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

Thanks dude, lots of research and work went into it.

The JP83 you see is going to feed my Skar VXF 15 (not installed yet) 2300w RMS. The headunit is a Kenwood DPX503BT. It has enough RCA outputs for a 4 channel amp and a sub amp, but I instead have a single 2 channel RCA going into my DSP (orange accented thing on the left) for signal processing. It outputs to 8 channels to include my mini amps up top for my tweeters and midbass drivers going under both front seats. The Skar rp150.4 4 channel goes to the doors to power some deaf bonce Sylvesters.

I plan on doing a build thread in the AV section of TW that will get more in depth with everything.

 

Cool can’t wait to see the install thread.

 

replaced the old red tail lights with black ones from Amazon

 

Nice smoked out looks tempting.

 

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

I did it in 2016. It’s been holding up pretty good no issues only one blown rear door speaker. I got more pictures that was my first time doing it.

 

I dont believe you but with so much Ryan Reynolds its hard to argue

 

How often do you clean the MAF? I never cleaned mine worried might start throwing codes.

 

I dig it! Very similar setup that my brother had in his tacoma.

 

Replaced the drivers side front diff CV axle oil seal, damn thing started leaking somewhere in Utah on my way to Socal. Funny thing is, I replaced it earlier this year when I did the ECGS bushing. A thin sliver of rubber looked like it had been worn down or torn. Re installed the new OEM one, see how that holds up. Also threw a new front diff breather valve in just to be sure it wasn't that.

Damn thing leaked all the way down the front drive shaft to the transfer case and was dripping onto the exhaust crossover.

 

Got a '14 Taco from Carmax with 47k miles back in March. Being my first I naturally made my account here to gain wisdom from the legends and the goobers alike. Many of my relations have said I shouldn't need to do much of anything to a vehicle with such low miles, that I'm not a mechanic, etc, but being one who has run into more issues by merely letting things be as they are as well as knowing the history of this truck has the capacity to be questionable, I felt it necessary to explore the issues before accepting things as they are.
Did the secondary air filter mod myself and replaced the shifter light.
I came across a user who had a subtle vibration in idle similar to what I was experiencing. Found it interesting that he replaced the VVT solenoids and the vibrations disappeared. Knowing many things could be this, I narrowed it down by first cleaning the solenoids and it temporarily solved the issue. Decided to go all in and replaced both solenoids, as well as give Valvoline's Restore & Protect 5w-30 a try at the same time, at 55k. I am cautiously skeptical but pleased to report thus far that the truck is running like new, sparse vibrations if at all in idle, no random drops in horsepower now over 1000 miles in. Even my wife who is not a car person noticed the improvement. Maybe coincidence but it's pretty strong.

 

I know awhile back, i made a post talking about how quiet my 1GR-FE runs. I finally posted a video on youtube. Link below. However, youtube said it wont be able to be public till 9/11. So, be patient with me.


https://youtube.com/shorts/iQIjX0eNOXY?feature=share

 

Finally did the bucket seat swap. Still need to get the carpet for the back of the cab. Pretty stoked about the seats.

 

A/C fan quit working except on high on Sunday, figured it was the resistor and got parts on order. It started working again yesterday but parts arrived and I went to make the swap this morning. I'm thinking that it probably hadn't died yet, though something did. Current thought is the bug was shorting it out but then once it cooked for a bit, it quit shorting?

 

How did you get it so quiet?

 

What are those buckets seats out of? Thinking of doing katzkin on my truck sometime next year or if Im lucky find a totaled 2024 TRD PRO to snag the front seats from. Wishful thinking.

 

They are corbeau sport seats.

 

I went to the store last night and when I got back in the truck, the dash lights were completely gone, but everything else worked, so I drove home in the dark.

Then this morning I spent 30 minutes going over each and every fuse, in both boxes, everything was fine.

While I sat behind the wheel trying to figure out what the heck could be wrong, my eyes glanced over to the dimmer switch, and I said "There's no way I'm that stupid..."

Well, it turns out, I am that stupid.

 

I use to work for Subaru, and some of them have a button to adjust the max height for the power rear hatch. use to deal with at least 2 a week for them not opening anymore.. would manually open them in the service drive and reset the button, i likely saved people hundreds of dollars in diag costs. but saved them none in embarrassment.

the button was about knee height and would get bumped and set to "closed" height.