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

Was gonna offer 500.

My thinking wad to regear and go ARB. OBA is on my list anyways. I should pass huh?

 

I would. I love the arb.

 

Ok. I trust you monte

 

Now that's scary

 

No...no its not.

 

Having a little issue....

Sometimes when starting the truck I turn the key and nothing happens. (No click)

But then try to start it again and it starts fine. The problem started after a deep (ish) water crossing...

I've had the battery tested and it was good, no corrosion on the terminals, starter itself tested good but I'm thinking I may need to replace the contact terminals possibly? Or something with the ignition switch possibly?

It has never done this before I went into the water.. any help appreciated

Other threads I read possibly suggested a variety of other things....

 

Could be the contacts on the starter.

When that happened to me that's what it was. And then again it was a bad battery.

 

Ordered a "rebuild kit" today so I'll do that tomorrow and also clean up the starter wires and ground points and hopefully solves the issue...

It only does it probably 1/10 starts

 

I went back to the local rockpile to try and make it further now that I have sliders, was fun but I didn't make it all the way through, need a bellypan skid. I scraped the stock skid, LCA and cross members a lot and decided to stop before I hit the transfer case. I also scraped and dented part of my rear pumpkin, all in all not too bad and I could have gone all the way through with a belly skid.

On my way out a rock was jutting the wrong way and caught the pumpkin pretty good. A kindly stock Jeep wrangler passing by offered to snatch it out of the way for me so I also got to have a chat with a Jeep guy. Nice new rig, couldn't talk him into tackling the rocks.

 

Where's the canopy?

 

Redoing the clear coat and bedlining the interior before the weather turns too shitty to do it.

 

Yeah, it really looks like your painting.

I liked the look of that canopy on your truck.

 

It'll be going back on the truck on Monday. I've almost finished respraying the clear coat. Tomorrow will be bedlining the raw fiberglass interior. I think it looks pretty good on there too

 

completed dual batteries project

 

I would. If I were to do it again I wouldn't have gotten a TRD and put an ARB in the back. That being said it will cost you more, but if you're regearing anyways it will be the perfect time to toss it in.

That shackle looks close to going inverted in the last pic.

 

What sizes are the two batteries? Looks like one might be 34/78.

I see the BlueSea fuse block, are you also using something like a BlueSea ML-ACR to manage the batteries?

 

It was certainly getting close, I didn't have any weight in the bed at all. But these leaf packs could certainly do with a couple less leafs too, they are a bit stiff. That said I didn't lift a tire today.

 

Redtop optimas and the right one was for o4 tacoma and left one a little larger, I bought on sale for 150 from 4wheelparts. My son said it is for a chevy lol. It is a little stronger, therefore I would have preferred it to be the auxilliary, it would not fit. No I do not have any monitoring system or an LED wired to Pac200 isolator. Here is a pic of my rear seat replaced with a custom chest.

not have any monitoring system or an

 

Nice storage space! I've been wanting to do something similar but I've only gotten a far as taking out the back seat, a year ago.

 

Bed rack installed!
Added Dakar leaf springs and some toytec adjustable shackles for the rear.
Also took advantage of that Wet Okole group buy. Heated option included, works great on these cold Canadian mornings...