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

Switched over to an AGM battery, replaced the broken top post terminal, cleaned up wiring w/ blue seas fuse box & drew a terrible sketch of the Toyota fuse box layout for a just in case reference in the glovebox.

 

Will you be willing to part with the rear driveshaft. I can't seem to find one down here.

 

I’m going to need it for the manual swap. But it came with a spare in pieces I may be able to get back together for you.


Also. I totally forgot about those diffs. They’re all FJ/4runner when I went to look again. Apparently I’ve used my taco ones up.

 

All good, I just really need the section from cb to tc. Need it shortened for a crawl box. Trying to get a spare for everything so the trucks not down as I'm waiting.

 

I took a picture of that fusebox cover and keep it on every electronic device I own

 

Hold up, that looks like my truck......... .. your awfully sus there Danny boi lol

 

I’ll let ya know if The back half is still ok. It’s sitting in the bed of the truck when I go mess with it next weekend

 

Ordered new wheel! Hopefully the matte bronze on the lunar mist will look as good as I hope!

 

Yea I have one in the trucks photo album on my phone also, but decided to get a journal to leave in the truck for reference 100% of the time

 

very nice photo. Good job with the tree in the foreground and the water fall. Very nice indeed.

 

Pressure tested my cylinders. 1 is 105, 2 is 65, 3 is 165, and 4 is 200. Im thinking I have a blown head gasket or stuck/bent valves on 2. Maybe head gasket broke between 1 and 2? Radiator also looks empty or low but oil is fine and I havent noticed any smoke and even my temperatures have been fine, no overheating. Ive been reading that replacing a head gasket becomes a nightmare since the head is probably toast in one way or another so Im debating on just throwing another motor in there. Feels like yesterday I put this one in there still weighing my options.

 

The crack in my valve cover finally started leaking so I got busy this afternoon.

I'm shocked it lasted almost 10months before causing trouble

Not bad for 326k miles.


Ooh and my DT headers should be here tomorrow

my wife took the photo. I liked the burn marks in the tree so I asked her to include it and she delivered

 

What damaged these mounts like this? Accident or body lift?

 

Looks like an accident. Same thing happened to my front body mount in a fender bender

 

I think @betterbuckleup is right, more accident related. The damage happened prior to my ownership, but it’s taken me nearly 10 years to address the issue. Judging by what the truck came to me looking like, I’d guess some sort of wheeling mishap matched with maybe being very stuck. Could be separate or same events.

also had core support and inner fender damage in that area. I’ve since put a new core support in and beaten/welded inner fender back together.

 

also truck didn’t come to me with a body lift, so am guessing has never had one, but who knows

 

RCVs showed up today! Will definitely give me some extra comfort on the trails knowing I’m less likely going to snap axles!

 

Tomorrow, hopefully I don’t h e a fever and illl install them