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

That’s some low mileage!

 

Oil & Filter, Throttle Body & MAF! 195K

 

Gotta love how easy our oil changes are!

 

Did mine yesterday in about 10 mins from unscrewing the filter to resetting the maint light

 

Shamefully had a 3rd gen for 5.5 years and hated changing that oil. Had a quick valve on the pan but that filter system just sucked. 2nd gen is the best oil filter setup that I have seen in my 50 years of driving.

 

Made my first wiring harness ever. Green/black in left taps power and ground for dash light off the rheostat to power the top row of switches left of the steering wheel. Blue is connected to a switch on the left side and the radio illumination on the right in order to enable/disable radio dimming w/headlights. Red/black on right is to power a USBC QC module.

I didn’t realize crimping too hard would break the connections and I wasn’t bench testing as I went along, so when I finished (the first time) nothing worked. I had to do it all over again . In any case, I’m happy that I went this route rather than permanent spliced connections.



Edit: rookie move, on the left side, I have two 2-pin connectors with different functions right by each other (#4 green+black and #5 blue+blue). I should have used a 3-pin connector for #5 so that it’s not possible to accidentally swap the 2-pin connectors.

 

Applied two coats of Raptor bed liner to the shell this morning. Used wax/degreaser then adhesive promotor before applying the first coat. Masking seemed to take forever - but was worth it in the end. Great product - sprayed very nicely with the provided air gun at 47-50psi. First coat was covered well - second coat was more to blend and get the tone more of a matte finish.

I’ll update this post Monday when she’s back on the truck.

 

Might as well do the whole truck while you’re in there

 

A thing.
Did find some spider's
Not done.
More pics and info soon.

 

Finally got around installing my body armor bumper and warn winch

 

Finally gave it a spring cleanup.

 

Also gave it a wash. Let the damn rain give it a free rinse.

 

I recommend tightening them every couple months like it says on their website because the bolts will fall out which has happened to me twice and I had to get replacements which weren't cheap. They weren't like expensive but more than you should pay for it.

 

Finally installed my Caliraised rock sliders

 

Thanks for the heads up, I will make sure to check them regularly. I did start out putting red loctite on them, so I’m interested to see if I have the same issue.

 

its more so the rear ones that have issues. I feel like some of the bolts weren't long enough so I ended up replacing them with longer ones and haven't had issues with those but I have noticed they still loosen up a bit. Also I should mention I have to drive down a wash boarded road every day so that doesn't help anything.

 

What degree are those?

 

Replaced the passenger CV Axle with my trail spare. Now gotta rebuild this one.

 

Did a thing, still not done and no more spider's.

All new lower control arm adjusters, CV axles, wheel bearings, and upper control arms all done. Need to install the brakes, and torque everything.

 

I wonder at what point double shear gusset the coil bucket becomes necessary
looks like that's about the only thing it's missing

what kind of bumpstop spacer is that and why'd you get it?