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

Well I decided to try my hand at wrapping the silver parts of my dash last night. All in all it came out pretty nice but man is it a pain to get the material in those curves. next up is the silver rings around the gauges.

 

What are the symptoms of that? Also, how many miles on it when it went out?

 

No clutch pedal. Empty reservoir. Fluid leaking into the bell housing/on to the ground.


I previously rebuilt it about 130k/140k miles ago trying to eliminate the TOB chirp.

Yipes.

 

Now that you mention it I think the chirp went away when I had it all fixed

 

hair dryer or heat gun can really help with stretching and pulling to fit things

 

Yep, I did it on the kitchen table lol. First try I was too lazy to go to the shop and get the heat gun so I used the wife's hair dryer. That didn't work out to well so yesterday I got my heat gun and it was a huge difference.

 

only thing ive ever seen better was a vacuum chamber but again that guy was wrapping stuff professionally

 

I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that slapping some grease on the shaft will quiet up the tob temporarily

 

Much appreciated

 

I'm already thinking on how I could make one to do my gauge trim rings and my grille emblem using a shop vac

 

Which radio did you end up using?

 

Finished my swap to bucket seat last night with Clazzio seat covers.

 

These ones are from Dobinson. I bought them a little over two years ago with some suspension components as a "just in case" the stock boots tore after my lift.

For context, a couple months after the lift, I broke a CV on the trail and discovered later that the PO had replaced the stock CV axles with some cheap, mis-sized axles. All that to say I replaced them with NAPA axles that came with "high performance" boots. Turns out NAPA uses different suppliers for that specific PN. The boots on one of the NAPA axles have held up great. The boots on the other NAPA axle degraded and tore after about a year and a half (good amount of wheeling, the actual CV axles is fine).

So I naturally replaced the boots on the one axle with the Dobinson ones in the pics. Still have another set of the other boots start to deteriorate (so far, all good though).

The prices have gone up a bit since I ordered, but here are links for the inner and outer boots. They seem to be decent quality but time will tell. One thing I will say is that they use a style of band that you ideally should have a special tool to correctly fold-over to tighten/tension (not the type that uses CV band pliers), which can be kind of a pain if you don't have the tool (but still doable).

https://www.dobinsonsdirect.com/products/dobinsons-4x4-high-clearance-inner-c-v-boot-kitcv59-557k

https://www.dobinsonsdirect.com/products/dobinsons-4x4-high-clearance-inner-c-v-boot-kitcv59-554k

 

So last night I finally got my trans up to temp to get the fluid flowing and get a proper amount of fluid into the trans after adding a bigger cooler, and I tightened my parking brake (finally) its been loose since I replaced my drums in the fall. O and when I was adding ATF to the trans I grabbed Toyota ATF Type-IV instead of the ATF WS trans fluid. So now I need to do a whole trans flush with the right stuff. I did call a master tech at Toyota and he told me its not a big deal just to replace when I can with the proper fluid. Also got another alignment at a different shop this afternoon to see if they can fix it.

I need to stop messing with stuff and costing myself more money lol

 

What variety are these? Is that the non-perforated vinyl?

 

Broke down and installed a tailgate panel. My knees already feel better.

 

What year is your truck? Did you have a bench seat with airbags?

 

I tried a few of those. Iwould order only to get response back thats on back order with no eta, do I wish to cancel.

 

Radioddity CB-27 Pro 40-Channel...

$60 Radioddity CB-27 Pro CB Radio 40-Channel Mini Mobile with AM FM Instant Emergency Channel 9/19, 4W Power Output, LCD Display, VOX, RF Gain, and Handheld Mic

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B56KST6F?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

 

I agree. I found a couple of dealers that said ready in 3 days so maybe using different warehouses.