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

Was gona put some whiter leds in but my new bulbs were to long. On 95-97 models you change the bulbs without removing dash with the help of a slinky armed friend. All u gota remove is outer plastic/cupholers and move the ducting behind it out of the way.

 

Took my sweet time only working Sundays but seems to be running perfect. Little exhaust leak where I had to re use a gasket since I ordered the wrong one but all in all not too bad. A little trouble with the machine shop here and there, time wise mostly. Anyways, almost on my first oil change with 0 leaks anywhere!

 

Just washed the truck for the first time since moving to a new place. So nice to have a driveway and garage. Found out I scratched and gouged my F5s. Oh well no biggie. My ifs skid plate is really badly bent now too.



Not the worst wheel but it's the only one I got a pic of...

 

Questions guys , if I wanted to take my oh sh*t handle off and mount a switch box for all my lights and stuff how hard do y'all believe that would be?

 

Depends on how good you are with fiberglass or CAD software. Sounds like an afternoon type project to me

 

Thought I'd post my bucket seat swap with center console and 8"sub

 

Nice work. Seems like the kind of thing you'd see in this thread. https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/your-unique-mod-on-the-1st-gens.118241/

 

What are the seats from?

 

I've been trying to get a custom DBZ grill from those guys. Do you have a contact email or phone number I can try?

 

The outer boot has not been my friend either, some of the clamps I got came with the poly boots from offroad solutions. the rest I got off Amazon made by uxcell. The ones from amazon seem alot beefier. I did the boot slide for the inner boot because thats where I had the recurring boot ripping. you're also going to need a set of decent cv boot clamp pliers with these clamps but they work a hell of alot better than the cheap clamps from the auto parts store. The allpro boot is the same as the porsche boots that some people use, I've haven't heard too many complaints about em so they must work.

 

Paint day was successful!
The underbelly is officially bulletproof

Had to cut a little out of the skids to make sure the lca skids swing freely
I might need to upgrade to a heavier coil down the line. maybe after the winch completely maxes out my front weight capacity
And I'm waiting till after the tundra brake swap to paint the letters on the BAMF skids to match the calipers

 

That pretty much sums up what I'm going for, ultimately! I'm looking more for the capability of a SAS rig when I need it, not necessarily to go looking for stuff to crawl. If that capability gets my ass out of a bad situation, then it's served its purpose.

 

that is exactly what pushed me to take the plunge.

 

Finally got her repainted, took over a month to finally get this done. Anywho, she's looking good.

 

Looks gorgeous.

 

This was a couple days ago but went wheelin near stokes

 

Nice what's the color and what'd you use?

 

thanks, Its called Sterling Grey Metallic paint code UJ it's a solvent based paint. better than the blue it had before.

 

This is what it looked like when i first got it. i'm making small progressions .

 

Please, that's nothing.

I am glad you got rid of the powder blue.