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

Just make the deadener your vapour sheild?

 

Peel and stick from lowes or homedepot is a cheaper alternative, idk about weight but i did back wall 1 back door and 2/3s of the floor with 3 rolls

 

Drained the Cooling System and Added 10 Quarts of Toyota Long Life Coolant. This will Done on a Three Year Cycle regardless what the Manual Says, do to the Fact I Live In A Furnace! Clean, Fast and Easy with The Lisle Spill Free Funnel. It worked Beauteous! Washed the Truck and will wax it Tomorrow. Also my cup holder thingamajig is Waiting at The House!

 

cool! i ordered extended travel too with 650lb coil and dakar fits in the rear. yeah man! i can't wait till i put the wheels on. but i need to wait for my kings. It will be a long wait but it's all good. how about your tires? what kind and size of tires you are running? tires look good with the wheels.

 

Found a local shop with a dyno and went by to see where I was at before I install the mapecu3 and start tuning. Unfortunately, something was wrong with the dyno and the air brake on the roller wouldn't disengage, so no dyno for me.

However, I did use the afternoon to fab up a mounting bracket and install the oil catch can I bought from @sathump.



I flipped the cable clamps that mount the wire harness on the brackets to get a little more clearance. I also put an extra bit of hose on the edge of the bracket to prevent rubbing on the wire harness sheath.

It's a good thing the smallest length of material that I could get for the bracket was 4ft long. it only took me 3 tries to make the mounting bracket. First attempt, I bent the bracket in the wrong direction. Second attempt, I bent it the write way, but it wouldn't clear the brake lines with the way I was trying to make. Third attempt did the trick.

 

Completed the diff breather mod today.

 

Wait, was that a 50/50 mix or all coolant?

 

50/50.

 

Whew, I had a buddy think coolant was the cooling agent.. added 5 jugs to his car after dumping the water/coolant was in there. Overheated even faster

 

Your ball sticks out a good inch further than mine, if you use an m6-55 it will tuck in closer and get further from the steering wheel.

 

I adjusted it. It's an M6-50. I have an adjustment nut on the inside. I moved it closer..

 

I bet that door sounds like a 2 door Cadillac from the 70s when it closes! Heavy and solid!

 

Not all done today. Got some new Cooper AT3's 265/70 16's. Then removed mudflaps. Had balancing issues with the black wheels (they were actually chrome Gear wheels someone painted black) so I went to stock Toyota wheels.

 

Finally got the spark plugs done. My truck has 138k and had densos all around. Is it possible that they were the original plugs?

Also, can anyone recommend a good engine cleaner? The Northeast can wreak havoc on a truck.

 

Installed morimoto fogs & urd short shifter today. The fogs match the retros perfect. The short throw feels amazing. Wish I did it sooner!

 

Painted my wheels!


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After:


Cleaned and conditioned my wet Okoles and cleaned the interior, touched up my bumper too

 

Simple Green, diluted.

 

Nope they come with 3 Denso & 3 NGK from the factory, yours have been replaced at some point.

I installed my @Shmellmopwho tailgate bracket, those 2 bolts really did a number on me so I broke for beer.


Then installed my @CaliRaisedLed ditch brackets. Cutting the cowl plastic earned me another beer break.


While I had the cowl plastic off I decided to protect my new charcoal cabin filter. I cut a patch of kevlar reinforced residential screen material & drove a few self tapping screws through the sheetmetal. Should help keep the sticks, feathers & leafs out. Another beer break.


With the exterior done I turned to the inside & wired in my 2 new switches in preparation of the @Iggy group buy LEDs coming in a few weeks. New ones on the right. Center one will be for the rear facing diffused LED

 

Oil change, 5 tire rotation, u-joints greased, tranny pan drained, wire for trans temp sensor run. Tranny pan will come off tomorrow for sensor bung to be welded on.

 

Stopped at the local auto parts store for some cleaning supplies and parked next to this super clean First Gen , nice old guy ... said he had well over 200k and still ran like a clock