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

Good ride with the pops this morning

 

Got rid of that dang chrome grille.

 

Painted chrome or OEM color matched?

 

nice light bar combo, whats the details?

 

Looks way better. Where did you order yours? Chrome is icky..

 

Replaced my busted headlight with smoked OEMs. Next paycheck I’ll grab the harness and bulbs for the “ultimate upgrade”. Feels like a new truck haha.

 

OEM color matched.

 

I ordered it from the same dealer I bought the truck from. Cost $272. Probably could have found it cheaper elsewhere. They wanted 2 hours labor at $110/hour for a total of $220 to install it, so for $22 I had them ship it down here and installed it myself. Dealer is 80 miles north.

 

Had my font Differential replaced today. Shifting in & out of 4WD (4 HI) is smooth as silk. Didn't have the need to try 4 LO. The tech allowed me into the shop area and raised my truck and showed me what he did. Nice to see the undercarriage from that perspective. Its quite clean for nearly 7 years in Maine and for not having used any kind of undercarriage treatment. Very little rust on frame. New actuator was included as well. He also put on new/better & longer vacuum lines/hoses (I know nothing about this stuff). I bought new gear oil for the front Diff & Transfer Case (even though I had just changed them 5000 miles ago) since my front drive shaft was locked up. Transfer Case checked out fine. He also changed the rear Diff fluid so they'd all be on the same schedule again. Axles we're inspected and all checked out fine. He pointed out my needle bearings were perfect.

Fantastic service experience from my dealership.

 

Dealerships get a bad wrap some times mine has always treated me wonderfully

 

Did the 120K mile spark plug change. This is my 4th time but I didn't use anti-seize this go around. As you can see the threads are burnt, black, tar-like goo. They weren't stuck super tight but it took effort to spin them out all the way to the end. The business end looks just fine though.

 

Put in some new switches

 

This is my weekend

 

Avid front bumper guard with hella 500’s (black edition) wired to a switch on my dash

 

I'm planning on doing an LED projector retrofit but I want to buy a set of headlights and gradually work on them without having my truck out of order so what would be a good headlight to buy, any recommendations. Should I just buy OEM or is there an aftermarket OEM style headlight you'd recommend, what would you guys suggest?

 

RTT mounted and checked out!




The ladder mounts were both tweaked, and there were no holes drilled to mount them... Install took longer than it should have because I had to use my BFH and drill.

 

What does each one do?

 

Front and rear lockers

 

Put together a grill today, installed new tail lights, and restored my head lights. Got ALOT done today. I’ll post more pics tomorrow, letting the epoxy on the emblem cure over night before I put it back on.

The grill:
https://m.ebay.com/itm/ABS-Black-Me...a-/181813001447?fits=Make:Toyota|Model:Tacoma

The tail lights:
https://m.ebay.com/itm/2005-2015-To...C1aMvfZ:sc:ShippingMethodStandard!30736!US!-1

 

Installed some led flush mount lights