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

Wine? No my friend you need beer and lots of it!

 

Feel like doing a DIY how to thread on it? I need to do mine too. If you go have those bearings pressed at a shop, let me know which shop. I'm in sac and need to do my front bearings. Still looking for a shop but I want to do most of it myself.

 

can anyone tell me where and what color the tachometer wire is for my 2004 prerunner? my factory speedometer doesnt have a tach so im installing one.

 

Going to wash my truck for the 2nd time ever.

Hopefully, it'll STAY clean this time.

 

Done!

 

Bilstein 5100? What kinda coil? I'm running mine with stock coils but want to upgrade at some point.

 

I got the toytec ones set at 0 and it runs perfect!

 

How are your orange halos so bright!?!?!

 

Aren't all the halos from theretrofitsource.com that bright?

 

Yup, mine are bright enough to light up the ground in front of me haha

I just hope yours don't start going out like mine have...

 

Why have yours started to go out

 

3 LEDs on the driver side ring have failed...

 

Had some Dremel fun with my bumper today.

 

Turned out good bro.

 

I like it. How stable is it?

 

got the ball joints and tie rods out in one piece, bought a little torch at ace and it worked like a charm to get them free, gonna install tomorrow or monday cause its pouring and im over being soaked

 

Can't really take a pic of my new mod.......re-gear. I wish this had been the first thing I ever did to my truck.

I didn't think about gears at all when I bought it. Later, I was trying to figure out why it bogged down on hills. Turns out some derelict at Toyota put 3.91 gears in a V6 automatic.

Prior to getting the work done, I debated the whole 4.56 vs 4.88 vs mpg thing, reading thousands of posts. I got 4.88s. I don't regret it at all. I'm glad I didn't go with 4.56.
I'd probably be happy with 5.29's.

If you feel like your truck needs bigger gears, DO IT! And get the big f-ing ones.

 

Thanks man!

It's perfectly stable. It's still fastened on the top to the bumper, and on the bottom to the subframe. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

 

It looks badass plus gives you some increased approach angle. Did you derp the bumper or paint it? Also, if you could find a front receiver, you could run a winch on a removable mount.

 

Finally got under the truck to take pictures of the trail rash incurred at the last off-roading event.

Kissed the pig:


A few other shots can be found in my build thread: http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st-gen-builds/259729-tomtoms-03-trd-xtra-cab-35.html#post8607492