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

Yep! Works great and safe for everything.

 

885 up front and OME medium duty in the rear 5100's all around.

Toyo AT3 LT245/75/17 with SpiderTraxs

Airbags with Daystar Cradles for the camper

 

I love the GFC! There is a guy local selling one for my truck and I have been pitching the sale to my wife for a week....I've made little to no progress.

 

I’m lucky… My wife loves the RTT (though I think she misses the space of the huge cvt we had before this - I don’t miss the wrestling match that was getting that thing in and out of its cover)

 

Looks clean! Thank you for sharing

 

Girlfriend wanted to buy something for the truck so I gave her some options and she chose to buy some sound deadening and closed cell foam. So next week I'll be taking the interior out and laying some on the back wall and doors for starters. She will be out of town all week so I'll have her car which means I can start to tackle a lot of the projects that have been building up since I wont need to drive the truck to work everyday.

 

What type of spare tire carrier are you running?

 

Highly recommend doin the floor as well especially since you have a back up car. A week is a perfect amount of time to knock this out

 

She ordered 2 boxes of each so we will see how much I'll left over to hit other spots.

 

Great combo

 

Did you notice a big difference after doing the roof? After doing just my doors I’m not noticing that big of a difference.

 

I would start with the floor and back wall then. That way you can always do the doors later when you get more and not have to pull the seats again. Its been a couple years but I think you should be good to start with 2 boxes. Have fun, this is a very tedious project, but very much worth it in my opinion

 

That's a good point! I don't really want to pull the seats and carpet more then once if I don't have to! Rear seats are already out so the fronts and center shouldn't take me to long. After taking a road trip in her Escape I started to get jealous of how quite it is in there so this was bound to happen sooner or later. It would also help if I got new tires too, Mine are getting down there and LOUD AF.

 

Restored all the black plastic around the truck with Car Guys Plastic Restore. Great product, plastic all looks brand new. I even did multiple coats on the roof rubber strips which were always super hard to get any color back and it worked really well.

 

this is a custom made dual tire rack I got off of another member- you can see more of it in my build thread
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/dropping-in-mid-travel-madness.286755/

 

I was told to do the floor but opted not to for the pita factor and regret it. That said, it’s not magic stuff. The taco is loud.

 

whats the difference between sound deadening and close cell?

 

Sound deadening is for vibrations and sound and Closed cell foam is for heat/cold as well as sound.

 

I noticed a difference when I did the back wall, but I also ripped out my back seats and installed a MOLLE panel, so noticed a BIGGER difference when I added a backer board behind it a couple months ago.

The biggest difference with the roof was when it rained. No more sounding like a tin can. I would say the biggest bang for your buck would be floor and back wall. Doors are good eventually, but only to make your radio sound better / create a slightly quieter sound stage.

100% this. The asphalt/rubber compound ones are great at reducing vibration in the metal, the closed cell is great at sound mitigation as it gets thicker. Combine the two and you also get the added benefit of a little bit of insulation, probably R1 or something, I don't know honestly.

I do know that I did a layer of both on the doors, roof and back wall, and the truck does get cooler faster/stay cooler longer in the summer.

 

I did my back wall with both and installed the molle rack and it is quieter now than before the mod. Definitely worth doing both. waiting to do the rest of the truck.