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

Instal was pretty straight forward, used a variety of 14mm sockets and wrenches to get to the bolts. Tom Woods provides new hardware but it is external torx bolts. I don’t have any of these sockets so I reused the oem hardware.

 

Took her to Yosemite for the week

 

Hit a quarter of a million today

 

how are the fires out tere? surprised park is open.

 

The winds must be off or the media is blowing it out of proportion. Last 2 days there were crystal clear. Had one smoky day around Tuesday

 

Media is blowing it out of proportion as they always do. It's a 4300 acre fire that is somewhat close to redwoods...
Meanwhile, there's 1.7 million acres currently active in Alaska and you don't hear a peep

 

I did the same a while back and it was the best money Ive spent on my truck by far.

 

how much difference is there in having a local driveshaft shop build you a one piece driveshaft and balance it vs paying $700 for the tom woods driveshaft?

 

So the wife and I took a trip to her hometown in MN and then went up to Madeline Island for a couple days. Absolutely beautiful! It was my first time in the North/Midwest and I’m excited to come back!! Pretty crazy for a Florida boy who lives in California to say something so sacrilegious huh?! I did relinquish my Tacoma for a rental car though as we flew out… But the rental agency ended up messing up our reservation so they gave us a free upgrade to a 2022 Tesla Model Y! Who thought it was a bright idea to give the 21 year old the “keys” to a brand new Tesla?!? After putting a couple hundred miles on it and costing only about $40 for our whole trip in charging costs, I’m kind of sold on Tesla’s.

 

Added these vled flush mount lights as off-road running lights. Not super necessary but it’s nice for the people in front of you to be able to easily see you behind them, at least where I wheel. Overcast and trees everywhere and it’s easy to lose someone into the background. They pack a pretty good punch, I wouldn’t want to run them on the road.

 

@Flo_TRD07 The Apostles are GREAT! Nice on the Tesla..and welcome to the Midwest! Curious if youre stationed at Travis?

 

Night pics!

 

Oooo good idea, those weren’t even on my radar but they are now. Give me an hour and a half and it’ll be dark here.

 

Going next weekend and was a little worried about conditions as well, glad to hear the valley isn’t too affected. The sequoias are being pretty well protected too from what I’m reading, they’re doing a good job keeping them safe with all the preventative measures they’ve taken in terms of eliminating fuel sources. Nice rig too

 

This truck always gives me

 

Finally made time to detail the truck.

 

Woooo! Two new G type chipped keys made on the spot!!!

By a really cool locksmith out of Bend Oregon (Knights Locksmith), 60 miles out of Bend Oregon, up in the beautiful Cascade Mountain range, next to a really nice lake, a nice lake with a set of Tacoma keys sitting 70 feet below its surface...I tried fishing for them with my 25 lb fishing magnet with no luck. I usually "always" give the wife a spare set for any road trip...usually always.

Stupid fee? $300 but he was a really nice locksmith.

Edit to add... went to my local locksmith back at home today. He reprogrammed my spare chip key (OEM Toyota) and programmed a new fob. $140 and I'm back in the game.

I now have two master chip keys, a chip key, and two fobs. And I bought a floating key ring...

 

Hit 91,000 trouble free miles! Installed new plugs, cleaned AFE air filter, greased up the drive shafts and oil change on a rainy day. Installing new hub assemblies this week.

 

Made a 4 way tire inflator/deflator, and gave the driveshaft a refresh. I ordered a jumper cable bag for the tire inflator in hopes it would hold it all and turned out perfect. New u joints, center bearing, greased slip yoke, and new flange yoke for the driveshaft.