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

Replaced the front 5100's I installed back in 2007 with a set of new Sway Away 2.0's today. Believe it or not the 5100's both started leaking a couple of months ago surprised they lasted any where this long since I have put them trough hell and back....... Also noticed the old coils were binding this truck is an SR5 but I guess it had the progressive coils as well thought only the trd's got these or they are really sagged on top? Either way truck rides like a boss now just need to take a bit of pre-load off the front to get her level again.


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Ohhh you bought that. Did you go and pick it up yourself?

It's funny I'm out here in Los Angeles right now but I don't think that front bumper will fit in the overhead compartment of the plane. Lol.

How hard was the assembly?

 

Yes. A friend of mine and I drove down on a Saturday morning, picked it up, and got home by 5. Long day. I drove a 2010 Rav4 to save on fuel costs.

Assembly wasn't too bad. Tolerances could be a little tighter. I'm sure there's a preferred order to welding the pieces together, but the directions didn't say. And I think there's a design flaw with the hidden hitch. I won't weld that in until I figure out a solution. Regardless, I'm glad I picked it up.

 

Looks clean! More details on install if possible.

 

Didn't really feel a difference...

I got these ones. No body lift.

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You going to add any panel protection to it?

 

I plan to. I really wanted their wrap-around bumper, but this came up. I figured I could add on what I need later.

 

Had a friend weld my sliders on went back to his house and fuck he didn't measure and there to far forward.

 

Is it just a straight pipe? If so just cut it ?

 

No sadly there not. So I might just cut the end and put a new plate on the end only problem is that's going to weaken them some

 

260k on the mountain today-

And I have a ujoint going bad somewhere,have to look closer tomorrow after I hose it off.


Also have some new to me blue shocks waiting for me at home, so that exciting.

 

Ripped out my old broken springs and got my Alcans installed today.

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Made progress today. Here's where we're at now.

Finished disassembly and then started re-assembling everything.

Installed:
Cam Seals
Crank seal
Cam Pulleys
Cam position sensor
Timing cover #3
Waterpump
Thermostat
Idler pulley
Hydralic tensioner and pulley
Crank pulley
Timing belt
#2 Timing cover


Morgan @foxrcing07 bailed my ass out this morning by bringing me a bolt extractor for this bolt. Worked like a champ!

 

The kit I ordered from Aircabinman came in today. Came with the wrong thermostat.

So... I went to the stealership... 52 bucks for a damn thermostat.

 

Drove in the snow.

 

Know any body shops with a frame jig? They would have the tie downs and hydraulic rams for that job. You could get dangerous and creative with pulleys and a winch too, but hydraulics tends to store less dangerous kinetic energy. Upside of the frame jig is it can fix your thrust angle too. I bet you can get that some space back by replacing your body mount bushings.

 

Well no matter what you're gonna weaken the frame and sliders by forcing them back into position, work hardening is a bitch. But I bet you could line yourself up on the edge of a loading bay and have a winched friend in the lower section start pulling. It's gonna be a numbers game unfortunately so anchoring yourself might be (probably is) required and making a fulcrum with something strong (jack stands might not be enough) would likely be required.

 

I see what you mean, i think you have elastic and plastic deformation flipped BTW. You get plastic deformation after elastic deformation, you don't want plastic deformation.

 

I was thinking a vertical handy man jack between your slider and something cement or heavy thick steel of some sort (if that makes sense), but Zanes idea sounded a lot better, practical and less scary... so I deleted it.

 

Ended up adding fuel in the mid-high end and pulled about a degree of timing.