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

Hit 50K on the way to work today!

 

Fusion 360

 

Washed and detailed her

 

Took the step bars off to prep for sliders. Took her for a little drive on some of my favorite forestry roads

 

Finally installed the redline tuning quicklift kit. From a TW group buy a year ago lol. No more old school rod.

 

I used my taco to go get my pussy shaved!

No really.

 

Nice - thanks! Actually the one I was thinking about.

 

Rear is Icon 2.0 remote resi shocks, AllPro standard leafs, extended U-bolts & GM poly bumps

 

Fog light any time mod today on the new truck.

 

I tried (and failed) once again to get a panel for a Bussman relay box and a Circuit Breaker that I got from paranoid56 to work in my 2015 but no go. You can see what I had to cut off just to make it even bolt on but A, the cut-out for the Bussman interferes with the Master Cylinder and there is not enough depth clearance under the hole for the Circuit Breaker because of that secondary relay box.

Gonna have to come up with a whole new strategy. I'm open to suggestions.

 

one nice thing about working Saturdays is that i get to park in side.

 

Drain and fill rear diff, drain and fill radiator and block, and changed oil on the 2010 Taco I bought yesterday.

 

Installed Falken Wildpeak AT3W 245/70/17's E rated tires on new TRD gunmetal wheels. My Taco is absolutely all stock and wanted to keep it that way. Initially researched the recommended 265/70/17 size tires, but found conflicting information on rub/no rub issues. My goal was to have absolutely ZERO rubs; more importantly I did not want to remove or alter any part of the truck to make tires fit so I decided to target the same diameter as my stock 265/65/17. Although I wanted to go thinner tire for handling and mpg reasons as my truck is my DD, I could not find enough information or photos on the 245/70/17 size to help me sway that direction - I suspected it wasn't a popular size for Tacomas, hence the lack of info and photos, but that wasn't enough for me to dump the idea of going thinner, I had to see it.

So I headed to Costco to hopefully find both 265/65 and 245/70 size tires to get a comparison going, and luckily I found a bunch of Goodyears in the same model and did a side by side comparison, to me there was no significant difference in width. You could tell the 245 was a little thinner, but not by much. I figured the thinner tires will make the truck look a little taller too. Still undecided, I went back to the Falken site, and found that 265/65 was rated for 7.5-9.5 width wheels. The 245/70 rated at 6.5-8.0 width. Being that the TRD wheels are 7" wide, going 245/70 seemed like the safer choice, so I pulled the trigger. Purchased (4) Falken tires off Amazon, free shipping to Hawaii (before the sales tax kicked in on April 1st). Like most Falken AT3W owners said, the tires look better and more aggressive in person (they are not really "photogenic"). The Falken 245/70/17 size have absolutely no rubbing at any angle and articulation. Tires are super quiet (as quiet as my stock Bridgestones) and do well in handling and braking. Thought I'd share some photos since not many photos out there with 245/70 on a Tacoma.

 

That looks fantastic! Nice write up too.

 

Thank you EST! Info and photos of the 245/70/17 size are hard to come by, so thought I'd share and hopefully help someone that is in a similar boat as I was. Have a good one!

 

Found an ice cream holder in the center console

 

I saw the other thread you started! Good job putting info out there in a well constructed and labeled thread.

 

Oh and moved a pile of glossy red stuff from the back of the truck up to the spare bedroom....wifey is not happy

 

Cool cool, I haven't used that one before

 

Hey all,
I don't know if I just suck at searching on here, but I'm not finding the info I'm looking for... I'm looking to get a Warn Zeon winch but I'm not a millionaire, so I'm in between the 8s or the 10 (steel). Please don't try and convince me of another winch unless it is 1. waterproof 2. manufactured in the US 3. a warn zeon

Is synthetic a better upgrade than the extra pull? I live in the dirty-T (tucson, AZ) so I'm a little concerned with the UV and synthetic, but maybe this is a dumb concern. My thoughts are that the 8s ($842) weighs less, but the 10 steel ($704) I can upgrade to synthetic in the future, but it will cost at least an extra $372 to upgrade, making it $1076. Is the 10 kips load capacity over kill (kip = 1000 Lbs)? Any help with this would be much appreciated.

Thanks all!