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

How did you tap into the factory wiring and what parts did you buy to do so? I’ve wanted mine to show up on both for the longest time

 

Ordered and picked up a new master cylinder just in case the seals in the current one are borked due to my mistake. I'll swap it out and flush the entire system on Friday when we get home from our trip. (taking wife's highlander)

 

I'm in. I need at least one more place for a switch

 

Got my new rims and tires dirty today doing a 650m elevation 4x4 sesh. Very impressed on how the Falken’s did. Didn’t skip a beat versus my buddies K02s. My new BPF skid plate came in handy as well bottoming out a few times on stock height.

 

Hope you have shoulders that can hold your arms above your head for hours on end cause its a lot of that.

Covering the ceiling: Super simple 1 out of 10 on ease of doing the job
Removing the headboard to get to the ceiling: ANNOYING! 2 out of 10 in difficulty but mainly time consuming.

You have to remove the plastic on the A, B, and C pillars. B and C pillars require starting at the door guards at the bottom of each door, then work your way up the pillar removing the two different plastics on each pillar. Remove the visors, visor clips, rear clips, remove the two ohshit handles above the rear doors, remove the "Airbag" plastic squares above the driver doors (these dont actually hook into the airbags and are safe to remove), remove the sunglasses holder and the wires for dome lights front and middle. Once the headboard is down the work flies.

When I was doing the spots over the driver and passenger seats I just reclined them and tossed a few sheets of each deadener on the other seat and went to town.

 

Just some all pro bed stiffeners.


Then got some more stuff to replace/upgrade.

 

That is sick!

 

Wow that's awesome!
How many meters of filament is used? How much printing time? That's a big print!

 

Today is tear apart the topper roof rack day. The factory powder coating just couldn’t stand up to constant use and salty Wisconsin winters. Strip sand prime paint. The rack itself is ok. Little touch up paint. All the supports however were toast.

 

I've used these on my Jeep

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https://www.amazon.com/CATO-Motorcy...gid=pla-4584207580015154&psc=1&language=en_US

 

If you do alittle googling (I did mine years ago and can't remember the wire colors off the top of my head) all you do is find the camera connector in the drivers side kick panel and splice into that wiring with an RCA cable. I wanted mine to show up on both the mirror and screen so I stripped the 2 signal wires on the truck harness and solder spliced in the RCA cable that went to my head unit.

If you don't want it to show up on the mirror too I think you just cut the signal wires and splice your RCA cable into those... I THINK you need to leave the connector in place to provide power to the camera, not 100% sure on that one because I spliced and left the stock wiring intact.

 

Looks like my work bench lol

 

That looks really sweet, are those coin holders in the front? Only thing I'd do is hide the actual coins, people will bust a window even for a few dollars in change.

 

No idea on the meters. It will be about 1.5kg in the end. Printing time was about 3 days, but take that with a grain of salt as it was printing at 250mm/s.

 

Where is the mic installed?

 

They'd be rich if they did. Those coin holders are going to be about 5" deep minus a bit for springs. I can easily add a little lid. Can even add a couple of small magnets so it doesn't rattle.

 

what rack do you have?

 

If you make one for the manual I'll probably buy it. You could add built in phone holder slot in the front of it that has a built in wireless charger in it. That would be sweet.

 

Willing to give the STL?

 

Front runner. Which is an awesome sturdy AF rack that I have used and abused for two years. 3 5k mile today trips with kayks and shit on them? ✅. The ability to stack the deep and still walk on them✅. Accessories out the wazoo? ✅. Soon my awning will be mounted up.

As for the rust and peeling powder coating... I have lived in the Wisconsin for two years. Salty as fuck. The bolts, nuts, and steel brackets didn’t stand a chance.

but I’d recommend this rack in a heartbeat.