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

color huh?

 

@betterbuckleup

I'll admit these would have looked great as is.

 

Until they started to rust likely.
Fortunately mine came already black so I didn't have to both. But they used black oxide bolts which are already showing surface rust

 

A week after new blinker install the passenger side got filled with water already. Hopefully some sealant fixes that.

 

for 5 minutes.. those rust just looking at them lol

 

Only worked on the truck for a bit today. Got the transfer case shifter fit to the cup holder and got a boot/aluminum cover made for the shifter and tunnel. The. Double sided the aluminum plate with dynamat.

 

I just drill a hole for the water to drain out

 

Hopefully the paint will stall the rust for a few days

 

I’d prefer it to not get in there in the first place but if it keeps happening I might have to consider that.

 

Got these in their final spots and fully welded in now, just reassembly time. Gotta finishing wire wheeling the frame and painting. Then I can hang the fuel tank back in place and the exhaust too.

 

Black oxide bolts are the devil! lol

I don't understand how they don't rust... until the second you actually use them for something, then the next day they look like the came from a fucking shipwreck.

 

I bought 8 black oxide bolts to plug the rivnuts I used to seal the holes in my roof (removed my roof rack awhile back).

Within 24 hours they had turned orange. 24. hours. In southern CA during summer.

Those things rust the minute they leave an indoor climate controlled setting

 

They just wanted to try and fit in with the rest of the truck

they just didn’t know what red to match

 

Curious if anyone has found a better way to secure our blinker lights. Doesn’t seem like a very secure design.

 

Are you talking about the front corner lights?

 

@El Taco Diablo
These ones. The ones in the bumper

 

Oh... ya, I pitched those in the garbage a long time ago, along with the side marker corners lol.

They are, in fact, a crap design. All the more reason I was happy to get rid of the original bumper.

 

I’m like you. I have retrofits with switchback halos for blinkers. It’s just easier especially with an aftermarket bumper

 

I added those bulbs to the blinkers in the corner housing.