1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

Found pic.

 

Thanks fellas, that’s what I get for reading a write-up and assuming the 1st grey plug I come too was it without looking real close at it

 

How's your taco project?

 

Taco? Slowly moving. Thanks to the fraudulent purchases that kinda fucked the credit up for the month, I can’t order the shit I was going to for it

 

If Batman drove a VW

 

Wrap some electrical tape around those open connectors to keep them corrosion free.

 

Damn that sucks.
Is the engine still in pieces?

 

Road Runner, Road Runner! Go 1,000 miles an hour, with 50,000 watts of power and radio on!


Note the lyrics and the gif aren't to the same song but share some common threads

 

35s is the plan. Not sure if I'm going to run a set of 33s first as I still commute in my truck during winter and a re-gear is a ways off yet.

 

Imagine having all that tire and 40hp to turn them.

Just this

 

Jonathan Richman likes to drive buses through pyrotechnics?

 

Little toe-in action out back, eh? Is that just picture angle or accurate representation?

 

Currently, the car has 1/8" total toe-out up front and 3/16" total toe-in out back. I'll get the rear toe sorted when I install all the fancy bushings I have in a box on a shelf in my basement....and new torsion bars next to them...and new shocks I've yet to purchase because OMG they're forking expensive.

 

Wendy O. Williams
https://youtu.be/8qbzvNoaVEs

 

Kinda sorta. But not.



no pictures of that till it’s fully dressed and on the frame.. I’m proud of that beauty

 

Ever take the case off your phone and feel like it isn't your phone anymore?

 

Like your cheating....

 

Yeah, with something slimmer, tighter, sleeker.

 

The girlfriend you never had....

 

Only until she sobered up and got a good look at me

 

Just a random thought.....had a set on my taco

How come you don’t see any bed stiffeners for the first gens?They just not need them or what?

 

No one makes em that I know of. I guess the composit beds need em more than metal beds. I've also looked for some as well as a tail gate reinforcement with no luck so far. I remember back in the day tail gate reinforcements were popular on many trucks

 

Wonder if a set from a 2nd gen tundra or a taco set would fit?

 

I never understood the reason for bed stiffeners. What's the deal?

 

If you are off-roading and/or carrying heavy loads (especially both) the bed can flex too much and cause damage. I don't know for the life of my why Toyota went with a composite bed on the 2/3 Gen Tacomas other than lightness just to keep the overall weight of the truck down...but it doesn't seem worth it to me...maybe @empty_lord has some tech insight as to why?

 

my Tacoma’s bed was bowing out from the weight of the camper top

I figure they went composite so the couldn’t rust .... didn’t help the frames any though

 

Sounds like a nice thing, but I’ve had just about every type of heavy load in my bed and never had a problem. One time I was hauling river pebbles (grape sized) for some yard work on the Hand Model Residence. Got to the landscape place for my 3rd load that day. It was end of day and a new goofy guy was on the front loader. Goofy dropped the entire load at one time instead of a slow pour. It was like the commercials where they make the truck look ‘Chevy Tough’. It takes a lot to surprise me. I jumped out of the truck and no damage.

 

I don't see why it'd cost any more to have a fab shop whip up some brackets. They're just four strips of 3/16 or 1/4 bar welded into a 90* bend and then into angle-iron with holes where your bed bolts are. If you have a welder, or access to one, you could make them yourself for <$30.

 

Been talked about before and we don’t need them.

 

this makes sense why nobody makes any. Was curious why they make em for the 2nd and 3rd gen tundras but not the 1st