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

Took the old girl exploring the Appalachians in Tennessee.

 

Insulation is now pretty much done, and i've squeezed a fair bit of "Great Stuff" EPS foam into the hollow windshield support beams.

I also installed a roof wiring pass-through bulkhead onto the roof, and ran additional power/grounding wiring through, for 'future needs'.

The wiring bundle running down the driver's side A-Pillar is somewhat impressive - and i still need to run an additional harness down for the console wiring.

Moving onto figuring out how to mount up the new Arb console... a compact switch pod arrived today, that i hope to be able to adapt in part or whole, into my Arb console changes/customization.

 

A little undercarriage cleaning. 2014 been thru 3 winters with her so far

 

This is cleaner than the inside of my damn truck.

 

Impressive!

 

What did you use to clean under there?

 

Pressure wash first then rag and soap water. Once dried polished best i could on inside of frame. Usually polish outside frame 2 times a year but first time getting underside cleaned.
Pain in butt but it needed it. Used fluid film over past 2 years but will prob tiy amsoil hd metal protector this winter. It sprays on and dries to wax film

 

Just applied my amsoil product to winterize the trailer and truck. I didn't do anything the first winter I had her. Second year after reading so many threads i did fluid film, but then I saw the amsoil stuff and switched to that. I spray the frame, shocks, leafs, sliders, skid plates.

 

Yeah i figured i would try it this year. Looks like itll not wear off like fluid film does but time will tell

 

DAMN!! I can lick that undercarriage and not get grossed out..hahaha. not that i would but just saying.

seriously. my interior would only stay clean for a couple of hours after i clean it thoroughly cause of my rug rats.

 

Just picked up the OEM 5" tube steps for a DC Long Bed. I'll take pictures when I install them this weekend.

 

Curious why “great stuff”. I’ve only ever heard of that stuff retaining water and rusting your body panels from the inside out.

 

Changed a few things today. Took my custom decal off the tailgate and replaced with a simple black trd emblem. Put the beadlock rings back on the wheels. Swapped the chrome tacoma door emblems for factory black ones. And replaced the rear shocks with bilstein 5100’s to match my front ones next up, bigger tires

 

you gotta show Hotrod alil sig love...

 

If that is the case, then i am well and truly fucked.

I used it on the windshield overhead support beam, which is hollow and non-accessible for matting. I am chasing down a self-inflicted wind-rush issue coming from the roof windshield/roof transition.

The moisture retention issue did cross my mind - but i considered it worth the risk for peace of hearing, applied into an internal beam that is protected from the elements and primary rusting factors.

 

Today was a good and bad day. Started with an oil change. Crawling around underneath I noticed trans output seal leaking and some u-joint seals are cracked.

I then debadged my doors, washed, waxed and washed the windows in prep for the 50* winter days we'll have in a few weeks.

 

Attempted to trade it in on a Tundra, got offered $5500 for mine. Needless to say I walked on that "deal".

 

Wow, so clean, damn!

 

Installed a front recovery point from brute force fab
Received a set of "outranged recovery 4wd traction boards" I found from eBay.
On the weekend added free pin stripes on the passenger side from some branches...
Had the dealer re balance my k02s as the vibrations seemed excessive.