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What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by hamiltonuh60, Nov 4, 2015.

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I made an insurance claim!
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time for armor...

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Austin09 said: ↑

New Nitto tires and removed my air dam.

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Nice. Just don't see enough access cabs with a useful length bed.

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tandemgeek said: ↑

I tried the chin spoiler / air deflector delete and once it was off the truck looked unfinished. In other words, there was clearly a need for "something" to go under the front valance panel to cover up the front end of the frame and deflect air down or around and away from the floor of the cab. In some respects I'm amazed no one has taken the time to develop a proper "splitter" or front spoiler to replace the gawd-awful one Toyota bolts on these trucks. But, be that as it may, I had a "hold my beer" moment as I stood there looking at the truck without the air deflector and the air deflector laying on the floor. Fifteen minutes later I put down my jigsaw and mounted what was left of the chin spoiler back on the truck and told myself, "Not my best work but it's still better than it was." Yup, I gave the chin spoiler a trim using the molded-in chine line as my cut-line "just because it was there."

The next day I decided to trim off another 1/2" of material off the bottom of the air dam on the Tacoma, which also allowed me to get a much cleaner cut line for a professional, factory-looking final product. After trimming the part and filing down the new bottom edge I gave it a coat of bed liner paint, let it dry and then put it back on the truck. And, if I do say so, I think it looks great!

Better than the original, but also better than simply removing it and having to look at "stuff" under the front of the truck that really needed to be covered by some type of valance panel. Again, I'm really, really happy with this little change.

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Mine has been permanently attached to my garage ceiling I-beam for a couple of years. Had plans to cut it. Also had plans to paint up my stock sport grille. Both now have 2 years of cob webs on them.

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tandemgeek said: ↑

I tried the chin spoiler / air deflector delete and once it was off the truck looked unfinished. In other words, there was clearly a need for "something" to go under the front valance panel to cover up the front end of the frame and deflect air down or around and away from the floor of the cab. In some respects I'm amazed no one has taken the time to develop a proper "splitter" or front spoiler to replace the gawd-awful one Toyota bolts on these trucks. But, be that as it may, I had a "hold my beer" moment as I stood there looking at the truck without the air deflector and the air deflector laying on the floor. Fifteen minutes later I put down my jigsaw and mounted what was left of the chin spoiler back on the truck and told myself, "Not my best work but it's still better than it was." Yup, I gave the chin spoiler a trim using the molded-in chine line as my cut-line "just because it was there."

The next day I decided to trim off another 1/2" of material off the bottom of the air dam on the Tacoma, which also allowed me to get a much cleaner cut line for a professional, factory-looking final product. After trimming the part and filing down the new bottom edge I gave it a coat of bed liner paint, let it dry and then put it back on the truck. And, if I do say so, I think it looks great!

Better than the original, but also better than simply removing it and having to look at "stuff" under the front of the truck that really needed to be covered by some type of valance panel. Again, I'm really, really happy with this little change.

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THIS is worthy of it's own thread.

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Jun 18, 2019 at 1:48 PM

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Had a great weekend installing mods. Got the victory 4x4 blitz sliders and proof rack installed. Almost there! Now looking for a good 40” light to go on rack, need to wire up the rock lights mounted in sliders. But decided to take a break and hit the desert!
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Nice looking setup. What cap make and model is that?

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tandemgeek said: ↑

I tried the chin spoiler / air deflector delete and once it was off the truck looked unfinished. In other words, there was clearly a need for "something" to go under the front valance panel to cover up the front end of the frame and deflect air down or around and away from the floor of the cab. In some respects I'm amazed no one has taken the time to develop a proper "splitter" or front spoiler to replace the gawd-awful one Toyota bolts on these trucks. But, be that as it may, I had a "hold my beer" moment as I stood there looking at the truck without the air deflector and the air deflector laying on the floor. Fifteen minutes later I put down my jigsaw and mounted what was left of the chin spoiler back on the truck and told myself, "Not my best work but it's still better than it was." Yup, I gave the chin spoiler a trim using the molded-in chine line as my cut-line "just because it was there."

The next day I decided to trim another 1/2" of material off the bottom of the air dam on the Tacoma, which also allowed me to get a much cleaner cut line for a professional, factory-looking final product. After trimming the part and filing down the new bottom edge I gave it a coat of bed liner paint, let it dry and then put it back on the truck. And, if I do say so, I think it looks great!

Better than the original, but also better than simply removing it and having to look at "stuff" under the front of the truck that really needed to be covered by some type of valance panel. Again, I'm really, really happy with this little change.

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I took mine off last week and similar feelings. I like it off but I also don’t like seeing everything underneath. How much did you trim off? Did you measure from top or bottom?

So you use the mold line then cut another 1/2”?

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connected rt side switch to anytime backup cam. @MESO, @Hoangde

...momentary activation for now.

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Just went and picked up my bumper from powder coating. Can’t wait to get it all mounted up.

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SunRunner said: ↑

Nice looking setup. What cap make and model is that?
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It is a Snugtop Highliner, love it, quality is great, I have had others, won't go away from Snugtop at this point!

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I made an insurance claim!
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You know... an ARB Rear Summit Bumper would be a big upgrade over that OEM plastic stuff. Just a short drive to Missouri

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It is a Snugtop Highliner, love it, quality is great, I have had others, won't go away from Snugtop at this point!

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Nice! So clean in there.

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It is a Snugtop Highliner, love it, quality is great, I have had others, won't go away from Snugtop at this point!

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Thanks! Looks great!

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connected rt side switch to anytime backup cam. @MESO, @Hoangde

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More detail in how you did please. This is something I would like to do.

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Just went and picked up my bumper from powder coating. Can’t wait to get it all mounted up.

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What did you switch to? Didn't you have an ARB rear?

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What did you switch to? Didn't you have an ARB rear?
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Yea still got the ARB Summit Rear, looking to unload it soon. Gotta get this one mounted up first

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tandemgeek said: ↑

The dotted line is not exact, but should be close enough to replicate what I did. My first "hold my beer" cut used the chine line below the red dotted line. It looked OK, but still seemed a bit longer than it needed to be to hide the front cross beam on the truck. I used green painter's trim tape to put down a second cut line where the final bottom edge of the air deflector now measures 4" from the upper part of the air deflector using a metal ruler (straight line) as shown. The ends were cut to follow the line of the front edge of the wheel well.

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What tool did you use for the cut?
I was going to remove mine on Saturday but I like your solution much better.

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