did you get those mole panels? I’ve been looking for something like that.

 

Some cheapos off Amazon. They are plastic though but fit perfectly around that rear cushion.

$16 Dotacty Vehicle MOLLE Panel Car Visor Organizer Storage Rack Rigid Insert Panel for Backpack Tactical Accessories Gear Holder Molle Pouches EDC Gadgets Small Tools Pens Sunglasses

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09HMY9FW4?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

 

Tossed the chrome and white bumper pieces with some black. Also taking advantage of the weather

 

Went from this: to this: Wasn't too bad, just took some contortions to get at all the nuts and bolts and some whacking to release the driveshaft from the transmission. Replaced the U-joint at the front while I was at it. Original part had 145,000 miles on it.

 

Just another alternative to rear storage organization.


I pulled everything out of the back, constructed a back panel and flat deck out of plywood and speaker carpet.

The MOLLE panel was cut down and sewn up and then mounted some stuff to it.

MOLLE panel here and on Amazon.
https://rapiddominance.com/product/RAPDOM/RAPDOM_TACTICAL/T97