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

Red loctite should make it where they don't need retorque too often.

 

You're gonna love it!

Are you going to clock it? Modifying the floor was great fun!

 

Oof. As far as I’m concerned, MC is an infinite timeline with little to no customer service or product support. Might be a little harsh, but I’m not sitting around twiddling my thumbs for that.

Thanks Brett! May have questions for you once I dive in…

I’ll probably clock it, maybe just 10 degrees instead of the full 16. I have a 1” body lift as well, which should make it a little easier to deal with. I think a BFH will be the ticket.

 

Lets see that chainsaw porn!

 

That bitch runs marathons around my MS 250. So glad I bought it. One of these days I'll port it and it'll be a true banshee.

 

Ordered a few things for quality of life. Nothing big just some simple stuff.

 

Mine hasn't left this position:

Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr

 

Also this past weekend I took both rigs out to play. I drove the Taco while my wife took the Bronco. This way should could spend the day out with us, enjoy the camp vibes but head home around his bedtime to sleep in a quiet and empty house.

Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr
Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr
Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr
Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr
Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr
Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr

Was a truly incredible time with the fam.

 

Finally got around to repairing the frame on my 1st gen that I recently inherited from my grandfather. Installed a Safe-T-Cap for rear right/top shock mount and a cut plate to patch up the opposite side of same area.

I’ve never done any frame work before, did some research on here and just winged it. Considering that I’m pretty happy with it. Not perfect — and not advice, obviously, but that’s okay

 

I installed a 1” body for my eco crawler and was able to clock the full 16 degrees without any sheet metal work, just some mild hammering in a few spots

 

I washed my truck again today, and hand waxed it with good ole turtle wax. I might wash it by hand again, but waxing it by hand will take some serious thinking on my part. Spray wax of some type is in order. Can't wait to see how bad my body hurts in the morning. But hey, my truck is clean and somewhat shiny. The sun has done way to much damage to my clear coat on the roof, hood and passenger rear quarter panel. The rest of the truck still looks pretty good for 20 years old. If it doesn't rain tomorrow the hood bug guard is going back on.

 

Excellent! Yeah I think it was your build where I saw that. Might just go all the way then.

Do you have an additional support for the transfer cases? Or just the transmission support?

 

Little bit more done.

 

Where do you find the time to continually cross off the items on your mod list? My mod list continues to grow along with the parts pile.

 

Oh bud... lol... my mod list grows faster than things get crossed off of it, I promise.

I've had that axle sitting in my garage for almost a year. I'm just getting small bits of it done now because I know if I don't get some things done now, the "Winter List" won't get close to completed.

 

I haven’t added any extra support yet, but I did install the 4x4 innovations transmission mount.

 

How hot is too hot for our auto transmissions? I was going up the Grapevine towards LA and I was staying at 220 until I reached a flat plane.

 

Time for a manual trans swap.

 

That would be brutal for my California stop and go commute haha