What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Just make sure you’re getting Top Tier gasoline.

 

Looks vaguelllllllllllllly familiar to me.

 

Installed my new grill today.

 

A technical service bulletin. A document put out by the manufacturer which addresses a known issue with a vehicle (usually with a "fix", and often, though not always, under warranty).

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/list-of-t-sbs-etc.562671/

 

Got my free car wash today. Thank you Mother Nature! I should be good until Summer.

 

Install of the Amazon actuator for power tailgate lock.


After removing the cladding on the inside of the tailgate, two holes were drilled for the actuator. The plastic body of the actuator has two small holes for screws to be used to mount it.


Top view of the push rod that was included in the actuator kit. The bar comes a straight piece and has to be bent. I did the 130* bend first so that there would be some flex and to more easily line up the push rod with the hole drilled in the plastic locking arm throw lever below after the additional bends were made.




Several views of the bends on the push rod. I wanted to have a 90* bend resting on the top of the plastic locking arm throw lever. This bend would hold the metal push rod at approximately the same height through its range of movement. I added two more 90* bends below, forming a U shape (laying on its side in this orientation) that would hold the push rod in place when the tailgate was vertical and again to keep the push rod held in place on the locking arm. I eyeballed the bends for the most part, and then removed the actuator so I could feed the terminal end through the locking lever freely without putting everything in a bind or breaking anything while installing. Once I had the push bar in the locking arm, I remounted the actuator body.


View from underneath the tailgate top skin, inside the cavity. This is from the driver's side looking towards the passenger side. The actuator is the black plastic mechanism showing the blue and green wires that came on the actuator and the red and black primary wires that I used to power the actuator from the wiring harness under the passenger kick panel. Some extra wire is visible on the far side. I fed enough wire to allow me to use weatherproof butt connecters and heat shrink with the actuator outside of the tailgate body. I looped up the extra wire after installation with a zip tie.


View of the actuator looking from the passenger side towards the driver side.


The wire was routed out of the tailgate using the plastic clamshell grommet for the backup camera. I drilled a small hole to feed the wires through, then used woven nylon wiring loom and zip ties to secure the wires. Repeated the grommet hole process on the truck bed side. Once inside the truck body, the nylon braided wire loom covers the wire forward along the inside of the passenger side frame rail, going up to a point even with the soft rubber grommet/body plug under the front passenger seat. The grommet was slit and the wire loom was routed into the cab.


View of the wire coming through the body plug, passing under the carpet and into the wiring tray.


The wires were routed inside the OEM wire tray and secured with zip ties.


The red and black primary wire are brought up into the kick panel area. The insulation around the OEM door wiring harness was slit so that I could add two T taps to the power lock wires.

Very happy with how this install has turned out. Very clean thanks to several threads on here and some Youtube videos. If you want to save $100 on the "official" kit, going the $10 Amazon plus maybe another $10 in material route is very much worth it.

 

Look here : https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/list-of-t-sbs-etc.562671/

 

THAT is an awesome picture right there. you cannot go wrong with an F87. And the LBB will look fantastic next to those two.

 

How do you do that??? What is this "Top Tier" gasoline you speak of? Do you mean more expensive?

 

Peanut butter is the best grease.... I’m sorry. I had too.

 

17" x 7"? What tires did you put on?

 

This might help....https://www.toptiergas.com/licensed-brands/

 

Tacoma bros

 

Yes sir. Stock sport tires for now, so they kind of look funny, but i’m a cheap ass and don’t want to get rid of something that still has life it in. KO2’s will be going on when these wear out

 

What lift you are you on?

 

Old man emu kit, 887 front, medium pack in the back.

 

Mine should be delivered tomorrow! What method did you use to remove OEM mount ?

 

picked all 4 of mine up for 750 out the door. When they mounted them did it leave some dull non removable smudges? On mine it did at discount tire. They unfortunately had to buy me 4 more and I need to get them mounted at the one shop here who uses a touchless machine. This supposedly cannot be avoided on some materials with the machines normal mounting shops use.

 

I too have the Calirised bar. I didnt throw away the air deflectors, however I did leave them removed. Would definitely like to keep them in if I can. How much modifying did it take to get these to fit again?