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

Easy mod. Two strips of aluminum from home Depot. Drill holes, put bolts through to secure the boards. Then drill holes on the ends of said strips, drill holes on topper and secure with bolts.

 

Nice, will do!

Lol

 

Awesome!

 

Sometimes I think about leaving the hammer marks, just so people know it's hand formed. More to do on it...


There's a lot going on here, including making that one medium sized bolt BIG. I love doing this ____, figuring out angles and dimensions and trying to think ahead the whole time.

But I STILL haven't actually accomplished anything on the truck. Lol.

On a side note, yesterday I went to Home Depot. I was supposed to buy a $4 faucet repair kit and two fluorescent light bulbs at $6. I came home with about 5 different receipts, well over a hundred dollar bill spent, and: bolts, metal, two coatings, paint, rollers, brushes, cut off wheels, more steel wool, FOUR fluorescent light bulbs, and the wrong faucet repair kit.

But because of who I am I repaired the old faucet springs, cleaned it all up, and fixed the faucet. I also swapped the TWO light bulbs that were burned out in the house and the TWO burned out in the garage. It's not like I can repair faucets and swap light bulbs if I were to cut off my hand in the garage because I couldn't see. Lol.

 

Has it held up well so far and does the camera have a good picture overall? I’m looking at purchasing this for my ‘08 Tacoma as well. Thanks

 

I managed to remove all the badges, filled her up from 1/4 tank to full ($30), and tomorrow going in for the 100k service (at 101,482) and engine tune-up. All I have left is the foam on the tailgate Toyota,Tacoma, and Prerunner badging. Think the dealership would remove it? V6 badge was the easiest clean up lol, use 'lift-off' adhesive remover (thinking walmart brand goo gone since it looks and smells the exact same) and wash it than stuck it on. So you say heat will loosen it enough to remove the foam than goo gone afterward. So should i use a plastic scraper or my hands to remove the foam?

Sam

 

I used one of these 3M adhesive removal wheels to get the majority of the foam and adhesive off and then wiped the rest off with Goo Gone.

$50 3M 03612 4" x 5/8" Adhesive Eraser Wheel

https://www.amazon.com/3M-03612-Adhesive-Eraser-Wheel/dp/B005RNGN8I

 

Join the "no mod" thread and save some money.

 

Went shooting today and tried to find stuff to test for rubbing on. So far no rubbing at all!

Also installed an AFE Rebel exhaust, you can see it in front of the rear tire. Louder than expected but it sounds good IMO. The phone mic doesn't pick it up real well.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/4GZt26CtpAghgWDbA

 

Beautiful truck!

Sometimes a little rubbing is good, but never the tires rubbing.

 

Lol. Thanks!

 

Got a wild hair and pulled the trd stickers off the bed, I’ve been on a sleek look kick lately haha

 

Wheels and tires look great! 34s?

 

Thanks they’re 285/70/16’s

 

Original owner... this just happened.





Rick

 

Use fishing line to “saw” through the foam.
Heat gun to heat up remaining foam, which should roll off.
Use GooGone to remove the rest (if any left).
Wipe with cleaner/wax stuff or whatever.

 

It’s an SOS streamline without hoop like @SummitBound said