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

Thanks

 

If your springs are more than a year old spray some kind of bolt-loosener (PB Blaster) on every bolt a few days before you want to do the project.

 

U should replace the ubolts. Its not recommended to reuse those.

 

Added some strip led lights for the bed, wired it and made an acrylic bracket to hold a switch and a h.f. 12 volt plug I had laying around.

 

Installed the 3rd Gen TRD Pro shift knob and took my son to his own "playground"

 

Except that is a RIM 7 Sea Sparrow missile; not a Tomahawk.

 

Ah Semantics! Haha. Even though it's not correct, still pretty good.

 

One small upgrade at a time!

 

Washed it, slid the cap back to wash the windows, no wonder why I couldn't see out the back window...

 

Today's time filler... 3 costs of paint with a q-tip and stainless hardware.

 

BAMF.

 

Another thing off of "The List" for the 5-lug slug, and off of my computer room floor. An ordered BAMF light-bar bracket came in, in the past week. Did the final install of the grille assembly, and installed the KC lights back into place behind the grille - I've left the KC light covers off, obviously - quite useless with the grille now in front of them.

I am quite pleased with the T-Rex replacement grille, and the light combination. Cleans the front end up significantly, in not having a set of driving lights just bolted on the bumper, "out there", and potentially getting damaged.

 

ooh - i would like to hear how this goes...

 

I'm hoping it goes good. It's my first lift so it has me a little nervous.
I will definitely post some pictures when I get everything done.

 

I had to do springs on the front, too. And i have yet to do the rear packs, but that's on the list, hence why i'm curious. Trying to decide between deavers and dakars... I love those tires. I got the 255/85-16's.

 

Quick tip. Run a zip tie through the pin hole to the shackle body to keep the pin from rattling out.

 

My weekend project done!

 

Cool! What material did you use?

 

I figure if I don't like it I can change it

 

I didn't get what the "TEQ" thing was all about until I read this article which, from a design standpoint, was fascinating.

THEN I promptly got the "Toyoda" logo patch... because it's also a very good design.

Back onto whatever we're talking about... Tonight I'm going to finally install my dual USB port into my dash that's been just sitting in the holenot doing anything like a poser for the last week so I can clean up the rat's next of wires for my phone charger and dashcam wiring.

EDIT: holy I forgot to post this yesterday, Batman!