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

Coolants nice and red,

maybe the trucks suffocating, air filters not fine.

 

Don't go off mileage if you wheel a lot. Check them before and after every trip. They don't last more than 10k for me.

 

Condensation. Typical of short trips

 

Put new lbj’s on...toyota didnt have the bolts in stock, so those will go on thursday when I get back in town

 

I felt the same when I drilled my shell. Why the 3 crossbars on the shell?

 

Putting a tent up there. The middle one is just for extra support for the bed of the tent.

 

Next time you can order the kit from Toyota and it actually comes with the bolts, FYI

 

The last set I bought didn't. From Camelback

 

Yeah I’m aware....I have a trip coming up and wanted to get it all done today, so the night before Im not doing this and packing the truck up. But next time I will plan ahead mo betta

 

My others did not either, but if you ask for the set that has the bolts included you can source it. I was in a rush and got lucky there was one dealership w lbj’s in stock in san diego.

 

Just thread some bailing wire through the bolt holes and you'll be ok

I got my OEM bolts through Toyotapartsdeal, IIRC they came within a couple days

 

McMaster Carr has bolts as well, and depending on where you are, can be delivered same or next day.

 

Nice spam.

Also, if I’m a vlogger/blogger like you, do I suddenly become incapable of helping myself and resorting to demanding free shit from vendors?

 

More than likely yes, just condensation mixed in. Run a 20 minutes highway run at like 2500 rpm or above. You wanna cook all that moisture right out of that oil

 

I used super glue

 

Such purdy new black paint on them

 

There’s TWO different parts numbers, one has the bolts included one doesn’t

 

I always just put red loctite on mine and used a torque wrench and didnt worry about it. Red because I used blue once and I randomly found a bolt lose.

 

Thats what I did two years ago and they didnt move at all, butI figure might as well put new ones on. I will definitely still use red loctite.

 

Little more progress being made... camshaft pulley tool arrived last night. So we pulled them today, got the final cover off, removed the cam seals and replaced. Removed water pump, and now @RobertsT4R is out there cleaning everything he can get to with all the covers removed.