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

Yeah was thinking an add a leaf could usefully lift the rear to remove the squat.

 

Fock im droooling over all that clean sheet metal. Having a clean frame has done wonders for my overall mental stability but my guy is sunburned and really looks its part as a 22 year old work truck.

 

For the longest time my truck would occasionally short when I tried to start it, due to a bad connection on the negative battery terminal. Finally got around to changing the terminals to the military style ones. 30 bucks on Amazon and an hour and a half of work later, they’re looking much better!

 

Had the factory clutch and rear main seal replaced this past week by a local dealer. Got them to take pictures of the flywheel before and after resurfacing. Big difference in the clutch pedal, only takes a light press now and the engagement point is a lot lower.

 

Moved my cruise control forward and made a little room, roughly +3", in the back passenger corner of the engine bay for an eventual ARB compressor. not having abs helps alot too

 

@Wulf has her ARB installed in that same spot, not sure why I just remembered that right now

 

Finished up the swing out.




Just in time to do a little over night camping trip with some friends.

Needed the re-set in the woods.

 

@Kwikvette @dannybubbles

that spot will fit the arb high output compressor. I have mine mounted to a mounting bracket which utilizes the factory mounting location. Made it super easy to alert and adjust if needed.

 

https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=14702513&cc=0&pt=12406&jsn=732
Just did mine last week. $47 from rockauto

 

My Vato Zone CVs made it through Rubicon, Red Lake Trail, Niagara Rim (2), Sourgrass (2) and King of Hammers with 35s last year. So far they've done King of Hammers and Sourgrass on 37s this year.

Eventually I'll do the Solo spindles and RCVs so I can go back to manual hubs... But that's a bunch of coin I don't want to spend right now... and RCVs are just going to move the weak point to the intermediate shaft and ring gear. Which doesn't really excite me.

But... my original point is if the 1st Gen Tundra CVs become unobtainium... there are other options.

 

I know why do you think I said that

 

statement retracted

 

Well now you got me curious about your setup

We didn't pop the hood last time you were here

 

nothing special. Just another lame built like any others. Nothing special

 

Wash, Clay Bar and Wax

 

I prefer a nice exfoliating mud mask to the clay bar.



The mud produced on late spring snow runs applies exceptionally evenly.



J/K you're truck looks great!

 

hahahahha. That's impressive. My truck will eventually get a similar mud patina from our gravel roads out here but its nice to pretend I've got a collectible every once in a while.

 

it helps the design is different on the outers than the tacoma CVs and bigger shafts.


Which is funny given tundras used the same tiny front diff.

 

Ya, I'm sure the diff stayed the same as the Tacoma in the 1st Gen Tundra because it's what they already had available. The fact that a lot of the parts were similar kind of tells me they were testing the waters, so to speak, when they first introduced the Tundra. After it started competing with others in sales, they started developing more appropriate parts.

Speaking of those more appropriate parts. I've wondered for a few years whether a 2007+ "9 inch" - 8.75 IFS diff could be stuffed in to a Tacoma. I'm really considering diving in to that rabbit hole. 5.29 gears are available for it, and so is the Harrop, so it checks those boxes for me. I can't remember how tight it really is in there, and I've never seen that Tundra diff in person. But now that the Tundra clamshell has been out there for over 15 years, they should be eas(ier) to find in the salvage market.

I've also been wondering how hard it would be to modify Solo fully fabbed spindles to take the snouts from an IFS Toyota Truck, so I can run Aisin (manual) hubs instead of the Dana 44 hubs, like he has them set up. Truck IFS snouts would still get rid of the unit bearing and give me serviceable bearings. Aisin hubs being stronger than anything you're going to find for Dana 44. Not sure why Bobby went with the Dana 44 hubs. Haven't asked him.

 

There's a guy on here that did it, forgetting the username but the oil pan and rack are really in need of help with the clearance portion.