What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Very nice

 

Like a lot of people here, I guess I suffer from OCD. If I knew there were threads back there with no nut on them...

 

My favorite stock grille so far is the cheese grater grille plasti dipped black... the problem is within a month or 2 the dip always ends up chipping, or peeling off... maybe it's all the off roading I do... or living way down a dirt and limerock road...

I have like 3 stock grilles in my shed... I bought or traded for them already dipped... once too much chrome is visible I go back to the sr5 black grille.

I should just buy a powder coated grille, or pay a shop to paint the cheese grater grille a matte black color.

 

Installed my brake controller. Figured it would be nice to stop the camper when needed.

 

Holy shite! How much does that trailer weigh? Does the tacoma pull that thing okay?

 

Wow that's a single family home in some states

 

And it begins...

 

Find someone wanting to get rid of an '18 grille. They come black stock. I'm sure there are plenty of '18 owners that have swapped grilles that would let go of their stock grilles cheap.

 

Installed a Extang Solid Fold 2.0 yesterday

 

Do it! That would be awesome with dual tips.

 

With proper supervision no doubt!

 

Dry weight is 4100. It pulls it ok we don’t do long trips with it so we keep the weight down around 5500

 

It’s only a 24foot. Trying to talk the wife into an a frame one

 

It certainly looks like a nice sized trailer to give you all the creature comforts. As long as your truck will pull it okay that is a great setup.

 

Haha, I hear you man. My concern is marking up the trim removing it, I'm not patient enough to be careful enough to keep it all undamaged. You should see what I did trying to remove the screw covers on the A pillars to replace the tweeters...

 

What does the flashing do? My Taco likes to sit at high revs going up hills that my 99 4Runner used to breeze up. I am wondering a couple of things.....1) am I low on trans fluid that has been reported here before, 2) did my TRD CAI and TRD exhaust contribute to this? 3) do I need to have the ECU flashed also to "recognize" the CAI and exhaust upgrades?

Thanks for the advice.

 

Passenger side done. So glad I didn’t pay for the powder coat option. I’ll just keep a rattle can on standby.

 

Don't know what's happening with your truck, but I installed a CAI and TRD CatBack and nothing much changed. Maybe a slight MPG increase but it's hard to measure as I added these just when summer fuel was coming out. I don't know if a dealership can/will reflash for such upgrades. I'd say get the latest TSB updateds from your dealership and see where it goes.

 

Getting ready to dog-sit for 13 weeks.

 

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