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

Nice. Some Ray10 goodness. What color?

 

I accidentally do this all the time in the summer after going to the river, thing doesn't even want to turn and I sit there confused then realize its in 4HI still

Yup same here, currently looking for someone to weld on my sliders and haven't had any luck and have been on and off searching for someone to fix my Cobra for 6 months but haven't found anyone I trust.

 

Got me the matte gray. Too many people around here have black/dark wheels. They do look good but I wanted something different, all my friends have dark wheels too. I almost couldn't wait & was going to buy gunmetal last month. I hope I made the right choice of waiting for the gray. At the tire shop now getting them put on.

 

New tires, toyo at2 285

 

BUG Fix:
Fixed an issue where truck failed to stop without utilizing parking break.

Turns out, master cylinders are sorta important.

 

I can help you out if you make it up here, but it's not too complicated to make a press too either if you have a welder.

I wouldn't trust hardly any mechanic to do it right, especially get the retainer in the right place. If you have a shop do it, just have them press it apart, and then you can press it together yourself with a piece of 2" tubing. Also the flipping the retainer trick is completely unnecessary IMO. I've done the job three times now and haven't had any issue getting the seal in the middle of the retainer installing it the correct way.

 

Those are such awesome wheels....I'd be afraid of beating them up though. Mine are pretty haggard lol.

post some pics when they're mounted!

 

mine nearly looked like that when I noticed brake fluid leaking out of my front lines when the banjo bolt came loose, got lucky I caught it when I did. So where's the leak?

 

Yup, will do, I really love the look of them too. Luckily they don't cost much but it sucks that you can't just buy them whenever you want/need. Plus my truck seems to be missing axles in the front so no rock crawling for me.

All my truck sees is desert, sand, & fire roads so the wheels shouldn't get beat up. I didn't know any better when I got out of lowered imports 14 yrs ago when I bought this truck. All my friends told me I didn't need 4x4 around here. Totally regret listening to them. I bought this truck to stay out of trouble & to have something I would keep stock & not spend money on. Well that didn't work out. This one's a keeper but my next vehicle will definitely be a 4x4!

 

They look pretty good beat up.

 

Just be like Tyler and 4x4 swap it

 

Yup, definitely been on my mind. But I don't want to be like Tyler, I hear his truck never leaves pavement.

 

You know what I meant

 

So who makes beefy cv's for our tacoma's to handle the abuse.

 

Yeah it was gnarly. Scariest recovery I have ever been a part of. He was wearing his belt and his exo saved his ass for sure. He did have some shit in the cab that was floating around (his hood prop, aka a 2x4) and was disoriented but walked out eventually. We got it flipped back over, filled his tires, got the oil out of the pistons and topped it off, and he drove back to the parking lot and back onto his trailer himself.

 

RCV does, other than that OEM is strongest I have seen. BUT then you potentially make the diff a weak point if you take away the CV's, or even the ADD tube like in my potential situation. I much rather swap a CV and keep going then have something happen that ends a trip. Plus the shit I was doing was with the front end locked, one time I was bound up, the other I was bouncing. And probably on trails/lines IFS had no business on.

 

What Cynical said. Run the risk if breaking other parts that aren't as easy to swap out. Just do your best not to get the all bound up

 

No center caps yet. I'm not used to running center caps. Wanted to put the TRD caps on cause they're flat but the ones I receive were damaged so gotta wait for replacements. Maybe I'll slap on the SCS ones for now when I get home.

Gonna have to get used to these Ray10s, I like them but for some reason I already miss my old wheels.

 

No leak. I started troubleshooting poor breaking, thinking pads/shoes were toast. Looked at those, still better than 50% life on all four corners. Next, bled the system and refilled with fresh fluid, and right away knew there was an issue. Almost no pressure, checked for air, and while there was some, I got it out, still had poor breaking. Finally broke down and took it into a shop since this was beyond my sanity threshold.

Shop went through, did the same things I did and came to the same conclusion, bad MC. ~$430 later and she's back!

 

Side shot.