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

ill mess with it tomorrow. gotta go bitch them out about the fuel cut valve. lol its on my order. i was charged for it... its not there.


debating bringing the truck home soon and setting the bed on the frame just to make sure all is good back there. maybe even give it to the bodyshop to do the rust repairs on the bed

 

actually looking closer. it seems like its in the right area... i just dont remember the angle of the dangle these things are at on the bed

 

just needs rotated a tiny bit. It's pretty close

 

Yea I think I’ll just get the hoses attached and leave the bolt lose. Seems the hose being new is a bit stiff causing most of my fitment issues

 

These quick connect couplers are nice. I got one for Christmas. I can see there will be some areas it may not fit, but I needed it for tractor greasing. There are fittings down in the front arms on the loader where it's almost impossible to get a regular coupler to attached.

They have them at Rural King for $29 if you like off the shelf better. That's where mine was purchased, but I couldn't find it on their website.

https://tinyurl.com/y4beobx4

The swivel ones come in handy too. My dad has one on his grease gun.

https://tinyurl.com/y4zz7xlw

 

That looks correct to me,mine comes up between that bed mount and the frame.

 

Remember to change those lower ball joints!

 

Milwaukee, way over kill for truck use but it sure is nice just pulling a trigger.

 

I saw this a week after I learned about this problem. I was paranoid for days until I replaced them.

 

Nice work man!

Looks like it could use a few minor tweaks but damn good fit for the first go!

 

Built a removable platform for when my dog rides with.

 

Replaced my crappy suction cup phone holder with RAM mounts.

 

New tail lights and LED reverse bulbs.

 

What’s a good valve cover gasket kit for V6?

 

Where'd you get that bar that you screwed onto the dash?

 

What a pain in the ass place to weld something. Almost get comfortable and then you bump your hood and can't see anything.




Kind of wish I would have waited to get the anti spatter spray but o well.

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I'm honestly not sure I'd change anything. The legs could probably be a half inch shorter but other than that a hammer was able to close any gaps. I bent the legs the wrong way the first go around so I had to straighten and go back so that deformed it a little. Its a pita to get in place with the UCA tube sticking out like it does.

 

yeah I bet haha luckily you can fit a 6" C clamp or two in there to hold it and help bend it in I'd think. I used two to hold mine up.

And i said fuck it and jacked up the body far as I could on each side. Was easy to unbolt and only gives you like 1-2'' but it makes a HUGE difference haha

Otherwise the best thing is to pull the engine.

You going to weld up the inner circle on the top? I did just to keep water out.

PS. I'll take a set haha

 

Did something easy. Painted the lock surrounds red (painted the pins black) on my toolbox the other day and then added the center cap decals today. Then I installed some expansion nuts into the bedliner and small L brackets on my DIY bed divider just to make sure it doesn’t go anywhere. Simply undo two screws and the whole thing comes out. I think I’ll change them over to Allen bolts and keep the Allen wrench in the glovebox.