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

Stage one of the trip done. Milwaukee to Austin, 1423 miles in two days. Now for two days in Austin drinking good coffee and good beer. All I did on the truck today was cleaned a few bugs off!

 

I have the One Up rack, I love it, but it blocks the license plate completely am always afraid to get stop by the police, so I only mount it when am going for a ride and then take it off, it pretty easy to put on and off.

 

(From the weekend)



- oil change on both
- tire rotation on the truck
- washed both

Was a basic bishh Sunday morning (Crawlers & Coffee) then got lost coming home from the mall:

 

I have never driven a vehicle that throws so much water out in front and then onto the windshield as the Tacoma. I cannot hit water like I did in other vehicles, or I am completely blinded. The county roads around here flood over and drain off all the time. I kind of figured they were for water spray, but I am not sure they help. hahaha

Mine rub and I am still Stock. Who knows. They will come off when I lift Betty.

How much was the rebuild if you do not mind me asking?

Alum can be just as strong if you go thicker. I would stay away from 3000 and 5000 series for strength applications. 6061-T6 is pretty good stuff. I havent used 7000 or 8000 series, so I cannot comment. The biggest difference between Alum and Steel is that you can bend steal back a few times before it breaks. Alum just splits! You can form 6061-T6 with a 2X material thickness radius, but it crack if you try to bend it back.
I am surprised someone hasn't come out with an Alum bumper that has steel inserts for the recovery points and winch mount.

 

lmao I thought you knew something I didn't. damn near gave me a heart attack

 

3.2 more HP.

 

That wrap/paint on that Taco in the back is sweet!

 

I can’t see it. Is it camo or something??

 

I’m not sure if this is sarcasm because it is camo... but yes it’s camo

 

#reconrack

 

Sarcasm! On this forum?

 

#AltaRack

 

Beautiful!! As most people know, I am a big fan of the Access Cab, & this is why!

 

I have the same bike rack but sometimes it worries me to have expensive bikes back there.

 

Damn, I had no idea. Zoom Zoom

 

Why's that? We don't leave them unattended much at all, but I don't think twice about them in transit.

Granted SoCal is a little more aggressive on the petty crime front.

 

I thought the same exact thing! I hit some on a side road in Virginia coming back home to Ohio and I was shocked at how much comes flying up on the windshield.

 

Used it again for camping at Assateague Island! More details here


that's 2 weekends of camping in May!

 

It's not about being unattended, there's just plenty of rear end collisions that happens here. Too many distracted drivers. Almost every stop light, I see someone on their cell phone. At about $2K per bike, that price tag on a collision can go up real quickly.