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

Installed an 8” drop hitch today

 

Great jb man that looks really good! I see lots of burning wire and grinding in your future what fun!

 

ARB 1250 Awning. Mounted to the rear of the Prinsu! I camp in the shell, the idea was to ensure I have a dry & shaded spot to sit on the tailgate

 

8"? hell bud I put a 11" drop in mine for the utillity trailer and that bitch is still a couple inches short.

 

Thanks. Yeah it's going to be a hot day for me tomorrow

 

Hot but fun! I miss fabbing stuff every day it was the most rewarding part of my job. Now I make beer and wine

 

What are you planning on grinding all the welds with? A flapper wheel ought to smooth it right out and make it pretty

 

bought a new solder pen so thought I’d try my hand at fixing my overhead compass that had some resistors that had gone out. Worked out pretty well so I tried installing a new stereo and dash kit.

 

Raptor light install

 

When I install my steel rear Mobtown bumper with integrated behind the license plate receiver I’m going to be in the same boat. Can’t wait to see how much drop I’ll need! Will post when it’s done.

 

Grill dual function light bar install

 

Replaced my factory bottle jack with a 6 ton and purchased some safe jack extensions. Everything fits nice and perfect.

 

Nice! What awning mounts did you use? I’m in the market.....

 

Hmm let’s see... the white plastic for chrome delete came from BumperShellz. I was pretty happy with the quality and fitmet. I had to use a hairdryer on the adhesive sections to get full strength stickiness. There’s a video on YouTube showing the install, for them it was a breeze of course, but my truck is a ‘13 and she’s what I call a “special” truck cos she likes to be the exception to every “how-to” video ever lol. Let’s just say it’s a good thing I had extra plastic fasteners for the lower step (by tow hitch)

The black plastic bits were prepped with soapy water, sandpaper and then rubbing alcohol. A few coats of spray on rustoleum bed liner was enough to get the results I wanted.

Gotta say tho, NOT impressed with any rustoleum spray cans. Every can I get does either blotchy sprays, or, randomly sprays blank. Yeah.... so you’re mid spray and the black stuff just stops coming out, but the aerosol keeps spraying - so you think you’re spraying another coat but you’re actually just spraying air. It’s the stupidest thing ever and it’s the last time I’ll use their spray cans.

Other than that, super stoked on how it all turned out!

Anything else you wanted more details on?

 

found the governor numerous times today with my gen2
damn 115 cap is annoying but a great reminder of the limit of a taco

 

265/75/16 AT3 4s

 

Bed decals on, not sure if I placed them too far back?

 

@lechicklet Thanks!! nope, that was great.

 

What light bar is this??

 

What are you planning to pump? I had that one and one just like it from Autozone, and they both died trying to fill my rear diff.

That metal sleeve is there to keep you from crushing the bed when you tighten the bolts down. Clean up the rust and slather everything in grease/anti-sieze, and you shouldn't have too much trouble getting them out in the future.