What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Your truck looks perfect! Is that some kind of wax job or coating you have on there?

 

Waited over 5 years to wear out my stock tires, still had some tread on them but waited long enough - for sale in the wheel and tire section if you want
Picked up some slightly used great condition Nitto Terra grapplers for $200. And some regular maintenance throttle body and MAFS cleaning.

 

How are members mounting this to their side rail in the bed? Also, what materials are they using?

 

$24 Te-Co 41406T Black Oxide 1018 Steel Tapped Through T-Slot Nut, 3/8"-16 TPI, 5/8" Height x 7/8" Width x 9/16" Table Slot (Pack of 5)

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$6 Hillman 44018 Stainless Steel Button-Head Socket Cap Screws (3/8"-16 x 1") - 5 pieces , Zinc

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Thanks for the help.

 

Love the Globe and Anchor grill!!

 

I think @Cloaked point is that TQM attitude (total quality management) was rejected/ignored by Ford and GM so Deming took it to Japan which helped them turn their at-the-time shoddy Japanese cars into worldwide behemoths. TQM thinking can be applied to all manufacturing processes. Stepping off my professorial platform now

 

Love the sticker. Semper Fi.

 

Took her out to grab some lunch. Don’t let the lack of snow fool you, I’ve left the studded Hakka’s on for a reason. We’re currently experiencing false spring.

 

I like this bumper, but I wish they had it without light bar....

 

Predator Steps removed, Caliraised sliders going on. Slow solo progress!

 

Black Belt here. As you stated thought processes are applied to all manufacturing processes. I employ Six Sigma to every project that I am involved in. In fact, I can facilitate any lean process to any subject area and allow the team improve their processes. Okay, enough of the professional platform LOL. Cheers

 

Six sigma rocks!

1980's I was working in semiconductors. PDP 11/44 with Fortran, so I could crunch process data to see trends. It worked! Before that is was blindly assemble and test. Once wafers were tested, it showed which should go to mil-spec devices (expensive ceramic package) and went to cheaper consumer-grade plastic packages. We have much better insight. I wasn't appreciated in San Jose. My employer was known to "grind employees up" work. 80 hour work weeks, just exhausted. No joy. No vacation for three years (gulp!). Too much work to be done. Yes, yields are up, profits are up, we are shipper more product (right wafers getting into the right package meant higher yields), but we need more! Well, I said screw it, took all my vacation in one lump (six weeks), and went bicycling in New Zealand! No cell phones those days.

A few months later was working in Germany. Robert Bosch GmbH in the IC facility. The first thing I noticed were wall charts of process flows up on the walls. Everyone in the company lived and breathed a lean process for Automotive Engineering.

Some years later, I was back in the states, landed in Texas at Motorola in 1993, and they had this big thing about "Six Sigma". I just smiled. What a crazy rodeo this has been.

 

Little chrome delete. Only have the TSS badge in the grille and the cup holder ring

 

Installed a @MESO Stealth PRO shift knob, along with KTJO 400W anytime plug and play mod and a rear 110v/USB-C/USB/volt meter and replaced the ETC button space with another couple USB’s.

When I drilled the shifter trim ring for the wires to pass through I flipped over a tape gun and used the handle to push the trim ring up. The handle of the tape gun protected the boot from the drill bit and all of the shavings went into it.


I pushed the e-brake boot down after this.

 

I put in the extended engine well Splash Guards that @Stoked4 sells here on TW. What an improvement in the coverage to keep water and mud from in the engine bay.

Left side OEM pulled and ready to install the replacement.




Close up of the OEM coverage:







Coverage with replacement splash guards:

 

I know it’s off subject but thought I would share. I recently lifted my house about 60” thankfully the lift, tires and other things I plan to do on my Tacoma is much cheaper lol

 

Wow, even though your home's footprint is on the smaller side I would hate to see the cost of this. Why are you doing this? Also, did you think about going to 108" and putting in a mancave/basement?

 

Fresh oil, filter, and a scrub a dub dub. Also got the Midland GMRS installed and did the rear diff breather for good measure. Ready for some spring runs!

 

Sounds good, thank you for the information!