Blue Taco - 96 Tacoma

[Wulf]

Here's my 1996 Tacoma. I bought it many years ago and have been slowly beating and building it. After lots of wheeling on 35s I am hoarding parts and saving to go to tons.

Here's what it looked like when I bought it on 33s, coilovers, and alcans.

here's what it looked like in fall of 2019. 35s.

Some 2020 wheelin:

 

[Wulf]

After driving the truck for 4 years and 30k miles I cracked a head. I picked up a 135k mi motor out of a rolled truck for only $500 and swapped that in

 

[Wulf]

Went ahead and built myself a winch bumper

 

[Wulf]

Fixed that rear diff

 

[Wulf]

cut everything to shit and moved the firewall back about 3" to fit the 35s

to fit 35s

 

[Wulf]

built a mount and added a big old powersteering cooler

 

[Wulf]

Swapped in that Diamond FF rear with the gracious help of my buddy at his shop

 

[Wulf]

Blew up a CV the fun way by twisting the splines off inside the axle tube. Wasn't wheeling hard, just going up a slickrock face when it popped. I had 2 spares but couldn't extract the stub on the trail. I had to go home and weld something to it to hammer it out. I still wheeled the next day in 3wd.

 

[Wulf]

Had a persistent misfire that ended up being a bad injector so I swapped those out

 

[Wulf]

Went to Moab again and blew up an RCV in the rear and took out the spindle, wheel hub, wheel bearings, but still pushed to TOTW before limping back to the trailer. I ended up having to cut the spindle and wheel hub apart to get the shaft out.

 

[Boomtacoma01]

Really wish I would have went to Top Of the World when I was in Moab. Nice progression so far on the build.

 

[Slander]

Greatest rear axle ever!!

 

[Wulf]

Greatest rear axle ever!!

Yeah it was definitely a blunder. Not worth the effort, wish I had just geared the welded 8.4.

 

[Wulf]

My winter plan was to buy a set of geared/locked tons my buddy has sitting around and 3 link the front with ORIs and do Chevy 63s in the rear. My sewer main broke and my driveway is all fucked so my budget for the Tacoma has shrunk considerably. I have plenty of maintenance items to take on in the meantime.

 

[Wulf]

When I installed the rear axle with discs I also put on a transfer case parking brake. I need to mess with it again because it doesn't hold the truck at all.

Before I blew up more chit in Moab and decided I want tons I had started building a set of DIY beadlocks with TMI rings with the supervision of my good buddy. He has invested a lot of time helping me learn how to be a better fabricator and wrencher and I can never pay him back but damn if I haven't loved and appreciated every minute of help from him.

I do vinyl work for fun so I had to make myself some bed side decals along the way

 

[Wulf]

 

[Penetrode Offroad]

Not bad man! Keep it up!

 

[Slander]

Man I miss IFS tacoma flex! I have a few pics exactly like that!

 

[Wulf]

Been poking at some stuff on the truck. I pulled the belly skid off and adjusted the tcase parking brake so it works again. I've also pulled out the groover and put a little more tread on my two low tires before working on my washer bottle setup.

here you can see what it looked like at the wear bars on the outer blocks.

I wish I had the larger head with a square blade as it would have turned out cleaner than multiple passes with the round blade but ya gotta piss with the cock you've got it is fine for a wheelin shit box.

I've had this bottle installed between the airbox and core support for a while since my compressor lives on the passenger fender where the old one was. It's never worked well. I tried to use a straw hose setup through the lid and these pumps do not provide the suction required. I pulled it out and drilled so I could add the grommet and pump from the factory bottle. It ought to work a little better this way. I still need to wire it up.

 

[Yotota]

Nice job with the Nalgene bottle, I have a similar setup on my Taco hose clamped to the K&N intake panel.

 

[Wulf]

Nice job with the Nalgene bottle, I have a similar setup on my Taco hose clamped to the K&N intake panel.

Thanks, I thought it was a decent idea. someone suggested using a coolant overflow bottle from a 3rd gen pickup but I wasn't about to pay $50 for a used one like the scalpers around here want for them.

I wired it up last night and have a working washer sprayer setup for the first time in about 2 years. No more leaning out the window with my hand sprayer bottle of washer fluid