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

Rear bumper, headlight restoration and some new fogs.

 

I made a small hole with the bed off and used a water tight grommet

 

Padded dog platform complete and pet approved

 

Nice. What rear bumper is that?

 

Which kit did you use on the headlights?

 

At 180,000 miles, with something like 1500 miles of dirt this year, feels like all I do these days is chase rattles, squeaks, and clunks. And endless maintenance.

This time it was a wheel bearing. New hub assembly it is.

 

Damn, that looks good!

 

X2!

 

Hooke Road

 

Cerakote Ceramic Headlight Restoration Kit

 

forgot to post here but added a new tent last week. CVT Mt. Washington. Night and day difference setting up as apposed to my soft shell.

 

I've went into 4WD at 80-100 km/h (50-60mph) all the time in the winter. Slower the better.
I drop out of it at 100 km/h (60mph) all the time.
Never had any major clunks or noises or jolts.

 

Taco-plane?

 

I have been leaning towards Dobinsons right now but I always like the BP-51s. I have mixed feelings about fox and kings. Seems like a lot of people are having to rebuild them quite often but I also don't beat on my truck to hard. I have Nitro chargers right now and I can tell they are to weak for what I'm running now.

 

I went from BP-51 to Accutuned Kings for my truck weight and springs. Night and day difference. NitroCharger might be OK for a stock-ish truck, but if you have stronger spring rates, you need equally stronger dampening rates. BP-51s seem like the bees knees on paper, but ultimately the tuning ability and extensive R&D done on US manufactured shocks is by far and away better for my heavy application. I think if the BP-51s had a softer coil spring, and were marketed to lower lift, less aggressive, off road occasionally - daily driver type trucks they would be better suited for that.

I have hardly ever seen king and fox need to be rebuilt, other than perhaps the lower end 2" shocks. Icon on the other hand, I hear about blowing seals all the time and needing rebuilds. Most of the stuff I hear with king and fox is revalve, tuning - or people voluntarily deciding to do a rebuild, for upgrades or replacing pitted shafts, etc. And speaking of pitted shafts... everyone should be running a boot on the rear shocks no matter what versions they are... the roost from front tire will pit rear shock shafts in no time flat...

 

Finally was able to put this custom bike mount I made to use.

 

Getting a new alarm/remote start installed

 

I put that brand in one of our suv's a couple of years ago, through BestBuy, and works great. Considering one for my Tacoma. $209 at BestBuy and free installation with my TotalTech membership. Think it ends up around $250 with the harness adapter. Works off the stock key fob by pressing lock 3 times. Daughter was going to pay a $8 monthly subscription from Toyota for her new RAV4 remote start. I told her to buy this and forget about that subscription. New Toyota vehicles have the features built into every vehicle and make you pay a monthly fee to use it. What a ripoff.

 

Finally got around to installing the rough country vertex with the ome dakar leaf springs for about a 3 inch lift

 

Them brake lines…