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

Can't wait for light bar to come next wensday

 

it will match these bhaddies

 

Got to see my truck after 3+ weeks of being away. Never gets old

Also just purchased a AEM X-Series Gauge kit (AFR and Boost). Will post again when I put them in

 

Looks great man, awesome work. Cleans it up so well.

 

Got the bikes out this weekend. First weekend in a while I haven’t done any work on it. Not that I don’t still have a pile of parts to slowly tackle.

 

Time to get that aligned maybe.

 

Huh?

 

It's a joke about how the fish eye lense screwed with the proportions of the wheels/tires

 

Oh yeah just a wide angle so I could get the whole truck in the pic where I was at.

 

Saturday I replaced my drivers side wheel bearing. Man, what a pain in the ass. First... the old wheel bearing was a b*tch to remove. The axle was like stuck inside the wheel bearing. I watched the TRQ youtube video as a guide and he like used a center punch on the axle to free it. That did NOT work so I struggled and did that numerous times while also banging on the wheel bearing itself. It FINALLY came loose. Then, when putting the new one on the axle like wouldn't go into the new wheel bearing easily. So first go around I was tightening the four bearing bolts and it was just pushing the axle inward with it (hopefully I didn't damage the inner axle to bearing seal. So i removed the four bolts, lined the axle up, put the axle nut on to keep it from just pushing it inward... then did this game of tightening the four bolts, tightening the axle nut, tightening the four bolts, tightening the axle nut until it slowly and finally worked.

So the reason I replaced the bearing was because during my last alignment the shop said it needed to be replaced. I figured i'd do it myself instead of pay them. But, throughout the process i didn't really see any reason why they thought it was going bad? Is there any reason to keep my old wheel bearing as a spare or is there something i'm missing here? It didn't make any grinding noise, no slop, etc. Truck has 82k on it but i also run 3/4" spacers.

 

Sorry I am just seeing this... They are Bolt on Trail Gear sliders that I had welded on instead.

 

@henman911
I ordered them begining of April during a group buy on here. Received them end of May. It was about a 7 week turnaround for mine which have lumbar support and heating pads, custom logo.

 

First oil change w the RCI Skid on. Went well!

 

if youre referring to the gap thats normal. my 2012 has the same shit with my trail gear stinger front bumper. you can only tell if youre looking for it lol

 

No, I'm not talking about the gap. On most 12+ specific bumpers they take into account the triangle shaped area, where as pre 2.5 gen are flat. It's a non issue for fitment, super minor issue for looks. A 12+ won't fit on a pre 12, but it does work the other way

 

Did the 3ish quart transmission fluid drain/refill. Swapped out the 5mm hex overfill plug for a 14mm drain plug because fook that fookin hex plug.

 

I love the Map LIghts on with Dome Light mod. The best mod I have done, and the one requiring the most skill and patience.