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

Wondering what PSI I should be running em at. I've only had C load before and I ran em 36-38. Tire place filled these to 42. Need to do some research

 

Nice! Do the windows in the xl flip out, rather than slide like the xr?

 

I just installed a cheap brand of flush mounts last week. I wired them into my reverse lights. I love em! Makes nighttime turn into daytime!!

 

Man, how long has it taken you to do the conversion? I wouldn’t know where to even begin!

 

Well if you count from the moment i was like ive decided to convert to know like 14 months. Research and sourcing materials was the hardest part.

 

I run mine at 35. Maybe it hurts my gas millage, but it rides better. I am less than 2,000 miles away from my 20,000 mile rotation. I rotate every 5,000. I haven't noticed any irregular wear. Honestly I haven't noticed much wear at all. Nor any increased road noise. Ill take measurements and post pics next month. They only downside is wet pavement. Especially fresh wet pavement. I would still 100% recommend them! I didn't buy them for wet pavement.

 

I see you edited your original post to a knock off mastercard commercial one, were you not happy with your first jab?

 

The side windows tilt out at rear, they crank out about 2 inches or so.

 

Ill have to play with it. Definitely noticed every bump in the road a bit more than with my C load KO2s, but it wasn't terrible. Hopefully they do OK in the rain as I live in Oregon. The KO2s weren't great but weren't terrible either. Everything has tradeoffs and I have no complaints at this time. Other than I may need a re-gear now haha

 

Nice! You plan on building in a bed platform?

 

Need an information assist if possible for an ARB Bumper /Smittybilt winch combo

Putting an ARB Bumper on my Gen 2 Tacoma shortly and have a Smittybilt Gen2 x20 10k synthetic rope winch ready to go.

Anyone installed one before and could let me know how far to clock the control lever side of the winch? *I believe it is in 90 deg increments for this winch and based on the mounting solution it would have to rotate 90deg. forward. I believe the motor/terminal side is good to go as is from the factory.

Also what did you do for the control unit as Im sure the ARB / warn mount will not work due to the mounting pattern.

Thanks in advance!

 

Also would like to know as I have the ARB and will be installing same winch

 

I called ARB USA and they were less than helpful. Sorry we dont know anything about that winch and dont fit them... only warn. I called Smittybilt and they werent sure but the conjecture was 90 degrees clocking on the control side. They do have a 75mb pdf of the x20 manual which has really good clocking instructions here https://www.smittybilt.com/docs/installation/97510.pdf

 

Did some electrical upgrades today in preparation for a new battery, switch-pro, winch, and compressor install.
SDHQ aluminum battery terminals and Off-Grid engineering battery tray installed. So shiny! For now...

 

Not at this time. We just bought a thick mattress topper to lay on when we are camping. My wife worries about not being able to sit up with having a platform. That might be rethought once we do the first camping trip and sleeping back there. Do you have a platform? Does it make sleeping a lot more comfortable?

 

I’ve been thinking about the SDHQ battery endless as well. Doing switch pros too...how was the install?

 

@dborrer where was that defect in the first picture? Trying to localize bc I noticed new mildew like smell in my driver floorboard carpet underneath my husky liner after a heavy rain immediately after getting back from the body shop. It was there for 7 weeks. Took back to them and they said they tested and found no leak or abnormality. I gotta find something bc something is still wet there.

 

Test fit my flares. Not even close The bedsides are bent a little. The instructions aren’t very clear because the number of screws are wrong and the screw for the front is too short. Now to attempt the front.

 

Super easy. It took no time at all. I really just wanted better organization and with all the additional accessories coming up I needed something that had multiple mounting options. Also, it was on sale

 

Upgraded the rear sway bar U bolt and hardware with the beefier ones.