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

Yeah buddy thinks he’s funny

 

Changed out the climate control bulbs with LEDs. With these knobs not as much light come through with the stock bulbs. New bulb is on the left .

 

How much were all of the idler pulleys?

 

All-Pro expeditions. Also, I cheated a little bit, this is not my truck. It is my friends that I did the install. I also run this leaf pack. They are great. But then again, I haven’t ran any other leaf pack than stock.

 

did mine awhile back, iirc they were all 35-40 each.......for oem

 

Quick meet up with @fatfurious2

 

link?

 

I got the T3 bulbs but they where too small for the climate control bulb space so I had to remove the old bulb from the housing and but the new LED in. I would think the T4 would fit. The T3 bulbs do fit the fog light buttons.

http://www.autolumination.com/instrument_panel_bulbs_neowedge_t3_t4_t5_led_bulbs.htm

 

I bought them from McGeorge Toyota online. The 16603-0P030 was $56.18, and the 16604-0P011 were $49.51 (need 2 of these). Their discount is about the best, but the shipping was a bit high since they're on the other coast. Probably would have had a slightly lower total if I'd purchased from Capitol Toyota which is much closer to me in CA.

The bearing for the tensioner was purchsed through Amazon for $35.

 

Thanks!
I just read that the T4 is the correct size.
What colour did you go with? I'm not sure if I should go bright white, yellow white, or amber/yellow.

 

Basic question…..
What made you change them…..preventive, or noise

 

Diff lock hadn't been working since last fall, took the actuator off and found the problem. Got a new one installed.


Also installed sway bar sliding disconnects. These things are pretty great so far! The only complaint I have about them is the bar with the pin rotates, so it makes putting the pins back in a bit more of a nusens than it needs to be. Either way thanks @ZebraScissors

 

Got the transmission flushed at a local transmission shop (Hillsdale Transmission, San Mateo, CA). Went in and talked to the owner beforehand and he was very knowledgeable about the A750F and like @gearcruncher he's a proponent of the LubeGard ATF additive which I had them put in with the new fluid. His office also looks like a place that American Pickers would like visiting.

So that was the last maintenance item I had on my longish list since buying the truck. I kind of did one of those satisfied sighs, thinking "Yeah, all done for a while." Then last night when I took the truck out to run an errand, I realized the lights for the climate controls were burned out. DOH! Thinking back over the last few weeks, I hadn't really driven it at night so I'm not surprised I missed that. Oh well, got the bulbs added to an order I had going so those will be dealt with next weekend. Then I'll REALLY be done.

Wait, why are you laughing?

 

It was both. Since before I bought my Taco, I've been reading a lot on TW and I had a good sense of things that I should check out on a 10-yr old truck. It was super easy to release the tension on the belt and spin the pulleys enough to determine if they spun to freely with that sound I remember from skates with metal wheels. Two of them were like that, one clearly worse than the other. One was still just fine, and the bearing for the tensioner was somewhere in between (probably could have gone another 20K). I wasn't going to muck around with this and just do the two since they are so easy to replace; they lasted 10 years so I figure I'll likely never need to do it again.

Also checked the alternator for bearing noise while I was at it, but it seems totally fine. Happy enough about that, it would have added a couple of hours to the job if I'd needed to swap it out (not to mention the additional cost).

 

I wanted to change the background color in my 2012 but I guess that is when they went to soldered led bulbs. No T4's in this one.

 

Bought this 2012 for under $14.5 a few weeks ago. Been doing a lot of maintenance catch-up and a few basic mods. After 5 weeks I figured I would finally do a Turtle Wax Ceramic wash and wax just to see if there was any shine left in the paint. Looks great but now I really need to start polishing out the scratches. Also need to get some 303 or something to restore the exterior black plastics. Still very happy with the truck.

 

Get some solution finish for exterior plastics instead.

 

Dang, 14.5?! How'd you manage that?? Great find!

 

Nice! She looks good! How many miles when you hit it?

 

It work? I’ve used Mother’s Back-to-Black and Aero303 and both washed off