Anyone ever "un-build" their Tacoma build?

I have a camper shell, roof rack, heavy ass steel rock sliders and skid plates, and I do go off road very frequently because I live right by the mountains. But sometimes I look at lightweight builds with just a lift and tires and I want to go back to that because driving my truck feels like I'm dragging around a massive amount of weight at all times. Does anyone else ever relate to this feeling? Anyone ever un-built your build and go back to basics and did you regret it?

 

I would bet it happens all the time but how many would admit to doing it lol.

After all, in 2024, you don't just own a vehicle.. you are somehow mandated to modify the vehicle out the wazoo because nothing the OEM did was adequate enough for your lifestyle.

 

I just bought my truck in April and its bone stock. Last week I drove from the mountains 60 miles to the city and picked up about 350 lbs. of landscaping materials. Wow, I could definitely feel it driving back uphill to get back home.

 

if it can be reverted to stock, it's not a build.

I do wonder what aluminum is like. Buddy has a rig and doesn't wheel hard. I tell him IF he's going to mod, consider minimal and lightweight, that not much may be needed.
That maybe consider aluminum sacrificial skids, instead of thick steel handling repeated use.

I wonder what that would be like. However, there's not a lot out there on the market in terms of things like aluminum bumpers, let alone good looking.
Pelfreybilt for example no longer exists. Aluminess I think doesn't make Tacoma stuff anymore. And whatever they did in the rear I don't think was even a high clearance which is the point of a bumper.

 

I own my Tacoma because of this scenario. I built up my previous truck and eventually built it back down to more stock for a variety of reasons. But since some of it couldn't be reversed easily I had to move on to a new truck. I maybe have gone a little further than I should but certainly a lot more focused and reasonable about modifications on the Tacoma.

 

Get rid of the camper, get better shocks and springs.

 

Yep. I didn't have anything crazy, but...
I had JBA A-Arms, OME 3" nitrocharger, Hybrid steel bumper, Dakar in rear and I had just bought sliders when I decided it was all unneccary for my use on my DD. Now I'm stock height with 5100s. Kept the 33's and camper shell, added RAS to help stock leafs

 

why do that when you can just buy another tacoma?

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i look off my china light bars that I put on in high school, but kept the cool switch panel under the radio to have some clicky click switchy switch fun when im bored

and lowered my maxtrac shakle 1” after running it maxxed for 4 years

if that counts as unbuilding

(sorry im a 1st gen)

 

I used to mod EVERYTHING I bought. Now, eh, other then a winch occasionally, I don't foresee myself driving up the sheer cliffs of Mount Everest with 9 lockers, enough lights to morse code the space station, 6 spares, 4 winches, an Abrams hull underneath as armor and a roll cage capable of protecting a pilot at mach 3.

If you use it, cool, if it's just $20 K worth of mall glitter, well, it's YOUR $20K and you are welcome to do so. Just don't think you'll get your $20K back when you sell it because disappointment will hit you like the fist of an angry God.