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

you getting ready for RT2018????

 

Grille and letters

 

Another long story short...bought this thing in March with 285K miles, blew a head in July, engine swapped in August. After all that everything is cherry under the hood, now I’m just gradually getting her exterior dialed.

The day I purchased


This past May - Bought Softopper for week long Sierras camping trip


September - invested in hard shell this past weekend (dude from CL gave me a free wooden bed/storage box with shell)

 

The Toyota spec for the long bolt and nut is 87 ft lbs if I am not mistaken. Is that what you set them at? I am curious if they moved freely after that?

What torque setting did you go with?

I recently had to redo my passenger side camburg arm because I lost the nylock on the trail. The recommended 87 ft. lbs. seemed to be too much and the arm did not move freely. Considering lowering it.

As Monte mentioned, the elocker axles are not interchangeable with the axles for the open diff axles with the 8.4" ring gears. If you have to replace the axles in your new elocker rear, make sure those axles are for the 8" ring geared axle, the fact that they are for an ABS setup does not matter.

 

All E-Locker axles will have those ABS tone rings.

 

Looks great. Where are the letters from?

 

Yeah I torqued them to 87 ft/lbs just like before I had the gussets. They don't bind or anything. I didn't try cycling it by hand but even with stock UCAs I don't think they move that freely.

I was cycling them before putting the coilovers back in to check my bump stops. When I released the jack from under the LCA it all dropped fast & freely.

After modding my bushings I haven't had a squeak all day which is a good sign for me. I think I'm good now but we'll see.

 

They're the letters that come on the tailgates of the 01-04s. PN PT211-TT980

 

Thought they looked familiar. That's clever.

 

I thought the FJ letters were way too big/ lights would cover them. These were perfect size, and no plastic stuff between the letters either. Also were $25 instead of $45

 

Your bumps seem to land in a slightly different spot than plasticguy shows in his photo:


I wonder if that is why the bolt head is gouging out some of the rubber on your set.

 

They're made of Silicone, right?

 

I have an emblem out of a 1990 4Runner on there. People hate Chrome, but I kind of like it. It matches the Chrome accents on the bumper and the Chrome mirrors.

Chrome in moderation and be nice. A Chrome plated grille guard, for example, is not in moderation.

 

Alignment day today.

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Kitteh tax pics or GTFO ;-)

 

Possibly. They are kind of rubbery.

I know what you mean. These emblems are kind of between silver and chrome. Like a shiny silver. I thought about painting them to match the anthracite grey, but the way the backing peeled off to keep the letters in perfect alignment wouldn't have allowed that. But I think the silver looks good too. It's not too much. Plus I'd hate to change the color of my truck and have to redo those badges anyways.

 

A little off I suppose. PlasticGuy even said he's encountered the same thing. Probably happened when I blew out my shock buckets. Maybe the difference is because of my cam bolt/alignment settings?

 

That low caster would drive me nuts. Here is mine from this past Sunday:

 

I knew they changed that shit in 2001. For years, I've noticed the TOYOTA emblem is either a dull silver color, and some are a more lively and chrome-like silver color.

1995-2000 had that subdued dull gray color, and 2001-2004 had that almost Chrome-like color. If you want the subdued gray you need the 1995-2000 TOYOTA emblem.

Were the letters all peel and stick individually? I put an AMG badge on my Mercedes and it was held together in two layers, one layer to keep the adhesive intact, and a top layer of contact paper to keep the spacing of the letters intact.

 

That is pretty low. That's not even the minimum for stock spec. IIRC spec is something like 1.7-3.3. I don't like mine any lower than 2.5. My last alignment was 2.8-3.0.