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

watched hail the size of peas bounce on it.

 

let the girl drive it for the first time last night, i was terrified!

 

I put a trailer hitch, lights wiring, and the 2 rear Bill-stings 5100s......all went well until I didn't pick up my glasses and they got ran over. Glad I don't need them badly.

Having said that , how the hell did just one bolt get cross threaded or messed up going in. Luckily its one just holding the bumper.

Lastly, I couldn't find the 5100 rear install thread, how far down do I need to bolt down the top nuts that compress those 2 bushings? They have no instructions in the box,

 

Bolted a winch mount with a Warn VR-8000-s. I prefer this type of mount over the replacement bumper mounts, mainly because I like having easy access to the winch. Its all welded and one-piece, making it very solid.

 

Upgraded my bedside decals.

Sadly, sockmonkey is out of the decal gig. So these are one of his last sets.


Before


During


After

 

He is not gonna make them anymore?

 

Nope

 

That sux

 

That does suck, he was our go to guy for any sticker we wanted.

 

Yeah. Guess I should not have waited on my decals

 

Pm ruggedt...he does great work

 

installed 2 new 10w3v3 and a pioneer 9601 amp to replace the old champion series and 8500m, these things are wicked! will get better pictures soon

 

Just got a rivet gun so I can install some redline quicklift hood struts. Hope it's as easy as everyone says, never used a riveter before. Hope it goes well, lol.

 

It is easy

 

It's pretty easy. Just measure three times, drill/rivet/bolt once.

Watch this video, it's a pretty good tutorial. With the Redlines, at least for me, it took three squeezes of the rivet gun for it to snap the shaft off.

Matt

 

********* box? or other? looks clean!

 

riveting is extremely easy

 

Yeah, well, like always I made a slight mistake. Picked up the bracket for the fender mount and riveted that into the hood Tomorrow I'll head to the hardware store to get more rivets and a sanding disc to cut through the rivet head and a punch to punch the rivet through.

 

Remember when air force planes were riveted, lot n lots of them hehe.

 

Just use a small drill bit to cut the head off of the rivet.