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

We skipped camping the first night. Fuck that. Doppler showed a couple hours of heavy thunderstorms rolling through where we were going to camp. Rain sure. Big thunderstorms no.

And man was the trail a mess. Hell even the tent got muddy.


Tent was great last night though. Super fast set up. Spacious. We love it. Wife’s over the moon with it.

 

What spindles are those? Is that a 6” lift?

 

That looks like a good time!

 

Nice job Todd! They are super bright! What brand lights did you use?

 

I really appreciate it. They are actually just some Amazon white rock lights that I tied into the original wiring I had done. I’d use Baja for these as well but they just take too much abuse to justify them under there.

$22 SUNPIE 6 Pods White LED Rock Lights 6000K Pure White Underglow Light Wheel Wheel Well Lights Fender Lights for Off Road Trucks Sedans Car ATV UTV SUV Golf Cart Trailer Motorcycles

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B019ODAK26?ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

 

Hauled the splitter up to my brother-law. He is now indebted to me

 

Finally got the new grille and rear bumper installed. Color matched and new insert. Grille swap was easy, bumper had a couple snags, but overall not bad. Blackout badges, steps bars, and wheels are next.

 

Finally installed the BPF skid that I bought from @loyaltothetaco. Bought the BPF recovery point as the ones I had previously installed didn't line up with the access holes.



Also changed the oil/filter and lubricated the u-joints. Lubed the joints a couple of months ago but I hadn't pushed enough old grease out so decided to hit 'em again.

And lastly, gave it a bath. Been using Optimum No-Rinse Wash & Shine after a quick power wash and it's working well for me. Good enough for a truck I'm going to go get scratched up, in any case.

 

Where'd you get the bumper? Thinking about swapping mine out.

 

It's the Evans Fischer step bumper from Amazon. It came powder coat black, but had it painted to match.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009DJOJVA?_encoding=UTF8

I reused all the supports and plastic pieces. Only issue was for the three little plastic screw things in the center of the middle plastic piece. The holes in the bumper were too big, but happened to find some small black nuts and bolts in my scrap bin that fit.

 

Removed my front skids to remove my sway bar. After a test drive I didn't notice enough roll to justify replacing it. I'll drive it for a couple days and if I like it, reinstall my skids and bury the sway bar. Also swapped in my temporary air cleaner while I clean and oil my reusable.

 

I want the color matched grille sooooo bad on my Off Road. It is in my cart for $173 with free shipping but I need to get my lost-clear coat hood painted which is/should be a higher priority before winter weather creeps in. I also am undecided and have 2 sets of headlights in the cart (Sport and regular). Those 3 things will bring my 2008 back actually looking like the 83k mile truck that it is. Still runs and drives as good as my 25k mile 2016 Sport (except the 2016 was level with 4 x new Billie 5100's for a hair better ride).

 

Spend the money now. I wish I did it years ago. You wont be disappointed.

 

Badge question. Since my truck is a 2008 will fish lining the badges, maybe with some low heat gun action, be wise. I did it on my 2016 but they were only 18 months old. I just don't want to cause any paint issues. The side paint is good except for some age appropriate scratches.
I did put a bypass style transmission cooler on the 12 SR5 today. This way the tranny gets up to temp before going through the cooler. Son wants to tow with it and, with 145k miles, I figure it's a good time to eliminate the strawberry milkshake ingredients from the radiator. Completely eliminating the radiator tranny cooler. Has a 6k hitch so I told him limit his towing to 5k. Getting a tranny drain and fill next week too.

 

If you get coilovers with compression adjusters you can almost completely remove the body roll

 

Just rolled another K

 

On a 2013??? Man I have 46K on a 2015 and thought that was low.

 

Yesterday...


I was really hoping that thing would just get torn off and save me the trouble! Finally got my shiny skid plate scuffed up a bit, too

 

I don't know if I did this or the truck did. Maybe we did it together. But this happened this evening. I bought it in Feb 2011 with 33 miles on the odometer. Quarter million miles later, here we are.

Also, lost a mud flap last weekend somewhere on a dirt road in western Kansas. So I guess my Tacoma gets new mudflaps for its 250K.

 

I removed mine since I have an RC lift (I know I know…. I’m budget building) and it made it a lot more comfy to drive since the RC lifts are so dang stiff!