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

lol, reminds me of the below video snippet:

https://youtu.be/aL8uUyifkrM?t=50s

 

Why was it squatting in the rear so much?

 

How much lift did you get with these? I have a set sitting at my brother in laws house waiting for me.

 

I have spacers in the front and used to have an AAL in the rear then I did the recall for the springs and my local Toyota dealership wouldn't be put my AAL back on so it leaned really bad. And I didn't feel like splitting the brand new leafs apart to put the AAL in so I bought 2 inch blocks. Even when I had the AAL in there was still a tiny bit of lean but it wasn't noticeable.

And my local dealership wanted to charge $500 to put 2 inch blocks and longer U-bolts on I payed $60 for the blocks and u-bolts I ordered

 

Nice! Don't forget to properly bed the pads/rotors.

 

That usually happens after the 2nd or 3rd date right?

 

Sunday - Sliders installed




Monday - Sliders painted (one can of primer, one can of Rust-Oleum bedliner, 1.5 cans of Rust-Oleum Industrial gloss black per slider)




Tuesday - Removed bedside decals

Today - installed an Out Sunny awning that I got off of Amazon:

 

Only if you're an amateur

 

You should use some fluidfilm for your frame and what not, that will be rusting away

 

Replaced the missing passenger side drip molding and installed the rear seat covers. I am very happy with how these updates the look of the interior and feel really nice to sit on.

 

lol....very cool set up!!

 

I would follow up the WD40 with some dry lube, graphite, after it dries.

 

Left the truck with Brandon @ coastaloffroad.com to use as a template for his new front bumper! Excited to see what he comes up with!! Arb is now for sale

 

That inferno tho!

 

What bike rack is that in the bed??

 

looks DIY

 

I really love the look of these! Definitely on my to do list. Make sure you throw a few pics up when you get them installed.

 

Yes there are under the grill LEDs and I'm adding ditch lights as brackets are already there. Also want to make my bedlight leds activated from the Spod rather than the magnet switch current setup. They only light when bed top is opened and key on.

 

Its a one-off I designed. Had it fabbed out of stainless. The main portion of the rack pivots on bolts at the bed rails and "flips" up and into the front of the bed when not in use. When flipped out for use it rests on little perches welded to the top of my bed stiffeners. Also the lower piece which holds the rear tires in place is secured with slots/pins and a spring loaded pin. So it pops in/out in seconds. This way i can go from 5-bike shuttles to full use of my bed in under a minute. The tarp bungies go up over the top tubes of the bikes and slot back into the rack to secure the bikes down. The reasons i did all this rather than using a tailgate pad are:
- This secures the bikes far better than a pad could. We rally the taco pretty hard on fire roads with a full load of bikes+guys+dogs+gear and they don't budge an inch.
- Aesthetics. I can flip the rack into the bed, shut my tailgate and the truck looks "stock", rather than having the tailgate pad always on
- Bed space. With my short bed and 5 bikes on a tailgate pad the bed is full. No room for dogs/gear/beer. This moves the bikes a few feet backwards and creates valuable bed space.

 

These are the only lights I've run so I don't really feel qualified to talk about how they compare to the Rigid light bars. I will say, however, that I was originally going with a 50" Rigid Midnight bar but chose to go with the KC's because I like the way they look with the theme of the truck.
As far as noise, there is more wind noise but I don't consider it to be anything annoying.