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

Ended up towing the truck to alignment to prevent scrubbing in the tires after doing some new suspension with @greenEFSI



A little sorcery with the hardware, cut out the UCA bolt and installing a new OEM bolt/nut after drilling for safety wire backwards to prevent bending the firewall. 12 point hardware with anodized beauty washers for extra bling.






King 25001-119a
ARP Hardware With Beauty Washers
Total Chaos Uniball UCA's
Custom Dimple Died @TOTAL CHAOS Gusseted Spindles

 

None. Has been a solid set. One thing I did add were LED reverse light bulbs that made them much brighter. Not that the ones in there were too dim. I just wanted all the lights to LED, and these use your stock reverse bulbs.

 

I won’t stand on top, but it sure is solid. And it seems to have decreased road and my chopped exhaust noise.

 

Thanks for the info, much appreciated!

 

Dude. Your truck is goals....

 

Sound deadened my floor! Also my Osram 100/90w showed up today, so I popped those in. Looking forward to tonight so I can see the brightness of them.

 

Looks good! I just did this today. Had the day off, got it knocked out but it was exhausting. Are you leaving the floor grommets exposed for any reason? I didn't know if those were supposed to be left exposed so I went over them.

 

I spent 30 hours wrapping my taco this week.

 

Mine actually went down about $30 a month right before the first of the year.

 

Guess who’s local Toyota dealer didn’t have a diff plug in stock? I guess I’ll see if I can get the Lexus one shipped quick. Is everyone still running the same front diff fill plug? Or is there a upgrade to that as well?
I can’t believe I didn’t put that together with the avatar picture. Especially as a big Alice In Chains fan. Makes my dog even better.

 

This might help.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/front-diff-drain-plug-alternate-oem-part.604989/
I can’t remember if there’s a gasket or not, I think there’s a copper one, should be included with the plug, I’m sure someone will clarify but make sure you have one installed with the plug if it’s required.

 

Huh, how'd you wrangle that? I could move mine over to the bank I have my house mortgage with and I'm sure it would be cheaper, but I'm golf buddies with the Farmers guy so it might be awkward. Trying to weigh it out currently.

 

Got a little more done with the secondary battery setup.

Still need to wire in the solar panel but it's running all the accessories. Going to rewire some things around in the engine bay so the winch and fan run off the main.

 

Thanks! I found both of them on Amazon. Both are plug and play for the truck. The radio unit you have to take your hazard and clock unit out of the stock head unit. It was kind of a pain and it didn't bolt in well to the aftermarket unit but I got it to work. The backup camera came with the harness to run to the deck so about 2 hours and it was all run and installed.

Radio:

$86 【2+32G】 for Toyota Tacoma 2005-2013 Radio,Android Car Stereo Touchscreen GPS Navigation Bluetooth USB Player Mirror Link Play

https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-2005-...8&sprefix=2nd+gen+tacoma+radio,aps,175&sr=8-4

Backup Camera:

$80 LEADSIGN Tailgate Handle Backup Rear View Camera for Tacoma 2005-2014,Aftermarket Tailgate Door Handle Replacement Parking Camera, RCA Connector，Easy to Install，IP69K Waterproof

https://www.amazon.com/LEADSIGN-Tai...&sprefix=2nd+gen+tacoma+backup,aps,127&sr=8-3

 

Hey man, I work for State Farm, PM me if you want me to run a quote for you. We just had rate decreases this month, happy to see if I can save you some money! Mine just went down at my last renewal.

 

Thanks! We're under a softball sized hail watch and 7/10 tornado watch right now, so hopefully I still have a truck to work on in the morning

 

hell yeah brother

 

Thank you!

 

I have Erie. They did a rate restructuring at the end of last year. Probably also helps that I have my home owners with them. Redid that at the same time and got a lot of extra coverage for only about 50 bucks more a year.

 

Made some bed stiffeners the other day. Heard they help, cant hurt especially with the RTT up top.