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

I still need to see if my stock tire iron will work. I'm not exactly sure what size my lug nuts are (probably the same) but the sockets that came with the wrench I bought today are too shallow or too thick to fit around the lug nut or in the wheel.

Crappy pic but it's a little tight around the lug nuts. Doubt the stock tire iron would fit.

 

yeah that's the gameplan for now. just sucks because I told him that I wanted to leave it debadged. would've saved us both some time if he hadn't slapped them so low on the door

 

You can get those trim pieces off ebay for like 10 bucks man, I need to buy 1 too haha..

 

I sanded and primed/painted mine with rattle can paint. They are metal and snap in and out relatively easy.

Before


After

 

Wow, you actually noticed this huh ?? Seems unless it's painted or plasti-derped no one comments haha...

& yeah save yourself a few hundred $$$ rebuilding your springs & you'll have enough left over to buy a couple gallons of plasti-dip...

 

Well I have been spying on your leaf building thread for awhile and am seriously considering rebuilding mine.

 

So im thinking of the moog lbj's part #

$45 k90259 front right lower suspension ball joint for toyota tacoma

k90259 and

$37 k90258 front left lower suspension ball joint for toyota tacoma

k90258

Should I go this route or is there a better alternative for lbj's?

 

OEM is what I gathered from my questioning/research

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st-gen-tacomas/266989-ball-joints-3.html

 

Makes me want to put my drop ball mount back on.

 

I put the same Moog LBJ's on my truck in April. Just watch the boots. Its a much cheaper alternative to OEM.

 

I have those same wheels. I ordered some of the locking lug nuts from Discout Tire Direct and it was indeed a very tight fit. But I used my factory tire iron and got it to work. Well, my wheels haven't fallen off yet anyways...

 

Maybe I need longer shocks....

 

What lift are you running? Looks like shackles and I can't tell what leaf pack you've got. I think I may also need longer shocks than the 5100s I've got with my 1" lift shackles and my Dakar leaf pack

 

LED Instrument Cluster mod



superbrightleds.com

I also found a bulb socket just hanging out behind the ash tray compartment. I put a bulb in it and it works, dims with the rest of the console now. The pigtail didn't seem long enough to go anywhere else, so I'm not sure where exactly it was supposed to go. So...I stuck it in a hole below the ashtray and now there's a red glow coming from that junk pocket, which is different. Any ideas?

I don't have a glove box light, wonder if it was supposed to go over there. But again, it didn't seem long enough to reach.

 

It's for the ashtray

 

I'm a good mechanic, but I've never done anything car suspension related, only 2 wheels.

How do these look?



full OME kit with stock 265/70 and UCAs.

I decided to get the firestone lifetime alignment because there's a shop 5 minutes from my house

 

Do a ubolt flip and relocate the shocks. My OME shocks are a little shorter than those Bilsteins and after I relocated them I have LOTS more travel and never bottom out or overextend the shocks.

 

Interesting, my remote range sucks too

 

Weird...I didn't see any place in the ashtray to mount it. I'll pop it out again and take a look. Thanks

 

I am running theses on my LT and they are holding up just fine