What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Installed my @MESO coin tray. It’s the “Blemished” product at 1/2 ofd but this thing fits perfectly and I haven’t tried out any coins yet. Love the look with the TRD shift knob along with it too.

 

Fixed

 

Thx for catching that. Yeah there's not much clearance for a moon roof.

 

Finally got around to fixing my tailgate bushing/hinge/slow down mechanism.

Took around half an hour with the instructions on how to remove the rear bumper instructions from ADDICTIVE DESERT DESIGNS® website. You only need to remove the bolts on the right side of the bumper.

You do need to remove the license plate lights and trailer light plug from the bumper.

From Tacito's post found here. Here is the background on the bushing in question.

Tacoma's built between August 2015 and February 2016 were equipped with:
Bushing # 66143-04020
Hinge Part # 66101-04020

Tacoma's built February 2016 and after were equipped with:
Bushing # 66143-04021
Hinge #66101-04021

The Tailgate itself and the hinge attached to the tailgate did not change and remain the same.

What does this mean?

If your Tacoma was built with the early version of the hinge & bushing and you need to replace your bushing, you will need to replace the hinge on your truck. Replacing the hinge requires the removal of your rear bumper.
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Not sure why... but for some reason this picture conjures up "enron" in my brain. Demonstrating the power and loss of the brain. Some picture from that time frame of a car in a parking lot having to do with enron in Houston made it into my long term memory.....

 

Think I fixed my leaking Rough Country tonneau. Ordered some 1" weather stripping from Amazon. We had a pretty good down pour last night. Checked this morning and no water in the bed at all. I also sealed the cracks at the front of the bed next to the cab. I think the problem is Toyota decided, for god knows what reason, to channel water hitting the bed rails into the bed. The seal on the tonneau totally sucks and does nothing to keep the water out of the bed. Piss poor design. The cover came with a short piece of weather stripping that, according to the instructions, is for use on beds where the back rail is lower than the sides, this didn't apply to me but I put a piece across the back anyway. Think I'm gonna save up for a diamondback.

 

Installed a soft roll up tonneau cover.

 

I just did a fluid swap on everything but the transmission on my 2016 Sport with 70k miles...

Transfer case got a bottle of

RAVENOL J1C1003 SAE 75W Gear Oil - MTF-3 Full Synthetic (1 Liter)

Ravenol J1C1003 SAE 75W Manual Transmission Fluid - MTF-3 Full Synthetic (1 Liter)

Front diff with ECGS bushing got 75W140

Rear diff got 75W90

Tried out 4WD and 4Lo on my driveway (300' ish) and had no problems. I tried it out on the street and drove for about a mile and there are no issues with anything.

Grab one of

$14 GENUINE TOYOTA GASKET KIT FOR TRANSFER AND DIFFERENTIAL SERVICE

these when you service all the diffs and transfer case. Replace all crush washers when you take the plugs out.

 

More chrome purged from my taco.

 

Car is in need of a wash badly. Just got the painted VHT Bezel back on. Huge diff IMO.

 

Did you just use black spray paint? Was that center console cup holder "thingy" difficult to remove? How did you do it?

 

Are there people that like chrome? maybe only the people that hate it chime in and there are actually a lot of people that like it. I mean, both of my cars have a plethora (Toyota and BMW) of it.

 

I used plastic dip, and center console is vinyl wrap... couldn’t get it removed.

 

Welcome to the herd. Nice looking truck.

 

Some chrome is ok. All black is ugly. But the Toyota cheese wire grill, that is a dumpster fire

 

When I was a kid there was no such thing as too much chrome. Chromed pot metal made up half the weight of the car.

 

Love the wheels. What size are you running?

 

Wow, you did a great job of getting it all... good taping!

 

I like a little chrome here and there as long as it's balanced and not overpowering. The chrome on my rear bumper looked out of place to me. I didn't have a problem with the cheese grater but liked the look of the (faux) Pro grille better. Those were the only two places where I had plans to get rid of any chrome. The tailgate emblem all by itself looked a little odd so I added a DU logo on the opposite side to balance it out.
That said I also like the blacked out look and if I had a 2nd Tacoma it would be blacked out.
Too much, too little or none at all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I personally like the contrast between chrome and paint and about the only place I don't think you can have too much chrome is on a Harley!

 

Well brother, I think this might balance your stuff aesthetically

$10 Rico Industries NCAA LSU Tigers Chrome Finished Auto Emblem 3D Sticker

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WFHD4T...olid=3MNTEAEIDTXRR&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it