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

Got an alignment and my tires road force balanced. Crazy what a difference it made. I actually want to drive my truck again.

 

Removed my canopy.

 

i've been wanting to do something like this in my garage so I can pull my shell off once in a while

 

When am i going to get mine!!!?!?!?!?

 

Roughly the week of April 4th delivered.

 

I put gas in mine.

Anyone seen a deal on a lock'er down console safe?

 

Dangitttttt ill be out of town!!! and thats all ill be talking about and my old lady is going to get mad at me! LMAO <--That'll be her!

 

I know that feeling.

 

The Myth Busters did this test years ago on a track with a given amount of fuel. Their testing showed with a tailgate better mileage. Reasoning was the air flow over the cab and in the bed of the truck. They put the truck in a wid tunnel during the episode too if I remember correctly and with smoke they could show what was happening.

 

No worries.

 

Almost ran her out of gas

 

Gotta tell me where you got those headlights

 

Was pretty easy to do, luckily I still have a garage with open rafters at my old house but, my new garage is finished, have to figure that out before I sell the old place.

 

I installed the OEM smoked headlights. Slowly losing all of the chrome!

 

Latest project was blacking out the Door Badges and removing the rears.




Full Build thread here: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/bigskybobs-dcsb-off-road-build-camping-off-road-and-dd.421944/

 

Nice!! lots of shit on the website...

 

I went to check out a Tacoma there once and found oil underneath it so I popped the hood and found the same thing. I guess it's a common occurrence there.

 

Roof rack, changed 4d light bar to 5d.

 

Correct. They showed, with the help of Ford, that a truck with the tailgate up has a wind-profile similar to that of an SUV where the air falls off the back behind the tailgate. This is caused by a spinning pocket of air in the bed of the truck. (Interesting to note: this also only applies if the air is coming directly at the front of the truck, introduce a crosswind and it all goes away)

I always assumed that since I had my spare tire strapped into the bed the spare was interfering with that pocket of spinning air. I had hypothesized that air was actually coming off the cab and falling into the bed only to be "caught" (like a sail) by the top half of the tailgate.

I am now (of course based on a small sample size) assuming even with no tailgate that the air was doing something similar to the Mythbuster's test. Once removed I'm guessing it is doing more of a "spoiler" type effect where the air comes off the cab and hits the bed pushing downward.

This type of "phenomena" would describe the feeling of "more weight" in the rear contributing to a smoother ride. I have nothing to prove this is what is happening. Just a best guess right now.