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

Great job! What brand of super white paint did you use?

 

Dupli-color! picked it up at O’Reileys

 

Cmon man, please get rid of that dinky spare.. 37s and a stock spare..? lol love it either way

 

LOL

 

I know right? It does look funny. My new set of tires has 5 of them. The spare is going to be mounted vertical in the right rear of the bed when I install the new set of tires. Did you notice I hacked half of the rear bumper off and raised the hitch?

 

Thank you!

 

65 % of this country has no paved roads (the western part), so almost all people drive pickup trucks : Hilux, Nissan frontier, Ford ranger, Chevy S10 and Mazda.
The most popular is the Hilux, everybody knows Toyota is the most reliable brand.
There are so many Hilux on the roads, that a friend of mine said : "the Hilux is the average Joe's car"...

As said before in another post, I don't like to do the same as everyman do.
I don't say Hilux is not good, it is certainly a good car, but it's not better at all than a Taco , and I don't want an Hilux because everyman has one.
I've been working for 10 years with the Tacoma 2d gen, in rough conditions, and I don't want another truck.
Moreover, the Tacoma is the only midsize truck with a long bed, and the Tacoma is (in my eyes) the most beautiful one. And I love the V6 4.0 engine.
Everyone has his preferences, I like a nice watch, or a nice rifle, and a nice truck. and for me the Tacoma is the most beautiful. It's a personal choice.
In this country, there are a very few trucks from the US, and the Tacoma is the only truck with gasoline engine, so a lot of folks ask me about the mileage. ("What a nice truck" is the first comment they do).
And I assure you that all those Hilux and Nissan and Ford ranger, etc... with their 4 cyl. diesel engine consume the same as the Tacoma, and here, there is no difference between the prices of gasoline and good diesel.
Personally, the Tacoma is the best truck I ever worked with, reliable, excellent on paved roads, and excellent on crappy roads, with heavy dust or mud.
In the first 20 years of my career, I worked in big ranches in Africa (all time off road), always with Toyota (Landcruiser 6 cyl.trucks), and yes this is the best brand.

 

Right on. I was just curious as to your experiences being there. He is from elsalvador.

 

Finished clay and wax today. So much rubbin' and strokin', I think she climaxed twice

 

Cleaned up the engine bay to get ready for some mods next week. And braided some paracord for a steering wheel cover

 

In this thread, there're a lot of posts about many "mods" installed on your Tacomas.
I've been working with Toyota trucks and SUV for 36 years.
And 2020 is my 12th year on Tacoma 2d gen. (2008 DCSB 4x4 TRD sport; and 2014 DCLB 4x4 TRD sport).
I could be interesting to share with you and to try to classify the mods I tried, according with my experience.

1/ Mods I installed because my Taco is a working truck, used 80 % time off-road, dust or mud (both very heavy) :
- Metallic front bumper
- Dobinson suspension
- 3 inches lift
- mud tires (Cooper STT Pro)
- Pipe exhaust pipe (facing back)
- Wider Fender flares , because of the wheel spacers
- UNI filter on secundary Air injection pump, and on diff. breather
- Seat covers (Carhartt), to protect the leather seats
- rear SUMO springs
- Snorkel SAFARI, with DONALDSON Topspin pre-cleaner
- Bed stiffeners
- LED light bar + LED spots lights
- Husky floor liners

2/ Mods I also installed, but really helpful for any truck (on, or off-road) :
- Oil catch can
- Window deflectors (Vent shade in-channel)
- Redline Tunings hood quick lift system
-LED interior package
- KN washable cabin air filter
- Bed extender (on short bed)

3/ Mods only for aesthetic/decorative (but don't improve nothing)
- Aluminium grille
- switch knobs
- hood deflector
- tonneau cover (helpful when raining, but catches tons of dust in dry season)
- wood gear shift knob

4/ Mods I can't classify :
- Flowmaster 50 muffler
- Pedal Commander throttle response
- AFe Power silver bullet throttle body spacer

5/ Mods with negative experience :
- Bilstein 5100 shocks
- Old Man Emu shocks
- Sachs lift support for tailgate
- LED headlight bulbs

Hope it could help...

 

This is awesome! You have a favorite?

 

What was the length of the cord? I've been wanting to do this.

 

Suspension + snorkel + bumper

 

Good post. Agree with you on suspension completely. Experience here with OME and Bilstein. Dobinson’s is my favorite by far.

 

2nd grill re-fresh for my 08. Flat black with the splatter Toyota logo, I dig it. Ignore the dust from my neighbors 4 hour leaf blowing session this morning...

 

ahh man, im slightly guessing based on if i got the 100ft rope to begin with. But i just measured the excess and if it was 100ft to start then for the section i did it was ~33ft. The rope wasnt any larger than 100ft to begin, so ~33ft max. Hope that helps. Also, i just youtubed paracord steering wheel cover, there are a couple different braids to choose from

 

I've got the same one and had the same problems at first.
The tailgate cable needs a bit of a break in time to adjust fitting around the assist. I also had to bend the mounting bracket about 2mm to let the cable fit on the outside.

Now everything works great.

 

For sure man,I appreciate it. I should ha e just YouTube haha.

 

Installed my new to me decked system. I didn’t have all the parts for the install but ended up making two brackets to bolt to the bed and then made the shims out of a cutting board. Now I have to figure out how to bolt my second battery to it and then build my fridge slide. My dometic 75 barely barely fits up there but I have about 3/4” of room to mess with. I may have to take the cover off. I plan on building the slide as a drop slide and will start on that tomorrow. Due to the thickness I’m going to go 3/16 angle instead of my previous aluminum slide. That will also allow me to weld the locks on vs bolting them