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

'How is it every time we go for a drive, we end on some different dirt road or hydro line iv never been on?' - asks the wife as we make our way up to take a few pictures.

*Blink* *Blink* 'I know, that is so weird, how that works out.' - as I lock the rear diff

 

I believe it. Guy on my off road FB page was only able to get two of the wheels. He said only ten were made.

 

It's nice to see Chad , actually doing something!

 

Haha!!! Thanks man!!!

Some things take me longer than others!

 

Pics of the GTO? What all have you done to it?

I used to have a Torrid Red '04 M6. Loved the car, just had to part ways when the kids started coming.

 

Just replaced the stock front grille with a trex, added the side tacoma emblem onto the front of it. I don't have any before pics unfortunately but here's the finished product

 

Did not know Montvale got that much rain. Bedford (in the town) did not get enough to flood roads like that.

 

Howdy Neighbor,
Yes I was very surprised as well. I have seen some large quantities of rain fall and never seen any ponding in Montvale.

 

How difficult was the mirror? i have the shitty one and im thinking about upgrading.

 

Hitch alone is worth $1,200! I got hit two years ago. For hitch, bumper, and 6 hours on the frame rack... $3,700.

 

Dang! If I got an adjuster quote on with that then I'd be getting a full swing out with all the fixins.

 

Yep, 3" hole saw from HD.

 

I like that. It's a sweet little truck.

 

Have you rattle caned your bumper yet?

 

Negative sir, going to try and make some time this weekend.

Have a pretty busy schedule Sat & Sunday so......not too sure what will get done

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Any idea what spray paint your going with?

 

Saw a thread here speaking of adding spacers under the rear driver's seat mounts to raise the seating position, I have not been wild about the seating height since I first drove the truck. Looked simple enough so I made a couple spacers of 1-1/4" aluminum rod, 32 mm high with an 11 mm bore, and got a couple of M10 x 1.25 x 60 class 10.9 flange head bolts with hardened washers from Ace Hardware--slap 'em in, done. Much better, getting my backside up another 1-1/4" and out of the OEM "hole" makes it much more comfortable...

Spacer and new bolt (the OEM bolts have a tapered 8 mm x 1.25 threaded nose, no doubt for ease of assembly, I just turned the nose to 8 mm;
which helped quite a bit in getting things lined up--too much hassle to taper thread the end:


Flange bolt and hardened washer:


27 lb·ft -- not invisible but not in-your-face either; someday if I get ambitious or bored I may make some hardwood blocks to pretty it up a bit.
I rarely have passengers anyway:

 

Rustoleum, semi gloss (black)

Even got one of those fancy handle adapter thingies haha

 

Wow before you know it your going to be a professional

 

I sure hope so!!!

Ive used the Rustoleum on a few things before

- Maxtrac Spindles
- Bed stiffies

It works pretty good