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

Doing that sucks..im paying someone to do my next one.

 

Dang that sucks. We have to deal with all the gravel taking everything out here in the winter lol

 

Did the cheap Dome light mod today. Now my map light come on when I open the door!!! So happy with it. Tomorrow will tackle the extended range keyless entry mod.

 

for those of you who have done the EP-35 signal flasher mod.

I just wired up two front LED turn signals. the rears are stock.

I had the hyper flash pre EP-35
I put the EP-35 in and the hyper flash continued but at a different pitch (sound).


Any ideas?

 

The stock unit is made by Novita and so is the one you can buy from Autozone... But yeah it flashes at about 92-95 flashes per minute whereas the stock was about 80-85 flashes per minute. I don't mind it any more...

 

Think I misunderstood actually..... You may actually have a bulb out of it is still hyper flashing. It still does that if something is actually wrong. Possible you got a bad flasher too

 

Picked up a baja rack,bars, towers, feet.

 

All of my bulbs are working
it still hyper flashes though.

 

My money is on bad flasher then.... My front turn signals are just three tiny leds and I have the stock rear bulb. No problems with the EP-35

 

i got this one

$21 Novita EP35 Flasher

https://www.amazon.com/Novita-EP35-...F8&qid=1485762428&sr=8-1&keywords=novita+ep35

 

So I would go to AutoZone and buy the EP-35 they carry in store. It's a common part so they always have them, from the reviews on that Amazon listing it seems there are a couple sellers that are shipping out the older one (same part #) but doesn't support LEDs

 

I put on the skid plate I built from the deck of an old bush hog. I paid $50 for a 4x5' piece. I primed & painted it with Rust-Oleum.

 

This weekend ol' blue got a new radiator, inner and outer tie rod links, lbjs, tail light housings and some more hammer time. No more rubbing finally. Then my check engine light came on, on the way to the alignment shop

 

LOL, it's always something.

This weekend I flushed my power steering system. I'd been getting that buzzing noise from the power steering pump on cold startups. Pulled the reservoir off, flushed it all out with brake cleaner, put it back on, then had my sons sit in the cab and cycle the steering wheel back and forth while the return hose flushed into a drain pan and I topped up the reservoir with ATF fluid. Started it up this morning, no buzzing. Mission accomplished.

 

Cut a few things off

 

Very rough start on my front bumper. I'm using 2x1 rectangle that is 3mm thick which is the same size as my bed cage which is round 1.75 dom tube. There will be a lot more bracing. I'm also going to plate a good amount of it for added strength as I know the rectangular tube is not as strong as the round. Seems everyone has round so wanted to do something different. What do you guys think? Am I just wasting my time or do you think with enough plate and bracing I can create a unique, strong, cool bumper?

 

I've been waiting for the moment a long time

 

Finally got time on changing out my transmission pan fluid. But I wanna play it safe before I do a tranny flush and see if the picture below shows to much metallic shavings that should worry me. The transmission fluid isn't burnt.

 

I just ordered the same one... so I will let you know in a couple days, I have been looking for the flasher is it under the left knee plate

 

This is what we call in the hood, poverty spec mods

1) trim restorer on flares. Looks better but will need paint

2) center cap removal to five wheel more pizzaz before being powder coated white

Ghetto fabulous . 15 year olds kids do this.