Hello

Hi I’m Alex, totally a newbie to this. I’m here because my friend gave me a 2001 Tacoma that was sitting in his back yard for many years and he had to get rid of it, so I took it off his hands because I like the truck. So after installing a new battery it started right up! Wow . So I started to fix whatever I could see was in need of repair. Needed shocks/springs so I got them and put it on the lift to install them and that’s when I saw that the frame was totally rusted out on the inner part of the box. Holy crap I wasn’t expecting that! So I found out that there was a safety recall on the frame and took it to the dealership only to find out that it was too old and the recall had expired. So I got lucky enough to find a frame that was in good shape and spent the better part of last year swapping everything over to the new frame and replacing everything that I saw needed to be replaced… I did the obvious, flushed and replaced all the fluids, filters, spark plugs… I believe it has a timing chain not a belt? It’s a 2.4 standard cab 5 speed manual with 300k miles. I was wondering what else I should do to get the old girl ready to get back on the road? I figured that this would be a good place to get a lot of questions answered about my truck…
Thanks

 

Welcome aboard!

You will probably get more input by posting in "1st gen Tacomas" section.

 

Welcome to TW!

 

Welcome aboard!

 

Let's see it!!

 

Thanks all for the welcoming !

This was before I did the frame swap. I had already done some body work and painting. I decided to go with a white/black color scheme so I Painted the rims and all the chrome parts black.

 

Welcome to TW!
Cool rig,

 

Doing the swap


On the new frame

 

Thanks everyone!
I’ll snap a few more pics today of her after the rancho lift kit..

 

Kudos for saving it man that’s a lot of work but it looks nice

 

Cool I’ll do that thanks

 

She needs a bath lol
With the new shocks and lift, now I need some bigger tires to fill the gap!

I’ll make a new thread in the 1st gen section

 

Thanks I really love this truck ❤️
My big brother had an SR5 back in the 80’s before they were called Tacoma. I loved that truck so much and always wanted one ever since

 

Sweet Tacoma. Love regular cans.

Welcome and enjoy!

 

Thank you. I love look and performance of the regular cab too. Just sucks when you want to recline the seat and relax for a minute hahaha.

I made a new thread here: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...road-and-off-road-ready.829031/#post-29717489
please come and post here if you will