1998 Toyota Tacoma TRD 4x4 Build

25 mpg from a deckplate mod? Goodluck buddy!

 

Ha yea i actually just watched and heard that and was like pshh, yea right. that'll never happen.. allthough i can squeeze 22 out of my wimpy 3.4 on a very good week so if he stays out the gas and uses and ultragauge to moniter everything i could see it happening out of the 4cyl

 

Came home today from school to find my door handle i ordered from ebay. it was surprisingly really good quality for only being $15.00, but time will tell. im pleased with it compared to the 100 dollar one toyota wanted to sell me.
went ahead and installed it and here are some pictures:

 

nice find. hope the list of bad dwindles down to nothing for ya

 

thanks man, after i adjust the valves, timing belt, cv boot and brakes everything should be running good.
any thing after that will be upgrades. im thinking about some rancho 5000's out back?

 

keep us updated

 

Nooooo! Run bilsteins or OME!

 

im more into the prerunner style than crawlers, will bilsteins suit that sort of driving?

oh ya i have some wheel spacers if any one wants some off my 6 lug

 

Old Man Emu is the way to go......

 

Get you some bilsteins on this site. Look at the forsale section. I love mine. 99% road driving.

 

If you want to be pre-running and jumping shit then id go LT

 

Looks great op

 

well would you like to donate about 4k to me that would be great! haha
but im a broke high school student so i had to go with the RONCHO 5000's
ill be sure to tell you guys what i think about them after i get to drive the truck in about a week or two since i still have to do the timing belt and other little things.
Another little update, i found out that my brake cable on my passenger side rear is broken so i guess i have to replace that as well now, but i got my front rotors miked and got some new brake pads. those are in and should feel so much better now. ill try to instal those ranchos today

 

nice looking truck, make sure while you are doing the brakes, take some time and flush the brake fluid if it looks dirty. no more than brake fluid cost, you could flush it out good, just so you will know when it was done.

 

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Got some more done today,
took down the drive shaft since i found out i needed a new carrier bearing, how some plugs to hold the plastic inside the fender since it was hanging off looked bad, took off the add a leaf and put in those ranchos and dam what a difference that taken out leaf and shocks made my rear end now feels really nice, and lastly i took off the bed linear and had a huge pile of dirt and rocks under there. washed out the bed liner and now it looks all nice and clean. slowly but surely the trucks coming along good, the best part is now that the add a leaf was taken out it sits a about an inch or two lower so it was that nice little lean. nothing to bro hahaha
here are some pictures:



My buddy came over and helped me out do some stuff on it



Here are some pictures of the interior

 

looking good! do you have one of those drop in bed liners? my dad has one on his truck theyre great

 

thanks!
ya i do have one of those drop in liners. after i swept and washed under the liner i put some screws in to hold down the liner, now it feels nice and solid

 

Just ordered some LED's from superbrightleds.com for my gauge and a/c
ill post pics one they are installed!

 

Nice, What color did you go with?