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

Blacked out all the things....

1. Sanded chrome grill surround
2. Coat of self-etching primer
3. 4-5 coats krylon fusion.
4. 2-3 coats clear top-coat


1. Pull the emblems off
2. Separate each letter
3. Sand the connecting parts off
4. Sand the chrome with 300 grit
5. Scrape all old adhesive from letters
6. replace adhesive with new 3M moulding tape
7. Coat of primer
8. 2-3 coats krylon fusion
9. 2 coats clear top
10. Clean old adhesive from the body panels
11. Apply newly blacked out emblems




And trimmed out the rings in red
1. Pull out dash
2. Separate rings from dash
3. quick sand with 300 grit
4. coat of primer
5. 3-4 light coats of red
6. 2-3 coats of clear top coat
7. Replace in dash



to house the newly replaced gauge LEDs (cool white numbers, red needles). pic to come once dark...

 

Good job and props on the black badging! I would have gone the lazy route and ordered the black ones from the dealer lol

 

It really didnt take that long. Maybe 2 hours. The longest part was tracing out all the letters with the new 2 sided tape.

 

Your quick to do em all in 2 hours! It turned out great! I like the color matched cluster rings, didn't get to do mine as my truck is silver and the rings came silver from the factory lol

 

Changed my rear diff fluid, spark plugs, cabin air filter and changed the oil today. Gonna knock out the rear pods and rock lights next week

 

Practiced using my new hi lift to start tackling this over grown yard at the new house. My God did it make this a simple job, thanks YouTube for the tips!!

 

Decided to stop being cheap and picked up a mob armor phone mount.

 

I like the mount...where did you get it? I want one

 

LED's for the exterior lights with the headlights as an exception - the flasher module was fun...

 

I bought it at a local motorsports store, but Amazon is a few bucks cheaper and free shipping.

$60 Mob Armor Heavy Duty Magnetic Phone Mount for Car - Universal Car Phone Holder for iPhone & Android, Strong Magnet for Off-Road & Commercial Vehicles, Cell Phone Car Accessories for Women & Men

https://www.amazon.com/Mob-Armor-Sw...UTF8&qid=1496523283&sr=8-1&keywords=mob+armor

 

Installed Redline Tuning QUICKLIFT .
Works great.

 

Morimoto fogs and Osram night breaker headlight bulb upgrade.

 

It's 95! Your screwed either way... I use to live down there I know how it was lol

 

Ha! It wasn't too bad today with it being the weekend. Cruised along at 50mph.

 

Go O's!

 

Yeah true... My weekends are wed/ Thurs

 

Finished vinyl wrapping my rear bumper using 3m vinyl gloss black. $35 worth of product and about 4 hours worth of work including the removal and instillation of the bumper.

@BravesTaco95

Here is the finished product.

PM for pointers or info

 

Came out very well

 

You should create a thread with all the tips and tricks as this is valuable information!