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

Gave her a bath. Hopefully that counts for something.

 

No pics but installed bushings on the Deaver stage 2s, ready for install in two weeks when i finally.have a weekend to install them with archive hangers

 

Ever come to Moab? I've got a pretty nice little trailer that I'm ready to sell for $450. I packed the bearings a couple of years ago and used it very little since because I got a bigger trailer.

 

Installed some new shackles with the Archive bushings. Awesome product and they even link the oem shackle to buy instead of hassling with the stock bushing. Made it a breeze to install. Gained quite a bit of travel. As you can see the oem bushing binds up limiting the down travel. The right side done and the left side still with the oem bushing:

 

Just a marketing ploy to get you into the dealership in the hopes that they will sell you a new vehicle and then sell your trade-in for big bucks. They will not offer you any more for your truck if you come in mentioning that you were "asked" to come in than if you just walked in off the street. Want to find out how much they REALLY are offering you for your trade in? Negotiate with no trade in as part of the deal then spring it on them at the last minute. Then you will know how much you are really getting. Either that or tell them that you just want a price for your truck and you are not buying anything.

 

Finished up a weekend project adding backup camera, stealth XM antenna under the bed rail cover, new Kenwood head unit with all the Maestro stuff, Key 200.4 for my Kicker KS front stage and a 500.1 for a sub to be added soon. I finally found a use for the Streetwires distribution block that had been living in my toolbox since the mid 90's, lol.

 

What light bar did you end up going with in your BAMF? I got the Hybrid bumper on the way, still trying to figure out which light bar to get.

Nice truck btw

 

Link?

 

Thanks! Baja Designs S8 30"

 

Bravo sir, beautiful truck.

 

Greatly Appreciated!

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Front-Bed-...el-For-Toyota-Tacoma-05-15-4-2dr/133532047092
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...molle-panel-replacement.716386/#post-25493915

 

What sort of tonneau cover is that? It looks like it is raised height a little bit

 

Box of parts showed up today

 

So you mounted a bed molle panel on the interior cab wall and it fit? I've wondered if that would work.

Edit: I missed the tw link in the mix

 

Man...I had some catching up to do.

Did you use the Meguiars on the front lower on the bumper? Curious how it does with that. Mine's pretty cloudy.

Very clean install!

Dude. We keep ending up in a similar situation with our trucks! My Kenwood works great - 97% of the time! Car Play just doesn't pick up, or Waze goes belly up, or it shuts off....thing is my pro car-audiophile bud says the amp in the excelon HU's is a cut above most other makes....and my system is so dialed in between the HU/AMP/Sub and speakers, i hate to mess with it. Sound is sublime.

That Seicane is gonna make me start doing some homework.

 

Completed my onboard air compressor install. Modified the ARB harness with the Cruiserhead pigtails for the locker switches. The switches fit perfectly in the center console! I moved the usb jack over 1 position (had to dremel out some new notches to accommodate). I spliced in dash lights on the dark green wire at the heater controls; and picked up control power from the 12v socket. I forgot to take a final picture of the completed center dash - I’ll do that tomorrow.

EDIT: I had to open up the dash again & separate the the CH4X4 grounds from the ARB harness. Ganged them up & spliced them into a green/white-stripe dimmer wire. Now the dash illumination works correctly on the new switches.

 

Nothing yet but I did pick up a little box of goodies from @SDHQ OFFROAD and @TOTAL CHAOS ! Going to be a fun little weekend.



Durobumps, TC bed stiffeners, SDHQ battery terminals and wire, got some of my own wire too going to do the big 3 if I have time.

 

Nice. Getting to the bolt in the fuse box is a pain. When I did the big 3/4, I removed the entire engine harness no 2, reused the plastic pieces, and replaced all the wires with smaller gages, then reinstalled it.

The RTMR how to thread was the resource I used for it.

 

Big 4? That's new, haven't looked into it much for the Tacoma, did the big 3 on my previous vehicle so I assume the Tacoma has an extra one somewhere due to body on frame?

Why are you ripping out the main harness? Is it not just 3 normal 6ga wires?

Battery to fender, engine to frame, body to frame? 4th is...? Frame to battery?

Replaced the fuse box wires with larger? Which plastic pieces?

Now I'm scared sarge.

Gonna need the link to that RTMR thing you mentioned.