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

I made a 4 way tire inflate system with parts from Amazon. It ended up being about $120 vs the inflated price of kits that are sold.

That’s paired with an ARB compressor.

 

Took the tent off for the season. I always looks a little odd for the first couple days.

 

I classied up my interior with some woodgrain.

 

Took her in for a trans flush. They had to flush it twice it was bad :whoops:

 

I feel pretty much the same way as @mrproduxn .
I had a 2nd Gen (2006). Sold it for a 3rd Gen (2017). Sold it for a 2nd Gen (2014). I believe a tune would address the trans shifting and I probably would've kept it if the aftermarket tunes had been out in 2017. I also would've regeared my final drive to help with low end. Loved everything about the 3rd Gen except the way it drove. I began to hate driving it.

I had it factory flashed several times. It did hardly anything of course. Some say the issues went away after the 2019 models, but we have a 2020 in our family and it's still the same.

 

Nice…what’s that knob? Did you make that or purchase it somewhere. I just made one from a pool ball and for something so simple I like it a whole lot better than the factory one.

 

2009 RX 350 wheel, 2006 Solara airbag, and I made the knob myself from some birch wood stock and stained it to match the wheel.

 

Agreed, sometimes I'm still surprised how nice my music sounds after installing sound deadening to the door skins years later.

 

Not what I did to my Tacoma but what I did in it. 30 minutes to kill waiting for my grandkid to get off work so I pulled up an old Oasis concert on the ole Atoto. Good jams.

 

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Anyone know the part number for this green plastic tabs that secure your speaker, this are for the front bottom speakers. Thank you!

 

Looks great, did you drill and insert a nut in the ball? I expoxied a lock nut into the one I made but getting the 5 to line up straight I ended up putting a jam nut on also.

 

Hmmm can't find it. But take a look in the attachment.

 

Made an appointment to have the rear leaf springs replaced

 

It’s been an interesting week. On Monday I messaged a guy about a rear axle from a TRD-off-road down in Orlando. It was a junkyard with predetermined prices so it was only $450 and I was scheduling a time to come pick it up on thanksgiving. While I was at work on Tuesday I asked my girlfriend to call him and ask him a question for me since I was at work and he hadn’t answered my message from the night before. She went ahead without telling me and paid for the axle then drove down to Orlando to pick it up for me… in her 2009 Hyundai Sonata.

I’m gonna marry that girl but she definitely jumps into things without thinking sometimes. Eventually I’ll get her car to the shop and try to finagle it out with an engine hoist and a few more hands. Then I can find a way to test everything and see if I need new gears for it (does anyone know how I could test this once I get it on jack stands?). Then on Wednesday I brought my truck into the shop and finally got my new suspension installed.
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I love it, but is that much squat normal for an Icon AAL with the overload leaf still in place? It’s got a few hundred pounds of tires, wheels, and some tools I like to keep at home in the bed in that picture. I put in Bilstein 5100s all around, C59-314 Dobinson coil springs up front with new top hats, Icon AAL in the rear with the overload leaf kept in place, Pacer Nighthawk wheels with 255/75R17 KO2s and 5 new TPMS sensors so I can finally be rid of that light on my dashboard.

 

Nah, I just sent a tap straight into the wood. The threads bite just fine and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere while driving around.

 

I married a girl like that. Ill mention i like something and it shows up days later.

 

Just got a set of stock 17” for better mpg. Keeping the old set w/ wild peaks for off roadin

 

When I replaced my speakers I just threw those out and used machine screws, lock washer and nuts. I didn't trust them holding the old screws in place with the added wattage.