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

Well here’s the underside of my first taco (FINALLY!)

had it brought up from northern Louisiana to Indiana

getting ready to spray cosmoline 342 on all metal now that crc has been applied

really impressed on how clean this thing is for being a 2012

 

Yea I dont think it's that's it happens when the rear pass suspension cycles off road. I'm leaning towards the bottoms mount on my rear bp51 are failing. Just need more time you take it apart and check

 

ok. I always had a clunk when I stopped and another one when I took off

 

If that’s correct I was going 103 not 90 like I thought last night

 

103 on 35s! Hell yeah!!!!

 

I caught myself doing that a few days ago. Truck was smooth as butter.

I promptly slowed down and said I should never do that again.

 

Replaced my drivers side inner tie-rod. That's the last seized/rusted part. Now I can finally get my alignment done.

 

Rebuilt my clutch slave cylinder with the updated Toyota part. Easy job, and was $17 vs buying a new oem slave for much more.



Towed a “trailer” for the first time in its life. A buddy of mine didn’t have a truck up and running to run to the dump so I figured I’d give it a shot. I could tell it was back there, that’s for sure. Went out and hit some fire roads after.

 

Did you polish the cylinder?

 

No, I just cleaned it out and inspected it to make sure it didn’t need anything further. It was in perfect shape from what I could tell.

 

Im sure it wasn’t this trip. But did that dent happen with the sliders on? I have a smaller similarish one that a hefty branch came up in just the right way to miss the sliders and dent the truck

 

Yep it sure did happen with the sliders on. I got pushed into an embankment and wedged between the body and the slider with a boulder. It was snowing too so that didn’t help. My sliders are tucked up closer to the body as well so it may have helped if they protruded out more.

 

Cool beans. Sometimes you get ridge deposits where the seals start to wear which accelerates the wear(or at least that used to happen on a few older vehicles I’d worked on).

 

Started rear set delete. Still need to install door latches and raptor line it

 

Do you have an auto or manual transmission?

 

cockpit views

 

Had to replace the carrier bearing so while the drive shaft was out I figured I might as well replace the U-Joints too. It was about time for all of them anyway, but I was especially surprised by this guy from the U-Joint connected to the rear dif flange.

 

Put the ditches and my auxbeam fuse panel, still need to wire the lights to the panel.

 

Just noticed you added a third brake light to your softopper. How did you attach it? It looks a lot like the one I bought. I was going to use some kind of adhesive like JB weld plastic adhesive, but now I'm seriously thinking of ordering a different kind of light that has screw holes in it and just punching a hole through the canvas, but I really really don't want to do that though.

 

I used the 3M tape that came with it but it didn’t last too long. I put a tiny bit of jb plastic weld on it and it’s held up perfect.