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

Would of been faster with air tools for sure love the ride of these such an improvement I couldn't be happier and under 500 to which is crazy for the quality of the lift

 

What front lift were you running before? 887's arent to stuff without a front bumper?

 

Drove it and after driving it for a month or so with the new shocks & coils, 883's and 5100's, it's perfect as far as handling and ride is concerned. I no longer get body roll going around corners and it is smooth over dips in the road that would bottom out the stock suspension. Best $500 I spent on the truck.

 

887s have the same spring rate as 885 884s etc 590 is the rate I believe it rides like butter. I have a 2in spacer lift up front with the stock billies.

 

hmm wonder if its close to icons.. How many inches of lift did you get out of them?

 

I haven't measured yet but I'd say 3 to 3 1/4 I'll take some hub to fender measurments tomorrow. I went this route because I didn't want to add a top plate spacers and preload the spring in anyway I'm happy I did and the ride is great.

 

Saw in the pic that you used your stock UCA, and it aligned well, do you think aftermarket are worth it with this setup?

 

I'm gonna leave it with stock ucas until I round up some extra cash. But honestly I think to get the most out of the suspension new ucas would be worth it. since I don't off road much or drive my truck a ton maybe 8k miles a year I'm gonna hold off since my alignment was pretty good. If the caster was worse and my camber was worse I would of bought some but all in all in think it just depends what you plan to do with your truck.

 

Definitely gonna be cool & unique. I like it a lot!

 

Center Console Switches in OEM location
I ordered these from aironboard.com. They fit perfectly in the OEM locations (where the heated seat switches normal go).

I used the passenger side heated seat harness that was present to pull +12V, GND, and Illumination +12V (when headlights are on). I shared that between both switches and ran each output to 2 Relays in my Power Distribution Center under the hood.

Unfortunately I left some pry marks when removing the filler blanks




Under Hood LEDs w/ Hood Pin
I installed most of a 16.4ft strip of LEDs (

$9 LEDwholesalers 16.4-Feet Waterproof Flexible Ribbon Strip with 300xSMD3528 LED in Silicone Sleeve 12 Volt, White, 2047WH

link) and wired them up to turn on automatically via a hood pin (

$10 INSTALLATION TECH 8607 PIN SWITCH

link) that I installed just to the left of the Drivers Side headlight.

Went from no light at all, to tons of light! It spills out from the hood area too and might even be enough to change the front tires in a pinch.

Also, I didn't realize I ordered a 5-pack of hood pins, so if you are in the Austin, TX area and want one for free, just let me know, I've got 4 extras!!!

 

I traded it in for a 2014 tundra double cab . It's been a great truck but my daughter outgrew the access cab, and who doesn't want an excuse for a bigger truck?? It's amazing so far.

 

Nice Tundra. I was between a DCLB tacoma and a double cab tundra. Hope your MPG's don't shit the bed too badly.

 

Let me 14yo daughter reverse my truck up the driveway between the house and the fence... 20 minutes later, the truck made it to the garage....
not to bad for her first attempt without any input from anyone.

 

I'm digging this!

 

Thanks! I looked at a double cab tacoma as well, but still felt like the seats were a little small. The extra width will help too because I wanted to make sure there was room for baby seats in the future.

My average MPGs have sat right at 15.3mpg since I left the dealership yesterday with a mix of driving a little fast on the highway and some time in the city, and riding around the suburbs today. My tacoma has been averaging 17mpg lately, but used to get 15mpg average when I worked at my last office, and at points before that when I lived in the city, the Taco was down to about 13.5mpg, so I'm not sweating the mileage too much.

 

You can leave now. Bye.

 

I broke my drivers side mirror. So sad. Crushed it while parking, but have a new one in the mail already.

 

It's great. The difference is night and day! I love it.

 

But the new one has a blinker and heated mirror

 

At least it's a Toyota...