Scary! Was that from the wrecked wheel?

 

Yes sir, the right front

 

Scary!!!!!

 

Exactly! I was trying to avoid putting time/ $$ into the IFS before I take it to you for the SAS but ....

 

I understand that!!!! but dang that has got to be fixed just to make it road worthy....

 

Ouch on the toes, sometimes it feels like you have broken one at times it can hurt so bad.

Makes you wonder when they have parts or missing parts when they did the brake job at one time. Brakes are kind of important so you would think they would do it right but it is not always the case.

 

 

And that's the truth.

 

So true!!!!

 

Sweet! Good job!!! yoyoyo

 

Well the old girl is back on all 4 wheels again, and the brakes even seem to work, go figure.

Tomorrow I tackle the so called exact fit exhaust and direct fit catalytic converter, that arrived 2" shorter than stock. .. frigging MagnaFlow and Dynomax...probably would have been cheaper to go to a local exhaust shop.

 

Lol, it's custom yo

 

Yah, I found that the exhaust shops are very reasonable. They re-routed my whole exhaust pipe from converter back with new pipe and a muffler (dynomax? magnaflow? i can't remember) for $120 bucks.

 

I'll have to see how mine comes out. Will probably end up at an exhaust shop wednesday

Well the hunko'junk is facing the opposite direction for about the first time in 8-9 months. Drove it around the block to check my front end repairs. Worked fine. My tire plans fell through though. Will pick up some take offs in a few days.

Seeing the front bumper straight on from the front doesn't look as bad as I was originally thinking...we'll see

 

I've been following your work, looks good. I'm sure your happy to have it have on the ground again. I like the "Good, Bad, Ugly" decal a few posts back. Too bad you weren't on the east coast I have a set of Tacoma take off rims and tires. The bumper looks good keep up the good work!

 

Thanks appreciate it. I could have used your rims and tires. All the used ones I found around here were overpriced and total crap. Finding take offs didn't pan out either.
I ended up getting a set of new pizza cutters from Discount Tire. A hair over $300 and they disposed of my bald tires. Compared to why I looked at used this wasn't a bad deal. Puts my investment in the truck about $1100

These are my favorite tools

Had to add some paratrooper being


New tires and all 4 on the ground, these will get me by till the suspension gets done. I went ahead and threw the stock bumper back on in the ease of easy front turn signals for now

It has a little more of the saggy 4runner butt that I remembered but that will get fixed.
Cleaned off 9 months of dirt, etc from the windshield etc. Was happy to find 10-12 rock chips in the windshield so that will need to get fixed too..
Hopefully get it through emissions on Friday...fingers crossed..

 

My uncle was a paratrooper in 'Nam...nice sticker.

Got my windshield replaced recently- turned out I had bronze and not blue, dunno if that would be the case with your 94 or not. Guess you'd just do the chip filling thing anyway so maybe that's all moot.

 

That is awesome about your uncle. I wish i had stayed in. Went to a unit reunion in Alaska a few weeks ago. It brought back a lot of memories.

The windshield looks like it was it with a dump truck load of gravel, one chip expanded today while driving around so it will get replaced in next week or so.

 

I was meaning to ask how your reunion went. Bet it was a good time. Wish I had stayed in as well. Your truck is coming along nicely. New tires alone can make one ride better.

 

Thanks Terry. It was awesome to see old friends. Looks like we may try to meet in Vegas in a couple of years.

The tires sure ride nice, the truck tracks great and decent acceleration. I may convert to a five speed at some point, it would give it some more pep.

Just got back from emissions. At first it was close to failing for CO, but the lady was cool and said rev it up to 2500 rpms. A minute later she said congrats you passed.
So good for 2 more years