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

After a short year of not owning a Tacoma I am back. Traded the baby duramax in on this clean TRD OR.

 

Bought a new license plate frame for the front and used the included screw covers to dress up the rear...

 

Also discovered that I needed a new air filter when we changed the spark plugs earlier today...

 

And the Z.O.R.T. theme is coming along nicely; Just a few more things to add!

 

Thanks

 

Was able to catch this yesterday;

 

Hope it works for ya

 

Just reopened my account, been away for a while.

Since I last I posted, I have had a near disaster. Before heading out to Chicago I stopped by the neighborhood tire shop to rotate the tires. They had a new guy do the rotation and I watched and made sure he torqued the nuts. Four hours in the trip I start hearing a click when turning slightly. Then a slight vibration, like the discs are warped and need truing. It is lunch time and I have been watching for a place to stop. Luck provided a Toyota dealer next to a burger shop. I pulled into the dealer, stopped and checked the front wheels. Laying on the driver's side rim is a lug nut with a stud in it. I have three lug nuts holding on the wheel on the driver's side and four on the passengers front side. Dealer's tech stated the nut were tightened to about 140 ft lbs.

I immediately called the tire shop. Seems the new guy set the impact wrench to avoid using the torque wrench. The Toyota dealer took the truck in and replaced all the lug bolts and nuts while I had lunch. It was Monday and the shop was almost empty so they got right on it.

But the shimmy persisted.

On the return trip I visited the Toyota dealer again. I was afraid the discs were warped from over torqueing. Sure enough they turned them and did not charge me as they felt the brakes discs were damaged beyond repair. I did get home safely.
None of the local Toyota Dealers had the TRD brake sets. Never let a repair get wasted. Summit has a warehouse just up the street. Power Stop brakes had good review and it only took one afternoon on the drive way to fix the shimmy. Right off the repair stand the stops were sure and smooth.

Well that the latest improvement. The faulty discs were not Toyota, they were AZ brand put on by a local mechanic. Should have done it myself the first time.

 

Cleaned up the undercarriage on this old girl today. Been WAYYY too long

 

Rock lights $7
Waterproof toggle switch $5
Toggle switch holder $9

Total $21

 

The Tacoma took the family to Cherokee, NC. It was a gorgeous trip and coming home (down the mountain) I've never gotten better gas mileage in my life! Ha.

 

I used to go up that mountain in a 5.4l V8 powered F150 pulling a 36 foot camper. Foot to the floor, engine howling and we'd be flying along at 20mph. Going down the mountain was always better.

 

Took off my front mud flaps.
The driver side was taken off on the Niagara Rim Trail and sounded pretty cool when it tore off.
Passenger was taken off in the garage and was rather casual coming off.

 

Hey @DG92071 I found those specialty wheels you're looking for

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CUupBAGBkGq/

 

Man we saw some people struggling for sure. But everyone had great attitudes and gave way. Everything there was gorgeous and the food/breweries were outstanding!

 

where did you find that one at? I looked all over for one like that with relay. all I could find was the solid state type.

 

Technically haven’t done anything today, but this bad boy came in. Waiting on the front.

 

Added some E track to the front of the bed in my Tacoma Super Duty to better hold my 55gal water transfer tank.

Going to add another section at the bottom to have two tie downs for the tank.

 

Do you have a link for these?