Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice

You’re supervision and tool handing services when I installed my shocks are the reason I was actually able to finish the job in a weekend lol. Never underestimate the power of friends watching to cut down on staring spells (eyes fixed on middle distance, mind filled with plans of future somewhat related projects). Cuz, yeah, I do that a lot.

Dang, thanks! I think I really might have to have way too much beer laying around. There’ll be no way I could drink it all!

Also, yeah, it makes sense to button it back up if the worst happens. It might stop me from panic buying a cheap aftermarket CV.

Usually, I have that covered, but you never know…. I’ve been known to have some days where I know where too many of my tools are at.

I lost all my left handed ones years ago, Seriously…I’ll have 10 screwdrivers piled up in my box, and without fail, all of them end up being right handed. What are the chances?

Well shit, I got talent just dropping in my lap from everywhere! Maybe I should rent out a Jiffy Lube location for a night. I think they do that at Chuck E Cheese, so it’s gotta be something they do at Jiffy Lube.

 

Quick scouting/shakedown run with a buddy to find some camping on the northwest side of the state.

 

Like giant croissants? Mmmm.....

 

Hmm, apparently my picture never uploaded.

 

Looks Good! What size tire you running?

 

Dirty5

 

I'm almost ready to move to 35's. Two things that concern me are having to loose the fender liners and exposing the area with the door hinges (filling full of snow and salt in winter). Again with loosing the fender liners, what to do with the inlet of the air box, as I don't want to run a snorkel.

Already decided I'm using the DRT Fabrication Cab Mount Relocate kit. Probably install that later this summer.

 

im DIYing some thin hdpe fender liners to fill the area, it’s just a lower priority. You can run a UMP air filter system or do a cowl air intake.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...canisters-anyone-running-one-thoughts.373500/

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/3rd-gen-cowl-induction-snorkel.731453/

Or go dorkel

 

I like the Cowl solution. I see some aftermarket snorkels and filter relocation kits work fine with naturally aspirated trucks but cut airflow on supercharged applications. I need to be mindful of that.

 

Yeah, with FI you might actually need to do some flow checking and see. Otherwise there’s a fiberglass hood that has an actually functional skewp (although I’m doubtful of it’s effectiveness)

A UMP style filter is probably your best bet.

 

Was going to vote for cowl induction but forgot about your supercharger. Might look into some of those hoods, there's one on running4tacos that actually looks pretty good

 

So many cinnamon rolls....

 

Swamped out the Bilstien TRD Pro rear shocks for Dobinsons IMF's.
A very definite improvement in ride quality.
Fronts will get done tomorrow.
Got the whole day to get her done.

 

The TRD Pro shocks are foxes, not bilsteins. The TRD off-road shocks however, are Bilstein 4600s.

 

Yes, the pre 2016 were Billies. In 2018 Toyota discounted the Bilstien pro kits. They went like hotcakes.