What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Cleaned her up and finally took off the stupid predator steps. Looks way cleaner without them. Also ordered my ebay pro grill

 

Added some more beauty marks to the faux bead locks.

 

Had to throw in my 2 cents on jacks. The last Craftsman high lift 3 ton jack I bought lasted 14 months and Sears would only sell me replacement parts for it. I tossed it and shopped for weeks. I use jacks frequently and always have owned trucks. After much research I bought, what has turned out to be the best jack I have ever owned in my 60 years, from Northern Tool. It is the model XL35 low profile high lift 3.5 ton and it is great for both trucks and low sitting lowered cars. It ranges 3.5 inches to 21.5 inches. I have a 3 inch block I used once or twice but it has worked great on 95% of everything I work on. After 5 years of use I highly recommend it and it is only $180.

 

I got off my ass and went into work, On my truck, Today I got my aux battery mounted and wired in. then added the 6 switch/relay panel, battery isolator relay, fuse's and aux relay for the aux fuse panel . hooked up the under hood light to turn on when hood opens, Lastly I put power to the scope light

 

Are the pred lights wired to a separate switch?

 

What did you use to mount the the auxiliary battery?

 

They use an add a fuse to the tail light and come on when ignition is on. Found it on YouTube

 

Did the $10 tailgate mod.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/10-diy-power-lock-tailgate.424052/

 

to keep going in the back of the truck i made these front runner boxes my solar and electrical. top is solar and bus panel for lights bottom is batteries.

 

Got down and dirty!

 

I mounted an battery tray behind the air filter on the A trac mounts it can be seen in this picture the yellow line is a support from the firewall ( high lighted so it could be seen )

 

Good to know. I’ll have to check it out. I guess I was lucky with the Craftsman jack. It lifts 23” but the cylinder is leaking now. I tried jack stop leak oil but I just don’t trust it anymore. Not with out jack stands. Kind of a pain when rotating tires. I’ve always had 4x4’s that were lifted and required the high lift jack. My Tacoma is not lift and don’t have any plans to do it in the very near future, but you never know. So I figured if I’m going to get a new jack, it should be a high lifting one. I’ll start doing the research and take in consideration your recommendation. Thanks.

 

Yes sir! Also liberated the full tool kit with it.

 

Did the breather relocation mod today.

Drilled 3/8” hole in upper forward facing corner.



From bottom of cubby to frame.

Installed new fitting with teflon tape on threads.

More zip ties.

Left some slack for axle travel.

Gonna check out a trail in Big Sur tomorrow that has a stream crossing; figured better safe than sorry.

 

Fender flares are now black. Much better and should add some rock protection. Also did a light polish and tried the new Mothers CMX ceramic spray coating. Very happy with both results!

 

You don't happen to have a photo or some other reference for which fuse you tapped, do you? I'd like to move mine to one that is always on, as I'm currently tapping the low beam fuse and thus it they're only on with the low beams.

 

I was trying to figure out wtf the taco was lol....haha

 

Covered up the grey trim so that most of my dash is some shade of black.

 

I don’t know. It’s just water vapors from the air conditioning. I mean... if it was sea water, or there was Godzilla sweat dripping. Then, maybe. I have seen more rust spots around the welds than my AC drip on the frame. I didn’t do this on my 2016. Frame was fine....

 

Replaced OE chrome with black badges, and installed Toyota door sill protectors.



Debadging and installing new badges is a breeze




Vintage Jeep 4WD decal leftover from my Jeep days