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

When you get a chance can you post a few more pics. Pictures viewing straight toward the front, back, etc. I appreciate it! I am thinking of buying the same tires.

 

Yup, crazy how much of a difference it makes. I did the inside of the doors with black and covered up the rest with red.

I've been working on this for 2 months now because of time constraints. Thanks God I only have the cubbies left to do.

 

I haven't taken any yet but I can later tonight

 

Having the springs swapped out on my ADS coilovers. Went from 650 to 700. Hopefully it won't take too long.

 

I'll take a rear shot when I get to work

EDIT: getting an alignment next week if anyone is wondering

 

Holy shit that is thrashed. I'm thinking that's your issue right there.

You may want to look into the threat about beefing the carrier bearing up by filling it full of construction adhesive or sealant and gluing the bearing to the rubber donut, I did this and I think it made a huge improvement.

Especially when you're running larger tires or weight and the side load force on the carrier bearing is increased by increasing your rotational mass that you have to get going from a dead stop.

 

255 85 16 is an excellent tire size. I think the skinny tires work great. Just wish they had more options in this size.

 

Received update on my back ordered drivers side headlight....still another week. Ready to get fresh head lights installed along with doing the ultimate headlight upgrade.

 

Those look awesome! At least for me, the price is hard to stomach though.

 

Are your wheels pastidip or painted? In either case what was your process and how are they holding up?

 

Picked up some 35's

 

I have the V6.

 

Time to sand and paint

 

Painted. Just rust-o-lium. First time doing something like this so the fronts I used a dremel and wire brush bits and ground the flaking parts of the original coat. The rears I ground all the paint off and I picked up a spare and sand blasted that one. The fronts are going to need to be touched up or redone, the rears have some scratches from my clumsy self, and the spare hasn't seen much action but is the best finish for sure. The original plan is to not clear coat them to make touching up far easier. Though a clear coat would be great if you don't hit hard trails or no trails at all.

 

Thanks! I appreciate the info.

 

Thanks for weighing in. Does anybody have thoughts on the OME Spacers you can get for that bearing?

 

Only needed if you're lifted in the rear and have vibes.

I used 1/8" thick 3/8" hole stainless fender washers and spaced my shaft down 3/8"s.

 

On the license plate bracket? Yes.

 

Chevy 63 swap progress. Spring hangers and shackle mounts are tacked in. I’ll throw on the 37’s and then Start cutting into the front end for 3link. This way I’ll hedge my bets and be able to adjust shackle angle once I see how the front end sits.

 

4 or 6? Sound clip?