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

Damn 24 years! You're the man!

When I was younger I was smarter (NOT! lol) so I got out. My son unfortunately got out early on a misdiagnosed medical. My son in law is a LtJG and currently on shore duty in Italy.

 

Today it was still ridiculously cold, but not snowing and not raining, so I figured, time to change the fuel door. To note, it rusted apart at the connector tab to the door, not the hinge wire itself.

How I got it, looks good, at least it's functional when closed, stays in place.


How it actually is, and makes it a pain in the ass to open and close.


Rivets all drilled out, used a 1/2" bit, got close to the hinge material, then just pulled the old door off. Knocked out the mushroom caps with a straight punch.


New door riveted in place. All old hardware re-attached. Yes, I greased up the hinge wire.


Vinyl sticker to cover up my mess ups. There was a dog hair in the finish, so I tried to get it out, it got wonky, I used a paper towel, it got wonkier. I should have sanded and started over, I didn't.

 

I think you are correct they are the original spark plugs. Toyota installed that mix of plugs from the factory. One side NGK and the other Denso. Never saw an official explanation, but most thought Toyota had a contract with both suppliers...lol

By the way, Toyota has a 30K mile limit on the OEM plugs, so those went way past their replacement point.

 

This is actually really good advice, if you can set it for more frames per second, you will be able to catch more of what you need to in a dash cam, even if the still images are not quite as high resolution. Having both high fps and 4k would be great, but I agree that fps is more important than resolution for this application. Though just my opinion.

 

swap it? lol

 

I wish.... I dont have the time or money for that, or the second car to use while my trucks down

 

Sounds good. Nice throaty sound. A little louder in the cab than I expected.

 

Which brand did you go with NGK or Denso?

 

That was a terrible lane change though, you cut him off. The guy was being a donk but i believe you caused that by not merging at a more appropriate time. he was clearly overtaking you in the passing lane when you merged back in because you didn't want to slow down for the braking car infront of you..

 

like i said, guy was/is a donk. but i believe that whole situation could have been avoided with more careful driving, that's all.

Edit. Gosh golly, seems like you deleted your comment bud.

 

Welp, you can all think what you want. I was trying to show how 30fps was not as useful as 60fps and I guess I should not have offered any advice by showing my own mistakes, because now I'm getting shit on by people who think they have a right to shit on me about the situation. Entirely not what the message was, but cool guys, your input is totally appreciated.

I didn't say "this guy caused this" or "this guy is to blame" -- I only said that it would have been nice to be able to provide an actual plate number by having a higher fps count. I don't get why the sudden blame-game was played, as though I was somehow saying I wasn't at fault. It doesn't matter. It happened years back and it's over.

I'm done engaging in the ridiculous responses.

 

I definitely contemplated the Rigid's (I have some on my Teryx4 and they work great) but I plan on getting some Baja Designs Squadron Sports when the funds are available. Also want to do a 20 inch OnX6+ bar on the bumper. But it'll be awhile. $$$$$

 

bought a pressure washer and washed all the red dirt off my truck last night!

If you need sockets Home Depot has this box for on sale for $60 right now. Already got mine so now i can share!

 

How many of those are 6 point vs 12 point? I've found the 12 point ones tend to round off bolts pretty badly.

 

It's not that it gets under my skin, because I don't honestly care what random people think. It's that we should expect better. I know I really try to treat everyone with as much respect as possible, until I've been given a reason not to. That's what my parents taught me, treat others better than you are treated. Internet or real life, it doesn't matter, and I feel like we, as a society, should stop making the argument of "boys will be boys", which is the same, and pardon me for being a tiny bit reductionist, as "people on the internet will always be assholes because you can't see their face". We should always expect better of people, and writing off troll behavior because of the aforementioned argument shouldn't be generally accepted, it should be the other way around.

I'd really rather just delete the entire thing and send the post to him directly so he understands why I advocate for higher bit rates and frames. Unfortunately for me, I can't do that, which means this continues for as long as I let it continue. At this point, the only reason I responded about the chain of events/posts previously was because of your well thought out response.

 

Ya, either brands are pretty damn expensive

 

Picked up a pressure washer last night so I can pressure wash the truck off at home now. Need a foam cannon now!

Also home depot has this socket set for $60!! It was $100 during christmas... glad I waited!

 

Million mile tacoma didnt change the spark plugs until 740,000 miles...

Ahhh yeah! you going to wheel this year at jambo??

Those some sweet bed rail mounts!

 

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