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

Today I spent a long time at the car wash.

 

This stuff is fantastic. It's very harsh though so make sure to wear nitrile gloves. If it gets on your skin you will know right away, it burns lol. Also good to have some sort of ventilation. It's snowing here so I did it in my garage tonight instead of outside but I wore a respirator. It makes you feel sick if you breathe the fumes in, trust me lol. The directions on the bottle say it works better if you preheat your oven to 200 degrees before using it. This makes me think it would work even better if you preheat the plastic pieces before using it. It's -4 degrees here right now, I didn't want to shock the plastic going from hot to cold so I didn't test my theory.

 

How exactly did you go about doing this? I've tried the Easy off 2 or 3 times for chrome removal without any luck.

 

At the alignment shop now pretty stoked

 

Got some 5157 Morimoto's from good ol ebay.

 

just extend it into the tail light housing hole. Like I did


Or next to the gas cap.

 

The nuts for the front struts on mine are the same way. The only way the strut could fall out is if the nuts backed out by themselves and the front wheels would have to leave the ground. I still used blue loctite on the driver's side front strut retaining nuts just because there's so few threads left. No problems on mine yet, it's been a couple months now.

 

Cool paint scheme. Did you paint your scoop insert? I replaced by hood last year and the unpainted plastic insert has started to fade to grey. But - I may paint it grey to highlight the grey on my Off Road's bed decals.

 

Finally got around to ordering my AJT climate knobs and put them on yesterday. Absolutely love them!

 

man. That sucks. Sorry that this happened.

 

Shake the bottle, set the parts on cardboard or something to protect the floor, spray the shit out of them, wait about 15 minutes, scrub with a rag. 90% of the chrome came off without scrubbing on most of the parts. The Morimoto shrouds must have had a thicker layer of chrome, they required more time and a little more scrubbing.

 

The old sniff test. I just changed my rear diff fluid and definitely did not pass the test.

 

Retrofit shit

 

I was trying to remove the chrome from my grill emblem. Maybe I just need to let it sit longer. Thanks.

 

Made a small platform for the rear drivers side. Would have liked to do the whole back seat but I have an 11 year old niece that would be mad if she couldn't ride in Uncle Ed's truck. Used a piece of 3/4" mdf that I had laying around, plus I already had the d-rings and the short piece of 1 1/2" steel that I used. Attached it using the factory hinges so it still tilts forward and I can access the factory storage area if needed. After taking these photos I ran the router around it real quick to ease the edges. Going to probably just paint it tomorrow.

 

Got aligned this morning. Driving good! Changed front wheel bearing/hubs from 05Taco4x4's press service. Got lawn and garden on my parking brake line that was rubbing my icon rxt hardware.

 

Did you not drill out the bolt hole on the OE bracket that holds the brake line? I took a slightly larger drill bit to the hole and it worked just fine.

 

Yeah maybe try and let it soak for half hour or so. It doesn't seem to damage the plastic at all, give it a little more time to work. I'd try heating the emblem in the oven next time. The bottle says it cleans ovens best if you preheat to 200 degrees. I'm assuming this logic will apply to stripping chrome as well.

 

I thought about it but I'm just gonna cut those brackets off with a grinder. I think..

 

Kicked off "Spring Cleaning" with my Bestop Supertop.