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

You graduated VT in '07? Daughter and her Fiance just graduated there. You still in Va?

 

I turned on this light today for the second time in the six years I have owned my truck.

 

This afternoon, I changed my oil, finished wiring my license plate lights and cleaned up the wiring for those and my third brake light with conduit and zip ties. After that, i washed my truck.

 

But its a dry heat ......

 

We are twins... just pulled my rear flares today too. I like the flareless look. I want to buff mine out to tone down the lines. I am working on filling the holes today also. The little clips are shaping up!

Thanks for the inspiration @EatSleepTacos and @SMKYTXN for the tutorial
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...the-fenders-after-removing-the-flares.304366/

 

did a little mod action on my sub control knob.

 

Weather sealed all four door jambs. The doors close with a nice “thud” now and the wind noise is gone!

Used four packs of 10’ each, and this is all I had left. Pretty darn close!!



Edit: Sorry everyone, I’ll post pics of the results soon

 

Oh! And I blacked out my TRD wheels and de-badged the doors



Find the decals here: TRD Off Road Wheel Vinyl, Center Cap Inlays, and Tacoma Decals for Sale (I used Gloss Black)

 

I removed the flares to clean the mess behind them when I finally washed the truck and I'll be installing Bushwacker flares.

Found something to remove the line.

AllClean+ from chemicalguys.com diluted 20:1
https://www.chemicalguys.com/all-clean--all-purpose-cleaner/allclean-degreaser.html
and the Magic Eraser from Mr. Clean
https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Durabl...way&sprefix=magic+,aps,140&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

Spray the AllClean+ on the magic eraser and GENTLY rub the paint where the line is.
You have a black car so you have to be more careful.

 

What method did you use to remove the badges?

 

I'm sure 90% of you have seen the brake thread, but that's what I did today. Rotors, pads, SS lines + bleed. Seized caliper pins were a giant pain in the ass. Sanded and lubed the hell out of them after they finally came out. Also went at the rear strut tophats with a sawzall and replaced with 3rd gen TRD OR struts. Waiting on shop to compress the fronts. Hopefully I can get those on next weekend!




Dog supervisor - no better place to hide from a thunderstorm than the back of a Taco.

 

Yeah no thanks. I have done all my own wrenching so far. But the detailing/buffing I don’t want want to do. I’m going to suck up the $300 or whatever to have someone do the outside, so she looks nice just once. The idea of the fucking up the paint with some aggressive compound does not appeal.

 

CBI Rear

 

Man, that's booty goals right there. Very nice!

 

Wheels look good

 

Any pics of the install? Even afterwards?

 

You can try this too

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/painted-fender-flare-clips-done.557761/

 

Made my own bed rails with Camper Shell Clamps, Super Struts, and Strut Nuts



Then mounted my Smittybilt RTT

Don’t have a pic of it popped out all pretty yet....but it’ll come