What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Those are pics of the finished install. What do you need to see, I'll try to get the right angle..

 

Prob the looks mainly but the offset and width as well

 

The off roads come stock with 16" wheel. I wanted to go the skinny tire route (255/85r16 or 255/80r17) and found that I had more options of vendors and sizes for tires on a 17" wheel. otherwise I would have kept my OEM wheels.

 

Replaced the amber raptor lights with the smoked amber lights.

Before


After

 

I would say they turned out really well ( see photos ). I used 10-24 bolts with wing nuts to attache the mounts and it's holding well, but if something falls, it'll stay in the bed. lol

The only knock I'd give them is they only give you 4 plastic anchors for the bolts to secure against, so you may need to make some on your own or use some washers.

For the price, I think they're well worth it and the medium sized ones are exactly like the Quick Fists I bought 4Wheel Parts last fall. That re-assured me that my gamble was right.

 

Fk yeah

 

You use a label maker that prints on heat shrink tubing. I have a Dymo Rhino 4200 which works well.

 

So...

I was putting in some new bulbs per arguably the best post on TacomaWorld - bought the Philips H9 for low beams and the GE Nighthawk Xexon H11 for the foglights.

The H9 Philips went in easily with the accompanying adapters and a quick clip/shave of the plastic on the H9 bulb for the H11 to H8 adapters.

However, for the life of me I couldn't get the GE H11 in the foglights. After trying on both sides, I noticed the housing and the bulbs are H16.

Is this a known thing? Are H11 not compatible for H16? I put the old bulbs back in for now.

 

I didn't have any difficulty installing

$20 Nokya NOK7618 Halogen Bulb

Nokya NOK7618 Hyper Yellow H11 bulbs in my H16 fog light housings. I'm guessing that there's some variation between H11 bulb dimensions.

 

Where did you get the black interior door handles?

 

THAT IS OUTSTANDING!!!!

 

I've got one. Not the fancy stuff, but stock.
Zim

 

I have no money for new wheels. I can afford Plastidip, so that's what I'll be doing.

 

18 months in and I'm still running stock wheels. I don't really care for them, but for the money, it's way down on the list. I had to replace the tires after a deer strike, so I went with AT's. Next time around the wheels get swapped, just because I really don't care for them.

 

Not the unicycle one I hope?

 

Wepa bori! I got that mr2 completely stock last November to use it as a daily since tacoma is to rough to daily it, but like everything i start doing mods on it and now i even want to do a 2zzge swap to it , i guess this quarantine will be interesting for me hehe

Something completely opposite of the tacoma

 

Soooo..Lol. Fabricated a bracket for the CB antenna. Went with fender mount. Sooner or later I'm fabricating a bumper so I'll have like 20 more antennas up there too, just like those cool guys from Australia. Lol. (and they really are cool guys)
Zim




Edit....forgot, made a fold up camp grill too.


EDIT#2: Funny nobody noticed I used a Nyloc nut on the damn thing. Can you imagine the smell of the plastic when it melts from the 400' fire...ahahahahahha
Z

 

Did you have to trip to make that switch fit? I have a similar lighted switch and I had to trip with a Dremel haha

 

Nice sunny day today, so I washed the truck even though it's supposed to rain for the next three days. It looks so nice!

An updated pic of my skid plates installed. Also installed Easy Eagle 3D Metal tailgate letters and blacked out the emblems with overlays from Runnin4tacos.com since it was finally warm enough.

 

Put on black lettering for the tailgate, also derped the rear bumper caps this past weekend.