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

Your gonna go white, aren't you

 

Finished my BHLM so I finally got to go driving in the snow. Tried to rescue a big Dodge that had slid into a ditch but my truck didn't have the umph to get him out from it. He was sitting leaning completely 45 degree sideways. But a bigger Chevy came to get him. Made me miss my old Chevy.

 

Nah, not a fan. Maybe red or green.

 

that black and orange theme looks wicked! very cool, man

 

Thanks man. I appreciate it.

 

Those came out really good! I take it the lights held up well when you baked it.

 

Yeah they didn't budge a bit. I'm quite happy with how they came out. The black just looks so much better on these trucks. Wish it came stock that way.

 

Off road, doing stuff I shouldn't.

 

I have noticed that on some lighter white and silver Tacomas they use smoked headlights. I agree black would be way better.

 

Blew both rear shocks on the first day of the trip. Still wheeled it, just pulled the shocks off.

 

Ouch....

 

Dang.

 

I didn't know you could do that.

 

I hated the fact that I could never tell if my fog lights were on or off unless I looked to see if the switch was physically depressed.

I swapped out the original switch with an FJ switch since it has a status LED. Part Numbers I bought from toyotapart.com:
1 x PT297-35070-AS AUXILIARY SWITCH FJ
1 x 90980-10933 HOUSING, CONNECTOR, FEMALE
2 x 82998-12340 TERMINAL, REPAIR W/ WIRE

The "Terminal, Repair w/ Wire" were the extra two wires needed since the FJ switch has 6 positions and the Tacoma only has 4. These are the two super thick green wires in the images below.

The FJ switch came with a green LED for the status indicator and an amber LED for the illumination. I swapped the amber LED with the green LED from my OEM Tacoma Fog light switch so that everything matches. They just twist out / back in super easily.

Installation was super simple. I pulled apart the lower dash, released the 4 x wires from the Tacoma connector (using a little jewelers screwdriver to push up the tabs holding in the wires), plugged the wires into the FJ connector, added two extra wires and jumped them over. These 2 extra wires are used to power the status LED. I followed the following wiring scheme when connecting the FJ connector:

Pin 1: Green
Pin 2: White / Green
Pin 3: Blue
Pin 4: Black / White
Pin 5: Jumpered to Pin 1 Green
Pin 6: Jumpered to Pin 3 Blue





Fog Lights On, Status LED Illuminated:


Fog Lights Off, Status LED Off:


All Lights Off (on stalk), Fog Light button still depressed, LEDs off:

 

Shocks just dampen bumps...springs are your suspension really.

Matt

 

Before and after

 

washed the salt off.

 

Me, too!

 

The ass end bounces like crazy with any speed, but does just fine crawling.

 

Sounds like a good way to wear out some leaf springs in record time lol