1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

i mean this sc is wreaked... https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/cto/d/sc/6625926349.html

and he wants 1500... lol

 

The Taco is my money pit too, but only because I made it one, if I didn't insist on upgrading and modifying it would be cheap to own haha, the cruiser breaks rarely but parts for them are costly compared to the taco.

 

thats my issue. my truck was running perfect and didnt need me to tear it apart... it all started with a supercharger lol

 

ditto, well sorta, the SC demanded lots of other things to make it play nice but the wheeling is hard on the suspension and bearings and such

 

my engine was in amazing shape internally... the rust was what caused all this. then i went down the rabbit hole and decided to restore this thing. lol oh well i'll be one of the few with a 01 tacoma that has a Built to high hell 3.4l

 

Fuck.. both of you get ones glady if im out that way!

 

I had to look it up, dam you guys make me feel old, but Im not the hugest prequel fan, guess thats why they also can seem mo fitting lol

 

The saga of wheel restoring continues. Used some paint stripper to remove the old finish. Man I hate that stuff, messy as hell. Then hit them with my pressure washer to remove the stripper/ old finish flakes. Next will be hitting them with a wire wheel and then lots of sanding. Going good so far. These thing were off a former New York truck, corroded BAD.

 

Well it’s something

 

I was just watching this on instagram

 

Lots of moving parts to freeze up for sure

 

I think those are special order

 

Im sure after one desert trip its gunna be fucked

 

Well I don’t think they’re meant to be driven on like a race truck.

I feel like slow and steady is more what they’d be for.

 

I dont think even the tracks on the market now arnt me togo fast atleast not in the corners

 

The prequels are crap, that's why they makes great jokes

 

Classic case of engineers vs. machinists...

Just look at Battle Bots. You can tell the guys fresh out of engineering school vs. the machinists/builders.

On the one hand you have these systems that are super efficient and lightweight, but their multiple pivots and complicated drive systems just get liquefied by the machinist who just built a rig with a 100 pound steel bar that spins at 1000 rpm.

That's what conventional tracks are for, too...


"How do you frustrate an engineer?"

"Tell him to use the thing he designed."

 

Oh I know that’s what they’re meant for, when he said a desert trip I just assumed he meant a high speed trip.

The only thing I can think of that Has tracks and can handle the speed is a snowmobile.

 

Even then, sleds aren't that fast. I mean, they're fast for a track vehicle, but a 60 ton M1 and hit 50mph...

But shouldn't that be the point of going to a wheel? Speed?

It looks like what we have here is a "wheel" system that isn't capable of speed because it has the same limitations as a tracked vehicle, being that it still has a track, albeit a round track; all the disadvantages of a track (slow, lots of moving parts), yet none of the advantages of a wheel (speed).

A better solution is to just keep a set of conventional tires in the bed, and switch them out when you need to hit high speeds.