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

IM VERY EXCITED FOR THE WEEKEND.

 

Replacwd my bulbs, passenger side highbean went out driving home last night. Anotha day anotha dolla

 

Training, I guess you could say, the new dog to ride in the bed.

 

Surprisingly you can fit a plate bumper in there lol

 

haha dude these volvo station wagons have a ton of cargo space with the rear seats folded up, perfect parts getter

 

Day off...Changed the PCV valve, then went and picked up some Ultimate Liquid Wax, but for that price I decided to bite the bullet and run the clay bar over her for the first time in many, many years.

I was not disappointed in the results, and can now safely say that most 13 year old humans are worse looking than my 13 year old truck.

 

Lol true that man.

 

Welp i have an intermittent stiff brake pedal and no AC. Possibly a sticking caliper too. Awesome.

I installed a new brake booster a few months ago, sad that it seems to be going out already.

 

Flushed my PS and put an inline filter on to hopefully fix the whine. Sadly it didn't. And then topped off all fluids and packed all my tools for a trip this weekend.

 

What filter?

 

The no ac sucks ass lol

 

You're telling me! It's 112 deg with 20percent humidity today. Not the worst but not fun.

 

Haha it's been almost 100 here

 

Sounds like i visited SD just in time!

 

I'd really like to clay bar my truck. What are you supposed to put on it after you use the clay bar?

 

Just one from the local auto parts store. Forget the brand.

 

New Rims and Tires

 

Ok, need some opinions.


Now that I have the back suspension of my truck done, I need to finish the front.

What ucas would be the best in your opinion. I live in Utah, so there's salt, sand, dust, rust, all that good stuff. I think when I get my kings rebuilt, hopefully this fall, I'll have them take the bumpstop things out and make them extended travel (I think that's a thing????)

Soo really the question is, in your opinion, uniball or ball joint?

 

realistically ball joints would be ideal since there sealed. but if you keep uniball joints clean and put little bit extra grease so it acts like a barrier for all that salt. I think you'll be fine but I haven't owned a pair of uniball UCAs yet. I live in Indiana so I'm just as worried in terms of the environment conditions they'll be exposed to. Would suck to drop $800 on some TC UCAs and have to replace them every two years or so.

 

Got my new set of 295 kooks mounted up to the Ray 10s.

IMG_0631 by brettbjorgum, on Flickr