What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I've seen a few folks do this. Can you please describe the difference? I'm tempted to try it. If I could do something to significantly improve the shifting, I'm in. Difficulty scale 1-10?

thanks

 

Any word on people selling their Prinsu Roof rack for 3rd Gen DC Tacoma?

 

Did you happen to catch these (2.25") hose clamp goodies as found over here? Might be worth checking out. Coupon: 10PEROFFSUBSCRIBER

 

Scale 5
You need to have the right tools, flared wrench, and then the replacement piece. I used a Honda clutch line. All the info is in the adm (accumulator delete mod) thread

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/mt-accumulator-delete-mod-adm-and-bs-thread.568303/

now for the difference, the accumulator is like a condom, it keeps things safe, but it’s way better without it.

 

OEM LED headlights and hidden winch.

 

Looks good. I’ve got a lot of that setup… sdhq hidden mount, and that license plate flip, except I put mine in so it flips down, which required a little extra cutting.

 

I was thinking about making it flip down, however, my fear was that gravity would pull the license plate down with every bump I hit. Seems like I was wrong.

 

Haha you guys are too funny. I had to scroll back thru the posts to find the FAL reference when it was under my nose.

 

I had to torque those bolts pretty tight, that’s what the nylon washer is for. But I did drive halfway across the state with it at a 45 degree angle. No harm just my ego. Also, the automatic car wash is not friendly to the flippy plate. (It’s how my dealer washes the customers cars, send them to the carwash with a voucher)

 

Exactly what I was hoping to do as we have front license plates here. Nice!!

 

Did the Meso Chrome delete kit and vent rings in black as well as the meso dome light. Waiting on my map lights still, took me a few hours being careful, could probably do it about 6x as fast if I ever needed to do it again

 

Perfect,thank you

 

You probably don’t want to know that these are due out at the end of the month: https://mesocustoms.com/products/v2-dual-color-map-lights-3rd-gen?variant=39249069441137

 

Meh, I did the dual brightness whites rather than the red and white rear and found an in stock white map which is fine for me, I prefer the white light when I need to find something and keep them off the rest of the time and would rather have the brighter lights. But I did go back and forth a bit with waiting for those ones!

 

Link for the plate flipper?

 

i refresh the page for this daily

 

$43 Tuffy Flip-Up License Plate Holder - Hawse Fairlead

https://www.amazon.com/Tuffy-Flip-Up-License-Plate-Holder/dp/B01N4AKOEB

I am satisfied with the quality for the price. Other ones I looked at were over $100.

 

So many times a day…

 

Sorry don't mean to offend, but are all those colors in honor of the LGBTQ community?

 

I installed

$199 TAC Side Steps Fit 2005-2023 Toyota Tacoma Double Cab 4" Running Boards Side Bars Nerf Bars Pickup Truck Exterior Accessories Tubular Bend End Texture Black 2PCS

these. They came Wednesday and it finally cooled down enough to work in the driveway. This was a job that would have been easier on a lift, but wasn't too bad as it was.

Good set of instructions and the Left and Right side bars and hardware were in color coded bags. The fiddly bit was getting the bracket bolts to start into the weld bolts in the body. Some of the angles were off. I found that using a 1/4 drive 12mm socket and a screw driver handle made it much easier to line things up then trying to use my fingers. I got the brackets in "finger tight" and then attached the bars to the brackets. Again, using the 1/4 drive socket/handle combination made it much easier to deal with the angles.

I lined everything up tightened the bolts down and checked them with my torque wrench.

I did the passenger side first and had no real problems.

On to the driver side. Since I knew what to look for this went more quickly.

Until.

You know that there's always one. Eleven bracket bolts went in easily, but the twelfth was the one. The plastic plug didn't want to come out, so I had to pry it out. Then I noticed a bit of rust. Shouldn't be a problem. Shouldn't but was. No matter what I did, the bolt would not start in. I had put the bracket on loosely with the other bolt, but ended up taking it off to check the other hole. I used a bolt to chase the threads, but it still didn't work. After about 20 minutes of this I discovered that angle of this back bracket was a bit different than the right back bracket. Or at least the bolt hole was. After that, it was easy. Same thing as the other side. Attach the rail, snug up the bolts, check with the torque wrench

Then recheck both sides with the torque wrench and I was done.