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

Mine came from Amazon.com Services LLC Hope it was just a fluke!

 

Anyone know if the air cleaner/intake from a 4runner with 3.4 is a direct swap into the Tacoma w/ 3.4? I’d like to ditch the shitty k&n intake my truck came with and go back to stock. Found a 4runner at pick n pull

 

You're talking about the air cleaner box and intake tube, with MAF?

I'm pretty sure they are the same. My son's 96 4Runner is the same as my 02 Tacoma.

 

Yes they are the same. Assuming the motor is the same in the 4runner as your tacoma.

 

My 98 Tacoma had the tube style MAF, I converted it to the drop in style with the later style air box.

 

That’s what I was thinking. When I look up the box part number it doesn’t show compatible with 4runner so wasn’t sure

 

That's a good point. The MAF did change so that could be a difference to look out for.

 

You've been running good ol dino oil for all those miles?

 

FINALLY FINISHED putting the suspension back together!! All new MOOG parts - ball joints, inner and outer tie rods, poly sway bar bushings and end links, Belltech lowering springs up front and 3" blocks out back. It's not a huge difference but I think it looks much better and sits level. Rides and handles so much better too!

Interestingly, the outer tie rod ends were still really tight. I could barely move by hand. The inners were shot. 3 of the 4 ball joints were decent but 1 of the uppers was toast.

First time using a cut off wheel too. Stupid sway bar end links... That was exciting!

 

Looks great, nice stance!

 

Rear main was my main culprit so you have that covered. I haven’t opened up to look but Im almost certain my Valve stem seals are going, or gone. Im at 230k never done the heads. But its coming very soon I think.

 

Replaced one more eye sore. Battery tie down which I loathed with a passion. Thanks @Coupe! It looks great!

Also replaced the long sc bolt which has been missing for 5 years, oops.

And rebuilt a caliper which had a frozen piston. Hopefully it’ll hold out till spring. Planning on the big brake upgrade then.

 

Throwing it back, but this is the most recent post I saw in the search. Are these good? Everybody satisfied with them? I'm looking at this one.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Stone-Valv...an/323598485954?fits=Model:Tacoma|Make:Toyota

 

Cut the fenders for bushwhackers today. Had to modify the passenger one for the snorkel. Turned out ok. Didn’t get a pic of the final product, but it’s a little bit better than that last picture.

There was a bit of rust around the windshield underneath the gasket material. Got that all taken care of and am going to paint that tonight.hopefully shooting raptor on Sunday!

 

Any double people replace the rear door window motors? Mine roll up super slowly. Or maybe looking at just cleaning them.

 

Mine were slow until I cleaned and regreased everything, now they work good again.

 

How did you contour the plastic so cleanly like that. Looks good!

 

Took a heat gun and got the plastic hot, took the snorkel and pressed it in. Did a little bit of trimming and then heated it again, used bucking bars to mold the corners how I wanted and kept trimming. Did that about a dozen times before I was happy with it. Took me a good chunk of the day.

 

2.5" lift, new struts/joints/inner/outer...ext shocks for rear at 210k




new shoes at 270k


daily driver...love it! (blacked out front bumper and rear chrome with flat black plasi-dip, just did full grill) will add grill pic later, with bar light, removed those goofy blue plastic "blue centering rings" etc..

 

The window motors themselves?