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

That's what I was thinking. Glad to hear others have the same line of thinking.

 

Did you make the part for the switches? I have always wanted to do that.

 

I would never drive with that motor out. It's what holds the rack in place so it Doesent slide to lock or unlock position. I've never tried it because I don't want to, but the rack could shift and try to lock at speed or in a turn. I don't want to know will break if that happens. Cleaning it can be done in a night after you're off work. So no need to drive around with a hole in your housing

Also, take th motor out with it wired up and have somone press the button and see what it's doing when it's trying to lock. If the gear spins freely and it sounds healthy then you might have another issue. If you hit the button and it sounds like its struggling and trying to push through something, and sounds super unhealthy you know it's probably gunked Up or seized. If it doesent do anything, but you can move/wiggle the gear (on the outside of the motor) and then have it make its rotation there is a wiring issue and you might need to fix the contact points on the gear inside the motor

 

In the 1st days of Tacomadom it was determined that the actuators were not sealed anywhere near enough from the factory. Both the motor bell with it's microscopic o-ring and the halves of the actuator itself with no sealant at all.
It was standard procedure to pull it, check it out inside and put it back together with both the motor and seams "well sealed" then the entire thing got slathered with Rustoleum.
I did this and pulled the actuator apart after 200K and found it like new inside and functioning flawlessly.
One of my go to trails when I'm in the area has 30 to 50 water crossings in 7 miles.

IIRC the locker fork/fork shaft has a spring loaded detent ball, check the FSM.

 

Just playing recovery vehicle.

 

before after

 

This might help too

http://rodnh.byethost12.com/tacoma/locker.htm

 

Pulled the shell to carpet it.



Let the fun begin!

 

Posted it on Craigslist...

 

Finished stripping it to turn it in to Toyota.

 

LCA Skids from BAMF







Thanks to @bayareataco for the great deal

 

I like the bumperless look tbh..

 

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I do for the rear but definitely not the front. Thinking about ways to modify my 4xinnovations rear to make it a little more streamlined.

 

Yeah I followed a thread on pirate when I did my personal motor. Not too diffcult. Stay organized when removing parts. Timing it on reassembly is the hardest part

 

Just got a set of free Fx-r projectors and halos

All I need is to pick out a set of shrouds I like and I can start cutting my housings up haha

 

FREEEEEE??

 

Plasti dipped my chrome toolbox

 

Looks good

 

Yuuuuuup!!!

 

So I've been delaying this for quite sometime, but finally got around to relocating my windshield wiper fluid reservoir, but with ABS plastic tube.

It's actually pretty neat and simple. Here are links to tutorials for it: Here and Here

I did a variations of both and I say it came out well.







No more ugly and vulnerable reservoir...



Truck is looking meaner then ever...