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

Installed my Marshall Fab hybrid sliders. Nice and compact to the body, with just enough protection to maintain my mall rated status.



Moab here I come!

 

Balance is perfect. Innovative Balancing does make Dynabeads for heavy trucks, but they have beads for every application. For off-road tires they recommend using 8oz per tire of their off road tire specific beads. For wheels without TPMS you can thread the valve out of the stem and fill the tire from the valve stem itself. Mine came in a bag with instructions to cut a corner off the bag and just toss the whole thing in. I elected to just trim the top off the bag and dump the beads in.

My use is different than most as I'm running a three piece dual internal beadlock wheel that has to be bolted together around the tire. For me, I simply bolt the parts together with the beads included, mount and drive. No wobble or shimmy.

 

Wouldn't lowering the jack and bringing it away from the rails put more strain on the rails?

 

I would think the lower support portion would compensate for that but I'm speculating. Report if its still there after jumping your truck.

 

I've had my Hi-Lift mounted on the cab rail for about 8 or so months now on some DIY mounts.. essentially the same as the previously posted Hi-Lift. Threaded studs into T nuts, with couplers as spacers, and wingnuts to secure it. lol no issues.

 

Jump a lot?

 

Console organizer installed.

 

Major after work project today......

I filled the washer fluid reservoir with the green summer rain-x!!

 

I walked out to put some 303 protectant on the plastic parts, passed the fridge, grabbed a beer and 3 more beers later still didn't get the 303 on there. Damn

 

relocated my brake controller and hardwired my black box dash cam

 

That guy must be very good at putting an ounce of Dynabeads in a tire for people to wait that long for him to do it. The entire process is literally: 1) Crack bead on tire, 2) Pour in an ounce of Dynabeads, 3) Re-seat bead and fill tire with air.

If you want to get really fancy, you put the wheel on the balancer first to determine how much weight it needs with standard balancing weights, then add that same weight of Dynabeads.

I use them in my motorcycles and they work great. I've also used them on my F250 with 35" mud tires and they worked great. However, on my Tacoma they were awful. The steering is so sloppy on these truck that the beads couldn't find their "place" and the truck vibrated like crazy above about 30mph, I had to remove them and go with standard weights after a few days.

 

LOL.. I mean.. its seen airtime.. occasional trail jump or cattle guard crossing, nothing like a LT truck or anything..

 

I rewired everything today and used 16 gauge wire, and the whining is nearly nonexistent now. Only a very faint whine for a split second when turning them on, and I can only hear it with my ear right next to it.

Before I had some speaker wire already ran through the firewall for something else but re-purposed it for this project since I assumed it could handle a measly 30 watts. Lessons learned: don't take shortcuts.

 

just wondering how much abuse they see.

 

Thanks buddy. I'll half to look into that.

 

Just have her a little oil massage to keep her good looks up

 

I have hands like a small woman and it's still a pain in the ass.

 

it sees it.. bombing down washes and washed board dirt roads.. rocky trails, etc. #cuzboosted

plus all my gear in the bed slamming around against it.

 

turned my but white


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