What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Makes me mad that I'm apparently such an easy mark. Will be on guard for future work.

 

Is that sub box off the shelf or did you fabricate something custom?

 

It's a JL Audio Stealthbox.

https://www.crutchfield.com/p_13694654/JL-Audio-Stealthbox.html

 

Did an oil change. Normally I don't film stuff like this, but I thought why not? Also I made sure to include those grease fittings on the driveshaft that most people forget about

https://youtu.be/mXK1WXzSlHc

 

Good vid! I know this will be helpful and a great way to save some coin as well as give the driver an opportunity to do work on the rig.

Oil change is the gateway drug to doing your own work. Nothing on these trucks is hard to do. The process of doing the oil change is the exact same as swapping out a steering pump. Just different bits involved.

Put the money you would give to a shop to acquiring your tool set and you are set to do your own wrenching for years and years at a fraction of the price and the reward of doing it and knowing what was done and how.

It is surprising the amount of rust you have. Must be salted roads. I have a 2016 with 90k miles and no rust at all.

 

Thanks for the comment brother !!!! You are right, it all starts with oil changes and then takes off from there!! I live in Canada near Toronto, so our mild winters are to blame for the salt. The city uses a ton of salt I keep it clean as best I can, and when it was new I even sprayed the frame with that black rubber guard stuff. Tough Canadian winters.......

 

Installed the Toyota tailgate lock - so nice to have the tailgate now locking with the key remote. Highly recommended mod - our trucks should've come standard with it I believe (or at least standard in the TRD trims).

The process was quite easy, being OEM. The long parts were routing the front wire harness and tying all those zip ties :-D

 

Check out Impact Coatings in Edmonton. I’ve never personally had anything done there but they did a set of hand railings for my parents house. They came out beautifully.

 

Does the something button turn on Flux capacitor??

 

Absolutely. It's what makes time travel possible!

 

Finished up making my load bars for the bed so I could relocate my basket. Then promptly put her to work.

 

cant wait to see these on the truck..

 

Wash n Polish and new floor mats.

 

Took it to the dealer for the fuel pump recall! No free wash though because I had my bike rack on

 

Thanks

 

Shit. I've got a local guy quoting $350 OTD

 

Reading all these prices at 1/4 what I paid (or less) got me like...



Took the wheels back today (after getting extensive photos) and they seem eager to fix their work, which is... nice, I suppose?

The guy did originally mention just cleaning up the back side, but I insisted they re-blast the wheels down to metal and start over. He seemed to accept that, but made kind of a show about mentioning it to the tech directly in front of me which seemed more for my benefit than really meaning it.

I could imagine the minute I left he turned around and said "just fix the back side..." but time will tell. I will definitely give much more scrutiny before walking off with the rims after round two, and will never pay these prices again in the future based on the spanking I am receiving on TW for being such a boob.

 

Ok, I've done a bit of powder coating and from what I can see these have a lot of possible issues. They look like they weren't blasted, at least not the backs. They also look like they were laid flat on a rack to cure and shifted before the powder set. I'm suspect that they are properly cured as well. Coating looks mega thick and if properly cured you could set those on the ground fresh out of the oven and that wouldn't happen

 

Hope you get it straightened out! I'm looking forward to seeing them on your truck!

 

Sorry everyone is .

FWIW I have seen prices close to this, but it's usually for items that won't fit in the oven to cure where they have to heat it by hand.