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

Clean setup, how bright is that switch at night though? Seems crazy bright in the pic

That looks really nice, I may have to do that one day. My bed is all scratched and paint stained from the previous owner, would be nice to kind of bring it back to factory and protect it a bit.

 

Only the wisest of men

 

Speakers and ditch lights (angled)

 

Milestone...

 

Hmmmmm. That might be why my truck is making so much noise...... I'll add this to the do to list.

 

They do? I couldn't find any. Granted I didn't look too hard

 

Yaaa, I can't do any more mods before I do some maintenance. I need to re do all the u joints and carrier bearing, and new LCA's probably wouldn't hurt anything

 

Yeah I need to do all that too... just not the LCA's since I'm planning on LT. Probably lower ball joints though

 

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Im thinking that too but I have the radiator bushing mounts to do going to see what noises are left after that

 

What height is your bed rack? I'm debating on getting one but can't decide on 14 or 18 inch.

 

Thanks!

 

I havent replaced those either. My general rule of thumb for my truck is, for every upgrade/aftermarket part I install, I have to do a little bit of maintenance as well

 

Same. I did some this weekend and thatll bring my oil change and tire rotation and then the radiator bushings and plugs will be saved for something else

 

Spent a good amount of time with a clay bar and some wax! Pretty happy with the results. My Tacoma's paint is far from perfect but it still cleans up pretty nicely.

 

How do you like the bed rack? I've been really on the fence about getting something like that for my truck.

 

You might have read before that in the last couple of months I've chosen to work 10-14 hours a day 7 days every week. Well this morning I decided it was my time to work on my truck.

I installed my subwoofer box, finally. Yeah I know, just because it's my truck doesn't mean it's not work (lol). The subs are red label Pyle and are definitely not the best subs made. However it's the only thing a former friend of mine had that I could use, because he owed me money and then blew me off as some sort of chump (lol).

You can see the port under the back seats seatback and the little indentation in the box that surrounds the rear seatback's frame. You can also see the white plastic blocks that moved the rear seat up (3/4") and forward (3/8"). I ran out of plastic, that's why the blocks look AFU.

Here you can see the rear seat bottom has also been raised up (1") and forward (3/4").

Next I removed the rear door panels, removed the stock rear speakers, applied sound deadener to the inside door's outter skin and to the inner door skin on its outside, and installed the new rear speakers (Planet Audio TRQ622). The rear speakers I chose are definitely not the best speakers made but their specs fit my system perfectly. I started the right rear door first.

Then I got a phone call from a good friend. "Hey I got a guy and his boat's trim and tilt stopped working. He's going on vacation, all of the shops are booked and won't take his boat in. He said he'll pay anything you want to get it done now."

Me: "Shit. I'll be at the yard in an hour."

Maybe at this point I should fix the trim and tilt and pay someone else to install my stereo for me (LOL!) since I can't seem to find the time to do it myself.

It could be worse for sure as I could be one of the millions of Americans that don't have work right now - like my wife, which is the reason I'm working these insane hours.

Ok, I gotta go bust out the left rear door now...

 

Nice work! Looking great

 

Finally washed the truck and finished up some suspension upgrades