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

Didn't do anything today but drive her to work, but might as well catch up, since I've been busy...

Last Friday I finally got around to replacing a bad left rear door lock actuator. I'm glad it's a simple job, that's both my rear doors I've had to do in the last month or so.


Sunday morning I went out to my garage to start my truck before work, and my LED lights that are always on above my workbench were off. Odd. So I checked the breaker box, and sure enough, a circuit breaker was tripped. Reset the breaker, lights came on, but garage door opener still wouldn't work. Ugh. When I got home from work, I did my research, and according to the diagnostic LED flashes, it seemed a circuit board issue was most likely. Pulled out the main circuit board and didn't see or smell any issues with it. Tried a reset, still no worky. Then I noticed there's a second circuit board so I pulled it out and found this:


Now there's something you don't see every day. The little bugger (pardon the pun) actually fried hard enough to burn a trace on the circuit board. Fortunately, there's a really cool guy named Wayne in the Electronics Lab at work who loves stuff like this, so yesterday he repaired it for me, saving me a few bucks. After reassembly and reprogramming the remote, it works fine again.

 

Any advice on wiring rock lights? I havent been able to find a thread that has good advice on where to mount them/how to wire them. I bought a set of 8 a little over a year ago and haven't quite figured it out...

 

I had the biggest pain in the ass replacing my drivers door actuator. The passenger took less than an hour lol

 

I went to a DIY shop where you rent a bay and tools. They charge $40 per hour for DIY and $60 for assisted work. I unfortunately stripped out the pan when I tried to torque the drain plug to 21 ft. lbs. This was last Sunday, 3/8. They were closed yesterday but I was able to hunt down a new pan last night.

Only one dealer in the Denver area had a pan in stock. $172 including new plugs and tax. I went back to the shop this morning and finished the flush. It came to 6 hours of shop time, 5 DIY and 1 assisted since they plugged in their scanner for the transmission temperature. So the shop fees were around $300 total.

One small mistake cost me $172 in parts. I had never done a transmission flush before and didn’t know how soft the pan was.

 

CMC!!!

 

wish I knew!!! I’m up in Arvada and have an extra new pan just sitting on the shelf! Struggling with some busted studs in a volvo atm myself.

 

I'm guessing those are the fronts? The first rear took me about 20 minutes, the second one about 5-10.

 

Look up how to bake the headlights. You can get new Morimoto seal and reseal them yourself. I took mine apart, painted the inside casing and resealed them using the baking in the oven method. I haven’t had any moisture issues. Just a thought!

 

Avs in channel visors

 

How difficult was it taking the manifold off? I’m thinking I might have a leak as well.

 

Skid Plate install

 

Been looking at these on and off. Worth it? Not really sure of the benefits. Look good on your truck!

 

Very Nice, you said it took awhile but the work paid off!! I like!

 

Added a few images and description. Thanks!

 

Added some sos sliders with no kick outs!

 

I have these same ones. I like the look and it’s nice to be able to roll down your window a bit in rain and not have it all pour down inside the cab.

 

Thanks! And no idea they were like 45 on Amazon so I figured why not. Supposed to help with wind noise/can crack window in rain

 

Does anyone here have or know anyone that might have the Drilling template for installing the 05-15 ARB safari snorkel?

 

Damn nice setup, I love the look of those Coopers!

 

New tailgate insert and a new home for my Magellan when I go wheeling.