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

@buckmaster243 what front bumper insert is that?

 

Cleaned it up, detailed it. Long over due TLC

 

USOffroad winch mount bumper, I have the same one, They make them for both the 2nd gens bumper versions. Love mine.

https://usoffroad.us/products/toyota-tacoma-2012-15-winch-mount

 

What is the cabon fiber backing? Faux or did you make one out of real carbon fiber?

 

::Facepalm::

I wasn't even thinking about skid plates. I gotcha now, yea I can see how that would be a pain in the ass.

 

Well, the Icon AAL was a huge success! I haul around my son's quarter midget race car in the bed of my Tacoma and the stock leaf springs sagged miserably. The race car is only 210 lbs! Wil the Icon AAL I still had a positive arch in the springs and the rear of the truck only dropped about 1/2". Very, very happy with this upgrade, it's like a new truck.

Here's a pic of the car since it was under a rain cover yesterday when I hauled it!

 

I had a custom bedside graphic made about 7 years ago, I'm looking to make another set for when i replace my bedsides. I don't think the guy i used is still doing them (shows last on here back in early April). Who still makes custom bedside graphics these days? I still have the files I made to send to the last guy.

 

Not so much what I did to it, but what it did to me.

Tacoma has become sentient and is telling jokes

 

Mine doesn't like to give me weather for my given area. It just defaults to a spot that may or may not be 50 miles away. No idea where it pulls its info from for that.

 

I got mine from someone on here named CBoy ? I think , cant really remember , did an excellent job.

 

That does sound familiar. It was Cboy something or other i think. I know both he and the other guy I used were both very actively advertising for that service 7 years ago. I'll have to look him up.

 

Changed out the cabin filter and found this surprise. Guess the chipmunks moved on from my air filter and into the cabin filter. Just started using the AC and noticed it had a weird smell...but never smelled weird when the heat was on.


Anyone have a decent way to keep things out of the intake?

 

hard wear cloth and some sort of partial cover

 

Thanks. I assume I can just wrap it around the intake under the cowling.

Now comes the complicated question - any idea what size bolt or fitting that would hold the cowling down? Noticed this jam is flapping around under the hood. Nothing hold it down on either side.

 

its a small plastic plug, that expands with the center pushed in. mine are also missing.

 

Figured it would be. Going to have to dig out the FSM and see if I can get a part number. Asking my local dealership to figure it out is the definition of insanity.

I'm guessing it is something like this -

$16 AMZ Clips And Fasteners 5 Push-Type Retainers Compatible with Lexus & for Toyota 76923-47010

https://www.amazon.com/Push-Type-Retainers-Compatible-Toyota-76923-47010/dp/B01MU8OEKR

 

like the one just behind it there in the pic if i remember correctly

 

@memario1214 @Diode Dynamics

Little preview…

 

I got tired of replacing these type fasteners and went to jack-nuts.

 

Chopped my frame for a custom high clearance bumper with front hitch, made by Foothills Off Road Transformations. It’s steel tubing with aluminum plates, super light weight. Still need to powder coat the tubing black, brush the aluminum, properly mount my license plate, and hide the exposed stuff with some plastic sheeting. But very happy with how the bumper turned out.

Also swapped my headlights out for some retrofits from Teq customs