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

Blacked out the hubs




And mounted the rear bumper

 

Damn chad yo truck looks wicked!!

 

https://m.ebay.com/itm/TRD-Toyota-Racing-LED-Courtesy-Door-Lights-Ghost-Shadow-Logo-Projectors-Puddle/171936278070

Heres the link

 

Thank you!!!!
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She's an ongoing project

 

Damn Daniel!

 

Buy an F150; they are made of military grade aluminum... No shit!

 

military grade anything is not a good idea haha, often made by the less expensive contractor

 

I was an aircraft mechanic in the NAVY for 20 years. I will never buy any aluminum truck. Those trucks will rot so fast its not even funny.

 

What plug did you replace them with? Those are not the oem plugs...

 

I have the same problem with mine that I have not repaired yet. I cannot detect any difference in the truck with it delaminated but I still plan on fixing it using 3M Strip Calk.

$32 3M Strip Calk, 08578, 1 ft Strips, Black, Soft Butyl Rubber, Permanent Elasticity, Joint Filling, Trunk Seams, 60 Pack

https://www.amazon.com/3M-08578-Black-Strip-Calk/dp/B000PEZ1L4



I plan to make a roll up a ball of this and stick it under the place it was originally stuck and then compress it slightly to stick.

By the way, this stuff is fantastic and has many uses. If I have to drill into any metal on the truck then I will use this around the hole when the bolt is attached to act as a sealant for any moisture and to keep any rust from starting. It stays pliable forever.

 

Posted the next Q&A vid. Thanks to @wjrichardson for this vid's outro image!

https://youtu.be/tQIvuAiLwNw

 

Aren't they all?!

Just got home from a weekend trip to see my kids up in the great white north and came home to a box of new headlights! Pics and install coming soon!

 

Awesome! Can't wait to see them!

 

I did the front mud flap delete mod.

 

Listen to this man... He knows what he's talking about. (Definitely a lot of interesting debate going on)

"It was no stretch for Ford Truck marketers to create the tag-line “military-grade” for the 5xxx and heat-treated 6xxx series aluminum bodies of its new 2015 F-150. They knew they had to convince skeptics that light-metal bodies would equal or even outperform steel in overall strength, dent resistance and crash protection.

Aligning the new pickup with the “bulletproof” image of combat tanks in the public’s mind would be a clever play. Never mind the TV ad from Chevrolet that appeared soon after the F-150’s launch. It showed a nuclear submarine—steel hull, of course—surfacing through thick Arctic ice with a Silverado in the foreground.

A downright sobering naval image came to mind when I first heard the Ford guys trumpeting “military grade aluminum.” My thoughts were of the USS Belknap, a Navy cruiser that collided with the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy off the coast of Sicily in 1975. A fire then broke out on Belknap that burned and melted the ship’s aluminum superstructure right down to the main deck. Seven sailors on Belknap were killed and one died on the carrier. Newspaper photos of the burned out and gutted cruiser, its steel hull under tow to the U.S., remained etched in my memory.

While aluminum does not burn, it starts to lose its structural integrity at 500°F (260°C) and severely deforms—in effect, melts—at 1500°F (81°F). By comparison, steel doesn’t begin to soften until it reaches 1800 to 2000°F (982 to 1093°C). The Belknap investigation taught the U.S. Navy a lot about aluminum’s survivability. But it wasn’t until 1987 that the Naval Sea Systems Command, in charge of vessel design and engineering, announced it was reverting to steel superstructures for new shipbuilding programs.

The reason: Aluminum superstructures were cracking in 263 ships, half the U.S. fleet at the time. Repairing the stress-induced cracks cost billions, averaging $445,000 per ship, said Alcoa’s marketing manager who had to face the media. Navy admirals also admitted that the aluminum sections required far more maintenance than those of steel ships.

While the cracking debacle didn’t cause the Navy to halt aluminum use in all ship construction, it did prompt a re-think of future architectures and materials. The subsequent 62-ship Arleigh Burke class destroyers are built of steel.

But none of them come in a Crew Cab 4x4 King Ranch model."

 

Well, it's been almost 2 years in the making... but I finally finished all my wiring projects- Completed heated seats, heated mirrors, puddle lamps, bed lights, underhood lamps and under hood fused relay block with timed delay shut off for the switched accessories. I think it turned out really well.

 

Added the Lamin-X amber fog light covers. Taking the fog lights out was easy and made it easy to clean and put on the covers.

 

I've been wondering if those center caps would fit the sport wheels, just painted mine and have been unsure about whether I want to paint the stock caps to match or get some black TRD caps.


That cap needs to be modified to fit !!!!!! YOU CAN DO IT

 

Just a thought...JB Weld?