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

Its a one-off I designed. Had it fabbed out of stainless. The main portion of the rack pivots on bolts at the bed rails and "flips" up and into the front of the bed when not in use. When flipped out for use it rests on little perches welded to the top of my bed stiffeners. Also the lower piece which holds the rear tires in place is secured with slots/pins and a spring loaded pin. So it pops in/out in seconds. This way i can go from 5-bike shuttles to full use of my bed in under a minute. The tarp bungies go up over the top tubes of the bikes and slot back into the rack to secure the bikes down. The reasons i did all this rather than using a tailgate pad are:
- This secures the bikes far better than a pad could. We rally the taco pretty hard on fire roads with a full load of bikes+guys+dogs+gear and they don't budge an inch.
- Aesthetics. I can flip the rack into the bed, shut my tailgate and the truck looks "stock", rather than having the tailgate pad always on
- Bed space. With my short bed and 5 bikes on a tailgate pad the bed is full. No room for dogs/gear/beer. This moves the bikes a few feet backwards and creates valuable bed space.

 

These are the only lights I've run so I don't really feel qualified to talk about how they compare to the Rigid light bars. I will say, however, that I was originally going with a 50" Rigid Midnight bar but chose to go with the KC's because I like the way they look with the theme of the truck.
As far as noise, there is more wind noise but I don't consider it to be anything annoying.

 

The round lights really do fit the "character" of the truck really well! Looks fasssst!

 

Not sure Tacoma and fast go together

 

Not usually

But full desert truck kitted like that at least makes it look like it!

 

Lol depends on you definition of fast. The fastest I've seen was 110 mph.. that was fast enough for me in this thing

 

No pics but changed the front brakes.

 

Got these delivered today..

 

Installed my dual battery setup today with the Bluesea automatic charging relay. Thanks to offgridengineering for a great kit - it was a pretty easy install. The winch is all powered up!



I also re-spooled the winch line under load. It took a little experimentation with the parking brake, but eventually got it figured out.

 

Sounds good!

 

Well that momentary switch only last a moment. Got home to find that my garage opener switch I had just ordered arrived sooner than expected, so did a switch out (no pun intended) and hooked it up to my lights so it illuminates when the head lights are on.

 

Well if that isn’t cool!

 

Never thought to measure it for the before and after. What I can tell you is that its a noticeably visual difference. Im guessing 1.5" maybe 2". I plan on posting before and after pics, tomorrow, (as requested by another member) so I will tag you in the post.

 

Thanks for the link! LOL I just went down an Amazon rabbit hole checking this stuff out and adding it all to my wishlist!!

 

What have you done to your 2nd gen Tacoma today???

Well technically last night...
but I drove it off the lot!!! My first official taco Tuesday.
2015 4x4 6-speed TRD off-road

 

Congrats! Welcome to Tacoma World!

 

Best mod you can do.

 

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An excellent platform for many years of fun!!!

 

Sure thing buddy!