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

Fun sized truck on a fun sized vacation. New skid plate worked great, truck ran great overall.

 

It's just a piece of aluminum. I cut a hole large enough for the USB to fit through and put grommets on.

It was one hole till I drilled the other two for the cords. You could make a bracket to fit between the center dash face, but there's so many holes all over the truck that aren't supposed to be there I didn't care about adding a few more. Some were planned properly and used, some were not....

 

On the subject of elockers and swapping, Timmy the Toolman has a great video of doing it in a T4R, but everything is just the same with truck. It includes good info on the wiring portion. I found it while I was starting to chase the issues with my locker. Unfortunately, it wasn't in the wiring.

More of a rust belt issue:

Note the corrosion next to the gear. It had basically eaten all the way through the alloy.

New one works like a charm.

 

03-04 have the brake under leafs. Older have over

 

Good point, actually. Bought it a long time ago when I was with TTORA, and just mounted it now. Lol
But after installing it, I thought the same. I think a better design would've been to have one that mounts to the cross member and side frame of the truck. Nevertheless, I think it does offer better protection than the stock sheet metal skid.

It does, but I drill two 5/8" diameter holes on the underside, so water/mud can drain out.

 

Nice weekend for camping.

 

It’s getting ridiculous around here.

 

Fify

lucky you to be kind of out of the heat

 

What did you guys call it at Moab? The Hilton?

Wait till I get the hot tub set up

 

we need pictures

 

Holy shit, someone worse than me! You make me feel sane!

 

this.

 

wow you could probably put those all in storage and sell them for 40k ea in 2 years hahahahahaha


jk



but you probably would make a lot of money later.

 

And you call me crazy for having 2 identical un driveable tacomas

 

Will your original Tacoma ever work again?

 

well..yeah because those are worthless ha

 

Yes. Yes it will

not worthless!

 

TTORA! OGs here as well!

 

Anybody remember the original 'tacoma' forum? The real OG's were members of www.tacomaterritory.com

Makes me wonder how Shannon Brookshire is doing. @Tacozilla

Edit: A google search turned up this:

https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/shannon-father-of-ttora-in-hospital.231676/

 

I read that thread. He was one smart mofo, we had our TTORA Hooters meets with him around Houston. I hope he is doing well today. I recall Nathan, swapped goods a few times with him. TTORA 4Life