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

Just got a new frame from Toyota, and installed MBRP exhaust. Up next UCA's, Dobinsons lift, wheels, and tires!

2012 DBL cab 74,500miles

 

Did you find a good place to get all of that? It's on my to-do. Thank you!

 

That's what I went with. Paired with the afe intake, it sounds pretty ight

 

I finally installed my rear wheel well liners.

 

Made some brackets for handles for my roof rack. The handles came with a Velcro pad. One pic is with the pad, and one without.

 

https://parts.toyota.com/
Great prices, and substantially cheaper than your local dealer. Unless your local dealer orders from said website. Mine does not, and won’t price match either.
FYI, when you pull up a part, the MSRP is listed, but click on one of the listed dealer options and 9 times out of 10, their prices will be lower than MSRP, in my experience at least.

 

finally got my switch-pros 9100, got it installed and lights FINALLY working, so far I love this Switch-Pro. Figured while I was working on the lights, my Alpine has a Cam2 input so I added a FPV winch line Camera.... seemed a logical use of the cam2 input
maybe I'm wrong, time will tell.

 

That’s an awesome idea, got a pic of it from the screen? I’ve been trying to find something to use the same input for.

 

Thank you!

 

I took 3 replacement wheels to the tire shop to get spun to check for out of round after receiving 3 bent wheels in my first order of 5. Turns out all 3 in the second order were bent as well so I am shipping them back and shopping elsewhere. Just placed the order for 5x Method MR312 in bronze. My truck looks so weird with a lift, new sliders, and skids all beefed up then stock wheels and 31's. Leg day has been skipped for a couple weeks. Cant wait to get it back on 33's with a deeper offset wheel.

 

Carrier bearing and 2 U Joints. Not nearly as bad as I thought.

 

Made some progress on the JD 2.25 kit yesterday, hopefully wrap things up today.

 

Got the snorkel installed and new front suspension; extended lenght kings and camburg UCAs. Unfortunately new suspension caused rubbing so had to take it to a shop for an unexpected CMC.

 

Thought id wrap my grab handle. This is the result after 5 hours.

 

Bath time, looks good from 15 feet away

 

How are the super bumps working out with this kit?

 

Serious question
Most people say don’t change the water pump unless it leaks.
Is that wrong?

On one side, it might be hard/a lot of work, and if the gasket isn’t leaking, then the gasket isn’t leaking.

but in general on any car really, after 100k miles other problems can develop with a water pump that would normally have been changed by that time if the engine had a timing belt.

-impeller: if plastic/not metal, that can fail
-the bearing inside that impeller spins on, can fail

just wondering if it’s actually worth the effort tearing into it to replace
Or not
I’ll look it up. I’m sure it’s buried behind a serpentine belt related type stuff but but sure what else.

tstat maybe not a bad idea to replace given plastic but at the same time Toyota plastics are known to be higher quality/last longer than other brands

 

Just changed my power steering fluid, 10 years and 86K. Followed someones instructions on the forum. Wicked easy. Old fluid was dark brown and you could not see through it in a 16 ounce water bottle.

 

Have not tested yet!

 

Finally found a replacement drivers seat in good condition with the same interior code as mine. Also retrofitted an autodimming homelink mirror from a Mazda lol