My son's first truck

[dieseldawg142]

thinking i'm gonna keep my chevy a chevy. i got a chevy wheel


got a new t.gate chevy emblem from my wife


but got a gm grille still.


so i ordered a billet grille for the gm grille, which i just found out got back-ordered so who knows when it'll show up now


and once the billet grille is in, i'll officially make it a chevy with this emblem i have

[dieseldawg142]

stuff only your wife buys you...lol
floormats


vent visors


seat cover, which i need to pull off so wife can steam the wrinkles out


upshift light...yanked the bulb out for this one as well. like the DRL's, don't need my truck to tell me when to shift....when i can't go any faster, i grab another gear

[dieseldawg142]

kid was crossing some logs with his '96 and ripped a inner fender splash shield. yanked what was left off and didn't worry about it....till a few nites later. we got up into the snow and as he hit some powder, a huge cloud of steam come out from under his truck...at first i thought he blew a rad hose or something till we looked, his engine was covered in snow....so....some new ones


i had planned on doing the brakes on my '97 with rotors and stuff from the stepper cause their less than a yr and like brand new......but the '97 rotor is thicker, same diameter but thicker so had to buy new rotors and pads


and decided i will keep the red canopy only cause i'm going to go black bumpers. the dawgs like the extra headroom as well. so i put some new handles on it, just need to paint the inside grey and call it done

[dieseldawg142]

that's a nice little hill over there...


prob coulda got higher, but once again foiled by my hitch....maybe time to ditch the hitch

[dieseldawg142]

few nites ago was heading up the mountain and did not see a 2 ft deep trench the rain and snow had cut into the road. did feel all 3 of my skidplates making contact though. also screwed the dr hub bearing. blew the seal out the back and flat spotted some bearings as it went squeak squeak squeak all the way home.


no prob, once again i got a yr old hub on my stepper i can use- not. everthing matched except the flange mounting base is further away from the hub face on the '97.
bah! so much for having a parts truck and saving money...


had to go buy a new hub


last nite i took the dawgs out. when we got back to pavement, couldn't get my dr window to roll up. fought with it for 20 mins and could not get it more than halfway....so...drove 30 miles home in 10 degree weather, heater blasting and froze my a$$ off. took the door apart today, the bolt for the front window channel was gone...where i do not know as it wasn't in the bottom of the door. prob the p.o.'s slipshod door repair. at least this one didn't cost me nothing.

[dieseldawg142]

and the only reason the wife don't get mad at me buying stuff, i make sure i spend more on her trucks than mine.
here's over 2 G's i just spent on her 'yoda
new grille and black headlights


black tail lights to match


and finally a canopy for it


canopy is in mint, mint shape. no scratches anywhere. guy lost the keys so changed the handles, and the circuit board for the 3rd brake light was hooped so installed a new one just today.


the only downside to the tacoma, when your looking for parts and punch in TOYOTA, the price all of a sudden increases 10 fold...oh well, happy wife, happy life, blah, blah, blah