What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

I think only legal off road. On road, they have to be covered. I think BD sells covers for all their lights.

 

This is true. I wanna say any lights that are above your stock headlights are required to be covered while driving on road. But I drove my Tacoma like this for just about 15 years without getting pulled over for the lights.

 

Swapped out the Stillen cover with @TacomaTRD4x402 plexiglass cover and new hardware! Looks a lot a better now!

 

SDHQ brake lines are in. Coming home the other day, I got on the throttle and did some hard braking. I'll be dammed if I didn't get brake pulse again. I did factory rotors and Hawk LTS pads. Did the bed in procedure to the tee. Here I am back again with brake pulse. After going down the brake rabbit hole once again, I am going to look into Frozen or Stoptech cryo rotors with EBC green pads.

 

Looks great!

 

Installed those a few months back

 

Someone tell me everything's gonna be okay...

Just kidding.
Been holding off on this one as I was nervous about cutting up the carpet. Picked it up yesterday direct from ESP and installed just now while waiting for one of my orders from the Fred Anderson sale.



This is definitely a must have mod for the CrewMax! Zero regrets

 

I need to do this!

 

YOU DO!

I ordered direct from them just this past Saturday with discount code SPRING24. Hopefully it still works.

 

well did not do today but yesterday....

4 years and 1 day since driven off dealer lot as a new 21 crewmax.



yeah lots of dust from Palo Duro, Merus Adventure Camp with some Texas First Gens. About a 2200 mile rt drive

 

These make your brakes feel real good.

 

Cali for sure is sensitive not a problem a lot of other places

 

Yeah, some of the laws here don't make sense but that's California for ya. With the lights, it seems like that alone wouldn't be enough reason to be pulled over. You would actually have to be blinding an oncoming cop to get pulled over for that. It's kind of like tinted windows. It seems like they don't pull you over just for that but they'll tack it on to the ticket if they pull you over for speeding. Ask me how I know.

 

It sounds silly, but are all the lug nuts torqued equally. Like with a torque wrench?

 

More fun times with my ARB air compressor! One of the waterproof fuse holders wasn’t waterproof, the wire corroded enough to cause intermittent drop out. Replaced both fuse holders with Midi holders and fuses. @BiggHertz has a much nicer solution, but I opted for the el-cheapo Dave fix.

 

Been waiting for a while for these, and finally it’s on the truck.

Passenger side:


Driver side:

 

How does it feel jumping speed bumps?

 

Paid it off. Four years early.

 

I just installed them 30 minutes ago but will take it out for a run in a bit before it gets dark. Will let you know. Thx

 

Christmas came early

Order 1 of 3

 

That's one of my pet-peeves. I bought a TQ wrench just for my wheels. I cant stand when tire shops or dealers use impact guns. I have to actually replace some of my lug nuts because the last tire install shop ran the socket over the tip and not they are rusted. Or just clean them up and add some paint.

 

I may know a guy who has never used a torque wrench on his wheels in 20 years.

 

I have had multiple Toyotas over the past almost 25 years and I have had the best luck with OEM rotors and OEM pads.

I’m sure there will be lots of negative feedback on this, but the only time I ever had a wheel shimmy or shake upon braking was when I used a different rotor or pad.

 

I use it now because of all the talk early on about not torquing or over torquing the wheels damages the rotors. But yes, before them, I have never TQ any of my wheels.

 

I went with OEM rotors but not the pads. I did Hawk because I have had good luck with hem in the past. But I am now on a 2nd set of OEM rotors, 1 set of OEM pads and the Hawk. 3rd times a charm as they say.

 

Most recently (Feb 2024) I just changed out all four rotors and pads. Approximately 67k on the original OEMs. Mind you, that is with being lifted and on 35s for about 43k of those miles.

Replaced the rotors and pads with OEM, and have had zero issues or shimmy.

Two months later, added new tires (same size) ensured everything was torqued and have had zero pulsation issues.

 

OE rotors cause of the sale??

 

Yeah, gonna stick with all OEM rotors and pads for when the time comes. I still got a long ways to go but just like to stock up on maintenance items.

 

Who me? Over engineer and overspend on a solution. Never.

#JSONSpec

 

Finally added the switch for the bed light. So now when the gate is open, the light is ON. The secondary switch to manually turning it off is there. In case i need to have the gate down for a long period of time.


Also added this vent mount phone holder for a Tacoma. Which work great.