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

Is there still a good Toyota place to order color matched grilles from that is reasonably priced?

 

After 90k miles I put new 5100 Bilsteins on all around. Chose the .85" (2nd circlip groove) on fronts and gained 1.25" front lift w/OEM springs. It reduced the 'rake' look making the truck appear level and well planted. I rarely load the bed heavy and the alignment technician assured me the truck would still track well and handle safely. The new shocks were IMMEDIATELY obvious as the ride over speed bumps and street potholes were less jarring.

 

I was thinking someone only popped the trim panel off to swap the switches.

 

RTT went on! Waiting on locking mounts from ups today.

 

Oh damn she THIC

 

I never thought of mounting mine there. That's an outstanding use of space!

 

Front-end all buttoned up, then changed out the drivetrain fluids with this crap. Hope it doesn't blow up.

These are the empties, opened bottles seal up real nice.

Next week off to the alignment shop, should be real close, steering wheel is still centered.

 

Curious on the coolant change history if you know it.

 

What are your thoughts on the hi line ?
quality wise ?

 

Yep, front.

 

Original coolant.

 

Replaced lower control arms on both sides, both my lower shock bushings were cracked and drivers side was totally separated from the inner sleeve, so i pressed those out and replaced with new lower bushings, and got some new lower shock bolts that don’t have the notch in them so hopefully my clunk goes away. Also had some cracked cv boots so replaced CV boots with Dobinsons high clearance cv boot kits since the lift finally did a number on the oem boots…when reinstalling the passenger side i accidentally poked a little hole in the boot out by the hub so had to do a lil Jb weld fix haha woopsie. Driver side ended up being perfect so we shall see how those hold up over the stock ones.

Messy job though, went through like 2 rolls of paper towels and gloves, that grease gets everywhere.
Also did the diff oil changes on the rear, center and front diff/tc so i think i ended up saving myself about $2500 in labor costs… or at least that’s what im telling the wife

 

Got the taco a new garage mate. Finally ditched the Chevy and am an all Toyota family now.

I did add some desert does it front seat jackers. Have been really liking how the seat sits now.

 

What part of Columbus do you live in? Surprised I haven’t seen your truck around town!

 

Currently in WA. Haven’t been back to Columbus in a while

 

Ahhhh dang I saw the Muscogee tag and had to ask.

 

Pulled the heads on my 4.0, 180k miles and has a little bit of scoring on the cam bearing. You can barely feel it on your fingernail, almost imperceptible. Was wondering if this is normal?

 

Maybe give Lewis Toyota of Topeka a try?
If not I think @mrproduxn has mentioned where he got his a couple times in here.

 

IMO that bearing looks pretty good for 180K, how's the cam look in that spot?

 

I'll take a pic of it tomorrow, but thanks for the input! That's what I was thinking, not too shabby for something with so many miles. Definitely going to be a job cleaning up the heads tomorrow! Hope to have it all buttoned up this coming week.