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

Engine bay is empty. I ditched that weight so its just the 2 in the bed now

 

Finally put the bed mat in that I got from Amazon.

 

I don’t know what this means but i feel a vibration in the pedal while going 20-25 mph is this the cause?

 

Simple Mods today.

Shorty antenna.


Craptastic AC knobs.

Short usb charger.

 

... I never thought of this. I have a shell and bed tray system with my extra battery in the back but not connected to my main. I have a 2013 sport so very little if any room in the engine bay for another battery..

I guess my question is there is no trouble starting with running your starter battery in the back? This changes my whole plan for solar charging and a dual battery setup...

 

Mounted the Frontrunner slimline II rack a Pelfreybilt brackets for access cab!

 

Looks like they do Volume pricing so could probably get a GB together if they are quality.

 

I got the same notice a few days ago. To bad a few months ago I changed them.

 

SOS Slimline, Smittybilt X20, interested to see how the winch holds up. If it shits the bed I'll go warn, but had to try it.

 

LED light rack with 22 pods is operational. Rather than building a switch circuit, i standardized all connectors by converting all lights to DTP connectors, then used the DTP Rigid harness to power the lights.

I invested in a quality DC linear high precision bench top power supply to run more controlled tests outside the truck, which has the added advantage of easy current draw readings from the lights... and me not looking like a crazy person putting on a light show for the street. But I’ll still do beam pattern tests outside.

This is testing the setup with Rigid. Draw 3.5A which calculates to 22.5w. Spec is 22w. This is going to be interesting.



Edit: This is going to be even more interesting than I thought, as some claiming J583 patterns have poor beam control. Both these lights *should* not produce glare, clearly not the case, the right light has excessive glare.

 

Awesome work. Can’t wait to see the results!

 

Is there a thread for just this? Extremely interested

 

There will be a dedicated thread with very extensive testing coming soon. This was just the initial test of the rack, wiring and and power supply. Any specific questions feel free to PM me as I’ve already run through some preliminary tests and had some very interesting results.

 

Its been under 30 degrees over the last week. My truck isnt garaged. Not a single issue. Cranks hard just like it did before the relocate. 2/0 cable is the helping factor.

 

How’s the reception with that antenna? Where did you get it from.

 

Is that no rubbing with stock suspension?

 

Also, Im going to run the Blue Seas ML ACR. That along with the sPOD will be mounted on the back cab wall. I still need to upgrade the alternator to the 200amp version though just to be sure. Lots of heat shrink in my near future to extend some harnesses

 

One of my favorite mods so far. Thank you TW for the idea! Now to stock it up with all the useful items I have.

 

What's with the socks on the mat??!!

 

You can blame the fiance for those lol