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

Congrats grandpa!

 

Mounted my spare.. not sure if I like the placement but I did it further back so that I could use the oem D ring mounts by the tailgate and wouldn’t have to make too many holes in my bed/mat and I’d be able to mount my pro-eagle jack in the bed. Speed strap, Amazon D ring and grade 8 hardware from lowes

 

Installed Desert Does It Seat Jackers, those are nice. Thanks
Installed 3/4 of Redline Tuning Hood Struts and I can’t find the last bracket. Sigh. They are sending a new one.

 

I dig it, loved that color on the Cobra mustangs back in the day

 

A friend in college had a 90's Beretta painted like that... His dad owns a body shop and apparently had extra PPG paint from a project, so they sprayed his car. It was completely ridiculous.

 

Love the idea of the speakers in your bed. Are they on all the time or are they switched? Any sort of write up?

 

I hope they aren't on all the time. If so, just add two RBG light sticks and drive around all night at redline with all your LED light bars on and music blasting through dispersed camping sites…
If you couldn't tell, I had a bad experience in Utah recently…

 

Hell yea, sounds awesomely ridiculous

 

No I unfortunately don’t have a write up of them but I had a buddy who installs stereos install them for me. I used Sony 6.5” marine speakers and he tapped into the rear speakers so it’ll play in all 4 inside and I have 2 toggle switches in the glove compartment for left/right and when I switch them it’ll play inside and the 2 cubby speakers.. surprisingly I didn’t need an aftermarket amp to power them either, idk of it’s because I run the alpine halo 9 screen but they get pretty loud for just being tapped in..

 

Sorry I've been in CO just did Engineer Pass and Mineral Creek. I got them from Amazon. Just searched Hi-lift mount and Tacoma:

[Hi-Lift -

$87 TTBM-100 Jack Bed Mount for Toyota Tacoma 2005+

TTBM-100 Jack Bed Mount for Toyota Tacoma 2005+]

I will say that I didn't lower the soft top yet, but from how its mounted it should not impede the structure from closing.

 

Hey brother, where do you find those side mirrors? They are clean!

 

I just got up and that's a big ass tire

 

So far, a significant upgrade from my hazed-over originals with far better distance. Also, moving to the Osram Night Breakers from the Sylvania SilverStars I had in there has been a nice boost. Insofar as fitment, they bolted in fine and fit perfectly to the fenders, grill, and hood (and I'm a fitment stickler seeing I work in collision repair). Longevity-wise, I'll have to wait and see, but for the short amount of time they've been in there so far, I'm loving them.

 

Those bedside speakers though! Marine grade I'm assuming. Got a write up on them? And did you need to install an amp to support them?

 

While installing my winch last night

We found a crack on each side of my front rad support area, we drilled a small hole at the top most point of each crack to try and stop it from spreading. But that metal the crack is in is very thing gauge metal, not sure what to make of this.

 

New BAMF High Clearance beef and Deaver Stage 3 packs.

 

Got he frame sprayed and relocated the trailer hook up.

 

I have that same shovel and want to get rid of that loop handle too. Where did you get that cap? I've been thinking about printing one, but don't really want to get a whole spool of filament. I'm running out of storage for spools I only use once or twice

 

Installed a completely new suspension last week! Bilstein 6112s w/ 650lb spring on the 3rd notch, SPC UCAs, & Precision LCAs in the front, Bilstein 5160s w/ OME's medium duty Dakar leaf pack in the rear!

Just started a build thread if anyone wants a more in-depth look: Uncle Al's 2020 Apocalypse Taco

Before & after:​

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Front & rear:​

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Installed frame caps from @Nimble9
One of the easiest mods you will do.