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

Cleaned her up, washed waxed and got the sand outta her cracks. She doesnt like that. threw some floormats in the back. lookin for some more for the front and detailed the inside that had some greese spots on it.

 

Painted my rims black, unfortunately I have to touch them up. Wamp Wamp. still look good in my opinion though.

 

Did the "DBBD1 alternative locker anytime mod" that I found on another forum. It took literally 2 minutes to get the switch wired and working for a test run. Took another 30 minutes to decide on and implement my switch location.



Not sure if I like the mod. I liked that in my 4runner you don't even know the mod is there, it just locks any time. My taco is 2009 and this was an old mod for pre-2009 tacos. It makes things pretty clunky with the electronics in these trucks. Sure it locks up in all transfer case modes now. But flipping the switch doesn't disable abs like I was expecting, and it throws the CEL at 30mph plus. So I might be looking into a conventional method for this instead and just use the switch for abs disable.

 

got her detailed today

 

Removes front mud flaps and trimmed some of my inner fender liner bye bye rubbing

 

how do you know when/if your wheel bearings are going? I have a low drooning sound in the front right wheel that I can hear from the cab and feel on my feet. I'm 99.9% sure it's not my tires because it's not always there and not 100% constant when it is.

 

I think a couple indicators are if it pulls to one side, and if you have an infrared thermometer show one hub hotter than the other. I'm sure there are other ways though. Maybe jack it up, shake the wheel and see if it moves more than it should, or grinds when you rotate it.

 

after driving for a while, if you touch the wheel hub and you burn yourself, the bearing is bad

When my Jeep had a bad one, it was extremely obvious by heat. Not saying all will be like that though.

 

You'll also hear a whine going down the road

 

New winter tires, wheels and a aimed the headlights. Sick of being high beamed.

 

That's classic wheel bearing. Buy one of the completed assemblies from nj636 and swap it out before it fails.

 

25k service. Feel bad for the techs, I still haven't washed the truck from my last wheeling trip.

 

I installed the 3/4 preload isolators from wheelers day before yesterday, heres some pics. It ride a tiny bit stiffer than before, but so far no problems at all. I love it.

 

Sway delete as well?

 

Yes, i took it off awhile back. Its only really noticable on expansion joints on the interstate at 80 mph, a little sway but i love it and have zero regrets.

 

Flag must be burned now

 

you fucked up...

this

 

Waiting on my wheels, received this today