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

Those are the center console cup holders for a manual setup

 

Mike’s Custom Toys in Grants Pass Oregon... installed a full Old Man Emu kit.

 

Painted tie rods 10/10

 

Updated the 2010 today. Some Methods & a set of KO2 A/T’s #greyongrey

 

Now that looks slick.

 

Oh baby I love I love I love ! 2008 taco here as well. Extremely interested and if u want a prototype or tester

 

Have you noticed a difference in cab temperature as well? Warm in the winter cooler in the summer etc...

 

That is ... so damn awesome. You even got a hard boiled egg cup in that unit

 

Lil update: Billy 5100s front and rears with a 2" toytec AAL going on tomorrow!

 

Well my truck is white so that itself helps with the heat. I did add a reflective insulation on the roof as well to also help against the heat.

 

Just a starting point. Leftovers go to doors next. Hoping for incremental improvement.

 

Doors are where you will notice it the most. If you live in the north stick your hand next to the door latch while driving down the highway you will feel a cold draft. Reflective insulation on the other surfaces helps the best since they are not double walled like the doors will be when they are insulated. Also being thin metal reflective helps the best.

I have yet to test my AC/Heat for real since doing mine last week.

 

thats the rack i want to get. I live in MN so its good to know that it does have issues with powder coating.

 

All racks will have issues with powder coating up here. I guarantee it. The issue isn’t the powder coating itself. The slats of my rack are fine. Scratched from me dragging metal shit up on the roof rack but not peeling. It’s the steel nuts and bolts and the steel brackets. Steel doesn’t stand a chance up here period. There a numerous good racks these days (front runner prinsu uptop) they will all show signs if decay in the salt belt.

 

I like the phone mount location.....just not certain i want to drill into the bezel, but that location is perfect!

 

Link to order please!

 

Well just installed this bad boys yesterday and have to smack some more but well worth the pain

Falken Wildpeak A/T 35x12.5R17


SCS Ray 10 Dark Bronze 17x9 3.5BS

 

Deforestation!

 

When I bought these kings lightly used they had 700x14" coils on it. They rode a bit stiff so eventually, like over a year later, I finally swapped for 650x14" coils. Then I did all this front end work and shaved off another 40 pounds, so I swapped to 600x14" today. Man, it rides like a dream. Just need to check my alignment and good to go. I have 6 threads of preload passenger side and 8 threads driver side. The bed is empty in this pic so once I add a couple hundred pounds of my spare, co2, tools, camping gear, etc. it should level out a little.

A lot of people get hung up on 700x14" being the way to go if you have any sort of weight but that's absolutely not the case. I would only recommend it to someone with 300+ pounds on the front end (combining bumper+winch+front skid).

 

What did you have to do to make them badboys fit?