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

How many miles have you put on since install? I have dakars with the aal and lift shackles (temporary, I have new ome greasables waiting to be installed) and I just hit about 1200k since install and they've settled quite a bit, so much so that I'm thinking I'll have to lower the front some when I ditch the lift shackles. Also are you carrying a load in the back? I put a shit ton of extra weight in the back to help them settle.

 

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Maybe I interpreted it wrong....

 

We may not have rust problems in Arizona, but boy do we have a problem with flying gravel on the highway!

After finishing my headlight upgrade, I couldn't bear to put these filler pieces back on in this condition:



I sanded them down to the bare metal, primed them, repainted them, and they're ready to go back into battle:

 

i think monte had a stroke from that comment.

 

Throw some two-part automotive clear coat (can get it at Sherwin Williams) on them. Stuff is tough as nails.

 

I can finally say TITS in south central Texas.

 

Has all of Texas gone into red alert, sounding the sirens, all news broadcasting the "WINTER STORM ALERT" for the half inch of snow haha. I'm gonna go find news channel streams for Texas now this is usually hilarious.

 

Basically, yes.

 

“Disastrous Morning Commute”
“Snow Day”

 

I already went with Rustoleum automotive enamel. I'll remember your suggestion for the next project.

 

More snow than Nebraska has had all year

 

Got my 240v hooked up for my air compressor today. I love this goddamn sandblaster.

Before and After of a 'D' note Delco-Remy Cadillac horn.



Now I'll never run out of air!



Sandblasting my front differential next.

Here are two front right differential mounting brackets side by side. Huge difference.

 

Jealous of the compressor, I need to upgrade mine soon haha 4CFM ain't cutting it anymore. Those parts clean up nice!

 

Wanna sand blast some calipers? Lol

 

Finally getting some sliders built building an extra set for my homie

 

Funny you ask people have been DM'ing me asking to sandblast Tundra Calipers for them. Lol.

PM me and we can work something out!

 

That's just with glass beads for light duty sandblasting. I'm picking up some aluminum oxide media for heavy rust removal when I do my differential.

Check Craigslist! The compressor, sandblaster, and drill press all came as a package deal from a guy I bought a $20 parts washer from. Told me he was moving and was selling some tools for cheap.

 

Good deal for sure. Right now the compressors on my Tacoma have a higher static flow than my shop compressor, but the shop compressor has a bigger tank lol. Might have to pick up a bigger compressor soon, I'd like a bigger blasting cabinet.

 

I haven't even had my compressor for a day and I already regret not getting a dual stage one lol

My service panel was actually full of 240v hookups with no empty spots. Luckily the people who built my house wired the kitchen for a double oven but we never had one so I just had it disconnected and wired the outlet to that.

Luckily the perfect spot where I wanted the compressor to go was right behind my 240v service panel.

 

That's really good luck, I saw an Ingersoll Rand compressor that was dual stage for sale locally that I might have to have. I have 240 connection points all around the house (sub panels for days with two pool pumps, a pool heat pump, hot tub, two ac units) just gotta see if the landlord is okay with me putting in a 240 in the garage figure with all the conduit for the pool stuff nearby another one wouldn't be too big a deal, I'd like to have one in there so I can move up to a more solid welder and compressor. Weird thing is my main panel and all my subpanels are on the exterior of the house :/