what's up guys got something a little bit different to work on today something
outside the dirt bikes well it's kind of really a dirt bikes this is what hauls
my bikes around but I picked up a new truck few months ago and there's some
stuff I've been wanting to do to it so why don't we take a look at the truck
real quick so here she is it is a 2019 Toyota Tacoma bought it
pretty much exactly as it sits right now basically a new truck it's got like
10,000 miles on it but I already had the lift which is a 6 inch BDS lift on it
got some 20-inch Hostile wheels with 35 x 12.50 tires see what else has done
do it so the BDS lift is actually a coilover
setup up front which is really nice this thing rides super good it also has some
airbags in the back just for towing got an onboard compressor down there
got the on-board compressor so you can air up your tires or air up the bags got
a little connection back here if you want air up your tires and whatnot but
I've always wanted one of these trucks absolutely love the look of them the
interior everything about it is just perfect also has different seats I
believe maybe just covers but yeah they come pretty set up right from the
showroom now one thing that really attracted me to this truck was the color
it is the cement gray very unique color absolutely love it
the other thing was it was already done up like how I had wanted with the lift
and wheels and tires I believe they also did a different grille and a black roof
too and outside of the truck itself I ended up saving a boatload of money by
buying this one found a really good deal on it and got the price down I ended up
saving like 10 to 15 grand for her to buy a new truck and do all this stuff to
it so pretty hyped on that now there's a few things and then kind of bothered me
since I bought the truck and so today I'm gonna get to work fix some of this
stuff up now the first thing is the speedo due to
the bigger tires it's off by about 10% so we'll need to pull apart the dash to
install the beedo corrector it'll be pretty nice to
have an accurate speedo and maybe you'll save me from some speeding tickets and I
still do have the car that has a 2016 WRX so if you guys are interested in
buying it I am selling it really no use having a car and a truck like I said
2016 with a little over 50,000 miles very good shape I kept up on it really
good just like I do with my bikes basically flawless I put it all back to
stock the only thing aftermarket is a black wrapped roof a little dirty right
now oh yeah very cool car if you guys are interested send me a DM on Instagram
I am asking 23,000 for it alright let's pull this thing in the shop and get
working on that speedo corrector
after popping out a few clips and some bolts we have access to the backside of
the speedo so what we're installing is the speedo
calibrator this is from Rough Country basically it goes in between the speedo
and the wiring harness and calibrates the speed for you so the box says it
fits sixteen and seventeen two comas but actually works on eighteen and nineteen
as well now before you install the calibration
box which we have here you want to go on rough country's website download the
update program here open a program up and obviously select the model that you
have and then punch in the stock tire size and the tire size you're going with
and then go up to program unit click on that and that will adjust the
calibration box for your tire size so we are good to go program success now after
programming the module we're just gonna unplug the harness from the back of the
speedo it's this bigger connector here on the passenger side that's out and
then the harness for the calibration unit just snaps right into that
connector there there we go and then the other end of the harness just plugs
right into the factory toyota harness
all right we're all plugged in we're going to tuck the harness and module
back behind get the speedo back into place along with all the bezels and we
can go test your out
all right let's get her up to speed and see what the speedo says compared to the
Apple my phone all right something's going on here my speedo says 51 the app
on my phone says 48 but I've got the cruise set at 44 so what I don't I don't
get it I'm have to reprogram that module all
right so I recalibrated the module and the issue was that I didn't punch in the
actual tire size so these are 35 s but when you go and measure them they are
actually 30 4.5 so I changed that now the speedo is pretty close it's only a
mile an hour off but unfortunately you can see that I have the cruise set at 40
so the cruise is still off that must pull speed from a different sensor or
different source but at least my speedo is correct now off to a contact rough
country and see there's anything I can do to correct the cruise but I got the
speedo working good now something else that calibrator corrected too is the
miles per gallon meter before I said I was getting like 14 or 15 and now it
says 18 which is pretty solid considering a stock truck gets 20 so 18
or 18 and a half ain't bad with a 6-inch lift in 35 pretty happy we're all back
in business ready to go now another thing that's been bothering me is the
gauge for the air system it was mounted up right here but someone broke off the
mount before I bought the truck so I bought a replacement mount so why don't
we get this thing secured back on
we're back in place now hopefully I don't break that thing off it's kind of
in a weird spot be easy to whack it with your knee there's really nowhere else to
mount that thing on the dash so it'll have to do now one more thing in the
interior that won't change out is the mirror this one does not have the home
link setup so I bought one that does so I'm gonna swap that out that way I can
have a garage door opener link to it
all right so got the mirror installed I had to run the wiring up through the
