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

Added a hose clamp to the tailgate on my recently purchased truck. Was surprised to find a 2011 never had anything installed to slow-down tailgate removal.

 

Day 2 of maintenance. Oil change, Air filter, Cabin filter, Rear diff, Front diff, Transfer case, Greased the zerks.
Last week was brake pads, rotors, wipers, and spark plugs. Any other low hanging fruit I missed guys? 2015 @ 38,000 miles

 

Rolled over 45,000 miles this morning

 

I installed my PRO knockoff grille and new Hooke rear bumper. The bumper looks awesome and fits great. No issues with the install.

 

Have you cleaned the throttle body? I did mine for the first time at 50k and it was nasty.

 

Why do the throttle bodies on Tacomas get so nasty? I've had other cars and this never seemed to be an issue.

 

I mean it wasn't ridiculous, but a few microfiber towels fulfilled their destiny while cleaning it.

 

Time for the shop to replace those control arms.

I absolutely hate having shops work on my vehicles. The level of not mine, don't care is way to high at most places. Sure they might fix one issue, but introduce several others.

As an example Tactical Application Vehicles (TAV) in New Mexico had backed the drivers door into the shop vice where is makes constant noise. Shop said since it is not viewable by most they would only provide touchup paint. I worked work Walt when he first started for a work trade welding spindles, Walt backed out of the agreement. TAV also damaged the front hubs on my truck, Installed Fox Coilovers backwards where it hit the sway bar on Mark's truck, Sold and did not stand behind their James Baroud Tents with both Chris and myself when they failed, Installed onboard air on customers F350 with questionable wiring....

I could go on, but main point is when and where possible do the work yourself.

 

Its a good build. Thanks for the info.

 

Here we go, it’s coming along. Still need to install the light bar and maybe a couple ditch lights.

 

Beautiful truck dude. Which knockoff grill did you go with? Yours looks good and I've been wanting to get one.

 

I ordered it off eBay seller: truck2go It was $79.99 shipped. The letters were already silver and a pretty damn close match to my Silver Sky Metallic paint. I had to drill one hole to snap the top seal from my old grille into it and had to Dremel one slot that didn't line up. Other than that, the fit is great. Looks awesome.

 

What's the output on these vs the stock ones? I've been looking and buying these as well. I want good out put but not blinding other drives. I also plan on doing the amber version

 

I did spark plugs today!

Easy job!
But then

And


Well this is less than ideal.


There's an odd man out here too.

#2 is an Iridium

$39 LFR6AIX-11 - 6 PCSNEW

LFR6AIX-11 while the rest are

$6 LFR6C-11 V-Power Spark Plug, Pack of 1

LFR6C-11.
#2 was the only one without oil on it.



So I guess valve cover gaskets? Plug tube seals maybe?

 

My moneys on bad valve cover gasket

 

Who makes that bed rack?

 

Busy day today!

First, used the Meguiars two-step headlight restoration kit($20 at AutoZone) on my headlights. They were worse than I thought!
Here's a halfway shot.


And here's a after shot.


Then, I painted my hood scoop that was faded.
Before:

After:


I also removed the eye sores. Still need to clay bar/wax the area but looking better already.

 

That's scary.

 

Well if I tear into it to look I'm replacing those anyhow, it would be nice if that's as far as I have to go.

 

I will take one when I look at it again. I'll send you a PM so I dont forget lol