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

I went with Spider-Trax. They have held up well for a few years. Just make sure you get something that is Hub Centric and anti seize the surfaces between the rotor and spacer when you install them. Since the spacer is Aluminum and the rotor is steal, the dissimilar metals will cause Galvanic Corrosion. Or in layman's terms, you won't be able to get your spacer back off.

 

You should be pretty proud of how clean that frame looks. I have a southern lived truck and mine doesn't look that good. Amazing job.

 

Replaced the ORIGINAL 2010 battery with 185K on it...

Picked up a DieHard Gold from Advance Auto Parts OE Exact Fit; OE Spec: OE Group 24F; OE CCA 585; Battery Spec: 750 CCA; 935 CA; 130 Minute Reserve Capacity; 3 Year Free Replacement
10% discount...
No core charge because they installed it right there for me

 

Gawddamn that’s the longest I’ve seen a battery last!

 

I was searching and found this thread...He's got me by 5 YEARS...but not miles
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/guiness-book-record-oem-battery.674560/

 

Oh yeah I remember seeing that lol. You hold the title for miles then haha

 

Added new lights

 

No argument. My last system I had separate four channel and sub amps, manual time alignment and EQ and a full crossover network. I was one step away from going to a full DSP, and after some work I got it sounding quite impressive.

What the Key amp’s auto DSP is able to produce is frankly really impressive, especially when you compare to the cost and complexity of tuning a real deal traditional DSP. That’s why I recommend them.

 

I had ten years on mine but only 122k when I changed it in 2017.

 

I had the same battery. Lasted me 7 years. Needless to say. I replaced it with the same. Great battery!

 

My last battery was swapped out at a little over four years. It definitely doesn’t help that the truck is parked at the airport roughly 3 weeks out of every four.

 

Just a small mod....I know it's been done before and I'm sure there's a better way but my OCD kicked in today. Tired of the light gray door handles getting dirty and not coming clean! Plus a productive way to carry extra paracord!

 

After two weeks of being on stands I finally received my third member from ecgs. I had mailed mine in to switch my locker for an air locker and FedEx lost mine En route. I went with crown performance stainless steel air lines because I never want to worry about them being a point of failure. Plus they have the cool factor

 

Changed my brake pads. First time doing this on any vehicle. Nice to save a little money, no telling how much it costs at the dealer. Pretty straight forward and easy. Took me about an hour but I’m extremely meticulous. Could easily be done way faster.

 

Those are seriously cool headlights! What are they?

 

One suggestion put some lithium grease or brake pad grease on the pins and rotate them/twirl them every oil change. It keeps them from seizing up...But I guess you're in 'Bama so you're not dealing with the rust...Unless your a Gulf Shore taco.
Great way to save money, swapping your own pads!

 

Splash guards would also help save the manifold from getting wet when hot...IDK if it's been addressed in that thread..I just know mine is cracked and it's most likely from this.

 

Lol, just taking care of my babies. She's paying for it, I just wanted to make sure she got the truck she wanted. A couple of weeks ago, we could only find three in all of the U.S. in that exact configuration and one was in Hawaii. The other two were spoken for.
Hawaii to southern Indiana would be a long damned drive......
You should see it in person, it really looks sharp. I was starting to wonder what my truck is worth!

 

I don’t have too much of a rust issue where I live. I was going to do like you said with the pins, but considering the truck is a 2011, I got it 3 years ago, and the pins were still free and not seized, I decided not to. I only had a small amount of lubricant that came with the kit so I didn’t want to waste any on the pins just to be sure I got to both sets of pads first. Nevertheless, I still sprayed them with some wd40 and wiped them clean. Really wasn’t even a sign of rust, just tons of brake dust lol

 

So your pins didn't look like this?

Vice spreader couldn't even get them out...I had to replace the entire calipers...