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

does the underneath of your cab have a sound-deadening rubbery type of undercoat or is it naked

 

It's just metal there nothing else

 

thanks for the pics of what the seatbelt area looks like
i have to figure out how to get my belt back into shape and don't know what is lurking behind the paneling

 

Anyone in here sold there shell? How bad do regret it? lol. Been entertaining the idea.

 

I regret every time I sell one and have to start fresh with new problems - work out struts. Missing keys. Expensive replacement glass. Leaking seals.... don’t do it.

 

Dont do it haha, Take it off for a while and store at your house. then put it back on.

 

Sold my really nice one a few years ago. Top of the line (carpet on the top, sliding rear glass window, etc) and I regretted it for the longest time. Then I bought another one 2 years ago for $150. So I'd just keep it if you can

 

I have the RTT on so the shell has just been sitting in the garage for months. Could be nice for winter but I hate changing them out.

 

Anyone know where the tcm is in an 01? Thanks

 

Is the factory sound deadening on the floor well attached?

Mine was falling off and therefore not doing anything, so I pulled it all out before sound deadening.

 

When I had mine it was an awning for the dogs then in the winter I put it back on for added weight to help with traction.

 

Rearranged my RotoPax goodies. Got 1 each 3gl fuel and 2gl water containers from @Dudeman86

 

Yeah it's still there so I'm just going to go over it since it's 99% intact

 

Can you show the mounts for the rotopax?

 

The parts bundle I got off of here came with these RotoPax plate mounts. I just used some 1/4” thick aluminum plate secured to the bed rail and then mounted the RotoPax plate to that. I had to get creative with where each one mounted to fit them both on the same side behind the tire well like that. That’s why one is higher than the other. The unexpected benefit to that mounting position is that I can remove the cap of the 3gl can to fill it up without having to remove it from the mounting bracket.

 

Question, do I replace lower control arms that won’t turn for alignment or say F it and get SPC UCAs and align it that way. I could save 300 or so with the UCAs.

 

Fried bushings don’t sound super great. I’m sure the UCAS will help but will only be a bandaid.

I vote replace the bushings

 

The SPCs are good for fine tuning an alignment if you need more caster or camber, but you can't use them in place of the lower arm settings. In 3 years with my SPCs I've never had to adjust them outside of the normal setting

 

Expensive: replace the LCAs with OEM new ones that include new rubber bushings.

less expensive, but only if you do the work or most of it: replace your current bushings with Whiteline ones.

least expensive: run it until the truck falls apart. Then it turns into the most expensive option.

incorrect option is the one you suggest.

 

Not too productive today but I did pick up a few more pieces to the puzzle. V-bands, couplers, heat wrap, and such.
I was able to modify the Vband on the lathe to fit the factory cross over pipe. I got the flange welded on and cross pipe bolted up. Started to fab the connection pipe to manifold.
Bought a 90°coupler for intake but it's too big, so I'll have to use the strait coupler and make a pie cut intake pipe to filter.
Might be it for a few days.