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

Installed 5100's all around, fronts set at 1.75", Toytec AAL 1.5", BFG AT 265/70r17

 

Redid my BHLM last night/this morning. FAILED. In the market for new headlights now.....

 

Yesterday, I know the title says today but I was too pissed last night to type it, I went to pick up my little sister from a friend's house and their dog jumped at my window and scratched my door!

So today I've been steaming over it but thankfully they aren't too bad I think some meguiar's scratch x will take care of it!

 

Removed the toyteck 1.5 " aal and installed riderite air bags. What a difference in ride ! With 10psi it sits exactly at the same height as before, but with a much better ride

 

Did u instal them urself ??

 

Yeah, from start to finish it was about 4 hours total, and that was with a few phone calls in the middle of it.

 

Been thinking about getting those

 

i dont think you will regret it. i got mine on Amazon. I just put the fill valves on either side of the license plate. looks clean and pro

 

Pic of my new UWS toolbox... loaded to the brim with tools, recovery gear, and camping shit... finally my backseat and rear floorboard is free of crap and the compartments behind and under the seats are free for cocaine and other fun stuff.

 

Got in it, and drove it.

 

Reinstalled the repainted sliders. Here's one of them with a coat of primer

 

Got the OME 3" lift installed yesterday (complete kit with Dakars from ToyTec) & had alignment done today. These pics were post-lift & pre-alignment, so the camber is obviously out of whack in the pics. Alignment is spot-on with stock UCA's. The truck drives perfectly - as it did before the lift. I wanted to give it a good shakedown before commenting on vibrations - so I did a short off-road 4WD jaunt to go cut firewood this morning before the alignment, then drove about 150 miles on the road home after the alignment. FWIW, there are no vibrations that I can discern - so I'm pretty happy right now with my setup without shims. She's a little tail-high right now, but I think itll settle a bit with a couple trips to the lake towing the boat.
Thanks to Chad Ray in Blue Ridge, GA for a clean, professional install at a very reasonable price.

 

That looks damn good. Going to be my next mod, tired of no ground clearance etc and want the ability to get BFG Mud terrains like everyone else. Lol.

 

Thanks! If I'd gotten the lift sooner I wouldn't have a crease in my step bar on the driver side. If I'd had sliders then they probably wouldn't have dented. Hmmmm, sliders, yeah, that's the ticket!

 

Wow Hansen, that looks sick!!! How hard was it to pull apart?

 

real easy, it just takes a little while to get down to just the face plate for the radio... i couldn't get the seek button out so i just peeled the plasti dip off it when it dried (i love this stuff) same goes for the lens over the display for the radio.

 

how do you like the difference? Im really thinking about that same setup. I dont want to go TOO high with it.

 

i have the same setup

fyi... this is my 1.5 toytec aal after about 5k miles


Ive had it for about 5k miles and 4ish months and it has sagged a lot and kind of has a w shape to it now, and im sitting close level with 1.75 up front.

 

Finally got my lower control arms off only took 27 sawzall blades and a lot of cursing and swearing