What Have You Done To Your 2nd Gen Tacoma Today?

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New shoes...265 75R 16 Duratracs and 5100 Bilsteins all around...front set at 1.75

 

satoshi'd my lower grill and painted the valance black removing that CF
also washed, clay bar and waxed it

 

AVID Bumper and Sliders : http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/2n...vid-bumper-sliders-installed.html#post4940842

 

Looks like fun. Can you pull skiers behind it?

 

1. Got my 4Xinnovation sliders. Now just have to get them welded on.
2. Today got an in ceiling DVD system installed
3. Installed my profit iPhone mount
4. Got it washed

 

Did the hose clamp-tail gate mod to slow down the dirt bags.

 

thats a shame in my neck of the woods ive never heard of getting your tailgate stolen maybe cause im a licenced blaster & love to shit up

 

Redline tuning hood struts and washed her up

 

installed redline hood struts

 

debadging, rebadging, derping, and weatherteching

 

Gave the beast a little TLC today. This post may be big cuz I'm still all revved up.

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First, re-torqued the axle u-bolts. That absolutely freaked me out. If you haven't checked yours yet, do it!

Driver's side, not too bad. One needed a quarter turn to get to spec.

Passenger's side, front u-bolt was fine. Rear needed 3 1/2 revolutions on the outer nut and 4 revolutions for the inner one. The thing was freaking LOOSE! I was starting to wonder if I was going to experience that horrible feeling that immediately follows the snap of a stretched bolt. I honestly am probably going to replace them anyways thanks to that scare.

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Next I changed the rear diff fluid. I was going to do both front and rear (book said 3.12qt rear and 1.59qt front, so I purchased 5 qts) but alas it was not to be. Drained old fluid out which drained like dino 80w90- the stuff was thick even when hot- and found a big ol 1/4" chunk of casting remnant from the drain plug magnet when cleaning it. Got to filling - 1 qt, 2 qt, 3 qt, should be about done, right? NO. Dumb pig was a HOG and wasn't up to level until it consumed a whopping 3.7 quarts. That's what a 5 lug is supposed to take !!

Time to order up a spare quart so I can do the front. Per the owner's manual recommendation, this is what went in:



As always time will tell, but there is definitely a feeling of drag lost. When I left the pole barn the UG read 12.8 gal fuel trip, avg of 21.8 mpg, and trip distance of 275 miles. When I got home it read 13.7 gal fuel trip, avg of 22.1 mpg, and trip distance of 304 miles. It's not hard to see the trend here but I'll keep no assumptions until some real averages get into the books.

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Took some rust pictures for all y'all who have never lived in the snow/salt belt. This is a 2009 with 38k miles. So how many are making the face lol

 

HOLY RUST BATMAN!!

 

just ordered me a wheelers 3 leaf progressive aal

 

double post .. my bad

 

B.A.M.F. CMC plates intalled. Beat back and resealed the pinch weld. Plan on trimming some more of the fender flares. It seems no matter what i do im rubbing somewhere once i hit the trails.

I also jumped on the GB for B.A.M.F. LCA skid plates. These things are Beefy as F#$% and cheap as heck (136 bucks shipped with a 1/25 shot at getting them free if the GB gets to 50). I just can't see any down side to having these on my truck.

here is the thread

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/bay-area-metal-fabrication/214409-b-m-f-lca-skids-here.html

 

Damn jaxx your truck is blowing up with mods!!! You post here every day!!! Lol keep it up man!!! I like it!!!

 

Im an obsessive person by nature. Work and play.

 

Installed two Oznium High-Intensity LED Lights under the hood.

 

Your aux fuse box area is very clean. Nice work