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

Wow! What a difference!

 

Crawled under the truck this afternoon, with 102 °, to check what's wrong with the evap system.
Removed canister and hoses, all seems clean.
Don't want to drop the tank or remove the bed to finally find nothing...

we'll see that another day....

 

After seeing the difference, the before pic reminded me of Sid from Ice Age.

 

Working on reinstall/overhaul of my Bussman setup. Nixed my custom lexan mount for a Powertrays mount.

I bought my original Bussman off eBay as a “complete” setup but now basically have an upgraded kit, bought an entirely new RTMR, had a lot of the pins and seals already. Upgraded it to 10ga copper power leads (eBay kit came with like 12-18ga CCA). Setup everything so the 5 relayed leads make up one connector, 5 nonrelayed leads make another, then my triggers run via a Deutsch connector.

I have a blue sea safety hub that I’m debating how to mount, but it will be the power distro center from the battery. I’ll be cleaning up all the accessory wires coming off the battery also and running most through the safety hub.

Will also be integrating a smaller 4 fuse blue sea fuse panel (setup to be switched 12v+ via a relay) that will serve some low amp interior accessories.

And finally putting in a daystar boot grommet to allow more wiring run into the cab since the 2 grommets in the engine bay are now full of my other crap (car audio/comms/coax/trigger wires).

Electrical is a headache lol.

 

That's my spring project!

 

Every time I think I’ve got everything I need I turn around and have to buy something else lol. I think I finally have all I need.

 

Made over-the-tonneau fire extinguisher mounts out of two Simpson P/N A88 90-deg angle ties from Home Depot. All I needed to do was drill two 1/4" holes on each tie plate to use the aluminum rail blocks I removed previously from my tonneau latches. Had the idea to mount a shovel on the inside, since the pre-existing holes on the tie plates readily took QuickFists with a couple of screws. Eventually decided not to mount the shovel this way, because access will be too slow.

 

Got a Jeep cargo net as a bed divider for ~$26 USD incl. shipping on AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1x-...orage-Network-Cover-For-Jeep/32899614084.html

 

Got some new tires. Love these first time buying them though. Made my truck look so much better compared to the highway tires I had on it. These are Falken Wildpeak A/T-3's.

 

These came in today. Cooper Discoverer XLT 295/75 16

 

Gotta chop that CMC and da fenders next!!!!

 

Yeah. I have another alignment appointment first before I do some more cutting. With the 285's i have on right now I'm not rubbing after this first alignment appointment. Gotta get it all ready for a trip next weekend

 

I wasn't a fan of the smoked headlamps, but I'm beginning to come to the dark side. Those look sharp.

 

out of curiosity, anyone give you sh*t for not having a front LP? i have a LTC and i don’t need the extra hassle so that’s why i put mine on. plus the stealership already drilled into my front bumper

 

Howzit Chamorro. Some states no require front license plates. One way I've heard that you can get away with it is if you explain to the cop that you got the truck like that. That's if there aren't any holes drilled in the bumper though lol

 

I would hate to have to be required to get a front plate. Its not a requirement in WV, and hopefully it never is, lol

 

No not at all

 

Got a new front camera installed for the Anytime Camera system. This one replaces the El Cheapo model that could not be configured to reverse the image. Sorry, no pics.

 

You should put those on that Prius in the background!

 

To my American brethren... Canada stands with you today and every single day. We got your backs too. Never forget.