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

Washed it by hand for the first time ever... Had this truck for almost 5 years! Haha

 

Fo horn gang!

 

What kinda horn is that?

 

They are all hella supertones

 

Whoop Whoop

 

When I did my needle bearing replacement during my lift my DS axle was the same way. It took me 2-3 hours with different tools and finally it broke loose after using 2 crow bars and using my whole body to push them. When these are seated they are SEATED!

 

Sharp single cab. No gingerbread needed. Well done sir.

 

Went on a long trail run yesterday with a great group of people. My Tacoma impressed me more and more everyday

 

No pics for now, but I had the brakes done Friday at 158k miles. New rotors and pads, serviced calipers. They informed me the rear drums should be fine for another 20k or so.

 

Glad to hear I'm not alone!

 

I legit had a crowbar on each side, a foot on each crowbar. hands on the frame, dead lifting the frame to push the crowbars away. once it gave way the axle shot out like a rocket and drilled me in the chest. I had never been so happy to be hurt.

 

its not really a write up, but the panels pop off really easy. the only thing you need to do is clean well, wipe down with iso, use adhesion promoter, sem paint, sem clear coat.
Paint interior panels... matte or satin finish | Tacoma World

 

Added fake pro-grill, swapped chrome grill surround for black, upgraded tires to BFGoodrich A/T KO2s (265/75R16).

 

What a weekend.

Put her to work yesterday hauling stone. Maxed out the towing capacity; first load two pallets and the last load was just one. Definitely felt the load and the difference between two pallets and one was definitely noticeable.



Sunday funday.

Hover mode engaged:



New brake caliper bolt installed. Found out Friday afternoon after a clunking noise under quick and heavier braking. Temporary fix installed on Friday, grabbed the bolts from the auto parts store, installed them today, torqued and marked.



Next up was replacing the old LED license plate lights. Inexpensive and I'll avoid getting a ticket. The old ones were definitely dim and on their way out. Bench tested them to besure. Not bad to replace every year and a half to two years or so; slight modification to fit into the Pelfreybilt bumper and it's done:


$14 VIPMOTOZ Full LED License Plate Light Lamp Assembly Replacement For 2005-2015 Toyota Tacoma & 2000-2013 Tundra Pickup Truck, 6000K Diamond White, 2-Pieces
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Next, installed my OBDII port splitter. Got the idea from a Tacomaholic video. I can leave my

$160 ScanGauge - SG2 II Ultra Compact 3-in-1 Automotive Computer with Customizable Real-Time Fuel Economy Digital Gauges , Black , 5"

scangauge installed without having to remove it to scan the truck. Tucked the unused end up and easily accessible for the mechanic or the department of transportation:

$12 Right Angle OBD2 Splitter Y Cable Male Splitter to 2 Female Extension Cable 1ft Feet 30cm/12 (1male to 2 Female) 24AWG
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Last up was cleaning up the BAMF LCA skids. WHAT A MESS. Like the gas tank skid last year, CHUNKS of steel and dirt came off. Nothing crazy to where I would question running them again. Since they're only skids, I didn't waste too much time cleaning them up and getting them prestine. If it was something more important, I would spend more time on it. Considering how long it has been since they were installed, they are in pretty decent shape. Really a testiment to the build quality of BAMF's products. I'm getting them painted up with Rust-Oleum rust barrier right now. Plan is to coat the inside with Rust-Oleum high performance enamel and coat that with anti-seize. The outside will just be Rust-Oleum matte black paint for ease of touchups.

Before:



After cleanup:



Paint:

 

Added some rotopax the other day and decided to give the roam cases a try.

 

Finally got around to swapping out my struts with the 3rd gen's I picked up a couple years ago. Front end rides nice and smooth now, much better than my original suspension that just hit 174K miles. I've still gotta swap out the rear end, but I haven't played with leaf springs before and the previous owner installed airbags that I'm debating on keeping or not... I guess it wouldn't hurt to keep the airbags on just in case. Hopefully will be getting new tires soon too, and I'm thinking Duratrac's this time around.

 

Replaced the stripped out plastic screw retainers for 1/4-20 rivnuts and button head bolts for the tailgate.

 

Upgraded to

$216 Power Stop K137-36 Front Z36 Truck & Tow Brake Kit, Carbon Fiber Ceramic Brake Pads and Drilled and Slotted Brake Rotors For Toyota 4Runner FJ Cruiser Tacoma 6 Lug

Power Stop K137-36 - 1-Drilled and Slotted Front Brake Kit. Finally found a use for a turkey baster (getting extra brake fluid out of reservoir).

 

Nice light setup

 

Greased the driveline and cleaned my undercarriage yesterday.



Also, found these rather suspicious holes drilled in my exhaust, which definitely weren't there when I was last under the truck a few weeks back. Seems like it would be simple enough to just plate and weld over them.