What did you do TO / WITH your 4th gen Tacoma today?! 👨‍🏭 🧰 📸

[TFOUTS]

That would look like hurricane season in Florida except the bottles would be eight 5-gallon cans of gas for the portable generators

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[RokeHi]

Removed the factory tie downs and installed the Toyota OEM front row hooks.

 

[SnowmanJPS]

gave her a half ass wash since it'll be nice all week with rain on the weekend for the 10th weekend in a row

 

[Bravada]

Got my Husky Aeroskin Hood Protector on. Getting chips on the hood, and I hate PPF.

 

[Slappy]

Got my Husky Aeroskin Hood Protector on. Getting chips on the hood, and I hate PPF.

So how do like the hood protector ?
I am really interested in that one
I think the smoke color would look great on my celestial silver metal flake with blacked out features
how was the install ?

 

[Slappy]

Removed the factory tie downs and installed the Toyota OEM front row hooks.

so those are forged steel ?

 

[Bravada]

So how do like the hood protector ?
I am really interested in that one
I think the smoke color would look great on my celestial silver metal flake with blacked out features
how was the install ?

I've been wanting the Aeroskin since I saw it in the last SEMA show videos. I followed the install manual and install video. It was painless. Despite my best efforts I'm off by a millimeter or two from it being perfectly centered, but it's not really noticeable. I'm very picky about that kind of stuff so I'm probably being overly critical. Due to the geometry of the hood, it's pretty easy to center.

 

[Slappy]

I've been wanting the Aeroskin since I saw it in the last SEMA show videos. I followed the install manual and install video. It was painless. Despite my best efforts I'm off by a millimeter or two from it being perfectly centered, but it's not really noticeable. I'm very picky about that kind of stuff so I'm probably being overly critical. Due to the geometry of the hood, it's pretty easy to center.

kool

 

[Administrator]

Post what you've done with your Tacoma today/recently

 

[crepr12]

Ordered Black Mirror caps...Had to call five different dealers to get a parts guy...who got what I was looking to do...Delete some Chrome

 

[Pappy]

Pulled the Dobinson C59-819V springs off the rear, and installed C59-821V. Dobinson recommended the 819V, but with the weight I have on the back I didn't get any lift. If anything, I might have been negative. I'm still waiting on something for the fronts. The Dobinsons were on backorder for 2 months, and I finally canceled the order. I ordered Alldogs from Runnin 4 Tacos because they had them in stock.

Picture of before. No pics in the weeds yet with the 821V's. The poor truck dragged over everything that week.

 

[nurp42]

Added tonneau cover w/ bed rack---- posted thread about this set-up if anyone is interested in more info and few additional pics.

 

[CyberTaco]

Yesterday I installed Redline Tuning hood struts. This was an easy install and the instructions were great.

 

[CyberTaco]

Today I installed the bed step $95 from Amazon. This install gave me problems. I followed the advice from a previous poster about running a bolt through the holes before installing the step to clean the paint out of the holes, and this worked to an extent. I managed to bugger up 2 holes a bit and messed up the treads on 2 of the bolts. I fixed the problem by running a 10mm x 1.5 tap through the holes and the same size die to clean the threads on the bolts. I used WD-40 throughout the entire process to lube the bolts and holes and they still got buggered on the 1st try. If you do add a step, I recommend running a tap through the holes first. you can get one at Lowe's for about $9 if you don't have one. You have to use a box or open end wrench to tighten the bolts as there isn't enough room to use a ratchet. I don't think a ratchet wrench would fit either, but I didn't have a 14 mm one to try. The last thing I did today was add my Retired Army tag holder and Vietnam Vet tag to the front of the truck.

 

[Slappy]

Today I installed the bed step $95 from Amazon. This install gave me problems. I followed the advice from a previous poster about running a bolt through the holes before installing the step to clean the paint out of the holes, and this worked to an extent. I managed to bugger up 2 holes a bit and messed up the treads on 2 of the bolts. I fixed the problem by running a 10mm x 1.5 tap through the holes and the same size die to clean the threads on the bolts. I used WD-40 throughout the entire process to lube the bolts and holes and they still got buggered on the 1st try. If you do add a step, I recommend running a tap through the holes first. you can get one at Lowe's for about $9 if you don't have one. You have to use a box or open end wrench to tighten the bolts as there isn't enough room to use a ratchet. I don't think a ratchet wrench would fit either, but I didn't have a 14 mm one to try. The last thing I did today was add my Retired Army tag holder and Vietnam Vet tag to the front of the truck.

them fine threads are a bitch to get to started !

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