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

Last 4 days-
Replaced the worn out outer tie rod ends with Moog greasable ones and replaced the inner boots.
Took my sway bar off, will see how I like it.
Finally put the new brakes on. Rebuilt the calipers with new seals, and knocked off 182k miles of crap and painted them. Replaced the rears too. Installed the extended front and rear brake lines for some piece of mind. All the hard lines gave me trouble. I replaced the fronts and managed to get the rear off and back on. PITA.
Relocated the diff breather. Wish I would've done that way sooner by itself as an "easy win".
Lastly I put replaced the upper bushings on my rear shocks and put new shock boots on.
Rotated the tires while I had them off and just have to bleed/flush the brakes tomorrow.



Now I need to find about 800$ for some UCAs..

 

Took a crack at a DIY CMC with my buddy, came out pretty well if you ask me. Also hammered the pinch weld outwards so I could fasten the wheel well liner to it. Time to make the next tire size jump…

 

Looks really good! I beat my pinch welds outward for the same reason, but we'll see if I ever put some liners back in. I cut my fenders so it'll be a from scratch thing. Y'all did a clean job.

 

Thank you! Grinder and paint make me the welder I ain’t lol. That’s another reason I’ve held off on trimming my fenders is the liner

 

Drove from the west side of Oregon over to Central Oregon on Saturday for a good friend's party, yearly event. Drove home Sunday... about 130 miles in four-wheel drive. Fun experience.

 

My first set of coilovers, taking some precaution before they start throwing salt and all the good stuff up around here.

Applied fluid film and coilover covers.

 

Rebuilt my old alternator on Saturday so I have a spare now. Autozone tested and it worked first try - I was pretty happy about that. Much cheaper to fix than buying a new one.

 

Has anyone ever had their windshield spray pump go out? Does anyone know where the fuse/connector is? I'm hoping its just a fuse. Doesn't appear to be clogged or a kinked line. Reservoir is full.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/fuse-location-for-wiper-fluid-motor.298873/

Can’t hurt to unplug the hose at the bottom of the tank, or next to the passenger “a” post and give it a quick blast from a compressor. I had a non Toyota truck that had a clogged line that I thought was the pump at first. Good luck

 

Used it to pick up a tree this weekend. The Sherpa racks made it very easy to load and secure down. Of course I didn't take a picture though so you'll have to believe me.

 

Used the truck today to grab a set of original never-mounted 911 mags for the boss

 

Holy smokes... NOS Heart Fuchs? I wanna know who your boss is. And are they going on a Porsche or a Volkswagen?

 

Dave Kindig. I'm pretty sure they're going on a Porsche.

 

Nice, I bet that is a job that has some cool shit going on all the time...

 

Got the rear brakes dialed in and brakes bled. It stops well and isn't spongy. Broke them in as per manufacturer instructions and went to load up on animal feed. Took my normal windy back roads and I am 1000% pleased with having the sway bar off. I was on the fence since my truck is a daily driver and have my wife and son in fairly often. I felt none of the body roll even during some higher speed curves and with 300 pounds in the bed. Recommend giving it a shot if you're thinking about it.

 

It's been pretty great. Dave is an awesome guy.

 

You guys do some cool ass stuff there!

 

Finished up the courtesy light project (stage 1 was front footwells) with a single max pod in the rear. Gives off just enough light to find my 5yo's socks when he starts chucking them.

 

I've been too busy to post as I went. Had a lot going on I missed all summer wheeling, truck been down since Aug.I got the final alignment today.. So here is what I did today , and some if what I did doing a 63 Chev spring swap, rear shock relocation, gusseted spindles, marlin lca weld on armor, going to 35" tires. Doing the delta joints on my TC ucas then swapping for spcs for camber correction. A custom car grills fron grill. As for today I trimmed the ARB to match my fender trim