What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Nice. I may steal that idea.

 

I have a pair of year old pups and they can hear a flea fart two courts over......buff.

 

TW does have a specific forum for food!!!!

https://www.tacomaworld.com/forums/food-talk.53/

 

Thanks bud, i do appreciate it! Cable management from my old PC building days finally paid off on something else

But yeah, fell in love with the switches when i saw them. There is something about flicking a proper switch that feels and sounds much nicer than the cheap offroad-rocker switches or some squishy button-like thing that Switch-pro styled pads use. What is also nice about them is that it's actually an OEM part. Mind you from a 2018+ Ford F250, but still OEM.

dimensionally, it fits perfectly into the overhead console (being off centered to keep one switch in the OEM slot and switch set needed trimming and some encouragement to get slotted in). In general I've had enough of the switch-pro styled panel buttons that a lot of people had been installing - but i wanted to try something different.

 

you got it!

 

Had my lift installed, to go along with my new tires and wheels

 

Last time I bought Cooper's, which is the last time I will, 3 out of 4 were out of round. I took it back over and over to Pep Boys to get the balance redone and every time it shook the wheel badly. I finally went to a 3rd party for balancing. Guy come and got me as I was outside smoking. He said Sir, we really do a good job here but I can't balance out of round tires and he showed me exactly what he was talking about. I had him mark the only good tire and I then went to Pep boys and MADE the Service manager ride with me to show him this is a new truck and should not shake like this. Coupled with his ride and my out of round report I got my money back and kept the free tire as my spare as it wasn't out of round. Cooper, never again for me. Good luck with your tires.

 

Cooper Discoverer AT3s here. Had 'em on for almost 2 years now. No problems. A++ Would buy again.

(they're also what the guy at the tire shop had on his Taco)

 

I probably just got a bad batch but I actually saw all 3 of the bad ones rotating, it was very obvious they were out of round. What really bothers me is the techs can see this as well so why didn't they say anything to get me good tires. I buy Hankook now. Sucked 73K out of one set by staying on the air and rotation like a worrisome Mother Hen.

 

So where does one learn to do this kind of stuff @Shveet? I'm terrified of even trying, not that I need to, but call me wiring curious.

That looks like a pretty slick installation.

 

I don't doubt you got a hold of some bad tires. I'm just saying that's probably the exception rather than the norm with Cooper.

Mileage isn't everything with a tire. In my younger days, I bought some cheap tires that wore like iron but were downright scary in rain or snow.

 

Man, that looks great! Why the hell didn't Toyota do that in the first place?

 

Thanks... When I get her cleaned up and learn photography, it'll look better.

 

My heartburn suddenly refueled!

As a side bar: when I was in my late teens, my more immediate family went to go visit our cousins down in Louisiana (prob 30 mins from Baton Rouge). We took a day trip over to the Tabasco plant at Avery Island, LA. What I remember was the actual plant tour wasn't very long (maybe an hour). But there was this HUGE oak tree in the park and it was also a bird sanctuary.

But I really miss is boudin. I can't remember where I tried it first (probably a local gas station I'm sure), but holy hell! It was so good. Also had some tamales from Houma. Sweet Jesus those are sooooo good.

 

Can you provide a link to the seat covers please, thanks.

 

No more lag, now do i want to delete the clutch noob assist hmmmm

 

There's sticky on the Cooper ATs 4S and 275/75/20, haven't seen that problem. Seen plenty mention the wildpeaks have balance problem. I had some Mackey Thompson Drag radials $300 each one was out of round an couldn't balance, they shipped new one, still run MT one of best drag radials.

 

https://www.bartact.com/?_pos=1&_si...MI1d-isfa06wIVg4nICh3SJwg_EAAYASAAEgLoevD_BwE

 

i jumped head into this project WITHOUT KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT ELECTRICAL AND WIRING other than making it look nice (from my years of PC building). so it's a bit of a learning curve but can also be straight forward once you grasp the concept of it. my largest issue to learning about this was figuring out wiring sizes so nothing is undersized and burns to a crisp. there are a lot of safety factors already added to the equipment we can get our hands on but it's always to be certain and have redundant failures before things get out of hand. By redundant failures i mean having stuff like fuses and circuit breakers to be set as failure points and not have the load (lets say LEDS) or the wires break or burn. This way you protect your truck and you can take a look at what went wrong later without taking a trip to the salvage yard.


Starting off; Figure out what you have now in terms of after market stuff if any; Light bar, LED lights for the hood and bed, etc
and what you *might* add into the future; 42 sets of pod lights, backup lights, the light bar for your light bar for your other light bar, neon underglow, etc. (i'm obviously being sarcastic here but it becomes what do you want to have eventually)

It also really helps to draw things out on paper, even basic conceptual stuff; what connects where - how it connects to all the components, specifics can be added in afterwards or before anything else, understanding the order things need to be put in place for something to function correctly is the most important.

this is one of the few pages in my archive of how my wiring is put together for my bed lighting setup as well as how i'd like to utilize my Backrack to hold some of my additional lights for when i do contract work.
i'm planning on doing a proper schematic with my entire system to keep on hand because i will forget in due time.

As you can see a note at the bottom of that page; See chris fix video
its referring to this guide; https://youtu.be/77t1UW4Qc7g on how to set up LED bed lights in the bed of the truck.
I also followed his guide on wiring in a LED light bar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8GY69Ci7l4 for when i first started this project.



I HIGHLY recommend checking his stuff out for a lot of DIY projects but especially the 2 videos above for a simplified version for wiring up lights as it is that simple. The type of auxilary fuse panels I have is sort of the "end game" type scenario, where the old wiring was getting out of hand and needed tending to. So i completed this project just to help tie things together and help keep things organized and icentralized.


you can also checkout the "show off your Aux Fuse Panel" page here; https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/show-off-your-aux-fuse-panels.308677/ to get an idea with what the community has done and what you might be intrested in.

if you have more questions; feel free to ask there

 

Yeah, we pretty much hog all the best food down here in southern Louisiana. Its a soggy paradise.