headliner down the a-pillar and down to the fuse box down here but
got it hooked up and she is working good sweet now there's a few things on the
exterior that I'm wanting to clean up so the plastic on the bed rails and the
rear bumper the handle there I'm going to go through restore it or actually
shine it up and protect it with the seracote trim coat you guys have seen me
use that stuff before works really well keeps things looking good for many years
to come I'm also gonna do the inner fenders as
well that stuff is kind of an anti stick coating so when I go off-roading all
that all the dirt will just spray right off and I'll be on my way
that'll be pretty nice so to prep for the trim coat you want to clean up the
plastic with blue dog dish soap let it dry off in the Sun for a couple
hours and then bring it inside for it to cool down that plastic has to be
perfectly dry and cool to the touch before you cut it so I'm gonna drag the
truck outside to clean it up and we can get coating
while that trim is drying out I've got my eye on something else here the brake
drums that's right this truck has brake drums and they're pretty crusty
well first off why the heck did they put drum brakes on this thing I don't know
why I can't really be that hard to put disc brakes they seem to work alright
but anyways I'm going to pull the drums off sandblast them and powder coat in
black
these are gonna look so much better than that crustiness we had before although I
probably should be used a little flatter black you can see some of that pitting
showing through ain't the smoothest so I ended up using a stone block from
prismatic either way they're gonna look it on the truck so I'm gonna peel off
the masking tape on the backside and get a mounted up now one thing that really
chokes when you're working on brakes is when the drum or the rotor gets stuck to
the hub with rust and it looks like on newer vehicles they put some paper
between there to prevent that from happening now it can't hurt to throw
some anti-seize on there too just to ensure they don't rust together
I am loving it so much cleaner doesn't look like an old farmtruck anymore so at
this point we are ready to throw down some trim coat on the bumper and all the
plastic pieces so this is the stuff we're using probably need two or three
packs to do the bumper and fender liners I definitely want to wear gloves when
you're applying it and try to apply it in a consistent pattern like go in one
direction you don't want to swirl it for I go like cross directional just one
direction looks the best also stay far far away from the paint you don't want
to get it on the actual peanut vehicle and so I think on these I'm going to
actually mask off this whole edge here and all the way down this edge too
looks like someone had a good time out here oh wait that's just trim code so I
got everything coated well turned out great
check that out looks pretty sweet so I'm gonna give this stuff about an hour to
dry before I can just use it like normal the inner fenders actually turned out
really good too that should help keep all the mud off
I'll keep you guys posted on how that works you could probably do that on your
dirt bike as well that would help when you're washing it all that mud and dirt
should just brick and wipe right off now I've noticed the trim coat works best on
textured plastic like we have here and on the bumper I could go ahead and do it
on the front of the truck here on the grill this is a little bit smoother of a
type plastic I don't know it's sometimes it's hitting this on the smooth stuff
but on the textured plastic it's a winner it works really really good so I
used let's see six packages out here about one package per inner fender
honestly the price is pretty reasonable on the stuff it has come down over the
last couple months I'd say a package of ten runs about 25 or $30 on Amazon so I
use about $15 worth of material I'll say that's pretty good for how much I did
also when you're all finished up with this stuff I would leave it outside to
kind of air dry that way it doesn't stink up your garage or shop now the
difference between this stuff and say like a silicone spray or any type of
dressing for plastic is the trim coat is actually gonna last a long time is a
ceramic coating and actually embeds itself into the plastic and I say here
guaranteed up to 200 washes so yeah good stuff I've had awesome luck with it so
far so last night I ended up having to do a
little off-roading to get to a bonfire there isn't a ton of mud on here
but I figured this would be a good chest to see how well that trim coat kept the
dirt from sticking so let's hose it off and see what
happens
now it looks like it didn't completely prevent the dirt from sticking there's
still a little bit as you can see I'm sure if you grabbed a brush you would
just wipe right off but definitely made cleaning a bit easier so I would say
it's worth it so there's some more protection I want to do on the truck
with these wider tires they kind of fling up some rocks and could chip up
the rocker panels here so I'm going to get some clear protective film run it up
on the bottom side up to that line all the way down the cab on the box and to
the very back so I'm gonna order up some materials for that right now now it's
gonna be a couple days before I get that vinyl for the rockers so I'm just gonna
make a separate video on that and I might even have a few more goodies of
both on the truck at that point I'm thinking of doing a few more things I
want to do headlights fog lights some steps on the side make it a little
easier to get in it's pretty tall maybe a supercharger someday that's kind of
just wishful thinking but you guys have any ideas on what I should do with the
truck write them down below in the comments so thanks for watching guys I
will see you soon