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

Def will take pictures.
Current hood with zero clear coat:

Current roof with cloudy sun bleached clear coat:

Lean spacer came today so the 3rd gen stuff will go on the truck soon:

Then after the paint cures I will install the hood struts:

 

Yeah I did some research too!
This is just a re-branded "Bully Winch" compressor. The guy at Raven Truck told me so lol
https://www.bulldogwinch.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=results/category_id=93/mode=cat/cat93.htm

The new Morrflate compressor looks to be a good option too.

 

Possibly but not sure, all I know is I had to hop out instead of using the step because I didn’t trust it. If you kicked it chunks would fall out.

 

Oh so you were working on a Chevy truck ?

 

Interior might still be alright

 

added toob doorz from 4xinnovations.

 

"Can you see the dust?"

"Homie, I am the dust."

 

Really this is just my excuse to lead the pack. “Oh hey sorry guys, yeahhh I don’t wanna get dust in here so I’m going to lead.”

*proceeds to dust everyone else out*

 

Just got back from American tire. My tire was 5-32” thread left. So they gave me $85 off a new tire. Was nice for them to warranty it. So I payed $160 for a new tire installed.

 

when was the group buy?

 

Decided to remove my roof rack. Was showing a lot of rust and not getting much use. Used Marine JB Weld to patch the holes in the cap. Very happy with how the truck looks now.

 

I bet the frame isn't rusted in half.

From the pic it looks like a patina wrap.

 

If you didn’t lead the pack then we wouldn’t know where we were going anyway. So in reality this is just another excuse lol

 

Well it's been slow at work so decided to fix my temp/direction hud. I've fixed it once but used the old solder. Cleaned all the old solder off and put new solder on there and verified it was good with my new Pokit Pro pocket meter/oscilloscope. Kinda nice to have both in one little package.

 

Currently replacing my water pump and fan clutch in a year long process to do some preventative maintenance/track down an ever present squeal that started with an idler pulley last summer! New pulleys and s-belt quieted things for awhile but, given the truck had close to 200k, I figured it couldn't hurt to start replacing a few things when it started squealing again. A new PS pump and alternator got it quiet for a bit but, several months later, it started up AGAIN, louder than ever. Hoping this resolves the problem!



Love doing new projects, saving money, and learning about my truck... but still sucks to spend 2 summer days having to do this...

 

Yes it happens to Chevy trucks too

 

I will add those to the research list. Thanks again!

 

Damn, that departure angle though...

 

Hidden LED bar.