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

Bent some brackets for roof mounted light bar, mounted and wired some craigslist special pod lights, attempted to do the anytime fog light mod but ended up popping some fuses.

 

Added 6 gallons of Rotopax and edited an image...

 

Check to see if your truck is wired for seat heaters, this is how mine was when I had anytime fogs:

 

I don't, I only have the relay for the fog lights.

 

Got a 10% off coupon email for the Carhartt seat covers from Auto Anything, so I ordered a set for the front in the gravel color. More money to put towards Husky floor mats and a bed cover.

 

These fill in under the low beams perfectly, and even kick up in the sides right where the low beams taper off. Almost like Tetris on how well the pattern fits the lows, though I do still wish they were a bit wider.

Xencn (Osram China) 2300k interference H9s. I have a higher power version of the bulb to test shortly. I selected these as no other company makes such a high power interference yellow H9. And that was before I had the ‘off road’ version coming.

Bulbs covered above. Housings are Subaru, which are plug and play with 2012+ Tacoma’s. They have way better cut offs and glare control with a glare capped housing allowing for ultra high output H9s. Part numbers ect are in the link at the end of this post.

LEDs produce awful glare in reflectors, blinding oncoming traffic, and also causing loss of distance projection, and inconsistent non-saturated beam pattern. Look at the post by @DarthPow below.

You are correct. It applies to fog reflectors as well, and is covered in the thread.

For those interested in the amber fogs, I haven’t yet consolidated it all down to one post and have been sharing as I go. It covers a couple pages but see post #378 starting here:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...1-not-led-or-hid.435419/page-19#post-19670372

 

Installed a Pioneer avh2440 nex tuner , 6x9 pioneer door speakers, infinity tweeters, amp ,12" sub. Sounds great , backup camera anytime mod and on the tuner as well. Tomorrow I finish tuning the amp so it will last.

 

Switched out my stock shift knob/ handle thing! Definitely Like the bigger feeling in my hand

 

I really need to do that. Got a part number?

 

Yep....I read it when he posted it

 

What model Gerber ya got there?

 

New exhaust MBPP tip welded on to the current Borla setup. Old exhaust tip was looking pretty ragged.

 

what hardware is used to mount to the bed channels on gen 2? what size T-nuts or what?

 

Looks backwards?

 

Check the bottom of this page in the Products Discussed box, there’s an Amazon link to the t-slot nuts. Check on McMaster also, might be cheaper.
https://www.mcmaster.com/

 

If you don’t wanna order stuff, you can use Unistrut nuts as well. They are available in both 3/8” & 1/4” threaded holes. Just remove the springs from the. Most hardware stores sell em for pretty cheap.

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Superstrut-3-8-in-Straight-Strut-Nut/3284278

All the stuff that’s attached to my bed rails are attached with these using either button head socket caps or knobs.

 

And they don’t rust as fast as t-slot nuts!

 

Correct. They are gavalized so they hold up pretty well.

 

Was installing total chaos bed stiffeners today and broke one of the top bolts. Anyone know the size of this bolt so I can wrap up this project? It has an M10 head like the bolts for the taillight but has a trapped flat washer on it.

Might be part number 90119-a0079 but not entirely sure