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

Looks good but dear lord get an alignment asap. You can see how bad the camber is in the 3rd pic. Wouldn't want you wearing out those new meats!

 

The best! Yea I was going to but now I have an excuse

 

Rear bumper painted, way ahead of ya! As for the whole h3 wheel fiasco I do have 1.5' spacers on and had the wheels lying in my garage for a couple of months till I got around to getting the wheels bored out a mm or two. Same bolt pattern and everything it was just a matter of backspacing and expanding the center diameter just a tad bit.
She looks like a tank now! Probably won't paint the bull bar kind of like just the last bit chrome to be there plus don't got to worry about retouching it when I run shit over.

 

Oh well, Can't really tell of the black on the back but it's there.
285/70/16 wranglers on 3' OME lift

 

you wont regret it

 

Damn that's purty.

 

Thoughts on this frame?

 

Looks like it was replaced recently.

 

Better than mine haha and I've never been worried about my frame falling apart.

 

was it not inspected by toyota,looks like surface rust beat with a hammer if u can.mine wasnt inspected either but thats cause Ididnt receive notice because I didnt have it tagged at the time of recall and toyota told me tough shit when I retagged after deadline

 

Looks solid to me. Hammer test from where the main eye bolt on the front of the leaf springs is going backwards and that's where you should be most concerned. From what I heard it was the risk of the spring hangers rusting off the truck, etc. I mean test it all but I was told by another member that the biggest rust occurred where the boxed frame turns into c-channel. That frame looks pretty damn good IMO though.

This recent pic shows the kind of crap I have happening at the very rear of my frame:

 

That looks pretty rough

 

It is. I plan on treating it this summer but I'm not sure how I can get into the tighter spots like there where I can't get a wire brush/flap disk in. I think the only option would be a sand blaster which I don't have access to.

 

yea I know the feeling been self treating mine and its a bitch to get into some of those places

 

Just put the first crawler parts on the old girl New shifter seat and bushing from Marlin, shifts like a dream now!

 

Put my EBC green stuff pads on. Damn they are sooo much better than the cheap ones I had on here. Well worth the $54

 

made one of these today. used mrgrimms write up. Shit is tits!

 

i used an old aluminum keg for the same thing! haha

 

HA! Whatever works!

Also made this today. Write up by rugged t