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

I would say dont there toy4 I mean it would be ok looking but I dunno...I may sell the one out of my purple truck (just been sitting around since getting truck back together)

 

Installed front and rear seat covers TRD close to $300 but now is more nice and secure.

 

Installed, troubleshooted, and finally got my HID lights working after a little splicing... Plug and play? More like cut and pray.

Tomorrow, I'll be hooking up and calibrating my buddy's scangauge that was loaned to me.

 

I mounted my brushguard finally.



It's crooked in the pictures, but then I spent all damn day trying to get it straight. I got it straight enough and wired the Hellas back up. No pictures of it straight.....it got dark.

 

looks good toy4life I like it... I retro fitted one from a izuzu rodeo onto my 97 tacoma with 72 blazer frame in like 3 hrs LOL but took forever to get it straight like you said... mine sticks out but I kinda like it...also the blazer frame suck out like 5 inches in front and wanted a way to help hide it without cutting front of frame

 

I'm in the middle changing to manual hubs and new high angle CV joints. While everything is apart I had the bright (and expensive) idea of changing all the ball joints, tie rod ends, control arm bushings and adjustment cam assemblies. Here's a pic of everything apart...

 

Chad.....thats friggin awesome man!!! glad you finally got that installed!!

 

Did you get the HID's from the group buy? I didn't have any trouble, entirely plug and play here.

 

Each of the items I take of the truck I am "restoring" from the New England winters (i.e. rust). So, the sway bar was sanded and painted red, the lower control arms were wire-wheeled and painted gloss black, the knuckles were wire wheeled and painted cast grey...you get the idea. Also extended the mounting brackets for the sway bar, so they will be more in line with the new ride height. Hubs are done, went in pretty slick, I opted for a 20 ton air over hydraulic press recently, so I gave it a good work out this weekend (14 times). Waiting on lower control arm bushings sleeves now...

 

Thanks for the pics.Looking good.

 

Finished the manual hub (+) conversion yesterday.

 

Looks great.Thanks for the pics.

 

just put on my new wheels and tires what you think. not bad for 200 bucks right......


before:





After:

 

Damn, that's a helluva deal! Are those MTRs?

 

looks great man!!! very nice!

 

thank you, thank you.

yea they are mtr's. 265/75/16. rub a bit on sway bar nothing major. will fix down the road.

got a toytec lift for it, probably gonna put in on tomorrow. we shall see

 

changed out spark plugs. Bought the truck with 15k miles. Today I have a little over 115K. found out I had Denso and NGK plugs in the truck. Running smoother now. A pain to pull the plugs on some but with a cold air intake a bit easier than stock.

 

today.... i finally ordered my AFE pro dry S filter for my baby. cant wait till it gets here