What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

What are you changing from/to and why? Curious

 

ChaseBrooks wanted mine and I sold them to him. I'm goin with the new D2 3.0 projectors with the osram CBI bulbs and color changing halos behind and in the front of the Apollo 3.0 shrouds

 

It's that time Bo

 

Very nice!! I love my Goodyear MTR's Best off road tire IMHO.

 

Thanks man. Gonna put them on tomorrow maybe

 

I was gonna go with KM2s again but they on back order and out of stick from factory for like 3-6 months

 

Finally painted and installed 3rd skid plate.

And a good side shot with painted rims.

 

^Woot!
I've been beating on my skids hard today and I can't even tell. Some other tacoworld guys can vouch for that. They thought I flattened my transfer case dropping hard onto a big steel tube. The skid just lost some paint.

 

I heard RAT skids suck

 

I had KM2's before my MTR's I would take the MTR'S any day.

 

I love my KM2s but the difference from a 285/75/16 and a 33x12.50x15 is so noticeable. I'm getting back more than what I paid for the FJ wheels and KM2s anyway

 

Oh cool. Whats the difference in light output? Wider beam or just brighter?

 

I'm taking long looks at 305/70r16s for my next set as they are closer to the 33/12.5 size. I want to keep the 16" rim size for the tundra brake upgrade.

 

295/75/16. 34x11.5 essentially.

 

Ha gaaaaay!

After beating on my skids even harder, I managed to dent the transfer case skid on the last run of the day after I got ballsy. Good day all in all.

 

Looks like mine after today

Wheeled hard, managed to high center myself a few times on the t-case skid and took a nose dive into a boulder which put a dent in the IFS skid. I'll take a few pics tomorrow after I wash everything.

Still though, I have zero complaints. I was taking trails and lines with my 30" tires that are challenging for Jeeps running 33's. For all of the beating I gave them today, they held up great and did everything a set of skid plates should do.

On a similar note, I also took my wife wheeling for the first time today. She had a great time, took a ton of pics and videos and even suggested that I get more armor. Only sketchy moment was when my lower control arm took a hit on an unseen rock.

 

^The 1/8"ers are still fairly beefy in my opinion.


Oh and I forgot, I was wheeling all day without any bolts holding the rear of the IFS skid on. Just 2 bolts to the front bumper is all that holds on my IFS skid because the rear mounts broke off the frame on a previous wheeling trip. The welds broke and my frame is brand new.

 

I have been eyeing that size. Still a tall-skinney

 

Pinch weld mod, wheel spacers and trimming. Still hitting some plastic.

 

Absolutely. For the beating I gave them today, they exceeded my and everyone elses expectations.

I was wheeling with another Tacoma on 33's and a TJ on 33's and took the approach that "if they can do it, so can I". I should also mention that I have open diffs and "P" rated A/T tires.

One more than one occasion, my tire would slip off a rock and the truck would slam down on either the skids or sliders. Other times, the only way to get past a section was to scrape the skids over rocks until a tire would get up and over. I even managed to gouge 2 of my aluminum wheels on the rocks.

I should mention that this is my DD and drove it 3 hours home tonight. I have zero body damage and zero mechanical damage. Sliders and skids are there to take the beating and protect the important stuff.