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

I called the number, not in service. Considering changing my cell number to it lol

 

Take the heat shield off, you’ll see it after that. As far as the one closer to front diff, yeah ya have to take the lock and lube fitting off and use a regular fitting because it’s smaller and has more clearance to reach the zerk.

 

Added my Martin rack and caliraised light bar

 

My tranny filter screen and pan gasket arrived today. Now to get some WS fluid and change that trans fluid.

 

My grill is plasti dipped and its lasted pretty well for about a year or so

 

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And I also installed underhood rock light LEDs. Details here.

 

Gave her a bath! Just did a 2500 mile "social distancing from California" trip...Nevada, Utah, Arizona and she got quite messy! But sure was nice to spend some quality time away from this place!

 

Some lights on the gfc!

 

My coilovers look similar. What do you use to remove the rust?

 

Drilled some big ass holes in my truck!

and did the “cowl induction snorkel” mod from here->

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/cowl-induction-snorkel.525314/

thanks @badger for the great write up!

Pretty quick mod. Now I can ditch my already chopped up fender liners and moved the intake a little higher and a bit more protected without having to add a snorkel.


will be wrapping the aluminum tube, and covering all the holes with wire mesh soon to help keep the critters out.

and didn’t bother wash my engine bay. Because who fucking cares. It will just get dirty in a few days anyways

 

There was no easy solution. For the coils i custom powder coated king coils. For the bodies themselves you have two options. 1 wire wheel or sandblast what you have and paint them. You only use a small portion of the treads, so only the use part will rust again or 2. Buy new bodies. I bought 1 from kartek for this rebuild. The top unscrews from the body with a little bit of heat. Then screw it onto the new body with a new o ring.

 

What did you use ?

 

I used plasti-dip on the emblems and for the bumper I just bought a new cover off eBay. $105 shipped and I figure I can sell the chrome one locally for similar price.

 

Could you link me to that exact one lol? Thanks

 

You'll have to use your own trim and brackets, but if you don’t mind an hour or so of work it’s about as easy as it gets.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rear-Bumpe...yota-Tacoma-TO1102241-5215104051/152418550682

 

Installed the new Coastal Offroad high clearance bumper, and painted the softopper components black.

 

Yeah that’s what I need, I wonder if I could order the hardware and brackets somewhere too, have some rust on my bumper now, trying to get rid of everything with the rust and replace It lol

 

That model year truck. Those headlights. I've always thought as the most dramatic mod I've ever seen!

 

ebay also sells completely assembled bumpers with the trim and brackets. They are around $200. That might be easiest. The only rust I had was on bolts which I just hit the heads with a little spray paint.

 

I used plastidip on my step bars.....it looked good for about one year.