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

It’s a cheaper spicer XC bearing. Have been running one for thousands of miles now.

 

Put on new aftermarket mud flaps and replaced the idler pulleys and tensioner bearing. One was pretty noisy, a second was not as far along but still needed replacement. The other two could have stayed on but I figure do it once and likely will never need to again.



Was going to press the bearing in my vise but instead opted for the BFH which did a fine job. Overall really quite easy as others have noted. Most of the time was spent cleaning up the tensioner pulley and the washers that cover the bearings.

 

Swapped out the ac clutch and bearing/pulley on it

still was the original from factory
Lasted 13.5 years and 235k

 

I had some good luck with a toilet plunger, popping out dents.

Worst case, remove the tail light to see if behind the panel is reachable.

 

Installed some Baja Designs S1’s before our weeks vacation.

 

After swapping my tweeters and 6x9's for Kickers, using my basic head unit, I said the main things I missed about my 3rd gen were the bluetooth and ability to plug and play my music on my thumb drive. Well I fixed those by adding a $30 isimple brand bluetooth (BestBuy) with the usb reader, a charger and phone connectivity. Took nearly 2 minutes to pair and be up and jamming with my usb drive. Has volume control and an sd card reader too. Only plugs in to the 12v outlet so no extra aux wire to deal with. Needless to say this beats spending $350+ for another head unit. This will certainly get me by for quite a while. Can also use my phone as a music source but I never do that. My phone is just a phone to me. May come in handy when I use waze on the road. The green lighted ring color can be changed so that is like, well, something special I guess.

 

Installed a mesh grill from HomerTaco - excellent work! Looks much better than all that chrome.

 

I did almost same dent on mine too. My son and I were at an atv park going to hotel for the night. My truck is 6 speed so I started it up and was putting address for hotel in.... truck started rolling and I didn't notice until it stopped when trailer jacked into bed. I was so pissed. I only had the truck for about a month.

 

A few weeks ago I got too close to the right hand side of a driveway and my R R flare caught the hook of a mailbox causing a 3in long and about .25 deep scratch and damage to the flare/quarter panel. I was so mad I got home ripped off the flare (carefully-ish) and ordered a new flare right away, the gasket, and the vinyl protector.. 150.00 loss. I hammered out the dent but could use just a bit more to be close to perfect- I know this sounds silly but I'm looking for a medium size pebble rock to iron out the rest of the dent from the inside LOL

I finally ordered my orbital sander, sand paper and polish..hopefully I'll get that done next weekend. I hope it turns out ok but so far so good I think.

 

I changed out that pesky little motor in the driver side door lock assembly. A $9 motor fixed a problem Toyota wanted $200 plus labor to fix. Took about an hour and a half start to finish taking my time.
Here is the motor I used.

FC-280 w/ Long D Flat Shaft - Car Door Lock and Mirror Automotive Motor FC280PC | eBay

 

Fixed the lovely dakar bind on one side of the truck today.

Bound on the trail:


Regular:



Trimmed:

 

Just got home from camp and off roading the taco and 4Runner

 

Finished making my "new to me" Taco my own this week. 2014 regular cab 4 cyl, auto, 4WD. Torch 1"AAl on rear, Rancho Level it strut kit on front. Hercules 265/75R16 Terra Trac HPT's on Gear Alloy 16 X 8 wheels.

 

Woo! Regular cabs for the win!

 

Not much time to carpet the center price for my bed platform but I did get to install the add a leaf to the pack, rides nice. DIY carpet kit is 98% done I’m stoked

 

I wassss going to say f-it and do my coilovers by myself, then my hi-boost arrived. I have one for the house that works fantastic, and found a $100 off code for the vehicle version, so figured I'd give it a go. Made the bracket to attach to my canopy bars, ran the line through the sliding window seal, and pretty slick install inside. Directions say to get the 2 antennas as far away from each other as possible, so I might end up moving the inside one to the front of the cab.

 

I promise, I WILL do this one day.

 

Today I drove 4 hours to pick up a very barely used prinsu rack for a great deal deal.

then I installed it when I got home

 

Drove down to Garden of the Gods from Denver today. Photos don’t want to upload for now.