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

Done! Will post pics once received/installed.

 

Rad!

 

Finished building my relay/fuse box.

 

The weather's not bad today so I gave Elwood a wash, spray wax, cleaned off the headlights. Just gave him a quick interior and exterior touch up. I did clean out the Tacoma Organic Debris catchers forward of the front doors.

 

Anybody have to replace lca due to frozen eccentric bolts that prevent alignment? My local mechanic claims it's a common Toyota problem. I have 100k on my second generation.

 

Pretty common, haven't had to replace them on my Taco but on my 1st gen Sequoia I did. You *could* just replace the lca bushings instead of the whole lca but it's a pain in the rear and not worth the effort IMHO.

 

FYI. Nice 1 owner 2015 Sport long bed double cab, 4 x 4, with shell, only 58k miles for sale on my local CL. Asking $27.5k for it. Better than a high mileage 3rd gen or one with a rebuilt title.

https://norfolk.craigslist.org/cto/d/poquoson-2015-toyota-tacoma/7732751403.html

 

I had to replace my lower arms and all the hardware. Anti-seize is your friend during reassembly.

 

Water was leaking through the camper shell window. Sand, more like moon dust, was blocking the drain holes of the window.
They were out of window drain cleaner tools so a fish hook was modified to clean out the drains.

 

Made the passenger side fender liner. Half of the intake is exposed with the new design. The filter on the intake baffle helps, but I'm trying to come up with a solution that won't restrict air flow too much but will provide more protection that this.

 

Cowl intake solves this. Make your own or get one from @dpele

 

Got sick of looking at, walking around and avoiding original hood standing in bubblewrap against wall in garage for last few yrs since nobody wants non-skewpt even for free.....flipped it over and tied strap to it and used it as a 2 person sled in the snow................nah, threw it in the back and rode around the corner and gifted it to a collision repair place. Told them to recycle it with their crunched removals if they can't find a use for it.

 

Finally got to try out the Joying Head Unit and it is pretty dang good for the price. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rCNkt0oQPo

 

Well I ordered a new little thing for the truck.. Hopefully this is the last word I have to have on rearends after 3 failures in 3 years..

 

My camping trip turned into a rescue mission of a Chevy Colorado

 

Was it actually rescued? Looks like he’s in a really bad spot.

 

Truck was pulled and towed away tue next day

 

USAL beach!

 

I’ve driven on a beach once and the entire time my pucker factor was through the roof because I didn’t want to be that guy… Even with his truck pulled out, I’d be afraid of all the future electrical issues down the road

 

Many ppl dont know how to drive on the sand especially near ocean. Sand could be different every time on the same beach in different time of the year. I honestly think this truck is done deal. Windows were open and the waves were big enough to cover the entire truck