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

built me a satoshi grill, am going to mount it later though after i do the retrofit projector mod...

 

Simple green'd my motor, good as new

 

I can't wait!!!

And you're right, I've noticed a large difference off-road and when hitting potholes! I had a SAR training exercise up in the mountains today and those dirt roads would've rattled my truck like crazy if I hadn't taken off the SB.

 

Nice! I had blue in a different car and I noticed it made it hard to see the gauge when the sun was coming up or going down.

 

LEDs right? I've seen the write-up for this and may be doing it further down the road. How long did it take you and was it hard?

Oh yeah, and...

 

is there a write up on how to do this?

 

There might be one somewhere, but I searched and could not find one. It's really pretty simple though. If you can locate the sway bar, it should be pretty easy to see how it comes off. It definately took some elbow grease for me, but I just took the end-links off for now and will probably take off the whole thing off in a few days.

 

plasti dipped front/rear bumpers and grill surround...hopefully it doesnt chip or ill have to paint it

 

Finally bolted down my 10' sub box and mounted a rechargeable flashlight on it.

Also replaced my old 200 watt kenwood sub with a 350 watt kicker. (sorry about the crappy pics)

 

Took my shell off

 

i wanna see pics, i have seen tacomaforlifes and his looked good.

Its simple, there are about 5 bolts under the column and 2 screws in the top of plasit above teh cluster and 4 screws holding the cluster in, its very simple and took me all of 10 minutes if that to figure it out on my own.

Ill be doing mine red sometime this week probably around tuesday, but hopefully tomorrow!

As states by Sledge You find the end links vvvv


They will be connected to thisvvvv


But of course thats with them off, they are very simple to find, just spray you a little bit of penetrating lubricant or wd-40 seems to work for me on it and let it sit for a few minutes and it will take all of 5 minutes!

 

x2. Not sure if I'm going to go blue or white yet.

 

Added some floor lighting to my dome light circuit




Then I gave the truck a couple of glove box lights. The lights are tilt activated by a mercury switch. It's the easiest switch for the job but not the best. The switch is subject to interference from hills and inertia... That's why I wired it to the cigarette lighter which of course is only active if the key is in the ignition. That way, I don't have to worry about my lights switching on if I park on a hill.

 

@cmack: I put led's in my dash a couple weeks ago from superbrightled's and they still dim.

 

Went through a creek today! Click Here if you want to see the whole trip

 

MY LED's for the cluster should be here tomorrow

EDIT: they just showed up and are now installed:

 

Definitely order from them. I waited weeks at first for some cheap ones from ebay, and they sucked hella bad and two didn't work lol. Ordered red ones from superbrightled's for gauge and they look badass.

 

Installed Full OME suspension and LR UCA's

 

How dare you not post pics!

 

That looks like an awesome trip