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

I appreciate it. It’s a warfab high clearance that I had them add side tubes to. Awesome company and great products. It’s took quite a bit of abuse already.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...atic-transmission.63851/page-96#post-26557411

 

Changed the oil with the usual Mobil 1 5W-30 full synthetic, OEM filter and new OEM drain plug washer. Washed out and dried my afe pro dry filter. Swapped my summer wheels/tires (TRD beadlock/Wildpeak AT) for my winter setup (Tundra/Cooper MS studded).

Sadly it looks like my power steering rack is leaking a little at 155k miles.

 

I did absolutely nothing to my Tacoma. It’s his rest day

 

Went to a taco meat …hoping to see more function then strobe lights

 

Cheers

 

Your truck is the only one that looks like it’s ready to eat a trail. The rest are Bro Trucks

 

Replaced the dreaded coolant bypass pipe. Not as much a pain as I anticipated and saved the cost of a shop doing it.

 

to OP or anyone else; is it worth getting that exhaust?
Is that MBRP? Which one?

After installing my WarFab Phantom rear HC (looks awesome!)
my exhaust is looking crap.
TRD catback, bought lightly used, had an exhaust shop weld on a

$127 Vibrant 1141 2.5' Ultra Quiet Resonator, Silver

Vibrant 1141 resonator to reduce drone
Even worse, it's too close to the 33 spare, so I pulled the spare rearward a bit and wrapped the tailpipe in header wrap.

I heard MBRP sounds like shit,
and was thinking of having an exhaust simply chop the above TRD shorter (tip goes away)
plus maybe a reroute by the transfer case for clearance while they're at it

Not sure what's better or cheaper
Given that it was only like $60 labor to weld on the Vibrant, it might be cheaper for custom than an MBRP...

Not sure if there's a negative side to exhaust fumes regarding where they are routed. Like if it's cut as close/long as possible to route away, vs. the axle dump design MBRP has

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re: lexus drain plug, why not get a rear diff skid?

 

For the exhaust, yes it is an mbrp. Here is the link to the exact one:

https://www.stage3motorsports.com/s...staller-series-3-cat-back-exhaust-system.html

I really like the sound of it. It has a nice deep tone yet not too much. It does have slight drone on highway but not much as far as noise bothers me with vehicles so I would be a bad judge of that lol.

In regards to your comment about a diff skid, I have not gotten one due to how much clearance is lost at the bottom of the diff. The reason I went 35’s is to gain clearance in these areas and with the diff skid I would just lose that gained clearance. The bottom of the diff is very solid but the only part I was having problems with is the bolt which hopefully I have resolved. I believe @EatSleepTacos made a little mini skid for his drain plug that doesn’t sacrifice clearance and eliminates the drain plug issue.

 

Yep, a circle of 14 gauge tacked on in a few spots solves that. The back of the axle housing is relatively thin which is why I have a weld on diff diaper, but no clearance lost with that at all.

 

you got the part number for that?

 

I can’t remember where I purchased mine through but here is one. I got this along with extra crush washers. I have had it sitting waiting to be installed for a while but from what I can remember it’s just the same part as the front diff drain plug.

https://www.yotashop.com/toyota-fro...qDj79m4Zem8QiLNIGxDIx8Iu_t6JoASgaAtQJEALw_wcB


From Toyota:

https://parts.toyota.com/p/Toyota__/PLUG/63351244/9034124014.html


I do not know why my original post has Lexus in it. Sorry for the confusion.

 

All good, I ran into same issue with drain plug so I’ll do same!
Thanks

 

Hey Greg I just saw this, I apologize for the late response. Part number is PT218-35052-01 for the TRD "Sport seats"; PT218-35059-01 for the base seats.

 

Swapped my carpet mats out with some Weather Techs and changed over the washer fluid to Rain X -25° stuff.

 

Ordered a prinsu topper rack and joined tundras dot com, I'm conflicted

 

Yes, but with the settings at zero with the suspension hanging, your truck will actually be toed out quite a bit when you put the wheels back on and put it back on the ground. Your method will make it driveable and close enough to drive it to an alignment shop. Leaving it with that much toe out will wear your inside tire tread out pretty quick. Don't wanna see that happen to ya

 

Do they complain over there about how toxic TW is?

 

My stock Tacoma beat a near new stock V8 Tundra in a acceleration "test" so there's no conflict here.

Every time my wife's ex shows up with his highly modified big money Tundra he showers my truck with compliments and then dries it off with "I shoulda bought a Tacoma...".