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

I don't get any fumes in the cabin, I also don't have an issue with the intake and A/C intake competing, but I also relieved the pressure by opening two more breathers under the cowl, along the intake path. Realistically if I'm crossing water, there's every chance it would be up to where my fender intake was, but I would not risk anything of an unknown depth that might put my windshield in the water.

Plus I like to hit big mud puddles after the rain, and I was finding mud residue in my intake at the fender (it also had a lot of dried mud in it), so the cowl induction mod was a good "stealth" approach for me. If I got a snorkel, people would expect me to do snorkel things.

 

Same... the only thing I'm worried about is the concerns that I'm seeing in the original thread where the intake air is getting warmed by the exhaust while at idle or low speeds. Still reading through the thread so I'm not sure if a fix has been discussed. It seems like a heat shield may be needed to combat the heat

 

If that is a serious concern for you, you know you'll be sitting idle for long periods of time, or doing very technical rock crawling for hours at a time without a break, then you would only have to insulate whatever you used to bridge the cowl and the intake. You could use any fiberglass sheathing to do it, or any other material that can withstand under hood engine temps. To me, personally, this is not a factor.

 

Honestly my truck has become a parking lot princess over the years

so my main concern is if the temps would get hot when I'm idling over those big parking lot bumpers...or sitting in my truck soaking up some A/C waiting on my wife whose in shopping around the mall.



although here in Louisiana the walmart parking lot can get some pretty serious water. not even joking. i'm talking 8-10" of water and stalled cars everywhere

i just like the idea of clean air ok.

 

I get it. I'm in Ohio. We get temp spikes not unlike when I lived in Florida. A lot less frequently, but yea.

I don't think you're going to see a noticeable problem... but I'm also not a doctor.

 

cvj have been great for me

 

I have this exact head unit. Seems pretty solid.

 

my 2010 has an ARB dual sized hole there

 

Popped in the new rear Rockford Fosgate speakers, easy peasy. The sound is (unsurprisingly) better than stock for sure lol. If I decide to keep the truck, I'll have to throw some in the front for sure. I love how easy the rear door panels were to remove on this truck.

Put in the kid's new "big boy" car seat too

 

After over a year and a half, I finally fixed my rear-view. I bought a pigtail from Bob's Mirrors, along with a new mirror, and I've been living with it showing scrambled skinemax images since I wired it in. I finally went out today and figured out how to reverse engineer the pins on the pigtail (I lost the initial pin diagram) based on an email exchange we'd shared in November 2019 (COVID really just took this entirely off my radar).

So as of today, I finally have a backup camera that I can actually see.



I found an old picture of what it looked like. So dumb.

 

I replaced my SPC upper ball joints. The passenger side had a bunch of vertical slop! I have 103,000 miles on them; but I think it’s been bad for quite a while. There was a mystery clunk that I thought was just some of my gear in the bed. Turns out it was that ball joint - yikes!

I installed the upgraded 25001 joints.

 

Went to shut off my vehicle and noticed the trip show this ...

 

Looks great! And oh how I miss grease zerks.....
Keep on keeping on!!!!

 

That's too many six's. Now if it was 666... I would have parked it, left the keys and walked away forever. On the other hand, 666.6 might be more evil.

 

Replaced the fuel pump for the 3rd time. Hopefully the revised version of the Delphi fuel pump will be better. Really thinking about adding a trap door in the floor of my DCSB.

 

Do you tend to drive until you are running on fumes? An empty tank will damage fuel pumps. I usually fill at a half tank, but that's probably overkill.

 

I have a double cab short bed. I think I'd have to cut the actual floor of the truck

 

My new pump that was only 1 month old started making a horrible noise. Dealer said the pump is going out. I never run on fumes. The original pump was 10 yrs old. Last two lasted months

 

Nah bro you doin it right. That’s what I do lol. Never know when that half tank will need to last a while.

 

Bracketeer and fire extinguisher mod. Safety first.