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

This whole time I thought it was a Siegfried and Roy reboot.

 

The Tiger King is a National Treasure!!!

 

I got those as well. Very bright.

 

Hang a sign on it..."If your found here at night ..you'll be found here in the morning"

 

That would be more money and trouble than I’m willing to invest in them. I might dip them grey, or maybe bronze. Not many examples of them in other colours.

 

Same ones I used. Made a world of difference to me.

 

Thanks, that’s today, I bought a power bleeding kit online 2 weeks ago. Oh yea, I’m using this time to bring the truck back to new, with 150k im also doing the coolant and I’m tempted to do the water pump and belts.

 

Where did you source the hdpe? The shop I found in Denver wants about $100 for a tailgate sized sheet.

 

$47 HDPE Sheet High Density Polyethylene - Plastic Sheet 1/4" Thick 24" Length x 48 Width Black

https://www.amazon.com/HDPE-Sheet-High-Density-Polyethylene/dp/B07VZ7X3HD/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2VPFIYUHZCGYQ&dchild=1&keywords=hdpe+sheet+1%2F4&qid=1585926928&sprefix=hdp%2Caps%2C193&sr=8-4

try Amazon ABS is much cheaper, but no where near as durable...

another option..
Mar 31, 2020 at 3:21 PM
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so I replied with a smart ass thing...on a serious note I have a dash cam thats hard wired into a power supply that keeps it powered full time. i.e. .thru a fuse block to battery.....camera has a sleep mode is set up to activate on motion, and on a bump to the truck (programable force)....there is a bunch of newer stuff on line then mine, which is several years old....the red number display on the right 13.8 is the PS..its also can be set up to power down at some voltage to protect the battery from going dead....

 

Not sure what kind you got, but mine made a huge difference. They look like freaking spotlights. I’ll try to get a pic tonight, not sure what brand I used though. They came with a kit I ordered for interior lights.

 

Yes it will. And then it will catch fire and you will be on the side of the road with your hood up. And one of the other pizza delivery drivers will see you and tell your boss. And then you grab an old tee shirt to rip it out of the terminal. And then you will get back to the store trying to be all cool like nothing happened. Not knowing that everyone knows your car was just on fire. And your Boss is dumbfounded that you are just going to finish your shift, because anyone else would have used it as an excuse to blow the day off. Fuses are important

Oh to be 18 again. LoL

Oh and this:

 

Don't get lost in all the LED hype. These out perform LED's any day. And they don't scatter light everywhere because that's what LED's do in a halogen reflector. It's not brighter, that's just glare.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/gy6-35-hir-921-reverse-light-upgrade-vs-high-power-leds.474996/

 

http://www.almorpowercables.com/blog/purpose-of-drain-wire-in-shielded-cables

 

LOL, reminds me of the early days using EL wire systems. They used a small transformer/oscillator sealed in a black box.
Well, those little transformers put out 100 volts at 1K oscillation and they didn't like it when their output wires got fused. That's a problem as the outputs are in a flexible tube and if you go beyond the bend radius, they will fuse. You also won't know they are fused because they are really small.
So, you plug in the system, see the pretty light and go on about your day. Then you run it at night and the little black boxes start to smoke and melt. You end up with a nasty pile of goo and a nasty smell. Ah, good times.

 

THIS is exactly the appeal.

Amazes me that this sh*t is what we are doing with our brains during the period of time.


(yup. I did. Whole damn show. One day.)

 

This is what I used (bought them from PepBoys.

$22 Philips Automotive Lighting 921WLED Ultinon LED Bulb (White), 2 Pack

https://www.amazon.com/Philips-Ultinon-Bulb-White-Pack/dp/B077FMLN7B

 

she definitely killed her husband

 

I purchased my 2008 truck at 68k. 1 owner, did his own tire rotations, oil changes, brakes, and a spark plug job at 56k. All of these records are written in the back of the owners manual. No mention of any diff/transfer case, coolant changes etc.

I am planning on doing the transfer case, front/rear diff oil swap myself, but for the transmission and coolant I have three questions:
1) For transmission, should I have them do flush, or just fluid exchange
2) For coolant, should I have them do flush, or just fluid exchange; and lastly
3) Are these prices absurd? From Toyota Dealer in South Seattle:

• # A MA112 Transmission - Flush 1.20 374.25
• # B TE01 Transmission Fluid Exchange - WS 1.00 240.75
• # C MA24 Differential (Rear) Oil - Change 0.60 146.10
• # D MA23 Differential (Front) Oil - Change 0.40 129.20
• # E MA25 Transfer Case Oil - Change 0.60 123.25
• # F SUNCOOL Coolant Exchange Service 1.00 189.00
• Subtotal 1202.55
• Printed On 04/03/2020 5:12:13 PM Sales Tax 121.46
• Total 1324.01

I feel confident with the change of oils for transfer case and front/rear diff (which will save me: about $350) but I don't feel confident taking on the coolant or transmission.
My truck does make a bit of a rattle during acceleration, which I thought the new spark plugs would solve, but not yet (less than 200 miles since change).

Thoughts?