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

Where'd you get yours from? The auto parts stores I've been looking at aren't lifetime warranty.

Also, buying those a better route than OEM boots or boot slide mod??

 

Autozone used to offer a lifetime on their Remans. Idk if they still do

 

It just says limited lifetime, but it says if the part fails during the period on the receipt just bring it in, but how many times can you do this?

 

Bolt the ring on to the arm that he bolted in its place it will be at a different angle but it would still be useable

 

Installed some extended shackles.

 

Nice! More pictures!

 

What's the protocol for replacing shackles? Just unbolt the old one and put the new one in? Or do you have to drop the axle and remove the leaf spring from the axle/frame?

 

You don't have to remove the leafs. But truck fram on jack stands and a jack under the pumpkin and your good. Just unbolt and bolt the new ones.

 

Pretty much as Monte described. Fairly easy job with jackstands and a floorjack and the right tools. Had to scramble a bit to find a 1 1/16 deep socket for the trail gear kit. Now I have one for the tool kit.

@ monte

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Gained about an 1" in height but gained over 1.5" in droop.

 

Worth it looks good man!!

Now we will move the shocks and make sure you get alllll the droop

 

Ah, yeah... I'm getting every bit outa those 8.5" foxes now.

the passenger side is OK but the driver's side fully extended is 23" +. I measured ~23.125" Haha, Fox claims the shocks only go to 22.8".

 

lol Thanks, man

That it does.... lol But I am not turning the Terc into a crawler. I love it for what it is. It's getting fuel injected, painted and tinted windows with some of the truck money.... and maybe some nice speakers.

You're probably right. Hopefully going to make it to Moab anyway, though... Just hoping around passenger seats, and such. haha

 

Ha! Jesus..haha

you could yea. Get more droop too but the billies would be limiting you

But worth it once you get longer shocks or relocation and all.

 

This

 

Mark says I needn't worry about it. That I will never flex it out this much on the trail.

He does kno my temperment. He may be right.

 

You could weld a tie down on the bracket or just bolt the original over the bracket, similar to how it's done with a bed extender.

 

Possible i guess..but might not be. Overall less body roll in a hole fill section or something. But I feel like we will push those limits more and more anyways haha

He got 1'' Lift shackles from TG i believe..pretty much the say as the Toytech ones.

shackles are great. Only real downside is they tend to wear out the leafs faster a bit.

 

Thats what I told him but he just shook his head.

The shackles are the Toytec 1" lift one. Purchased from Wheelers. These work for me because I already had poly upper and lower bushings.

 

Cool that's what I thought. I want to add them but I'm going to wait to see how my stance is when I install a new bumper. I also don't want them to make my taco lean more noticeable...lol. Not sure how to fix that issue seeing as how I have brand new leaf packs already...

 

OK, I received my new clutch parts for my '96 4x4. How tough of a job is this gonna be?

Should I replace the rear main seal while I'm in there (even if it isn't leaking) ?