What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Took her on a mini-trip and hauled some gifts back from the mountains today! North Bend, WA

 

I like that it doesn’t compress the springs and it is solidly made. My brother in law (who is a mechanic) installed it for me and he comments on how much better it seemed than others he has put in

 

Information on your grill please. I have been looking for something like this. If all else fails I can just order the black trim ring, and put it on my charcoal greyish/kinda chrome but not, grill. But would like to have an all black grill that accepts the front emblem sensor

 

looks like a stock 2020 TRD grille

 

I rode from LA to mammoth in one of those jump seats, in December. I think it was seven hours. Lots and lots of beer. Lots.

 

Aux 1 or 2

 

Have my anytimebackupcamera harness ready to go in. First decided to work on figuring a good place to mount the camera considering I have a C4 LoPro with hoop, and needed to get the camera in a location where the hoop would not interfere, but also hopefully be just visible (similar to how rear bumper is visible in rear cam) since it is the leading edge of the truck and nice to see it for inching up on things like walls in parking garages.

One of my thoughts about installing a front camera is it'd be great for parking lot and town work (being able to see cresting over parking garage ramps which I deal with a lot), but could spend a lot of time being a hassle off road due mud splashing up on the camera, requiring frequent cleaning by hand. Most of my off roading revolves around hunting season. Which means rain, snow, mud...and lots of it, with a lot of mud splashing on the front end, limiting usefulness of a front cam, or at best having to stop, get out and clean it anytime I'm about to crest a hill and would like to use it. Yeah....like that's gonna happen every time. Problem solved...



Now anytime I hit the windshield washers, the camera will get a dousing as well.

May the Toyota gods forgive me for putting a part from a Ford on my truck, but it seemed to fit the bill for what I had in my head, and with a little modifying, worked out just right.

Front camera washer for Ford Explorer Limited. Didn't measure, but the whole assembly can't be but about an inch tall. Perfect size for where I wanted it.











Forgive the round head screws...all I had on hand. Will come up with a nicer looking screw head for the camera like a couple nice torx low profile flat pan heads, but this gets the camera on and adjusted for now. Overall am quite happy with how it went in...if not the time spent doing it.

 

Painted and installed some RCI sliders. Also touched up a ton of scratch spots on the undercarriage that had already started rusting. Feels good to use protection from now on.

Also bonus pic of the neighbors Taco

 

Also installed this phone mount today. Hondo garage mount with 67 designs arm and phone holder. Love this setup!

 

looks so clean

 

I had wondered about that too, can you see a line where the vinyl ends?

 

Got some Cali Raised sliders on.

 

No. You have to look very, very closely to see it.

 

I like it, very bright, seems to be built very well, so far it's great, but I just put it on, so I haven't put through the ringer yet.

 

Bumper and rock rails in from Victory 4x4. Looks like the bumper received some damage in shipping, but I was able to fix it fairly easy with a sander and file. Hoping to get it prepped and coated throughout the week.

 

Hangin' out in the Walmart lot, good times!

 

Over the weekend, installed Raptor lights and blind spot mirrors. Cheap ones. Maybe one day I’ll swap them out for the Rav4 ones.

 

Nice setup. There are tons of things one could use a hoist for!

 

I see what you did there.

 

What light bar are you running in there?