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

Lol, that's my roommates. I'll snap some pics when I'm in the garage later

 

You are correct. Typical you want to tell the alignment tech to give you the most caster he/she is able to achieve. Normally this is around 2.5-3 degrees on a stock setup.

 

Thanks! Not sure why they couldn’t get it higher. Maybe trying to keep all the other numbers around stock

 

Sprayed some carpet cleaner on these armrests and used a small upholstery cleaner to clean these. X4

 

Took my cap off and waterproofed, to the best of my ability, the truck bed one day. Then, for the next few days, spent a couple hours each carpeting the cap itself, since it was just bare fiberglass and an old blanket and I'm happy with the results. Shit was a PITA and has some imperfections but otherwise, looks good enough for me.

 

Been a couple of weeks at it. Welded and installed winch bumper insert. Re built my lower control arms (oem ball joints / poly bushings) control arm bolts seized solid. Welded in marlin crawler fram brace. Bison off road alignment tabs/bolts. New inner and outer tie rod ends.poly bushings in upper control arms and rear leaf springs and shackles/replace a broken leaf spring and a alignment. Changed front diff oil/ Lexus hardware and clamshell bushing. Flushed 10 liters of transmission fluid/oil change/ cleaned maf and throttle body. Installed summer tires and cut and installed one piece wheel well liners. Been raining no time to wash truck.

 

Looks great. What poly bushings did you go with? Any noticeable difference in the ride?

 

I went with energy suspension bushings . Ride quality the truck feels more solid/less body roll.

 

Awesome thank you. Do you have a lift on your truck?

 

yeah 3” lift. 6112 in the front and 5100 in the rear with a block. Going to change the front springs to 650 springs since i installed the bumper/winch. Also going to upgrade the rear leaf soon.

 

Removed my rear bumper

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DImpR7RRgDY/?igsh=dHo2M2N6cHJ4bjJk

 

Got an Auxbeam 6 gang switch panel installed and wired up. Curiously, if I leave my CB radio switched on and then use the switch panel to power it on with the ignition, it defaults back to channel 9 rather than whatever channel I'm on otherwise. Kind of annoying, but probably just a quirk of the radio.

Also installed some spot lights on hood brackets (as supplemental high beams) as well as an an add on antenna mount. Not too happy with how bouncy the bracket is with the heavy Firestik antenna though, so I think I'll mount a lighter whip antenna and see if it's still an issue.

 

What Brand of lights are those? When you get a chance to use them, Give some Feedback on them.

 

They're Colight Rob2 lights. A buddy recommended them and when I saw that you can easily get replacement lenses in spot/flood/diffused in both white and yellow I figured I'd pull the trigger. I've only tested the white spot lenses so far (and not much at that), but I'm happy with the light output/pattern and the build quality of the lights seems pretty robust. Only time will tell with waterproofing and longevity though.

 

Well I guess I got my sign for new tires. Lasted 45k on these Goodyear wranglers 265/70/r17 but looking to upgrade to 255/75/r17.

 

Cleaned a bunch of leaves and dirt out of the bottom corners of my fenders and vacuumed the interior.

 

I changed out a CV axle because the boot was leaking. It went pretty smooth.

 

Niiiccceee!!!

 

I packed it full to move back to BC.

 

Washed it.