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

YES I love stalkers....

 

Sure, I'll take some tonight

 

Thanks for all the helpful tips guys! I've still got my free sample of fluid film lying around. I've just gotta go get some de-icer now. Hopefully it'll solve the issue.

 

Thanks man!

 

New spark plugs, wires, valve cover gaskets, cleaned throttle body. Running strong again.

 

What wires did you get? How mucj and from where if you dont mind me asking ha

 

i bought denso wires from ROCK auto for cheaper than you can get them locally for autozones brand

 

Painted Trd1028's front and rear bumpers. Also painted the grille to match the bumpers. About all you can do with a 5 lugger

 

I've been considering painting my bumper too because I'm getting tired of keeping armorall on it even though I get all I want for free lol. What did you use? I have heard of people having good results with regular paint but I was thinking about using vinyl and trim dye out of a spray can.

 

NGK TE66 from Amazon. $31 for set with free shipping.

 

Both ways work great.

 

Do you know if the vinyl and trim dye will get water spots as bad as paint? I did some stuff on my old mustang with satin black paint and it got water spots real bad after a few months.

 

Not sure but I've never had that problem before. I wouldn't think it would

 

I used dupli color vinyl paint, has worked well though only h had it on for about two weeks.

Haven't had any problems and its rained and i washed the truck. Magic man had had his done for a while so he would know.

 

Put in a new radiator, turns out that it's about an inch too tall so now my front skid doesn't fit...

Damnit

 

Gear Head--
Use Duplicolor vinyl and fabric dye. (see attached)

Plasti-dipped the chrome (bumper and grill) and dyed the valance about 2 weeks ago, has seen rain and mud and has held up great!


Also plasti dipped the rear bumper:

 

Looks good man! I actually have a can of that stuff at home from when I 2 toned the door panels on my last Tacoma about 4 years ago. I also bought a can of plasti-dip a couple weeks ago to mess around with. Just haven't had a chance to try anything yet. The dye matches the dip pretty well! How many cans of the dye did you use for the bumper? 3/4 of a can did 4 coats on both my doors, and then I redid them with another 2 coats a year or so after.

 

I remember when mine looked that good! Ima have to redo them both for sure after seeing this!

 

What did you use and how long have you had it on?