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

Picked up a factory rear bumper and hitch from a TRD sport.

Came off of this sweet truck


Also saw this one on the ride home

 

Is there a place I can look how you did this?

 

Original post (pp7431) updated.

 

Finished the front side of the switch holes today. The abs plug is what I used to back that extremely thin (1mm) edge cut on each successive hole.

 

Red lens tint from metrorestyling.com

 

This was a good weekend. One month ago I purchased my first Taco, a '15 access cab 4x4. After reading through the forums, I was itching to start making mods. Today I installed fog lights, a Gentex 177 compass/temp mirror and a Gator tri-fold bed cover. Next up: heated mirrors. Thanks to the many great contributors on TW who make this easy.

 

Not how they mount looks like but I posted a couple pages back where it points to my build thread

 

Made brackets for mounting maxtrax in the bed of the truck. Turned out alright.

 

Did the anytime fog light mod, chopped the exhaust, fixed my a/c knobs cuz they were a little loose and detailed her! Took another pic of the black tails too. Not the best pic but yea haha

 

Finished trimming my bumper cap to clear the DTF front bumper also installed new fog lights and got the front end all buttoned back up. Anthony really does a knock out job on these bumpers!

 

Welcome.. your wallet will never be full again!

 

I tackled my serpentine belt this morning. It took about an hour which is a lot longer than this should normally take, but with all the pulleys they have it took me some searching to find the tension pulley since it was blocked from view by the upper radiator hose.

To make the whole job easier I undid the top radiator hose, captured most of the anti-freeze that drained out, tucked it out of the way by the battery. Drew a diagram of the belt looped through the pulleys and then removed my old belt. Of course the access to the belt would be easier from the bottom. But my after market bumper/skid plates were also in the way and would have made the job take twice as long to do if I removed them.

Getting the new belt to form around the pulleys took some patience and convincing. It was a cold morning and I think setting the belt in the Sun to warm up would help it to stay where you put it.

 

The finished product! Never used the rustoleum peel coat before, always stuck with plasti dip but I can say I'm impressed! Haven't used a rustoleum product yet that hasn't met expectations!

 

Installed some fog lights on my daughter's Yaris.

What's that have to do with a Tacoma, you ask?

A few months ago I bought a pair of fog lights from a member here on TW to use for a Lamin-X project that I never got around to.

Like most Toyotas from the last 10-12 years, the gen 2 Taco and the Yaris use the same fog light. I already had some aftermarket fog light bezels from a previous Yaris. All I had to do was build a simple relay wire harness.

Her Yaris now has Taco DNA in it.

 

This is most definitely the fastest moving thread I'm subscribed to. I feel like I'm missing out on a lot...

 

I'll go a whole day without looking at it an I'll scroll through fast unless I see I picture I'll stop an read it

 

Oil and filter change, swapped my summer wheels back on.

 

I go a couple day Without checking, and a few hundred posts go by...

 

At the least.