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

I’ve been giving my 2nd gen a ton of attention lately, so I treated the daily this time.
Black OEM wheels, black roof wrap. Easier to swap to winter mode too, now that the snows will stay mounted to the factory 17s

 

NICE! I had a ranger with black vinyl flooring. all trucks should just come factory like that. Where did you get it and hows the fit?

Negative, made it myself. Hence the dents in the tubing, the pipe bender I was using was really struggling with the tube. I also didnt have a tube notcher so the joints are good from far but far from good hahah... strong just ugly haha

 

Took my cap off to do this today

 

That floor, that’s the vinyl.

Here’s a better pic, now the sun isn’t so harsh.

 

*got the vinyl from Custom Car Carpets. Wasn’t thrilled with the product as there was pretty much no molding to it. But I was determined to make it work, and it’s in there
A little more tweaking to get it but soooo much better than they stained grey carpet!

Here’s a cleaner pic

 

That looks good

 

Technically it was yesterday, but I...
1. ...swapped out my old hazy, cracked headlights for a new-to-me set I picked up from another TW member
2. ...tried to fix the chirp in my cabin blower, but apparently failed
3. ...lined up the purchase of a new-to-me grille, since my current one is starting to show it's age

 

Replaced the rear shocks today.
Pretty disappointed with my Bilstein 5100 , completely deteriorated after 16 months / 20,000 miles....

 

What did you replace them with?

 

Ran out of gas... . Was hoping I had enough till am... guess I was wrong.

 

Guess I wasn’t the only one with that issue. 11 months 6k miles for me. Passenger side was completely blown

 

Sucks!

 

Got a question, replacing cam bolts on both sides on my front end very soon. Can someone tell me why some SPC kits like the 25435 kit don't have a sleeve for the rear bolt but some kits do? Should the rear bolt have a sleeve or should the front larger bolt have a sleeve only?

 

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Made it home though

 

I like that... what size tubing did you use and what type of bender did you do that with?

-Bear

 

Drove it to the dealership to buy parts. Front bumper, front grille (super white) and a TRD Pro grille.
Going to have the bumper painted white and then install headlights from a 2015 (to replace my scratched, faded ones) and have a color matched front end.
Right now everything is base model black.

 

I’ll have to go measure it, I honestly can’t remember. I work beside a machine shop and they give me free range on what’s in the scrap pile.

The pipe bender I used was a ancient version of this


And it really struggled. I would have liked to go tighter on some of the bends but it wasn’t up to the task. Never the less it cost me nothing but my time.

 

Replaced them with 2 Skyjacker Black Max, waiting for the front Bilstein will end (soon) ; then I want to install a complete package .
Here in town, the ARB shop sells Old Man Emu suspension, but I had a bad experience with OME on my 2008 .

On the other hand, the guy who manufactured my bumper offers Dobinson's suspensions.
It seems pretty good, but there's not a lot of reviews of this product on TW.
I'm still hesitating.

 

Please don't take that tank through whoops like that cartoon is doing. Oh dear Lord that thing would buck you off & into a neck brace in no time. On the other hand....those mules can't be stopped in the woods!

 

Great mod for sure.

I bought the OE vinyl flooring and it fits like its, well, OE