What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Well, the easiest risk to understand is it (the jack) sliding off it's perch. Then you have your truck falling from that height and the jack itself becomes a flying projectile. If you're lucky it will launch away from the truck, but odds are that it will attempt to become one with your tailgate. If you're actively pumping the handle while this occurs your squishy little meat bits could get caught between any of the various rapidly moving bits of metal.
Granted there are ways to mitigate the risk of sliding off... and that's where having the right tools makes the difference.

 

Welcome to the forum. Beautiful truck. I spy some tailgate blackout letters too.

 

Got the truck a month ago, stuff is finally coming together. OME lift, are cap, led interior, speaker upgrade, weather tech mats, neoprene seat covers, RC 30 led bar, with stealth bumper mount, BAMF Grill.

Still to come, oem black flares, hid upgrade, roof racks later this week, bed platform, Hondo cell mount, tailgate light,

 

Thanks for your vivid explanation

 

Hey, look! Another Tacoma...

 

Installed my LED forward lighting... low, high beams & fogs. Looks awesome! I'll post pics later.

 

Not a huge camper fan, but that one looks extremely nice. Fits well with this truck.

 

The dealership installed chrome lettering, I hate chrome like a lot of other people, so I painted them black.

 

Cheers, I think so too. This truck is so beige, the black on the cap helps break up the lines!

 

Hey man I have not only the same truck with the same tires, color and all as you, but the same dog lol. I have a 2011 pug and a 2013 pug .

 

Finished the switch install in the coin/key holder slot today for my 3 sets of KCs. Beam and Spot are interconnected with the high beam switch. Roll bar are hot wired to use regardless of key switch etc. I think it came out perfectly.

 

Looks good. Do you have the switch and plate links?

 

Bye bye Hitachi's hello Bilstein 4600's

 

Door sill protectors!

Really easy to apply.

Looks great!

 

Looks good, but you aren't done until you get these:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2016-2017-T...or-Decal-Inserts-All-Four-Doors-/182074773116

 

Switches are readily available on Amazon as example:

$7 MicTuning LS083001-HF, Laser Roof LED Light Bar On-Off Rocker Switch with Jumper Wire, 5 Pin, 20 Amp, 12V LED Lights, Blue

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013XXPT3I/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. They will give links to other styles.


The "plate" is all custom. I took out the dash panel and removed the screw-on coin holder, which was nice as it gave me the place to mark and attach a switch plate to. You could buy one and cut it down, but I cut out a sheet metal backer for the switches, painted it black and screwed it in the place for coin holder (from behind), then mounted the switches to it. I did need to "square off" the dash panel hole slightly (about 1/32 inch) to fit all three across as it was not a perfect rectangle with rolled corners.

Overall took about 90 minutes to fabricate and make it all clean.

If you have a panel removal tool ,the dash plate pops off fairly easily with 2 clips on top, 3 on sides and bottom, I found the top right of my plate had the most play to get it started. Be sure to test it all before punching it back in!

 

switch panel is available from Shapeways
switches - http://www.ch4x4.com/product-category/push-series/
hope that helps

any questions I'd ask @forty2 that's who had them made up ( the plates ).

 

Thanks to both of you for info and links

 

This what I want my rig to be. Looks awesome. Wow..