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

Oh! And I blacked out my TRD wheels and de-badged the doors



Find the decals here: TRD Off Road Wheel Vinyl, Center Cap Inlays, and Tacoma Decals for Sale (I used Gloss Black)

 

I removed the flares to clean the mess behind them when I finally washed the truck and I'll be installing Bushwacker flares.

Found something to remove the line.

AllClean+ from chemicalguys.com diluted 20:1
https://www.chemicalguys.com/all-clean--all-purpose-cleaner/allclean-degreaser.html
and the Magic Eraser from Mr. Clean
https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Durabl...way&sprefix=magic+,aps,140&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1

Spray the AllClean+ on the magic eraser and GENTLY rub the paint where the line is.
You have a black car so you have to be more careful.

 

What method did you use to remove the badges?

 

I'm sure 90% of you have seen the brake thread, but that's what I did today. Rotors, pads, SS lines + bleed. Seized caliper pins were a giant pain in the ass. Sanded and lubed the hell out of them after they finally came out. Also went at the rear strut tophats with a sawzall and replaced with 3rd gen TRD OR struts. Waiting on shop to compress the fronts. Hopefully I can get those on next weekend!




Dog supervisor - no better place to hide from a thunderstorm than the back of a Taco.

 

Yeah no thanks. I have done all my own wrenching so far. But the detailing/buffing I don’t want want to do. I’m going to suck up the $300 or whatever to have someone do the outside, so she looks nice just once. The idea of the fucking up the paint with some aggressive compound does not appeal.

 

CBI Rear

 

Man, that's booty goals right there. Very nice!

 

Wheels look good

 

Any pics of the install? Even afterwards?

 

You can try this too

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/painted-fender-flare-clips-done.557761/

 

Made my own bed rails with Camper Shell Clamps, Super Struts, and Strut Nuts



Then mounted my Smittybilt RTT

Don’t have a pic of it popped out all pretty yet....but it’ll come

 

Put my lights back in for the 4th.. was going for the waving flag look...

 

Had a little mod day at a buddies house today. Swapped out my stock 4cily regular cab suspension for a 3rd gen suspension. That extra leaf helps out with that FipPac weight a bit more.

 

Finally changed out of the stock shoes!
Had to do some cutting, there was still a lot of rub after I took the mud flaps off. Definitely see a 2” lift in the near future.
Wheels are Vision Nemesis 11 17x9” w/
-12 offset
Tiers are Falken Wildpeaks 265/70/17
Stock suspension

 

I broke in the suspension a little more this weekend. I beginning to convince myself that I DO need Dakars now...

 

Try four of the same! I have them in the bed for now but will mount to Prinsu. What’s your mounting plan?

 

It looks absolutely great, I am really interested on your sealing the doors I am going to look into that, one of the few complaints I have is the amount of wind noise.

 

Someone likes to tie things down!