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

Finished my Prerunner to 4x4 conversion on my double cab!

 

Why not just swap in the whole axle? That thing looks ready to party.

 

Goddamn that thing is clean.

 

Nice work.

Might want to upgrade the stock transfer case "skid"

Oh, and nice wallet, Castanza.

 

Thanks buddy

Thats what I was going to do next

 

These two bolts are all that's need to take the tail gate handle out right?


Is there a secret to get them out cause I've tried and they just spin....




Jk got it

 

No problem with all that cash stuffed in your wallet...

 

Hahaha! I wish, 90% of that are receipts from work

 

They might not be too happy when this happens then:

 

Seriously. A 4x4 swap would be a piece of cake compared to getting my truck that clean. It would take an act of God.

 

Just got my new tail lights in! And I'm loving them! Only thing that sucks is the bulb that goes In them is a 1156 and not a 921 but overall very happy with what I've done with my build, I've done the 3rd brake light and my tail lights so far.

Before
After

 

Legrange toyota called, they shipped my parts. Hoping for Friday or Saturday. I hate sitting idle.

 

I'd be willing to buy those stock rear lights off of you if you don't need them anymore.

 

Noob question. I saw a guy remove the crank pulley bolt on my replacement motor last night with a cordless impact and then he zipped it back on. It will rotate the engine now that I'm trying with my breaker bar - thought I might get away with it since it had been taken off and might not have much torque on it. I know I can get it off when my impact comes in the mail (thank you Amazon) in a day or two. I wanted to know if it would make a difference if I keep taking the accessory belts off - I've taken the first one off and didn't know if it would make a difference if I remove the other two before taking the crank bolt off with the impact. I know the torque provided by the belts is minimal to counteract the turning of the crank bolt. I just want to make sure before I go and remove the power steering pump and alternator. Most of the threads saying the impact works on the crank bolt are talking about an engine still in the truck with everything on it still. Thank you.

- noob

 

Nah shouldn't make a difference, the force of the rotating assembly is way more than the belt drive.

 

@m3bassman -You run a 2 ft firestick on your hood for your cb, right? I have had a 4 ft on my rear bumper with really bad results, was told it is from my plastic bedliner. What kind of mount is yours? Where did you source it from? I was just qouted $100 for mount, 6.5 ft of coax and a 2ft firestick, seems kinda steep to me. Thoughts...

 

Well I think the worst part is over. Gonna wipe it down a more times tonight, one or two times in the morning and then start painting.


Hopefully I can put Humpty Dumpty back together...


Also get the bumpers lined

 

I recall, back in the day, that we mounted it on the bumper of our old school chevy van.

 

Looking forward to seeing the end results. How many hours would you say you've put into prep?

 

I was told it is more of a problem with the plastic bedliner, than with the location. No metallic ground plane to improve transmission/reception.