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

Got my Kustom54lighting retrofit headlights installed.

 

Mounted my smittybilt gen 2 xl! Taking it out this weekend to the mountains for first trip!

 

1st day of vacation and the work begins. 3-4" Fox/All Pro lift on wifes tacoma.

 

Can anyone tell me if there is a easy way to unplug the wires going into the tailgate? Going to remove it to wrap but I didn't see a place to disconnect it at first glance.

 

I posted last week after installing the Jensen CAR689 in my truck. Turned out that head unit has all kinds of issues so I returned it, and grabbed a newer model with wireless Android Auto/Apple Car play. This one performs much better, and wireless Android Auto is a game changer for me (I use GPS in my area quite a bit). The install was not bad at all either considering I just did one last week. So far I highly recommend the Jensen CAR710w.

 

If you open up the tailgate and take off the inner panel, you can unhook the wire from the camera and put it threw the tailgate hole. Or you can disconnect the camera wore from the main harness underneath the truck, pull the tailgate out and then stuff it into the hole in the tailgate.

 

Swapped to some 18” x 500 lb coils today to bring the front end down some, back to where I was pre-LT which is about 1.5” lift. This thing rides like a boat now with the body roll but I love it. It’ll articulate so easily in the rocks.

 

Thank you good sir!

 

Hydro dip!
(ignore the shitty photo quality , currently using an iPhone 6.)

 

I thought about doing this with my mid travel(thought about it with my LT too), but wasnt sure what the consequences would be. Like a 16" spring instead of 14" but keep the spring rate or maybe just drop a little.. Seems so wasteful to have all those threads above the spring adjuster nut.

 

It all comes down to block height of the specific coil you’re looking at. Block height is how long the coil is when it’s fully compressed and the rings start touching each other.

When the shock is fully compressed, the two coil seats must be longer than the coil block height. That’s why I have so little preload right now. Any more and I would be bottoming out the coil before the shock.






I was just discussing this with a friend earlier today. He’s going to put softer 16” coils on his fox mid travel. We pulled some measurements with the coilover on the truck and it should fit. We’ll confirm once he gets it off the truck by taking more accurate measurements.

 

Been busy the last couple months. But here’s what I’ve accomplished on my truck. Installed bilstein 5100s on it. With eibach 2.5” lift coils up front. As well as a Icon add a leaf. Pulled the factory overload and put the Icon set in. Lifted the rear 1.5” so she sits pretty damn level. Maybe a 1/4” higher in the rear.
Today I installed some Amazon sourced headlight housings and led bulbs. Will see how they hold up. Spent like 180 on the setup. So if the new headlights suck I’ll figure out the next move. Should be a giant improvement over the stock ones!! Also ordered new wheels and tires. Will
Update pics and offset info once completed!!!

 

Sweet, would love to hear how that turns out.

 

We will know in about 10 days...

 

I’m thinking I just unplugged mine at the bottom where the wires come out

 

No pics, I found some minor rust under the door sill trim where the plastic rubbed the paint off. Wire wheeled the rust off and put two coats of touch up paint to hopefully stop it. If it continues I’ll have to do something else.

Still waiting on my Mr Marv sub enclosure so I can wrap that up. Patience is a virtue.

 

Before, empty truck bed.

Now with some weight in the bed.
The old lift.

 

Did you fab up the crossbar?

 

Putting on TRD pro wheels in the morning!