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

There are two "Jeff B" usernames. I thought the same thing. Had to double take.

 

For real? It cought me also LOL

 

Oh shit, you're right, my bad!

 

Way to take care of it on your own and have a good attitude.
I would not let baking soda dry on carpet in the tacoma, it never came out on mine.

 

Wkat in tke world makes you tkink tkat?

 

Allen, the headrest patches look good. Where did you get them and how was the install. Would like to do this to my headrests.

 

Reminds me of a story from a long time ago. A dad I know went to pickup his son and son’s friend from a Friday night party in a regular cab pick-up. The dad knew the boys had been drinking but played dumb. He feigned being cold and cranked the heat in the cab and the inevitable happened. He had to pull over several times while the boys stepped out of the cab to purge that nights fun. Took them home and put them to bed and got them up at 5:30am so they could go to work. Both claimed feeling ill and not being able to work. To which dad offered a wry smile and told them, “If you want to play you have to pay. Get up and go to work!”

The worst part was their job was shoveling shit in a very large chicken house. Safe to say they learned a valuable lesson.

 

Last Thursday I replaced the stock tires with Hankook iPike W11’s. Stock size of 265/70R16. Had several close calls with the worn stock tires since the weather turned snowy. The tires had barely any tread left and the Toyota dealership in July said they were only half worn and had plenty of tread left. Between now and spring I will look for new wheels and tires and I will leave the stock alloys set up as winter tires.

 

How are these doing in the snow?

 

Awesome. I have some other iPikes on a 2005 Nissan Altima that is the other winter car and have had them on for 3 winters. The Nissan has never gotten stuck and handles great for only front wheel drive.

 

What more could you ask for

 

what winch do you have?

 

I got a little more than 2.5" (pending breakin)

It's sitting 4" higher

 

Awesome thanks, is it a true plug and play?? With my retro I was lucky to have a friend to help me out with the wirings. Are these replacing the factory??
Looking into buying these

 

Time for some bigger tires!!

 

Red Hound Auto Truck Bed Grommets

https://www.amazon.com/Tailgate-Universal-Sidewalls-Adhesion-Promoter/dp/B075G23ZCK/ref=sr_1_14/130-4869583-8644160?ie=UTF8&qid=1514894214&sr=8-14&keywords=tailgate+seal+kit

Link to seal for yote

 

Saturday, I installed my new transmission and torque converter from IPT.

This:
http://www.importperformancetrans.c...750e-a750f-performance-transmission-4343.html
And this:
http://www.importperformancetrans.c...-custom-high-stall-torque-converter-2163.html



Sunday, I installed a winch. Wiring isn’t complete yet, though. Still waiting on my switch to arrive from aironboard.com.

This:
Smittybilt 98495 XRC Synthetic Rope Winch - 9500 lb. Load Capacity

Smittybilt GEN 2 XRC Winch | 9500 Pound Load Capacity | Syntethic rope

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K150ZNG
This:
Power Relay battery Isolator 500 Amp High Current For 12V Metra Install Bay https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01I5Q7846
Factor55 Hawse Fairlead 1.0

$88 Factor55 Hawse Fairlead 1.0

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KAHND0W
This:
Factor55 FlatLink Loaded Shackle Mount (16.000 Lbs) - Gray

$150 Factor 55 FlatLink Loaded Shackle Mount (16.000 Lbs) - Gray

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K284VGE
And this:
https://www.aironboard.com/online/p...-toyota-oem-replacement-winch-power-blue.html

 

Wow busy busy

 

I've found them several places on line but ordered from Tacoma Beast https://tacomabeast.com/collections/decals/products/trd-patch

After measuring and eyeballing several times they just iron on....just be sure to put like an old tee shirt rag or something over before ironing to prevent scorching stuff.