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

BAD-ASS!

 

X2 looks good

 

Finally got my BAMF sliders finished.
Rattle can flat black






These things are so stout it's retarded. I have to get used to getting in my truck a different way now. I've been hopping in the same way for ten years, suddenly shin bone!

 

Those look like the same wheels I have on my truck... ProComp RockCrawler 98s.

Let me warn you theough, these wheels and any soft 8 style wheel (besides the wheelersoff-road wheel... ) will not fit our truck's with out doing some grinding to clear the caliper!

I used a flap disc to grind down the bevels a bit to fit mine...

looks great! and you'll get used to them... hahahaha

 

Snapped the trim piece off my seat this morning, gonna try to figure out a way to re-attach it without buying a new one.

 

washed...cranked the stereo and
had my new uni-balls installed and they make a world of difference!
I had to take the good with the bad but found out my front right eibach coil was cracked!

So now I have an excuse to order the toytec ultimate lift!!!

 

open to suggestions for what to do.. suspension wise....

 

If you have the money now to do a coil over and upper control arm set up, Do it. You will never regret it.

 

I already have TC UCA's with new stainless steel uniballs, and bilstein shocks and eibac springs...
I want to re-do the rear anyways but recently found out I have a cracked spring so thought I would do a full new set up

 

i just put a washer on the outside where the screw goes through works fine.

 

Painted my rear bumper semi gloss




(no that's not overspray... that's my mad photo editing skills)

 

Yeah I have a can of vinyl dye in my garage. Thinking about doing that tomorrow.

 

Zip Tie Mod FTMFW!!!

Here's mine on the front end of that part because it kept popping off every time I got out of the truck. I'm sure you can do the same. Just find 2-3 good anchor points (front, middle, rear). Works perfectly fine!

 

Hows that muffler paint holding up? Going to do mine tomorrow.

 

The vinyl dye will be awesome for the lower valence which is made up of a vinyl/rubber substance. It'll absorb right in and be a permanent solution to the fading gray color. Years down the road it'll probably need touch up (I can't garage my truck) but that's better than weeks/months down the road with back-to-black and similar products.

I wouldn't use it for dense plastic like the flares. For that I'd go with a true paint.

TacoMX did his lower valence with the dye, before he put his new bumper on, he had pics of it. Looks amazing.

 

Holding up great.

It just gets dirty as all hell from the road. But once I clean it up, it shines like new.

 

Should have tried to hide those gear rack/ratchets on the inside

 

lifted it! got it put on yesterday

 

sweet welcome to the club!

 

I looked under there and couldn't justify how much of a PITA it would be to do so, so I said F it

And I'm not so worried about the interior. No one else sees it.