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

For as time consuming as it was, the pictures aren't as gratifying
Oh well, my butt will be happy come winter!

Finally finished the DIY Write up with LOTS of pictures --> HERE

 

So without doing a search, do these headers help with a dual exhaust set up? Something I want to do when my stock muffler goes.

 

Received and installed these today. The lights are nice and bright, especially the dome light! Nice product, Thanks MedlinAround

 

Where did you get these?

 

Bought them from TacomaBeast

 

Changed every oil, stripped the F out of the front diff drain plug so that was fun. Changed plugs out and replaced the air filter with an AFE. Good first week of ownership I think.

 

Ya the friend who works in the shop said it’s an apparent issue. He’s seen way to many in the last year than he’d care to mention. But for a quick $1800 Canadian they are willing to replace with the same unit once it’s out of warranty.

 

Was able to do my install of my ADS Coilovers, Rear Leafs and Rear Shocks, love the ride. Even though my stock suspension had 35k it was totally shot or just sucked...

 

I put in new Wet Okole front seat covers. I went from this:


To this:

 

changed plugs and cleaned throttle body yesterday....holy crap that throttle body was filthy (140K miles..never cleaned).

must've had 2 mil of soot on the back side.

also have a Donaldson Powercore coming next week for my Volant ram air

 

I just got new rims. After seeing this photo, I removed the steps. Probably going to get some black ones eventually.

 

Just contacted headstrong not liking my stock suspension. Halfway to work my suspension gets realy spongy. On my second set of shocks on my truck n i only had it 6 months. Dealer told me im driving ut too hard, i told them to reengineer the suspension. But i drive 8 miles of gravel daily.

 

Update from Tuesday. Finally got my driver side light back from @kustom54lighting. Pavel did a great job!

 

i keep seeing blue, red and green lights on the front of vehicles since the introduction of LED's.
I could swear (maybe state to state) that blue and red are for official and emergency vehicles only???

 

I would think the same, and I'm sure that in most states they are. Also I bet that it's only illegal if flashing/strobing in some states. This is all pure speculation though.

 

For those of you who have done retrofits...where have you all mounted the control boxes, etc?

 

In Indiana, it can escalate to the level of towed and arrested. But its an easy excuse to get someone on the side of the road for a stop and talk. You won't see any of that crap on my Taco.

 

Anywhere you can find space. I ran the harnesses neatly across the plastic radiator shroud and bunched up the excess wires as best as possible zip ties. The ballasts for the hids, halo rings and switch back DRLs are where ever I could find space. Not much between headlight/ battery and headlight washer fluid rez. You’ll need a lot of zip ties, that’s for sure!

 

@Shmellmopwho made me a set of flagpole holders.

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They are and you would get pulled over quickly if you had the colored lights on while driving. The amber and white are the only legal colors to drive with for most (if not all) states.