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

Installed bcc swing out bumper, spc uca's and gave it a bath

 

Added two hood straps for the Kayaks. Thanks to who ever posted these a few weeks back!!! Also, moved CB antenna to the drivers side vs. passenger.

 

The hood straps work great.

 

WoW Great Information, I am going to do some research, Thanks again for taking the time to post!!

 

blacked out the badges

 

Nothing YET, BUT guys I did a thing today..
Rock sliders and bed rack? Coming right up! (Well not really still need to buy the material also need to figure out how to get a clean weld lol)

 

Painted the skid Plate red. Yeet

 

I can tell you how to get a clean weld.
Grind to bright shiney metal. One amp per thousandth of material. Your weld should should sound like bacon frying - a nice sizzle sound.


Im a welder, trust me

 

@Willyummk Purchased, and Thank you.

 

Advice taken! Thank you buddy, I'm looking at where to buy material as I type this I've always wanted to learn to weld im excited!

 

Also what ga is best for the sliders?

 

Definitely get some scrap metal and practice your welds before you start welding on your piece. Your welds should have a silver line on the toes [edges]. Thats the fusion line on the edge of your weld puddle. It means your weld was hot enough to substantially melt the metals together.
You want a balance of penetration and build up, so hot enough where your arc digs in a good 1/16"-1/8" and you have enough wire to fill in the hole you burned.
It takes messing with.

Make sure you dont weld over liquid or oils at all. itll give you a weak weld filled with porosity [pin holes where the evaporating liquid got trapped in the metal] porosity not only looks unprofessional, its asking for a crack to form.

I hope some of this helps!

 

Ive seen a lot of ones you can buy .275 or .250 dom tubing.
I personally used 1 1/4 sch 40 pipe. They are heavy! for mounting feet if you want to use a hi lift on sliders, youll need to use angle on atleast two of the posts.
Mine i thought id be good without and they flex a bit so im going to bolt angle on the inside of the frame. The bolts will go through the slider feet, frame, then angle. As well as a bolt through the bottom of the frame up through the angle - thats where the strength comes from. Toyota frams are only 1/8" thick.

For mounting bolt holes you should do like i did, one in a top and a bottom corner so the frame can flex.

Anything else let me know - ive learned a lot of tricks in a fab shop!

 

Just sold the truck and bought a 6.7 Cummins :/ sad to see her go but here is a list of all the mods.

6" RCX drop bracket kit
Bilstein full length adjustable coilovers
Full length bilsteins on the rear
SPC LR Upper control arms
Deaver leaf pack
Hostile 20x12, Toyo Open Country MT 33x12.5
East coast clamshell bushings
NAPA gold CV axles
Bora 1.25" hubcentric wheel spacers


That's my full mod list...

Farewell tacomaworld

 

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnggggggggg!

 

Had a very productive day. Got both diffs in fully mounted. All I’m waiting on are new crush washers and a new passenger side CV seal, which arrive tomorrow. I’ll finish those up, and then only be waiting on new lca bushings to arrive.

I also got out the bushings I managed to fuck up. Just need to repaint them because I managed to fuck it the paint a little from getting so goddamn angry at them and not being gentle.

Pressed in the new king lower bushings, which was a piece of cake and fit perfectly.

 

Right on buddy. What was goin on with the diff?

 

Regeared to 4.88! I seriously can’t wait to drive this thing on new gears. It’s been a long time coming.

 

So whats your new top speed then?

 

Thanks to @nats for the hook up on the white bumper. No more chrome!