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

Dude.

 

Dumb question incoming. One Tail light turns off when braking. Bad bulb or something else?

 

New leaf springs and bilstein rear on the rear. I'll get the front shocks installed next and level it out. Nerf bars will be next on the list...

 

Replaced an outer tie rod! Just had an alignment the other day and it was already pulling to the side after I accidentally BFHed the poor thing. Now I got to get back to college for my welding class!

 

accelerated, up-hill, in 5th gear. It felt nice.

 

Where did you get them? Which ones are they? Me want!

 

Got them from Super Bright LEDs


Works for me as far as "flood" lighting goes. I can see a lot more than I did before. I'm not saying they are better than actually putting a light back there.

It's a much cleaner "white" too, the bulbs I had were yellow.

 

Sounds good to me. No problem with alittle rice.

let me know when you find something.

 

Good shit, thanks!

Thanks! I think doing both might be the way to go.

 

Must be true if the king says so. Thanks for the info! I need to get something back there. Just put the shell back on for winter and seeing through those tinted windows at night is damn near impossible.

 

Who know's a lot about clutches or can point me in the right direction?

As far as I know, I'm at 223K on the stock clutch. PO didn't mention anything about it. Wheeling on Sunday I smoked it pretty good. Now its engaging later (very late) on the pedal. I haven't felt it slipping as of yet, I thought I smelled clutch faintly a couple of times the last two days, but that could just be me worrying.

Anyways, don't know exactly what's going on, but I'm guessing there's not very much life left on it. So, what are the best options for replacing it, and any good write ups on doing it myself? I've read a little about the Marlin Crawler setup, but they always seem to be out of stock.

 

That clutch has lasted a pretty good while. How much does toyota want for one?

 

Exactly what I was thinking

 

Mine did the same thing last time I went off roading, but mine has less than 10k miles. It chatters really bad now too. I'm pretty sure it's about junk. I'm not sure what I'm going with next. Probably a metallic clutch from LC Engineering.

 

I like Marlin Crawler over the stock one. They mix and match components from the same vendor that sells to Toyota. Has a better pedal pressure feel.

Here's the Camelback search result for "clutch":
http://parts.camelbacktoyota.com/parts/2003/Toyota/Tacoma/DLX/index.cfm?siteid=214329

You'll be wanting the pilot bearing, pressure plate, disc and release bearing.

 

You're hella gonna like me if we where meet up dude.

I was hearing the QC was going down before they stopped.

 

X2 on the Marlin very good clutch combo. Easy to replace your self.

 

So far my trail gear ceramic one is doing great. I love that it never fades when offroading too

 

I'm happy with the 20" ers I have in my grill, but it seemed that a bunch of people were complaining about water.

 

Thinking about maybe mounting 2 cubes to the roof rack on my shell. Any reason this is a bad idea vs. the 6" bar?