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

150W 32" White Amber Yellow Single Row Led Light Bar Spot/Flood/Combo Beam Super Bright Led Light Bar Running Lights Headlight Bar Fog Work Driving Lamp for Off-Road Van Camper AWD SUV 4WD Van UTE

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Front diff and then maybe do my first transmission flush later on.

 

Thanks

 

Not all today but over the last few weeks.

My skidplate came back from blasting with a large crack in it. Not sure if they dropped it or that had been lurking under the powdercoat, rust and gunk.
So Drilled out the end of the crack, ground a relief along both sides and weldered it back together.
Wiped it down with IPA (alcohol, not the tasty ale), shot some Rustoleum bedliner on it (horrible product to apply, results look good tho) and put it back on the truck.








Then everybody got a bath.



Mounted my Hi-Lift, Maxx (axe/shovel/hoe), got all my recovery gear and 3 day bag situated.


And a little preview of the next thing for the bed. Be done if Amazon had bothered to package the light channel correctly, it showed up folded in half.



Last but not least, a VERY cheap pickup from Facebook marketplace. Yes it is beat up, yes it works and it cost me about 10% of the cost of a new one. Figuring out how to fab up a mount for it because no way am I paying $250 for a slide.

 

Looks good regardless

 

Usually around 310-320ish with the discount and free shipping. It's a lot of cabbage, but they are one of the best batteries around.

 

Installed new headlights and bed stiffeners

 

Recently did front pads and rotors. Got a Jones to do the rear brakes. Drum brakes are a PITA. Glad they're done, and they last a long time.

 

Is the last picture reversed? The hose clamp wont do anything in that position, it needs to be on the passenger side hinge.

 

You did lube the backing plate before installing the shoes?

 

Trikster

Here is the proof you need for what fluid Film can do for you

For those who may have not considered Fluid Film take a look .

Application by Surfandturf on this board from the Tacoma group in Connecticut Fluid Film

This truck is not garaged, outside all the time, off road consists of turning into the driveway, 59400 miles.

2013 Access Cab 4x4 TRD Sport

Enjoy

TOMB

 

Yep.

 

not reversed, bought the truck with them already installed. Since then I’ve put a locking tailgate/camera combo so they’re kind of pointless anyway

 

that reminds me I have to fix mine too. how was the job? pretty easy? and what type of resistor?

 

Very easy and I’d never done any soldering. There are a couple of threads on here and YouTube videos that I looked up. Took all of about 10 minutes including taking overhead down, soldering new resistors on, and reinstalling. I got these from Amazon. Only about $6 and they give you 100.

$9 uxcell 1W 51 Ohm 5% Metal Oxide Film Resistors 1 Watt 100 Pcs

uxcell 1W 51 Ohm 5% Metal Oxide...

 

Installed the new Spyders with Morimoto 2stroke 2.0s in the highbeams and Supernova v4 clones in the lowbeam projectors.
Tuesday I'll be trying out the 2stroke clones for the fogs.
Gotta wait till dark to adjust them.

 

So much chrome

 

Decorated it for Halloween!

 

Started this bed rack/basket thing yesterday, got it together and all tacked together, next will be finish welding, prime and color match
bedline.

 

Finally got around to installing my Readline hood struts.
These are great.
Also replaced my antenna with the AntennaMastsRus - 17 Inch All-Terrain Flexible Rubber Antenna

$20 AntennaMastsRus - 17" All-Terrain Flexible Rubber Antenna is Compatible with Toyota Tacoma (1995-2015) - Spring Steel Internal Core

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