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

Finally bought a tire for my fifth Stealth Custom Series Ray10 wheel and added it to my Dirtcom hitch-mounted tire carrier. I'm really enjoying this product and its additional accessories.

 

For those that want this same flip key but with a chip and everything complete (so you dont have to open it up) they cost about $15 or so from aliexpress here:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/1005...t_main.11.2c5c1802brM315&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa

I programmed it myself with techstream and had Canadian Tire cut it for free! (they only charge if they supply you a key)

All functionality works great!

 

Installed Topo Topper Badland! Stoked!

 

Took the truck camping last week.

 

After 9 years and 83k miles, I got the dreaded front-end squeak. Old vs new.

 

Said screw it and bought the switches for the passenger side too.

 

Installed the auto driver side window switches in my 2015, less than $30, now I have the oem switches if anyone needs them lol.

 

Bed bolts changed. 2 looked like new.

 

I’m saving mine in case the Amazon switches crap out.

 

Where does that bolt & bushing(?) go?

 

Body or radiator support bushings.

 

Lower A arm bolts and bushings?

 

Surprised you didn't replace the entire lower control arm assembly.

 

Hose clamp on front cat heat shield... stopped the annoying rattling...

 

Exactly. I call them front body mount bushings, but same thing. super quiet again.

 

I had a car years ago and one cat heat shield rusted off creating a rattle. I wedged 2 blocks of wood between the cat and floor pan. Passed 3 inspections and sold it like that.

 

I need to do this with mine. Been debating between filling the void between the 2 pieces with eurathane or welding them.

Just gutted the rubber and drilled a couple holes and welded the 2 pieces together ?

 

You got it! Used a few washers, honestly drilling it out and filling with jb weld/urethane would probably work just as well. Definitely made the shifter feel like it should.

 

Drove it to a pew pew spot

 

Did a few projects at the same time over the past two days.

Painted all interior door panels black

Before (only took photo of front panels like a dummy)

After

Then while those were drying i changed out my stock tweeters and woofers


Since the tweeters didn’t fit behind the front panels, i did some shaving and screwed them into the doors.

Another thing is I wired my steering wheel controls to my aftermarket headunit without an adapter. I just looked up where the original wires were then tapped them in.

If you want to see an 18yo’s journey with this truck you can follow it’s page on IG at @nc.taco