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

I appreciate it.

 

“Spec-D” I ordered them off Amazon. Ive got 2” spacers on my wheels so even though the flares stick out it looks pretty good, I think

 

Truck is all ready for URE next weekend. First order of business was removing the front diff drop prior to putting all of my skids back on. Special thanks to @Brian422 for bringing it to my attention that one was on the truck. I had never noticed it prior.



We will be doing some night wheeling so I wanted to make sure my rock lights were in working order since they have seen better days due to my horrible mounting job.

One lasted and this is its current state:



I decided to JB Weld some earth magnets to the rock lights and use that as my mount that way I can also play around with location if I wanted to. It also makes it to where I can keep them up and out of the way from rocks.







Lastly I took out the horrible led bulbs I had in so that I would stop pissing @EatSleepTacos off while following him. I put some overpriced Sylvania bulbs in and am quite happy with them.

 

Before and after, New wheels, tires, suspension, and a softopper camper!

 

Loaded her up for a paddle adventure. Did about 7.5mi of paddling in open water to a small Key/Cayo about a mile offshore. Swell was 4-5ft in some spots, pretty wild.

 

Sweet! Looks good. Thats a good idea on the magnets. Hope they stay in place lol.

 

Man that's a sweet truck!

 

Changed out my wheel bearing. It was toast. Thanks crapy seals!

 

Thanks! Took a lot to get to this point.

 

Thanks man. I’m hoping so too they are pretty strong it takes a good effort to pull them off.

 

Loaded up on Wednesday last week and spend the rest of the week/weekend camping on Madeline Island. First time on a ferry also which was pretty fun.

 

@Northbound_Taco Big Bay?? The Apostles are great!

 

Those wheels look good on black.

 

Where'd you get that TRD badge on the passenger airbag?

 

Yes sir! The town park. It was great. We did have some real rowdy people a few sites away on Friday which was a bummer but you can't do much about it.

 

Im a welder and if you have any mechanical aptitude its like anything else, you can figure it out and save yourself a pile of money. Im going to make me some stiffeners now!

 

I think I am going to have to replace all my wheel bearing sooner rather then later. Does everyone usually replace the rear bearing and hubs together or just the bearing? The whole assembly is a bit pricy if you ask me. Cost the same for both fronts as it does for one rear.

 

Detailed the Taco then put her to work.

 

Wash and waxed the Tacoma, Rav4, and V-Strom... was on-call for work Sat/Sun

 

Rented spring compressors to assemble front coils/shocks with new top hats and 1" lift spacers. First one took me 2.5 hours, second one took me 30 minutes #learningcurve
Feeling accomplished, but still, I never want to do this again