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

It was mostly all interstate, some in town driving, 6 lane traffic jam stop and go driving thru Atlanta, and doing anywhere between 15-85 mph driving.

 

Made a roof rack.

 

Very interesting...and mad props to you for the cliff notes. That's definitely helpful.

However, being a noob and not knowing my ass from my elbow when it comes to steel, welding, bumpers in general, and eBay, I'm still curious about the quality. Definitely looks good on his truck, but obviously there's other reasons for a bumper, like safety. Can anyone at least hypothesize on the overall quality and reliability of this knockoff? Thanks for all the help and info!

 

Got my new shallow mount pioneer 10 inch sub yesterday to replace the cheap kenwood I blew the first day I installed it. Now have to get a new amp power wire, new speaker wires to connect the sub to the box connectors, and make the hole bigger so the new sub will fit and get it all hooked up.

 

Brought this little girl home on her first truck ride. And to think her mom thought she would like the bmw more.

 

CONGRATULATIONS SIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Been workin' on doing this almost done
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/my-tailgate-reinforce-project.78315/

next up is front brake pads.

 

A little big of PlastiDip and Vinyl Wrap later.. Not too bad a job for my first time using vinyl wrap.

 

where did you get your wrap stuff from?

 

I got it from eBay, here is the link.
http://m.ebay.com/itm/281791346935

 

Ozark motors in Harrison AR

2006 Toyota Tacoma v6 I got it at ozark motors hear in Harrison AR and the guys that they told me to take it to told me 3000$ and the other place at Toyota told me 6000$

 

installed the axle extended brackets onto my ride rite airbags - its has been a sitting project for a year since i was waiting for the electro-hydraulic hole punch to get refurbed.

 

How do you like the bed adjustable rod that you show in the last picture ? I debating on one of those or the Toyota ($$) version. Any recommendations ?

 

That's what the general consensus was.

Most people on this site who get a plate bumper get it for off roading. You have a better approach angle and if you hit it on stuff at low speed, it's fine. On the topic of that specific bumper, in my opinion it appears to be just fine and you're not going to be any less safe as opposed to a name brand bumper or the stock bumper.

 

That's just a cheap version from Walmart. Think I paid $20 for it... For the price, it's been great. Don't really haul anything super heavy though, so if you do I'd probably suggest something a bit more hefty. Normal camping gear and other relatively light stuff it should be fine for though, just not for a truckload of travertine tiles or anything.

 

Not sure what thread you read or what pictures you were looking at but it looked like it was held together with tack welds. Fine for the mall, not fine for dropping a winch in and doing any real recovery.

That was the consensus.

 

No need to get off topic here, so I'll end with this. The pics Patch92 posted was of the welds on the inside of the bumper. Numerous welders said that that's fine for the inside as it'd just be a waste of material to fully weld the inside. The true teller would be the outer welds, but those comparisons were never posted.

Now back to you're regular program folks!

 

You can get anything on eBay. I've heard there are some cheap bumpers even.

 

Is that an ARE shell? What model? Exactly the kind I'm looking to get eventually.