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

Drove it 1k miles road trip 19 hours straight

Averaged 70 mph and Ran great!

4 full ups getting 22 mpg per tank at 250+ miles

 

I remember the days when my truck didn't weigh 5200lbs with 34's.


That said putting the cap on has made a noticable increase in milage.

 

There's another factor involved other than mileage and that's a key ring that is heavy. A lot of people will have a dozen keys and then hang heavy trinkets on their key ring, excessive weight will kill lock tumblers quick. The chip has nothing to do with the key turning or not, either there is internal damage in the lock or the key is cut incorrectly.

 

Thanks... that's what I thought but was hoping for some verification. The original key doesn't look very worn, and the cylinder isn't loose at all, and if the original key was having a problem I could see the new key being a problem too. But the original key works perfectly. Just needed to know if the cylinder would turn with a properly cut key.

Still... when programming the new key I don't get the steady light I should verifying that the key is programmed. I guess a trip to the damn dealer is in my future.

 

Not a super technical day but I installed some handles on the roof rack.

 

Washed, clay bar, buffed n waxed !

 

Gave my wife's car some attention today. My daughter has moved up to a booster seat now so I bought one of those for my truck today too.

 

That's a lot work! Nice job

Luckily, my emissions code hasn't popped up in over a year or I might have had to follow your steps and whip out a 2x4.






And beat the hell out of the charcoal canister

 

Started fighting a Maestro RR into the thing. Anyone have a good writeup on the install?

 

I didn’t do too much. Tried a new foam gun and washed really good

 

Any audio upgrade suggestions? Still have the paper thin oem speakers on my access cab

 

ill be starting mine this coming up weekend. Going with Hertz components up front , Kenwood excelon head unit with sound dampening. Hadnt decided on amp yet but it’s a start.

 

I added the following to my access cab; Kicker speakers in door, Alpine tweeters, Kicker sub/amp under drivers seat, small Kicker amp under passenger seat for the door speakers. NICE !

 

budget?

 

Couple hundred bucks. Just looking for best quality for price

 

I think it's a JIS screw
Japanese Industrial Standard
which takes a different style of Philips tool

kind of resulting in a regular American philips tool tending to strip it

supposedly indicated by a dot on the head
I don't remember the screwdriver company for it. They're like $7/ea and come in different sizes/styles.
Haven't figured out if I need to buy any yet for owning/wrenching on the truck. Whether it be screwdrivers or bit inserts.
Haven't run into any more yet; hopefully I never do. Would hate to strip more screws.
IDK if they're used in more places on the truck to appear as another "fun surprise"
I heard there's one or more somewhere on the engine

 

what made you pick SDHQ and not just a random cheap $20 mil-spec style set of terminals?

 

Gave it it's first COVID vaccine...gonna probably need to do this a few times in a couple spots, wish it wasn't 15 bucks for one kit...
It kinda looks like the windshield got sandblasted at some point, will probably eventually just replace it.

 

Nothing major here....spent 5 minutes removing the white meso st wheel ornament and replacing it with cement which goes much better with black and gray interior.......

 

Also took large 2gb thumb drive and used tiny 8gb micro sd one in it's place for more music and more inconspicuous when in port on dash.....