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

shits about to get real! good luck dude, I kinda wanna do structural engineering, BUT that means i would have to go back to school, and well ya know.

 

Lol rant on my friend!

Yeah fuck school, I might go back some day but for now one degree is enough.

 

Interesting.

Kurt at Cruiser Outfitters said that the D6XAAL only adds 3/4" more of rake.

 

at least you got one, i got none :]

had no idea what i wanted to do in college so i dropped out and went to welding school. but now that im in the field i know i dont want to be in the field forever and think i want to be an engineer of some sorts one day. designing shit is cool

 

What the heck are you babbling about ben

 

Installed my Tru cool 4454 yesterday. Bypassed the radiator too.

 

Replaced LBJs and inner and outer TREs today. Sure glad that is done. Good to go for another 100K.

 

Phew 2:30am just finished doing a full transmission flush. Feels good to be done. It shifts so much better now.

 

Did you go with OEM or aftermarket?

 

nope, no way it was just 3/4 ".... my truck looks like its leaning over to pick up a penny

 

previous pages bud... and in my build

 

My bad. on my phone and it won't load any photos, running super slow

 

Made it to moab

 

Nice. Now we want to see some wheelin pictures....

 

relax. it will settle and look totally normal.

 

Yesterday

Swapped the dual 01-04 horns (from Jon) in place of the "meep meep" 98-00 horn. Jon took mine because he wants the juxtaposition between the look of his truck and sound of my horn.

He also gave me his blower motor for the HVAC system. Swapped it for mine.

No more rodent fighting/fucking sound coming from my dash.

 

To avoid any conflict, I will redo the skid plate. It's going to cost about $75 more, but it will satisfy. No fasteners will mount below the skid. A new rear strap will also be made to hang the skid. The skid will no longer use the factory mounts at all.

With my products, I am filling the niche of a lower priced product for the people looking for a deal, not the top end niche. I am not trying to beat bud built or skid row or whoever. If I sell one or 100 products, that's fine with me. I have to make some sacrifices through manufacturing processes if I want to come in with a good price. Otherwise I sell nothing. I don't know of many truck products that y'all don't modify yourselves anyway, so if you want changes, make some changes. The products I sell will work great for some, and some need to fork over the cash for the high end products.

This is all I'm going to say about this. You guys can judge my qualifications you know nothing about, my experience you know nothing about, my knowledge I guess I don't have, whatever. It doesn't bother me.

Let another day of wrenching commence!

 

New here, wanted to ask if anyone here is selling stock spindles?

 

What have I done today? Was out wd-40ing all the bolts for when my lift gets here and noticed something strange, lights dangling around my spare tire. I look at the rear bumper and notice they are my tag plates!!! Apparently some idiot didn't put em in. They went in just fine, no reasoning on why they were out. Lol.

Hope to give you guys a little laughter on this fine Sunday.