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

Started over with a ‘15 DCSB recently. Having the windows tinted tomorrow and throwing on some parts I took from my ‘13 this weekend.

 

What color are those? The warm white or cool white?

 

Scored these afe urd high flo cats. Didn’t come with hardware or gaskets, but was able to piece everything together . Trucks seems to breath much better

 

Very nice. I have switches for my bed lights (from matt) in both my bed and in cab... but can only use one or the other.... I couldn't figure out how to get them to run together.

 

Not today (been at it a couple of days) but just finished up all of the following:

Rewired existing roof rack light and ARB compressor
Wired existing (but never connected) Baja Designs S2 Pro rear lights
Wired dome light in camper shell (also never connected)
Fabricated brackets for and installed rock lights (cheapie kit that was a gift, been sitting in my parts closet for a couple of years). Me being me, I had to use OEM toyota hardware, nutserts and existing holes in the frame
Kept looking at the space on the front bumper and decided it needed a light bar, so I stole the one off my other truck and threw it on there. It always looked out of place on the other truck anyway.
Installed dashcam
Fabricated another switch panel plate and installed that. Space off to the left on it will have a 110v outlet eventually.
Reminded myself after the fact that I really should do the foglights anytime mod.

Attached boring pictures of wires and lights...

 

I got tired of the white real quick....

 

Classic!

Some were made with the plug hidden behind the plate.

 

Looks good. I guess it comes down to how much you want it to stand out. If I color match it pyrite mica it would stand out but not as much as a lighter color. The nice thing is that rattle cans aren't that expensive.

 

Exactly. I had mine powdercoated white, then just plastidipped them to match the grille

 

Just called the local stealership to get a quote to replace both upper and lower ball joints on both sides of my front end. I thought I would humor it since its starting to get cold out, I about had a heart attack.

They claim they can't replace the upper ball joint without replacing the control arm as well. Not sure how true this is but I went with it to get their quote.

Upper control arm replacement with ball joint was $1,053
Lower ball joint replacement was $1,063
Alignment $100

$2,216 total

I can buy aftermarket upper control arms as part of a lift kit, lower ball joints, buy a ball joint press and do it all for that much and still save. (plus get a lift out of it).

 

Hence "the stealership"

 

Installing these today , where Is everybody mounting them ?? Just drilling into the frame ?

 

Installed some slim in-channel window visors, oem Tacoma bed mat and gave the truck a mustache

 

What wheel fenders are those?

 

Which retractable tonneau do you have? Looking to swap out my current one for a retractable. Curious what thoughts you have on yours, thanks!

 

Wired up amber pods put on my studs for winter and flushed power steering.

 

Looks like a Peragon but I could be wrong!

 

Sound deadened the back of the truck.... while I can’t figure out what the hell is wrong with getting this power rear window to work.

 

It is indeed

 

It's a Peragon. I absolutely love it. It retracts, locks and mostly waterproof and whole thing is removable in about 60 seconds. Only issue is that it replaces the factory bed rails. Other than that it was cheap and amazing.