What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Over the weekend, I installed my RCI engine, transmission, and transfer case skids that I purchased during their Labor Day Sale. I ordered them on Friday evening, they shipped on Tuesday morning, and I had them in hand on Friday evening. Install was nice and smooth. Took about 1 hour start to finish, including watching a 12 minute install video on YouTube and cutting up the cardboard to throw in the trash. Also, no compatibility issues with the transfer case skid cross member and my White Knuckle sliders. Couldn't be happier!



Last night and today, I performed the "anytime 400 watt" modification for the factory inviter, and added a 120v outlet and 12v outlet to the rear of my center console. I had previously installed a USB charging jack on the rear of the console, which got moved to the new panel that houses the 120v and 12v sockets. Both the 12v socket and the USB jacks use a dedicated/fused circuit from my auxiliary battery. I had previously removed the in-dash 12v cigarette lighter style plug when I installed my Meso 8 compartment lower switch panel, so I now have all of my power outlets in-cab again.

 

Well you have to work harder and/or smarter than most for a build like that. Work hard play harder. Awesome build and look forward to seeing it in action.

 

How does it work?

 

Upvote for Spiritbox. Doesn’t get any better.

 

About 2 weeks ago, I went to Kroger to get some groceries and I had parked at far end of the parking lot. Very few cars in the lot where I was at. Might have been in store 30-45 minutes. Came back out and some @$$hole parked his newer Chevy 2500 behind my truck. Literally blocking the tail gate (couldn't get waters in bed). There was no other vehicles on either side of me. Driver could've parked on either side of me and had no issues.

But no.

Directly behind me.

 

From the website:
The Cascadia 4x4 VSS System™ hard-mounts to the hood of your 3rd Gen Tacoma and, during daylight hours, provides a constant flow of clean solar energy to your primary or secondary vehicle batteries. This gives you the ability to run 12V accessories like fridges, phone/laptop chargers, lights, power inverters etc. without the need to start your engine and without the fear of draining your battery and leaving you stranded.The VSS System™is completely plug-and-play if paired with our optional MPPT solar charge controller and can be installed in as little as 1.5 hours.
https://www.cascadia4x4.com/collect...-watt-hood-solar-panel?variant=35028542521496

 

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

CMC this past weekend and some ko2's

 

$50 with free ship code. They seem busy because it took a month to get here.

https://www.covercraft.com/us/en/dash-covers

 

I just did my console lid with the Clazzio this weekend. It was tight! So i removed the console lid which made it better. 6 screws on the underside separate the top from the bottom of the lid, then 4 screws remove the top part of the lid from the hinge. I used a trim tool to get the back of the cover on the lid...

Here is a tip, you can buy a 12"X12" piece of foam 1" or 2" from Michaels/Joanne fabric/Hobby Lobby and put that between the cover and the lid for some extra padding. Especially if you are going to keep it for a while.

 

The frame was the first thing I noticed, that thing is beautiful. Nice truck man.

 

So far it seems to work, I'll have to check when the sun comes back up tomorrow what I can actually do with it. Today I just stuck a multimeter on it and it showed 15v, mostly sunny and not direct. I'll check again when I get direct sunlight what it reads through the charge controller.

 

Oh crap, fine. You got me I didn’t vacuum

 

Picked up a screw in the outside lug of my Duratrac Sat nite. Decided to use the road side assist benefit of a free patch or new tire if unable to repair, long story short...dealer took 7 hrs and just plugged it from the outside, looks kinda sketchy. I could have did that in my garage in 5 minutes.
Hope it holds.
Thinking I need to pu a matching 265 75 16 spare just in case.

 

Interesting... The dealership that just repaired my plug did it from the inside and said "Toyota won't even let us plug from the outside if we wanted to..."

I'm sure it will hold.... they're winter tires right?

 

I told the service guy why from the outside, sb from inside, his reply was thats the proper way, they do all like that. Total BS. I knew no sense talking to him at that point.

 

That's unfortunate. Wish there were some standard practices among dealerships...

 

Added new Tri Tube Runners. They are pretty heavy duty, Sprayed flat black rust proofing. Look Awesome.

 

That console looks great! Where did you get the 120v/12v parts?

 

Awesome man, thanks a ton!