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

there's a clear film available, not so 2001 Honda

ever consider doing a carbon wrap on the handle?

 

Fixed the hack job PO speaker installation with some taco tunes speaker mounts to fix the door rattle I was getting

 

Oil change with full synthetic, drive shaft greased, air filter swapped (considering it was last changed 18,000km ago it looked pretty good... Caked full of dead bugs thanks to the snorkel though)

And washed and waxed

 

Time to go wheeling!

Green white, good for flight

 

Tried today but could not adjust the preload on my damn king 2.5” extended travel coilovers with 700lbs springs to save my life. Used silicon spray. Tried mounted On the truck, bottom bolt only undone, top bolts only undone, off the truck with a vice, all tried using a Fox coilover adjustment tool after loosening the collar bolt. Gah!

Anybody know a good off-road shop that works on Tacomas or a fellow TW member within 1000 miles of Milwaukee? I will fucking drive to someone who knows what they are doing. I have had no luck with the few shops I tried. They scratched their heads, said they didn’t know what I was talking about, but could try. I said thanks but no thanks.

Anybody?

 

I have been piecing everything together over the last month. Finally got to install it all!!

Front:
Bilstein 6112
Camburg UCAs

Rear:
Bilstein 5160
Icon AAL
All-Pro U-Bolt flip
Wheelers Super Bumps

Wheels/Tires:
Method NV 17"x8.5
BFG KO2 285/70/17

 

Used it to haul this bad boy home! No more pushing like a cave man.

 

Re-fabbed my fridge slide I built for my FZJ80 to mount in the bed of my Taco. Wired it all up. I hope my fridge doesn't get ruined from rain even though I'll have my softopper on.

 

Now I need something in the back!

Bruteforce mounted as well.

 

Yes it is

 

Does this setup equate to more lift than the TRD Baja kit, or the same amount? Wondering how much tire I can run with the TRD Baja and rear Icon AAL. Are you cab mount chopped with the 17x8.5 and 285/70s? I’m about to pick up some SCS F5s in this figment and can’t decide on tire size...

 

Got the bumper and winch on. Ran into a couple small setbacks but we got everything done in about 5 hours. Real happy about how it turned out!



One of the mounting brackets on the squadron sports seized up (the ones to mount it in the factory holes). We dremelled off the bolt head to no avail... he’s gonna do some work on it and try to extract it. Hopefully I can get those in without having to buy a replacement.

 

Looks great. Did you get the BD light bar for your bumper? I’d like to know how it is before dropping 500 bones.

 

Thanks! Yep, against my better judgement haha. I will test it in the dark as soon as I can and let you know.

 

You can add a mirror and run a temp sensor via this guy

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...for-the-2009-15-tacomas-other-toyotas.328083/

I'd back off the nut on those rear shocks. You really only need 1/4"-3/8" of thread showing. Those rubber bushings are way too compressed.

Buy this. You can use it on the truck to compress the coils and adjust the preload.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/271700623796

 

Awesome. Thanks bud.

 

From my understanding of the TRD kit, I can get more lift. The TRDs are non-adjustable, and I have mine set at 2". I have room to go up another .5" if I want. I will need to do the cab mount chop eventually. It just barely rubs, and only when the tire gets stuffed. I hope that helps.

 

My AC blower motor wouldn't start. Got it going by cleaning off the motor brushes and commutator.. There was a good bit of crud built up in there and even a couple of bugs. I will probably replace it if it stops again. Also did this..

 

Washed it yesterday came out this morning to go do some yard work over at church. Thank God it is Silver, covered in nice even film of ash from all the fires in Nor Call, Can't even sit out side Glass of my favorite Cab had a nice covering of grey ash with in 5 minuets, hope the ash wasn't toxic, finished the glass inside