What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Is there airbag sensors around that area in bumper

 

Not sure where they are located, but had no issues.

 

I have the exact same truck but in a MT. I love it, but have been debating which running boards to get. Those oem ones look good on yours!

 

I can see that.

 

Where’d you get the center console cover?

 

Thanks for choosing us!

 

I do not man i'm sorry. They were incredibly easy to find though.

 

Still very much an ongoing effort, but I've finally gotten a chunk of the wiring out of the way. The goal was to do all of the onerous/less visible stuff so whenever I got my new lights and so on, things could be just plugged in.

That little cubbyhole under the dash was of no use to me as it was....I figured it would ultimately become a sanctuary for every bit of hamburger and potato chip that I ever dropped, and eventually I would have to deal with the civilisation that would no doubt spawn there, likely about the time they discovered space flight, ergo the crafted panel. I stopped at the 12 volt plug and the USD sockets; if I am ever in need of additional switches or plugs and an am run down, tackled and pummelled to the ground by an unreasonable bout of ambition, I can add more....I know that the little CaliRaised three switch plate will fit perfectly in the remaining space. Drilling a hole to run wires has to be done carefully; I'm pretty sure that drilling into the bright yellow painted wire harness behind the cubby would be really bad.

I mucked with the existing wiring only a bit...I ran a heavy fuzed lead from my auxiliary panel, and ran it through a relay powered off the factory 12 volt plug...that gives me as much amperage as I will ever need. I added a identical plugs in the rear of the centre console for those rare times when i have a teenager or two in the back seat, also powered off the same heavy lead. I tucked a third up under the dash, as well as the original factory plug, for anything I want to be 'hard' wired without actually having to play around with those tiny little wires. I've got a new tablet and RAM mount coming for off road navigation. I didn't need the voltmeter, but that particular plug was the only high amp USB available at the time and, besides, all that blue glow looks cool.

Waiting on a replacement sticker for the Redarc control head, the one that is there is driving me daft. The Redarc brake controller was a little pricey, but worth every penny. If you fail to attach one of the connectors on the plug correctly, and then go through the OEM fuze panel to make sure that 'pop' sound was not fatal, make sure you replace all of the fuzes correctly. There is one little tiny 25 amp beast that powers all of your trailer lights....after you test it, if you put it back in the wrong spot, nothing works. And you panic.

The molle panels for the console may not be for everyone, but they certainly work for me. Most impressed with Hector's efforts (OG Fabrications)

After the better part of four decades listening to a disembodied voice under my dash send me places I really didn't want to go to deal with people I knew I wouldn't like, I haven't re-embraced Ham radio as much as I had hoped. Should I ever shed my grumpy, anti-social demeanour, I will upgrade the radio...for now, the little QYT will serve. I use it rarely, mostly off-road on simplex, and it serves adequately. When I have a need to hear unhappy voices, I'm good with Johnny Cash or Waylon or Colter Wall. A thumb drive into that little USB port is certainly an improvement over the 8 track player I had the last time I owned a pick up.

As I was installing MESO's centre switch panel, I briefly hated him (when you think you have maybe cut too much dash away, do NOT call your local Stealership and ask how much a replacement centre console would cost...you won't like the answer. At. All), but with way more JB Weld than is probably recommended, I made up for my gross inadequacies with a Dremel. I gotta say, I am truly impressed with the switch panel; now waiting for a few more MESO creations to come available. The switches all came from Air-On-Board; the lamp colour in the small centre console switches is an exact match for the Toyota OEM, while the larger switches on the left are...close. But, back to my earlier comment about the soothing blue glow....

The auxiliary electrics panel is a home brew effort with components from Bussmann, Blue Sea, Princess Auto, someone-anonymous-overseas-on-ebay and my local under-the-table metal shop. It is very much overkill for my current needs, but the last thing I want to be doing is adding extraneous bits n pieces down the road. I have it on good authority that MESO and OG Fabrications and others are working on a deflector screen and ant-gravity generator for the 3rd Gen (I watch Star Trek and The Orville, too!) and I want to be ready when these come available. Building this thing was a RRPITA* and not unlike the current landscape project in my backyard - or going to prison - I've deemed this a once in a lifetime experience.

*We all know what PITA means. RRPITA is a couple orders of magnitude above that; RPITA is a "Right" Pain - - - . Not sure what the opposite of that would be...Left? Wrong? Who knows, it is a British Empire expression, meant to confuse the Colonials. RRPITA is "Right, Royal Pain - - -. I suspect that has something to do with one of Her Majesty's centuries dead ancestor's less desirable proclivities, but as I was cutting bits of plastic that should never have there in the first place, poking myself in the eye with a hot soldering iron and fumbling around with stupid little connectors, RRPITA seemed to be appropriate.

And its pronounced like a Pirate would say it. A Pirate ordering bread in a Mediterranean restaurant.

 

Thanks man, I always liked the look of the 2nd generation running boards better than ours and they were a lot cheaper. Win+Win!

 

For the rattle?

 

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Hey man I'm really interested in finding the high viz yellow for the DRL! Where'd ya get em!?

 

yep.

 

Removed predators this morning .... now to find sliders.

 

Wow, that's a sweet Tacoma!!!
I'm looking to try and replicate this.
What lift did you use?
Tire size?
Awesome truck.

 

Yeah, great looking truck. I’m curious what you did too

 

Fox suspension
Ray10 17x9
Nitto Ridge Grappler 295/70/17

 

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Nice install. Looking to do something similar. How did you route the wiring for the accessories into the Qi opening?

Cheers,

B_C

 

How much lift did you get in the front with the 887s? I have heard that there is a difference between the newer and older 887s and 888s. Thanks