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

I'm clueless?

 

Take a pair of dikes and cut them off.

 

A couple of us at work do lowbed moves in between dump trailer work. On occasion we need an escort so I use the truck. Those are all led strobes. I've got hide-a-ways in the headlights and tail lights too.

 

Dikes

 

sst: I bet he was thinking of the other type

 

The kind you put your finger into when it springs a leak?

 

as in "diagonal cutters"

 

Put my pieces back under my lights with some homemade aluminum brackets

 

I'd love to see a video or pictures of your lights while activated... Sounds like a nice clean and useful installation!

 

Found room to bring the cooler

 

I have a video of the front just before I swapped the headlights. Give me a few to figure out how to do it.

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QIbKVv8lUMc&feature=youtu.be

Not sure if this worked....

 

Now for the disclaimers....... this type of lighting is not legal in all states or towns. And there are many restrictions on what color strobes , and/or, combinations of colors are allowed. You need to check with your town and state to see what is allowed.
I carry a town permit in the truck at all times. It states that it has been inspected and registered with law enforcement in my town.
In some cases a civilian vehicle may have emergency colors such as reds or blues but that would be a volunteer firefighter for instance. Again, I cannot stress enough how important it is to check with your state and town to see what is allowed.

 

Good lawrd! Are you EMS or anything of that sort?

 

DRL coming up..

 

I like those bins where can I get some?

 

Sometimes we run a lowbed trailer in between the dump trailer. If we're moving an oversized load we need an escort vehicle. Sometimes one of the guys escort me an I them.

Sorry, I didn't have any pics of anything really big on the lowbed. This is my "wip" at work

 

So I did this today, just in time for Independence Day. Maybe use it for some other awesome flags throughout the year...
The pole is 1/2" x 72" black iron pipe and the flag is rated for high winds and made in the USA.
Flag pole holder from @ragofabrication made in the USA as well.
I'll paint it later. Is it supposed to have the bolt to hold it in place? 'Cause if so, it wasn't in the box.
I put a piece on the end of the pipe so it won't come out and people can't just pick it up and walk off with it.
I used a small shackle to hold the bottom of the flag in place, works really well and rated to 450 pounds, I think?
I got one of those pieces for the top... don't know what it's called, attached a carabiner to it 200 pound rating... I think? I need to bore the hole out a little so it fits all the way through.
How did I do?

 

In December 2016, I had a minor fender bender in the supermarket parking lot. When I brought my Tacoma into the body shop to get fixed, I also had my body guy install an OEM intermittent wiper switch that I'd purchased at the dealership. I dropped the Tacoma off at the body shop just after Christmas right before my parents and I went to visit family in Norfolk for New Year's. When I picked the truck up in January 2017, I found that the wiper switch had been successfully installed but that my body guy (the one who owns the shop) didn't do it, and one of his employees had done it and not assembled the steering column casing correctly.


A few months ago, I disassembled the casing and tried to reassemble it like three times, and couldn't get the top and bottom pieces two line up. Last week, I finally threw in the towel and ordered new top and bottom pieces through the dealer. I also ordered a new OEM driver's side mirror to replace the cheap replacement mirror I bought for $40 from some random parts website (For those who do not know the story; This happened on the narrow one-way alley in front of the bar where I work; A woman in the shotgun seat of a recently-parked Honda Pilot flung the front passenger door open without looking first and guillotined my left mirror off).

Today, my parts arrived and I installed the two pieces of the steering column casing all by myself in like 10 minutes!

Still in the box:


Steering column taken apart:

Original pieces:

New pieces:


New pieces installed:


And done:

 

Superb.