r/1stGenTacomas

Hey folks, I have a leak that I am trying to diagnose. For reference I have an 01 4wd and 5speed. Over the past couple months or so I have had to periodically fill my clutch fluid reservoir. Today I noticed there was a good amount of dot 3 fluid leaking onto my front left mud flap. I popped the hood and poked around and I think I have isolated the leak to a metal cap on a hose coming from what I believe is the transmission (pictures for reference). Does anyone know what this is called or has anyone dealt with this before? I can upload more photos if needed.

Thanks in advance!

New to the group. Looking for some insight.

I’ve got my first ever Tacoma (99). Been slowly working on it and I just drive it back and forth to work so. It’s got a pretty good lean which I know can be common. I’m assuming I can fix with new leaf springs. It also has a weird gap that is more prominent in the drivers side. It looks like the bed is lifted on that side. I’m guessing the frame could be tweaked or the bed itself. I do know it was hit on that side at some point in its life. Right now I’m working on getting the CVs and tie rods done but maybe I should just get it all addressed at once.

Going to buy this truck! Should there be anything I should address the frame seems to be discolored but I don’t know if that’s normal. Any help would be appreciated! love the truck!

After extensively searching, checking marketplace 100 times a day, I found a paint matched cap for my imperial jade mica Tacoma, still in awe over this find

It’ll need some love to bring it back to its former glory but for $300 I feel as if I found a gem, very excited.

Hey everyone, wanted to share the progress on a '97 Tacoma I picked up a few months back. It’s a retirement gift for my dad, and the goal is for us to use it as a project truck to work on together. Neither of us have much experience with serious wrenching. We’ve pretty much only done basic oil changes before this, so it’s been a massive learning curve, but we wanted a place to document the work we've put into it so far.

We started by tackling a lot of the baseline mechanical and suspension stuff to get the truck caught up. We swapped out all the belts, installed new OEM upper and lower ball joints, and put in new tie rod ends and sway bar link kits. Right now, we’re actually in the middle of changing out the shocks and putting a lowering kit on it. For the interior, we also went ahead and threw in a completely new sound system (wiring took us a minute especially with trying to find a diagram so we knew what colors to connect to for what).

The biggest change was the body and paint. It had some dent and rust issues that needed saving, so we had a local body shop handle the dent repair, rust remediation, and a full color change from the original white.

I know it’s still a work in progress. And yeah, I know I'm missing the bumper trim filler piece under the headlight right now. We're getting that installed the next time my dad and I hang out to work on it. Next up on the list is installing some new headlights and painting the grill and bumper satin black to contrast the new paint.

We’re loving the progress on it and didn’t realize that things that we anticipate would only be 1 hour of work could easily turn to 5 hours when we’re figuring it out. But it’s definitely been a fun thing to undertake.

It’s not a flawless build, but it's been a great excuse to catch up and learn how to actually work on a truck with my dad. Let me know what you guys think.

I'm replacing a bunch of stuff on the front end of my tacoma. I can't get a good grab on the rear nut of the sway bar link on the bottom. Any suggestions? EDIT: Already done. Vice grips, impact and a little autism got it done.

Decided on 3rd gen 4Runner wheels. I love the look. Found someone selling four for $100 and went and got them powder coated.

Two things:

1. Two of my center caps have broken clips so they don’t stay snug. Looks like you have to buy new caps in that scenario. Anyone have suggestions?

2. I’ve been considering selling the truck. 2003 TRD off road with 82k miles. No rust. Any thoughts if I decide to sell where I should start pricing? I bought it for 20k with 65k miles on it.

Replaced both my strut and coils, new rack and pinion, and my sway bar link. Only makes this sound when parked or parking. Does it when I turn the wheel both ways. Comes from both sides, if I turn my wheel to the right, the right side makes noise, when I turn to the left the left makes noise.

Currently on 31”s, I was thinking about 33”s but I don’t want to lose the travel clearance and I’d like to not viper cut anything

What Roof racks are yall running on your camper shells? I'm wanting something old school and low profile that I can also relocate my Hella 450s to.

First time doing LCA bushing, changing to polyurethane. I’m not super mechanically inclined so any help would be appreciated.

I got the cam washer, and inner sleeve out. Then removed the bushing to the LCA. Are there another set of inner sleeve with the rubber that I need to remove? Or do I just toss this one, install the polyurethane ones and use this inner sleeve and cam washer that is in this picture? Any advice helps!
Thanks!

My 2004 Tacoma has an oil leak, and as I was looking at the oil pan (pictured here), I noticed the odd rough patch. It looks like it's rusted, or was welded or something. Any idea what the rough surface the arrows are pointing at are?