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

Yes, I made it out of a piece of metal and painted it. I also had to make a backing plate so it locks it into place front and back together.

 

Just found some cheap ones on Amazon thanks guys

 

Badass truck man

 

Thanks!

 

Shell cleaned and primed.

Carpet in 24 hrs.

 

That looks familiar haha. Gotta take the cap with the magnets off and pull out the coiled armature for the motor too, that usually gets gunked up and seized in the bottom, don't loose the little balls on the top and bottom. I use a screw driver, wire brush and electrical contact cleaner (doesent evaporate as fast) and just spray scrub spray scrub the spring, gear, arm, housing, scrape out everything you can with a knife or screwdriver and grease it all back up (I used dialectic grease cuz I'm too lazy to get the yellow shit from toyota. Then put it all back together and make sure it cycles freely out of the housing

 

Put it in a vise and use properly fitted driver and put all your weight on it as you turn. You can also use an impact, that'll usually take out most buggered screws.

 

Correct. It needs to come off one way or another. If the screws break, then you get a chance to fix em haha. If they snap (mine have) just tap out the screws and replace em. Usually they poke down enough you can grab the broken screw and twist it out with vice grips

 

Can you clamp it to a table? If the threads are seized an impact will share them but usually you can get screws out with one.

Do not get cheap taps, the only thing they're ok for is chasing threads. Check out a machine supply place or sometimes ace industrial supply has good ones that they sell individually.

 

Well sir we have many tap and die sets lol! I may work there...

 

Found this too, this shows a few details.

 

Fun in the Colorado snow

 

Can't stress that last point enough. Cheap taps will just give you a reason to learn how to extract a broken tap.

 

These pictures exude fun.

 

Another Denver 1st gen

 

Finally took off that annoying running board.

 

Lt without fiberglass fenders?

 

Traded it in for a ferd.



Already miss my truck. Who knows how long till the frame gets done though.

 

Shirts say it all

 

Only thing i dont like about them is the ugly headlights. The last gen projector headlights were much cleaner looking.