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

Engines hard to find in 4.0 and if you find one it will be around $5K for engine alone, they just dont break

 

You’ve missed hella of deal, bunch of tacos here in Cali on junk yards.

 

It is still there
https://norfolk.craigslist.org/cto/d/virginia-beach-2009-toyota2009-toyota/7380539234.html

 

I did a couple of quick local off-roading adventures couple days ago and today.

Did a few trails around Cedro Peak outside of Albuquerque for the first time, including every offshoot obstacle I could find.


Funny, but you go up some rough obstacle, rock as big as your tire and the picture looks like you could drive a damn Prius up it. This was the little offshoot just by the Cedro radio towers.

Also cruised down to Socorro, NM to drive the Quebradas Backcountry Byway from S to N, then ran a few trails in Gordy’s Hills OHV area.

Contemplating the optional obstacle, but chickening out on my solo run.

Nice little optional 24+” step down. Love tap on the slider and a bit of flexin.

Then ran down a trail that the brilliant BLM folks didn’t mark the top of the trail as closed. So I drove all the way down it to find a barbed wire fence at the bottom .

 

New Toyo AT3s in 265/75/16

 

Tried to grease the five 4x4 driveshaft points today.... Ya: successful on the usual easy three. The other two???? You know: the front ones.... The Toyota engineering team that designed this set-up (if there's any still around) should be fired.... And anyone still on the team should be fired as as well for not changing it over the last 16 years. (my truck is a 2014). Remove little skid plate for hidden one??? Ha!!! Maybe if I spray the bolts with PB Blaster or Breakaway every day until next spring/2022. Angled one that only a needle tip might fit.? Rediculous. I have three grease guns and those two defeated them all. Obviously, the engineering team gets free maitainace at the dealership if they own a Tacoma or they just turn them In every 5,000 miles...

 

Lowered the taco and now I gotta make a ramp

 

More pics!

 

I'll take some more tomorrow

 

I have a grease gun like this with a flexible hose. I can get to all the fittings with no problem.

 

This is sick! I didn’t know they made these in the 2.5 gen version

my assumption is it’s an Xrunner?

 

That's the same grille I bought. I built a custom insert and emblem for it. Now about a year and a half later it's warping really badly. But damn that thing was inexpensive!

 

The funny thing about resale values is it can only be gotten once and to buy anything else longevity suffers.

 

Did you see the map showing its location? LOL. Just thought it was funny is all.

 

Proof!


Lmao I'm just kidding! Be careful of your reply - if you reply - I don't want to be why you get a temporary ban... I wouldn't be the reason if you did get banned btw.

I've had several lowered trucks in the past and the biggest reason why I lifted my current truck instead of lowering it is so I could see over the vehicles in front of me.

 

Why would I get banned?

Banned from?
I need a lifted sierra

 

Yes it's an x-runner 64k miles on it

 

Purchased TRD Pro Headlights + Ultimate Headlight mod from a tw member. Really happy with the light output!

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Nothing too ground breaking. I made a small change to the BirdDawg riser I have, I saw the failure modes where it cracked at the attachment point on the windshield. They all looked like over-exerted pressure at a lateral angle, basically the riser looked like it levered the glass laminate apart. So I added some VHB to the back of it so it exerts pressure more evenly across the surface area of the riser, holding the weight of the mirror. I also added a diamond and attached a GPS I'd previously given to my wife, that she no longer needs since her new Highlander has Navigation built-in.

 

I also added a RAM ball mount into my grab bar. I was going to use a long M6, but couldn't find one long enough. I was then just going to use one of the M8s it came with - but that meant drill out and installing a rivnut. So I started doing that process and ended up eating a drill bit. So instead I walked over, grabbed a tap, tapped it for a Helicoil since it was already drilled out bigger than M8, installed the Helicoil and then installed the damn mount.