What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Just got done doing the Kicker speaker swap! All six speakers and Noico inside and outside of all four doors. Not sure it’s any louder, but it’s definitely clearer. I can’t believe how cheap the stock speakers were. Vanity and dome LEDs installed and black silicone wedding bands stretched around the slippery ass radio knobs.

 

Detailed my Tacoma in preparation for my annual roadtrip back up to Alaska (3,000 miles).

• Stripped off existing sealant (Dawn Soap and Chemical Guys Foam Cannon)
• Clay bar (Chemical Guys)
• Touch up compounding (Meguiars Ultimate Compound)
• Paint Sealant (Wolfgang Deep Gloss Paint Sealant w/ Griots Garage Orbital Buffer)

 

Good! I don’t really think it is any stiffer, just a little if any, and it feels more solid.

 

I think you can use special lugs that will center it. I was to;d by multiple tire shops that theydon't even carry 108 to 106 rings. Interested to know what you settle on!

 

Is that a rim or some kind of mounting plate (on the spare)?

 

It could be a grill (the cooking kind) I've seen that before.

 

Yes I did. Having a roller is a lifesaver. Noico actually doesn’t make their own tape so I had purchased Dynamat tape as well.

 

Lol didn’t have my impact or 22mm socket with me... i climbed under it tonight and did it anyway. Just sucked having salt and ice rain down on my head as i did it.

The nuts actually tightened up quite a bit more after driving about 125 miles. I’ll do it one more time in a week or so make sure they’re GTG

 

There's ET lugs I believe. Tapered with a shaft. Scs sells some

 

Man, my typing sucks!

 

I've been trying to install my front-end lift for a week but the weather hasn't cooperated. I got the AALs on last Sunday but didn't have time to do the front. I do like the rake the truck now has but my front tire got a touch worse - nothing serious though. Only a few more weeks and this winter crap should be behind us.
Enjoy your TACO!!!

 

Wow!
Yeah, been surfing all those places in Texas since ‘73. Mansfield is a pretty cool place, especially if there is surf.....great fishing off the beach and north jetty.
We were actually in a Isuzu Trooper on that Mex check point thing.....funny......that Trooper was slow as chit.

Ticla I had the fine experience of getting a shotgun stuck in my direction about 3ft away, at night where we were ‘camping’ at under the palapa.......they were just looking for some dollars.
That was ‘94. Plus you didn’t drive at night along that road since sometimes the bandidos would lay some logs across the road as a roadblock to get some cash. Fun times.
Nexpa was a little better.
Better was Troncones, La Saladita though. Quit going, via plane, 5 years ago. The Cartels, etc, were killing, raping innocents....around there....not worth the one time it might happen thing. Miss it all....was my paradise....cheap, 1.5 hr flight, world class surf, great local people. Really miss it.

One of your surf friends wouldnt happen to be Brian McHail?

 

What badge do you up from you rear door handle?

 

Sure. I’d love to see it. Thanks! The headliner wasn’t hard at all. I truly think it was the easiest to do over the Floor, Rear Wall, and Doors. Didn’t have to cut out circles or anything. However, I would suggest pulling the Front, Side, and Back Pillars. I know a lot of people do it without removing those but I just thought it was a lot easier removing all of them. By removing them, I did not have to try to tuck the headliner under them at the end. Much easier to re-install.

 

I’m digging the truck bro!! And I really don’t like ditch lights but the more I see your truck w them damn it... nice work!

 

Got the TRDOR wheel stickers installed with some TRD emblems!

Black Wheel Vinyl to cover chrome TRD Off Road

 

100% agree. So far I love how much this has improved the Cab. I just finished it but I can already tell with the lack of tinging on the top of the Cab from the rain.

 

I just put on some rims with 108 mm hub bore size, and they did come with hub centric rings. I tried it without them because I was curious, and the lugs were not aligning properly. I couldn't get a wrench on them because the lug sat too close to the wall of the channel. Just my 2 cents but I'm glad I have the rings on there.

 

Nah, just need ports to charge my phone, girlfriends phone, gps and delorme (satalite 2 way communication device.) I hate having stuff die on me when I need it.

 

Sorry it took me a bit. Love the sumo springs. At full load it’s a roof rack full and a bed of camp boxes and fire woods, barely a peep out of the back end. I don’t haul trailer or anything big but it’s keeps her from getting saggy and soft with friends and gear. Some people say it stiffens the back up end a bit, I don’t feel much at all and anything I do feel isn’t bad. No other lift