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

Seriously. All of the "shakiness" of the back end is gone it seems. It also feels like there's a bit of a "spoiler effect" going on like the backend is pressed down harder.

I also noticed a 1-2mpg fuel mileage hit as my initial testing has found. I'm still running samples on that though.

Other thing to note is I have my tire bolted to the bed so it's not an empty bed.

 

Did this @ 4:30am today.

 

How many miles do you drive in a day? Unless its a fuckton I doubt your mpg analysis is very accurate.

 

60mi just to get to/from work and that's with zero extra driving. I did my first distance testing to/from Glendale yesterday morning. Today was round two. I've got 120mi already showing ~1.5-2mpg loss over what it was showing with the tailgate on. I agree the sample size is too small, that's why I said "initial testing." I'm still trying to understand why it would be worse with no tailgate rather than better considering I have the tire in the bed already.

 

I tried a few days ago, and the contours are stupid difficult to do. any tricks, tips you might want to share with us?

 

lifted. woot.

 

Rims tire specs?

 

16x8.5 MB72 Wheels. 4.5" backspacing.
265/75/16 Falken Rocky Mountains, nearing their end

 

Looks good. What'd you lift it with?

 

Ha, I didn't see the word 'hit' and thought it was an increase. Definitely seems somewhat counterintuitive.

 

I had assumed that the tire in the bed was messing up the usual pocket of air an empty bed would have. Mythbusters already proved having the tailgate up makes more sense, but, I don't remember them testing with a 33" tire strapped to the bed!

 

Wheelers coils and 5100's up front (rebranded Eibach coils)

Wheelers AAL and 5125's in the back with a U-Bolt flip.

Reused the OEM bumpstops.

 

Today I installed AVS In-Channel visors

$70 Auto Ventshade [AVS] In-Channel Rain Guards for 2005 - 2015 Toyota Tacoma Double Cab | Window Vent Visors, 4 pcs. - Smoke | 194056

http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B000CF8W1W?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01. Saturday I installed Flyzeye http://www.flyzeye-designs.com/3VP.html 3VP-RS LED Lights in the Glove Box and Center Console. Hopefully sometime this week I can get my LED Strips installed for some footwell lighting.

 

Nothing yet

 

Details?

 

Olawd, is that blackwidow?

 

Did the intermittent wiper mod. Total time, 30 minutes and most of that was getting the steering wheel cover off, tricky b*tch.



Figured just an after shot was necessary as there are plenty of write-ups of this.

 

More info, please??

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...uy-iedls-polyurethane-carrier-bearing.421410/