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Yes, I think this makes a lot of sense since the market these days seems to be to sell mid-size trucks to fathers as their daily drivers rather than as a utilitarian hauling vehicle. Ride quality and interior are big factors for a daily driver. I personally don't care about them much for my...

Why does everything need to look different for something to be entirely new? They will all have four wheels after all. If something ain't broken don't change it radically. And yes, the interior is new with slightly more room and quite a few different amenities. Seems like essentially every...

I'd probably skip the '05 just because it had first model year problems. Maybe target an '06 or '07. Virginia is going to be awful for rust, they use salt all the time and then the temperatures are high enough to promote very rapid corrosion if the undercarriage isn't washed promptly. I live...

Maine + Tacoma = likely totally rusted through frame that will eventually fail or fail to pass inspection unless already replaced by Toyota under a recall. Honestly, I would not purchase any used Tacoma in the NE unless it has already had its frame replaced under the Toyota recall. They are...

Had a '92 for 15 years. Bought it when I was 26. Just sold it and bought a 2015 Tacoma. It was painful to sell the 1992. But after driving all around So Cal and NV for a few days in the new truck I am very, very happy. This for sure. Loved my 22RE with 5sp MT off-road. Never had a...

12,500 is insane. For reference I just sold my 1992 4x4 RC Long Bed for $4,500. It had 125k miles on it. Had a full set of BFG KOs on it with just a couple thousand miles on them, timing chain and nearly everything else replaced on it already back at 117k. There will be other trucks. Don't...

If you plan on routinely hitting the skid plates and sliding down rocks with them then to me it seems steel would make sense. But I don't intentionally bash my truck into rocks. The skids are for if I completely ****** up somehow so I don't end up breaking very expensive parts of my truck. Or...

Thanks so much for reporting back on that! I now have my own FlipPac but of course the torsion bar is covered up by a tube so I can't actually see the surface of it. Presumed it must be shot peened but wasn't sure. From what I've read the shot peen process is easy to do wrong so perhaps that...

Just for reference a windowless FlipPac for a Tacoma short bed was $5100 + tax including installation at FRP this April. No fly. After CA taxes it was $5500 OTD.

Having read on the issue quite a bit, I think this is a decent summary: Air-bags are a great solution if you ride both loaded and unloaded on road. Their durability off road seems suspect but presumably plenty of people driving off road carefully have no issues. If you run loaded all the...

Once you've got them on and have had some time to try them out I'm really, really, really interested in how effective you find the clickers on the ICONs. Keep up the great build! I was dead for two years after our daughter was born, impressed you can do anything at all right now!

Awesome, thanks for the detailed reply! I live across the country from my truck which is in storage so I couldn't just go out and look. It seems some plastic clips are likely to break no matter what you do when removing things. As long as you can figure out the part number they are cheap to...

Good plan! Yes, definitely want to have tie downs for everything. Accidents get really ugly when equipment becomes airborne in the cab. So dumb question now that I look more closely at the pictures... The 60% passenger side and 40% driver side seats do come out separately? I could just...

I need seating for three and have been thinking of removing the 40% portion of the rear seat behind the driver to provide more space. Yeah, pretty sure those are going away across the whole 100%. Looks nice and open in the back of your truck now. Thanks for sharing the pictures.

If you do a little Googling there is a FSM for the 05 or 06 online.

There's been some talk of the 34x10.5R17 in this thread and someone over at TW has started posting in the KO2 thread there about their new 34x10.5R17. Link if anyone is interested: http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/wheels-tires/344486-bfgoodrich-all-terrain-t-ko2-29.html#post10187779

Do you have 3+ inches of lift? If so a 34x10.5R17 would be similar to the 255/85R16 so many people use as a large pizza cutter on 16" wheels. It is a 33.5" tire though so you will need 3" of lift minimum and may need to check for a little bit of trimming in places. Probably necessitates after...

Just my personal preference, but since most beds are ribbed and you end up standing or sitting in the bed a fair bit something to make the bed actually flat. So that often isn't a liner so much as some sort of a floor. Some folks put plywood or something down before building out the bed so...

Love the curtain mod and thanks for the very helpful write up! Great idea using pop rivets into that section of the FlipPac. I shall shamelessly copy! I discovered on my first weekend with the Flip Pac that it works as an extremely effective bug trap. They wander in the back, fly up into the...

Nice find! Yeah, Wal-mart trying to sell a $300 cooler was a pretty dumb idea on their part. Not their target market. And once they are distributed to the stores and not moving just clearance pricing them was probably the right thing to do. Interestingly their website says the cooler is in...