What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Nobody told me that Mobtown steel plates are great mud scrapers, dang this is just a small part of it and there’s tons more. Will take all the plates off and clean everything and put them back on. It has been raining a lot since we got back from our fun offroad trip, and my truck keeps making a huge pile of sh... uh, mud in the driveway. No wonder why nobody’s tailgating me in the rain!
Oh yeah, that’s not powder coating on the plate, it’s my paint job coming off because of all the mud hitting it. Looks like I have to repaint the plates as well. It could’ve been worse, the trip could’ve not been fun but it was worth it!

 

Looks like it took a healthy dump.

 

Took her in for her 6 month / 6,000 mile checkup. She was filthy. Covered in dirt and yellow pollen. The nice lady asked if I wanted them to wash her. i said sure. Free truck wash. Saved me the time and trouble.

 

I got my pro skid plate painted up and reinstalled. I wanted to make it match the rest of my trucks look since I know people will ask, the paint is just krylon fusion matte black and a Cement paint match pen from my local dealer. And no it will not hold up well but I don’t care, I’ll just hit it again if I need to!

 

What a great idea, I should ask my dealer for a free car wash too!

She’s still got a few dumps to take, mud is packed underneath the engine, what you see there is only part of the rear plate!

 

Is that an RCI rack?

 

Is that the Victory 4x4 NMO mount or a different one? Or homemade?

 

Swapped out driver side wiper with a rainx wiper, great improvement. Put the truck wiper on corolla.

 

What did you use for power steering fluid?

 

Did a few things to pass the time...

Dynamat & Dynaliner for the roof, back wall, floor and doors:


There have already been great write-ups on doing this so I’ll spare you all the install details. What I can tell you are the results of the 3-day project (my OCD prevented this from taking less time). I used a sound level meter to measure noise before and after the project. Conditions were 65mph on the same stretch of highway, A/c system on AUTO and running at a low speed (barely audible), radio off, with all windows closed.
Before was 66-71 dB
After was 63-67 dB

This is a 3-4 dB reduction which doesn’t sound like much but if I’m doing my math right it’s 30-37% quieter. To my ear, the difference is significant and as an added bonus a passenger door rattle that came from the factory has also been cured.

While I had everything apart, I did @MESO puddle pods and turns:


...and a custom switch panel also from @MESO.


...and yes there will be a Switch-pros there soon. Until then I used some foam as a filler (it turns out that even MESO’s packaging is highly useful).

This puts all the backlit Toyota switches on the same row (inverter switch isn’t unless it’s on and even then just a green/amber status light).

 

Huh, can't say you've been slacking. Looks good!

 

Small mod. Installed the 67designs TacoRail ... sleek and clean looking. High quality made

 

How much of an improvement did you get with the FM signal? would like to know what parts you used?

 

Since Texas Governor shut us down and I won’t be flexin in the streets here’s a pic of my taco’s new shoes

 

This is my Victory 4x4 VT3CB-BARE antenna mount with a 1/4 wave 2 meter antenna.



I highly recommend it.

 

Looks good, whats the size on the tires?

 

Oem bed mat


A/C drain mod redirect... After 10k you could already see that the drop was going to do damage over time.

 

Nope it's the uptopoverland truss mid rack. I love it, all aluminum just over 30 pounds and you dont need to spend a tun of extra money on mounting brackets for common accessories like maxxtraxx or rotopax. It feels pretty solid so far.

 

Did some things over this last week.

Added AVS Window Visors


Plastidipped Chrome Grill Trim and Chrome Bumper Caps



Doing some interior work tomorrow as well as blacking out the emblems. I may just debadge entirely.

 

Nice job!! Now come do the sound deadening in my truck!! I have beer!! Lol. Awesome job.