im looking for a cheap mod to add to my truck. i have money to do more, but thats goin in the bank to save for college. ive decided i wont spend more than $250 per mod. anybody have a favorite one they might suggest? my truck is stock with BFG 31x10.5x17's. This is my DD, but i do some wheeling on the weekends. im planning to get a junkyard motor, and rebuild it with all high performance parts and set up a turbo over the summer. any help would be appreciated.

 

keep saving and add a locker

 

Or you could get a rear lockrite for under $250 as well.

You said it was your daily driver, so i don't know if you'd want to drive in snow with a rear locker or not. Some more inexperienced people might not want to do that.

Otherwise, I'd go with some Armor like a budbuilt skid plate setup. But that's just a tad outta your budget of $250 and runs $280ish, but their transfercase crossmember runs about $200. I would consider that as well as it's the most hangup part on our trucks.

P.S> I wouldn't worry bout running a turbo setup. 3.4 swap is where it's at.

 

Raise up all the breathers, save the other $240 for college.

 

ive never seen a write up on that, could you post a link to it? that sounds like a good idea though. thanks.

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/1st...extension.html is probably the closest to what I did myself. I just re-used the stock breather though (no fuel filter), relocated next to the gas cap.

I put a boat in/out of the water fairly often, and I have to say I enjoy backing in up to the tail lights just for the fun of it and watching people stare or ask if I need help getting out. Then I just drive out and away. Not sure if it will affect the e-locker motor negatively, guess we'll find out.

The front diff and transfer case breathers are on the driver side in the engine bay. I didn't touch them since they're already pretty high.

 

Take that $250 and go buy gold near the equator (slightly less gravity), then go as far North as you can (slightly more gravity) and sell it. Repeat until you're a millionaire and mod away.

 

Does the cost to weight savings offset travel costs? This might have worked 50 years ago when gas was 10 cents a gallon though. lmao.

 

Feet work pretty good...free too. This is obviously the only logical way to make a profit. lol

 

Somehow I don't see him making it through Mexico if he's walking. And if he's takin a Yota forget it, he's got a better shot making it on foot.

 

Crap...didn't think of that! Ah well, looks like it's back to work then...

 

any other ideas? im hoping to wait till i have a little more $ to get a better locker, but i want to do something now. im planning on raising up the rear diff breather this weekend, thanks for the idea. and BMcEL if you think that is such a good idea, why dont you try it yourself and report back? LOL

 

I don't want to be the guinea pig! No way!

 

Well I know what the Mexicans do to the Yotas up here. There's hardly anything left when they are done with them in the Junk yards. They love em!!!!

And by this I mean no racial prejudice either.

 

'Course not!

In all seriousness (lacking in that department today), I'd slap some Bilstein shocks on it.

 

good idea ill check that out.

 

my favorite mod so far has been the bucket seat swap

 

$250 hi performance turbo engine.. Or is gonna happen in multiples of $250?

 

Buy a sawzall and save the rest for some 35s.

 

Lockers or a transfer case skid plate. try budbuilt.