Post your 1st gen REGULAR CAB tacoma

Nice step side. Did you paint the side mirrors?
Mine are black and my truck is the same lunar mist color.

 

I have not painted the side mirrors, the painting is original on all sides of the car.

 

I know this post is old. But, what lift are you running?

 

Dang man! Almost have the same exact truck. Mine is a 95' V6

 

Did you get new upper control arms?

 

I had a '98 tan taco that looked just like yours. Best truck I ever had. Blew a gasket at 158k. Ha probably because I put 10k a year on her at 80mph. Loved that thing.

 

Hahaha, cool man! I'm at 299,000 now. All original drive train. I just put a clutch in it. Runs like a champ, doesn't burn or leak a drop of any fluid.

 

I bought my '98 used with 13k miles in 2001 and I literally did nothing to it other than 5k oil changes until she died at 158k. I ran that thing balls to the wall. Didn't abuse it. But I ran that little 4cyl fast for a lot of interstate hiway miles. That thing felt like it could climb walls compared to my 2nd gens.

 

So did you just sell it, after the motor blew the head gasket? I haven't had to do anything to mine, other than regular maintenance stuff.

 

With the 3rz motor it's recommended to have the valve clearance checked every 60-80k miles and adjusted accordingly. Lack of this a lot of times is what does them in prematurely.

 

Yeah I traded it on a new Tacoma. Got like $1200 for it or something like that. That was back in about 2009.

 

Wish I'd known that.

 

Yes I did.

Got them on a GB a while back and finally installed them that weekend. It was my daily driver for about 3 years so didn’t have the luxury of taking it apart too often.

 

Was the ride pretty good, with the OME leaf springs, and bilstein's up front? Did you use Bilstein 5100's? I want to lift with the same parts, but I'm not sure if the bilstein 5100's can give me enough lift up front, because i use 2" spacers up front, just to make my truck sit level. And i want to raise it 2.5 inches.

 

I wouldn’t call it rough, with the OME leaf springs it’s frim that’s for sure. I haven’t carried any weight in the bed really. I removed one of the leafs, third from the top.

I’ve got bilstein 5100 and the eibach coil springs up front and it’s too much lift for me. With my stock bumper/reg cab v6 I’d say I get at least 3”. I planned on having OME881 coils up front, but those ended up on my daily driver/family 4Runner.

 

Here’s my 95.5 3rz Supercharged,
Toytec Boss 3” coiliver kit w/500lb eibach springs. Tomorrow I put a n some BFG KM3 265/70-17’s!

 

Got more pics.

 

I like that front bumper my man! What brand a where’d you get that addition?

 

Mine