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

Gotta drive another 1000 tomorrow.

 

Coming back up north?

 

Yep. Headed out at 5am this morning. Got a ton of traffic in Illinois/Missouri which made the last part horrible. Other than that the truck is doing awesome. Pulling a trailer and all my crap loaded down still getting 17.5-18 mpg going through the mountains. I don't think that's too bad considering all my stuff.

 

Da,m no not bad. What way you coming up?

 

Gonna start tomorrow by getting through Kansas City and head north to South Dakota and eventually hit 90.

 

Man I really want to bring my truck to TN. But know mine won't get that kinda mileage

 

Gonna roll through Sturgis? It'll be packed.

 

Ugh, I know..

 

Stay away from that hell hole...


If you make it anywhere near baker mt, far eastern montana lol let me know

 

whats the job market like in Montana right now?? Ive read that you guys have super low unemployment for the most part?

 

Yea we are doing really well comparatively. We have some access to oil and gas fields, which is where im working as an intern for a oil company, but it just seems things dont hit us as hard as everywhere else.

All over the state each place has its main business that just seems to survive regardless.

 

Threw some new rims on her today during my lunch break



New tires next month!

 

Same here. Hell the bad economy has hardly effect wy.

 

cleaned it. and i was cleaning under the hood when the pressure washer ran out of gas... so i went looking threw my grandparents garage and found a gas can. so i poured it in the gas tank... well aparantly they like to keep oil in their gass cans.. so i get to go remove the gass tank tank tomorrow and try to open it and clean it out.. but heres pics of the cleaning.










i pretty much cleaned the engine compartment before i poured oil into the gas tank but i was so mad i forgot to take a picture..

 

Installed some impreza wrx seats and now I have some stock bucket seats for sale

 

Anyone know where to find replacement bulbs for behind the dash?

 

autozone?? probably just a #194 bulb

 

I'm lookin for a different color, such as red or blue. Any idea how hard it is to swtich out?

 

Yeah it's the #194 bulbs. Just a warning though, the blue bulbs from auto parts stores are pretty cheap and will turn a light blue/white after a few weeks. Not sure about the red bulbs. It's not really that hard to do in fact it's pretty easy. Not sure if it'll be the same on your truck but the hardest part for me was my dash was plugged into this little thing at the back that was a PITA to release because there was no space for my hands. Check out this link for the how to http://www.customtacos.com/tech/index.php?article=77

 

superbrightleds.com

Super easy to swap out!