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

lightbar came in last week so I painted the two outer floods yellow and today I made some brackets and got it mounted

 

Haha, I’m glad you posted this. Filled up today and mine stopped clicking, figured I’d have to actually search for a part number…

 

Or you could get a cheap Stant locking gas cap so people don't steal your gas

 

Yeah I had a friend help me with the rear (only took an hour or two maybe) but he had to go to something with his family when we were 4 hours deep into the front. The rest I got done with a little help from my girlfriend. Now I need to get new tires mounted and get an alignment because I definitely messed that up

 

Yessir.. I wanted to paint it the original black but all I had was metallic gray..works pretty well

 

OEM swaybar end links or someone else??

 

Cool thanks. Im going to be replacing my sway bar bushings and end links. Energy suspension sells a kit with bushing/ MOOG end links. I was going to get thier bushings anyways.

 

I did moog also. Tie rods, sway bars links. I like their products very sturdy if you ask me.

 

I haven't installed them yet because I'm sure I'm going to need to do a cab mount chop and haven't had a chance but I do love how my FN 5 star look. Plus Dustin at FN is the best person to work with. I can't recommend him enough.

 

Did the ECGS bearing today, with axle seal and also swapped both front shocks with 3rd gen TRD off road take offs. Drives nice!
Getting the axle to pop out almost got me. After about two hours of wiggling and smacking and wedging it finally let go.
No matter how hard I try to stay organized my work area always turns into a shit show.

 

I feel your pain… here’s my to do list and shit show

 

Used the mall crawler to do some work trucking, and brought a new to me lathe home to my want to be shop. Between 3 different Tacos and that trailer, I’ve hauled over 5 tons of tooling home and it’s always done great. Probably close to 3500# today.

eta: the floppy straps on the lathe were used to load it with the engine lift behind it. Getting it off the trailer is going to be waaaay more interesting.

 

New grille, low profile window vents on the front & bug deflector today. Rear window vents and connecting the raptor lights probably tomorrow (need an add a fuse). Called it a day @ beer-thirty

 

Is this the same truck you were working on getting the pin striping off? Looking good!

 

Sure is! If you zoom in on the 2nd pic, you can see I haven’t quite made it to the pin stripes on bed yet haha

 

About as clean as it gets anymore. Guess I'm no longer a candidate for the car wash with the snorkel. About 20 oak trees on just over 1 acre so it won't look like this in the morning

 

I just did the exact same thing on my 3rd gen. All 4 corners 5100's, OME Dakars on the back, and rough country upper control arms. 2 days of work.

 

You ain't lying. My garage currently looks like a tornado when through it. Started with all the right tools and ended with "where the F did I put that 19mm" lmao

 

“TOYOTA”

 

One Taco owner posted a YouTube video of taking his truck through the flapper brush (not pressure) car wash with the snorkel intake reversed and plastic bagged, and he had time while the young man at the end of the wash was exercising the towel and resetting the side mirrors to remove the plastic bag and reposition the intake.