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

Your truck looks familiar, have you ever run with the Mountaineers?
Fun Daze perhaps?

Here is a pic of my ride, newly installed 3" OME, still rollin on 30's, will take care of that shortly.
The co-pilot is Barney.

 

Where'd ya get these sliders from?

 

wow.. quite a rake there.. these are Dakars? what's up front?

 

looks like 4xinnovations

 

881's with the 1/2" top spacer

There is a bit of rake, The swaybar is off and I think some of it is the ground I'm parked on.
This pic looks like bro lean, taken the same day, yesterday.



This is in the driveway,


The itty bitty tires don't help much in the looks dept.
Center hub to fender:
Front, 24"
rear, 25 1/4"

 

Bought some Alpine component speakers. 80w rms 240w peak. Going to run them with a rockford 400w 4 channel. Best part is I got Best Buy to price match Amazon so they were listed for $129.99 at Best Buy and they matched Amazon's $75!

 

I created a latch mechanism for the rear pop out windows. The new billet arms from Amazon didn't quite lock the window good enough. This was my solution, am I the first to do this?? I didn't see it anywhere, thought it up myself. I'm sure there is a more elegant solution but this is all I could do with my tools. I'll do a write up in my build and a separate one as well.

VIDEO CLICK HERE

 

why did you have to do that?

 

Because the Billet arms would not allow my windows to "lock" when the latch was pushed back all the way, I could literally push the open, or if I slammed the door to hard it would pop open on the driver side.
I adjusted them in every direction, tried grinding them to make them smaller but nothing worked. This was my solution and added security for a bonus.

Crappy write up here

 

i mean..why did you get billet arms? whats wrong with the stock ones?

 

WOW.

I just wired my cree 20 inch light bar and my rigid dually d2s on my bumper and its nuts. i love it. highway driving is awesome!

 

it wasn't today but I kinda sorta took her off road


driving too fast on a back road and ended up in a ditch...with bushes and saplings

 

Oh, they were broken... I'm surprised yours aren't. The billet ones are considerably cheaper, you have to buy the whole latch assembly from toyota

 

haha 96 FTW mine are made of steel..not aluminum..and cheaper..and apparently don't work haha

Granted..im also on my 2nd set sorta..but not really..one is OEM..doing fine. i don't open them a lot though..

 

I think someone on here makes some on a CNC machine that are supposed to work and are stronger than factory. I cant remember who though

 

The factory ones for my generation are Plastic. great idea Toyota! The first time I opened them they both broke.

I found those originally but the thread was pretty dead and everyone was saying the OP was unreliable, these are the ones I bought

Dasher Deals Billet Aluminum Latch Pivot for First Gen Tacoma Tundra Rear Quarter Window (Pair)

http://www.amazon.com/Billet-Aluminum-Tacoma-Tundra-Quarter/dp/B00877TP4K

 

Wow really??? holy crap..that sucks..haha find some from my gen and swap out windows.

 

Our 01-04 windows don't have that stupid mirror look on the outside of the rear windows.

 

Mirror look??

Idk wth your talking about..scroll up..no mirror effect on his..

 

whatchu talkin bout willis?