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

Just as I got the headlamps off my Taco and boxed up to be returned the mail lady showed up and I told her to "take these things away!"
Now I am waiting on the LED bulbs.

 

LOL! Looks like the trucks balls finally dropped

 

All that weight adds up quickly. I don't think I carry too much unnecessary stuff and I'm likely around 5500 loaded up for a week long trip.

 

Coastal Offroad, can order a full set of skids in 1/8" 3/16" or aluminum

https://www.coastaloffroad.com/product-page/1st-gen-tacoma-skid-plate-set?v=7516fd43adaa

It looks like they offer a full front to back set of 1/8" skids for $335....that's actually pretty damn inexpensive.


Budbilt offers their 1/8" set for almost $600...and it's out of stock looks like.

http://budbuilt.com/19955-2004-Tacoma-3-Piece-Combo-Lite-Options_p_672.html

 

I'd have sheared so many of those bolts off those skids by now...

 

That's the first thing I notice with cheaply made/designed skids. All of the exposed bolt heads that will get messed up and you can't get a tool onto them to remove.

 

@what road had his k&n installed wrong.

 

drop in filter? Let me guess it was backwards

 

Got the truck ready for rear axle seals and wheel bearings in the morning.

 

You could probably get vice grips on those. If it's cnc cut I'm not sure why they wouldn't cut some square hole and use carriage bolts. I do like the center support on the front skids. I noticed that I've dented the frame where my 1 1/4" tube mounts to the 1st xmember.

Am I missing what supports the rear of the tcase skid?

 

Damn those coastal off-road ones looks bad haha

 

of course, having many years of piece of mind, I am a BB fanboy. But of the 3/16" steel. Not the aluminum (expensive) not the 1/8" steel as they are the same price as the 3/16" (might be a little cheaper to ship). I paid $700 to my door recently.

 

Yeah straight up flat 1/8" steel skids aren't gonna hold up well. Worse than the stock ones I say since the stock are bent to shape for rigidity and some reinforcements

 

Yes

 

It's funny how common that is, with the stock paper style filters they only fit into the airbox one way so you can't put them in backwards if you tried (I've tried just to make sure I wasn't doing it backward lol). But the reusable ones go in both ways for some reason.

I guess since the paper ones are finned on both sides so I can see the confusion when putting the K&N or aFe ones in.

 

Is there not access to the head of the bolt? Sorry, I'm not familiar with how those snorkels mount up.

 

broke this....ugh. anyone got a line on one?

 

For someone who's made it this far with the stock skid I think 1/8" would fine. If you want a skid that can hold the weight of the truck, probably not.

 

Spent a good portion of the day spraying a total of six cans of Rustoleum flat black under the truck. To quote the Rolling Stones, "paint it black"! Will give it a few days to cure, and then spray with either WD40 or Fluid Film. I am actually gravitating back to WD40 for keeping the rust at bay. Other than needing to get something inside the frame rails.

Also cleaned the engine compartment, Foamy oven cleaner, and pressure washer, then sprayed it with WD40. Good to go for another year.

 

Tundra brakes.