What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Finished up an oil change, tire rotate, and air filter changes on both 17’s. Both hit 50k this month! Cleaned the engine bays up a little bit after all was done.

 

What did I do to my Third Gen today?... Got it dirty

 

Just curious, would the 4Runner's hood heat insulation fit on the Tacoma's hood?
Would things just line up or would take some minor modifications?

 

Hm, I’ll have to look at that tomorrow!

 

Thanks!
Always been curious. Hate cleaning under the hood when mud splatters up there.
Having the insulation pad would make cleaning easier, since I could just pop it off and pressure wash it.

 

Here is another video of the Borla Pro XS on an incline. Pretty satisfied with the sound.
Butt Dyno says there is performance improvements, but more testing is needed.

 

Got my new lunch spot in order today.

 

nothing too exciting. I mostly took bed measurements for a cargo drawer system I want to build. Since I have a long bed, my plan is to mount a pair of house batteries forward of the wheel well in port and starboard side compartments, build a largeish storage box forward center, a pair of 4' long drawers (able to slide out 3.5 foot since the budget does not presently allow for adding $500+ to the cost to get heavy duty drawer slides) then storage compartments aft of the wheel wells for storing my road side emergency kit and tool kit, mounting my OBA in the driver side bed wall cubby (it will be hard to access there for repairs, but it does not need every day access). In each of the the rear side panels of the drawer system (the tailgate side of the side compartments)

I am going to have to redesign my house battery system plans as I recently realized a flaw in my plans for the front and rear Anderson Power Pole connections (when I can build my chuck wagon trailer, it would have resulted in two dissimilar battery banks trying to merge and become one, likewise I need to find a polarity safety relay to attach to the front and rear APP outlets I plan on installing when I do the house battery system I am a might paranoid about redundancy in electrical safety for my system. But I also want to future proof as much as possible as I plan to eventually upgrade from around 130Ah of AGM battery to 200+Ah of lithium with capacitor banks on both my house and cranking batteries.

I am going to install a pair of power distribution panels (drivers side will have 2: 12v marine outlets, a power switch, and a double USB-3 outlet, the passenger side power panel will have a compact V/A meter instead of the switch but otherwise mirror the driver side) I am waiting to get the bed rail stiffeners to get measurements from them to determine if I am going to be able to include a pair of folding cup holders.

Above the drawers I am planning on including a slide out whiteboard (the material is available at home depot) as I am a firm believer in "pre-flight briefings" when traveling as a group (both to cover initial route plans and itenerary, coordinate comms, and discuss any trip specific details as well as plan out group travel order so everyone known who belongs where in the convoy) but also for task specific safety briefings such as having lead rigger cover a vehicle recovery plan with the group so everyone knows their job where to be and where NOT to be, and since I am a Ham Radio Operator, the same will be true of safety briefings for tower work. I am debating if I want to make it removable as doing so would allow said briefings to be held someplace other than behind my truck in the parking lot, but would increase the chance of damage to the board.

While the back panel I only plan on painting, the top I plan on covering with carpeting, and at least 2 Omni-Logistic tracks to help secure cargo. (though I MIGHT have to cut up the tracks to fit around hinge points for the side storage compartments

 

I did. I installed 2 degree shim. Solved my vibration.

 

What type of vibration?

 

Thank you for your service, @Chief 4x4 . A well deserved retirement coming up for you!! I hope you have great plans for your next stage of life!!

I will always have a special place in my heart for KC-135s and their crews. Sounds strange coming from an Army guy, huh? While I was commanding my battalion in 1st Infantry Division, we were deployed to Bosnia. In January '97 I got a Red Cross message that my Dad was dying. Tuzla's airfield was uninstrumented and fog kept anyone from landing for 3 days. I finally got out on a C-12 and back to Germany only to have an ice storm delay me another day in Germany. Finally was able to catch a C5 headed to McGuire out of Ramstein - by sheer luck one of the pilots was my brother-in-law's AF Academy roommate. Lynn and I got pulled from the bus to head up to the crew area and I got to sit in the old flight engineer's seat during takeoff. My luck held true and there was a malfunction in one of the landing gear - locked down - so we limped to Mildenhall for maintenance. They ended up needing to fly in a part so Lynn and I were now stuck in England. By some miracle, a PAANG KC-135 was on a return trip after tanking some fighters to the Middle East. It was headed to Pittsburgh, PA and I was headed to Easton, PA on the other end of the State. Lynn and I were treated like royalty by the crew and when we landed they had a van waiting to take us around to the civilian side of the airport to catch a flight to Easton. I will always be thankful for that crew - it was a non-standard mission but it was a blessing to this old Army guy.

 

Sounds like you have a tough time getting home Colonel, we always tried to accommodate getting personnel home especially if they were on emergency leave. I have seen this happen several times when I was a First Sergeant, seemed like we could always depend on a Tanker crew to open up seats and get people home. Thank for your service Colonel!!

 

What did your ceramic coat run you, if you don't mind me asking? I've been going back and forth between ceramic and the XPEL paint protection film.

 

Cool. THANK YOU!

Edit: Sold out of the O/R...no fortune and glory today.

 

Wash and wax

 

@TRDtacomamr2

What bumper is that?

 

Smoother on-road, especially when going in & out of business driveways. I'll be taking her offroad this weekend for trails and the sand dunes, so I will know that soon!

 

SSO off-road bumper.

 

eBay had them on and off too.