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

The thing looks badass! Well done, love seeing members fab their own stuff up.

 

thanks! It’s far from perfect, but I’m having a blast with it.

 

I'd be interested in this information too. I was looking at the different standalone the other day. Any reason you went with the 750 vs the 2000?

 

Yessir, I'll cover this in the thread but long story short. 2000 has been discontinued and 2500/2500T are way overkill. 750 has everything (seriously it's an awesome feature set for such a small affordable ECU) but knock control. I'm not worried about knock control because we have a good environment to do our tune in (with knock ears) and I'm not going to run at the bleeding edge of my power capability cause it's still a wheeling truck, it has to be reliable.

 

Thanks for reminding me of the rounded screws. I've been meaning to look into replacing mine.

Speaking of the trailer harness, assuming I'm thinking of the correct thing, you could replace what's there with something like

$38 Victor 22-5-00414-8 Radial Tire Patch Kit, Multi, One Size

this. I just installed on my 01 which only had a Curt hitch with no wiring and it was super simple to install, and it's easily reversible. I haven't tested the 4-pin yet but my lights work fine after the install. I'm thinking to just get a .

 

I think it's Toyota policy to only use stripped screws in the tail lights.

 

The replacements I put in did seem to be made of the same sort of cheese.

 

Replaced the pilot and throw out bearings. Still in progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsM8EUdCCiI

Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr

 

Took an evening drive to the mountains to escape the 100 deg heat

 

Out with the old, in with the new...

99 4Runner A340F gets a Tacoma Neutral Safety Switch

 

Looking forward to the results! https://spikerengineering.com/lower-ball-joint-bolts

 

Also looking forward to results. A topic we all want to hear more about - @SpikerEng

 

Got the transmission back in and installed Marlins shifter bushings.

Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr

 

nice,

The Marlin shifter is a wonderful upgrade, no more sloppy stick shift or grinding gears anymore.FYI

 

They should do Different balljoints next

 

I seriously don’t know why some company has not done this!

 

Yeah the shifter is on the list but low for now considering the price. I figure the bushings should be a good interim. Besides it's not like it's a race truck considering all the armor and 35's.

 

If you get one it’s not necessarily about speed shifting.
It changes the whole shift feel into a precise gear shift going forward,
Well worth the money if it’s a daily driver

 

I'm about to take my transmission out for clutch replacement and URD short shifter.

 

I definitely heard how nice it sounds. But I think I would want to shorten it like someone did in another thread, and I would want to get a better fitted shifter boot. Eventually I want to triple stick and get a custom shifter boot made for that so likely it will all happen around the same time. I typically stack shit like that to try to do it all at once.