3rd Gen General Discussion Poster Child Thread and Weekend Drinking Haiku - Tacoma Flex Friday

Hey guys.... mikelikemybeer - you should be careful there, that's how you get flat tires! Just sayin....

 

The GY AT Kevlars are still holding up at 10k miles . Probably another 40k miles or 4 years till I can get my KO2s and a flat billed hat. Think there will be any other 63 yo bros out there?

 

I laughed.

 

59 here... I have a flat billed hat... I've had once since they came out... much better fit with my oversize eye glasses!! Just sayin....

 

57, no hat, but have the glasses and hating them!

 

Yeah, I'll probably just keep with the OK redneck camo look. That way I blend in when scouting out new fishing holes in the sticks. Started hearing banjo music and turned around last Friday

 

@Pittrider
Spent the morning installing total chaos UCA's and king coil-overs, and I can definitely notice a great improvement. Took off the sway bar, also, and I like it better. Doesn't rock too badly on-road, and flex is much better off-road. Going to try to get an alignment tomorrow, and start putting highway miles on it

 

How difficult was it? Did you have to remove anything that went back? I think I read ball joint removal made it easier to install.

 

The only parts that slowed my down, were getting the stock UCA ball joint bolt, out of the spindle(had to use a puller) and adjusting the first coil over, once I already had it installed(it's way easier to adjust it in a vice, per instructions. But other that that, everything went smoothly! The new UCA was really easy to install. The only parts that I had to re-use were the bolt for the LCA shock mount, and the long UCA bolt. And none of the other original parts were damaged from removal, either. I'm sure it would go faster with an extra set of hands, but by myself and with the proper tools, it took about 6ish hours(including beer breaks)

 

Awesome! Now you also have the pride in doing it yourself and the satisfaction driving it with bragging rights that go along for the ride. Looks great BTW. I'm still on the fence, but after seeing your set-up, getting closer to the trigger.

 

Thanks! I'm definitely happy with it. I'll put my bigger tires back on, when I get a chance to do some wheeling, and see if I have anymore rubbing. I don't know what kind of shocks you were considering, but I was on the fence for a while. I'm still curious about how the icons would ride, but I went with king because I thought they might stand up to more abuse from hauling and what not

 

One of the guys around here went with Kings as well, he likes them and recommended a shop close to our home. Lots of talk on here about Icons. I hear you, wish I could put both on and make up my mind for myself, but that's not going to happen. I'd probably do it myself anyway, tend to do work on truck outside of shops unless I have too, or paid up front (2 years service included). It's the gratification knowing that you did it and can share with others.

 

As long as you don't squeal like a pig, it's all good.

 

I know what you mean! I don't like the idea of paying for someone else to do something that I'm capable of doing myself...plus I don't always trust the people working on my vehicle lol. I've had a couple of bad experiences, in the past

 

Hey whats wrong with banjo music buddy??

I bet you'd be ok if it was playin the national anthem at this rodeo

entered and awarded, I can almost hear my banjo ...in the back there.

 

Good to see you back

A little upset you don't have anything to complain about on your 1,100 trip

 

Ok, you won't believe this, but @oneshort liked one of my posts today in the imminent crankshaft failure thread today. I feel honored!

oneshort liked your post in the thread Imminent Crankshaft Position Sensor (CPS) failure in 2016s?.
Today at 12:07 PM

 

Wait - did he forget who you are? Is he dipstick happy?

How do you plan on celebrating this turn of events?

 

Hopefully with a bottle of whisky