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

I got a quote to repair my pass front door after some asshat put a shopping cart against it. I hopped into my driver's seat, put it in reverse and cut the wheel. The front tire caught the bottom of the cart and slammed it into my door. Fucking people..... I was like 5 spots away from the nearest car and no carts around at all. No wind either. So, it was some tool. Last week I caught an asshole shoving a cart across the parking lot at my truck for no reason- and again, I was far from anyone else. I ran over and stopped it about a foot from the bumper. the guy was already running away. Stupid. People have no respect for other people's stuff and are malicious for no reason at all.

 

Excellent. And great timing. It is my intention to do the same. Didn't want to try and get a 285 70/17 down there.

 

Yea it does not want to go, but you can make it.

I also did the exhaust chop to accommodate this bad boy.

 

3 inch Rough Country suspension lift

 

Good thing i didnt order that voltage booster yet!

Yea next vehicle first mod is a dash cam

 

Most my mods are in the audio system, so thats good for me. If it is infact totalled am i allowed to put the factory bumper back on and sell that 1? Never been in this situation before

 

Thanks lol. Rare part. Took me years into talking a guy into selling it to me.

 

In most cases they will allow you to take parts off as long as you replace them with oem. A junk yard will eventually buy your Taco if its totaled and part it out. It doesn't sound like you've got that many mods, but you can also have your insurance company adjust your coverage to cover your mods. If you have a clean record it usually doesn't cost that much more. Everything is case by case though. Good luck! and at the end of the day nobody is going to pay for your time to deal with this mess, and that's always the part that pisses me off.

 

White wheels? Where I didn’t see any.

 

Here!

 

Added my first and probably last morale patch

 

Shit that looks good

 

Changing the brake lines really wasn’t bad. I took maybe 2 hours to swap them out and bleed the brakes because I had never done it before and took my my time.

Tips:

• put the rear on jack stands and take the rear driver side wheel and the spare off so you have more room to move around
• Clean everything with wire/nylon brushes and break parts cleaner before to keep the funk from getting in the brake system
• It’s helpful to take off the brackets holding the brake lines from frame and from the axle. It allows a little play since the hard lines are at odd angles. You need a 12mm end wrench and 12mm socket. I loosened all the hard line brackets at the axle to give it all more play.

Pic shows upper bracket held to the frame with 12mm bolts and the 10mm nut that you loosen to separate the hard and soft lines.

Next pic shows the axle brake line bracket

• Hold the now unattached bracket with a vice grip while you work the 10mm flare wrench to loosen the nut
  
• Have extra rags/paper towels, and little rubber caps to cover the open hard line at the frame when the you remove the nut. An easy answer would be to use the rubber cap from your brake bleeder temporarily (I used the rubber caps from my speed bleeders). The lines don’t spew fluid, they just sort of dribble it out. No matter what break fluid will be spilled.

Pic shows the rubber caps on the hard lines after the nuts were pulled.

The lower hard lines did not drip at all...

• Take the top nuts off, cover the hard lines, take the bottom nuts off, swap the lines somewhere more comfortable. There will be fluid in these lines! I used vice grip to pull the metal clips that hold the soft lines to the brackets and a soft blow hammer to pound them back in with the new lines

• Reattach in reverse order
• Bleed your brakes. I have a TRD off road with brake system pump and bought speed bleeders. It made the bleeding an easy 30 min process by myself. Your truck may be different.

Useful links:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/installing-extended-brake-lines.494840/
(#13 is particularly helpful also the video about bleeding brakes in that thread)

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...-4x4-trd-off-road-with-speed-bleeders.368080/
If you have TRD off-road. Speed bleeders help either way. This link and the video on the thread linked above are helpful.

Oh and beer. Have a beer handy. It always makes things run smoother.

 

That's definitely totaled, sorry for your accident but thank God you walked away.

When I rolled my last Taco the tow yard held it a couple days while I stripped:
- Aftermarket remote start alarm
- Double DIN head unit, 2 amps, sub, component speakers
- Optima battery
- Tons of exterior LED's
- K&N engine air filter
- Windshield wiper stalk
- Weathertechs

You get the idea. The vehicle is going to a scrap auction, they sell them as-is, who's to say what was or wasn't lost to the accident or tossed aside by EMS responders? **I am not responsible for you not having the same results**

 

Alot of times u get the option of buying it back for a ridiculously low price and u get a check, the ins. Would rather u get it back rather than deal with it, when ur done parting it out, scrap what' left

 

I want my prs 80 head unit and my 3 amps and 2 15s out. And my 8s in the door. And my 2 runs of 0 guage, also the sliders and other small things like that

 

I know there are usually a few insurance adjusters on here that chime in on accident posts, anyone know 1 to tag?

 

With the new wheels and tires not having TPMS sensors, just opened up my gauge cluster to put 2 pieces of black electrical tape over the TPMS dash light

 

Ever do a compression check?