What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Yeah you right he was 75 in the force awakens. My bad.

 

We (my daughters and I) are watching the whole thing, in chronological order. No clone wars though but we are at rogue one just now. I’m not really a major Star Wars fan, there is at least 2 stormtroopers in the taco, and I have seen them all (except some cartoons) I always have to explain a lot of back stories to generations above me and below me.

 

nice wheels, what are they from

 

Hows the sound?

 

Just curious, how's that Roadshock holding up?

 

honestly it didn’t really change at all. I haven’t driven it around but just Erving the engine it didn’t change much. This was more just getting it to have clearance so I don’t drag a tail pipe and I prefer the look of no exhaust pipe out the side

 

Finally matched my rims. Plasti dip

 

Well, today I put the rest of the parts that I had gathered for my truck's upgrade project into storage until next year.

 

Well, busy weekend to be sure.

Made a wiring harness for the 6x Baja Designs S2's (2x S2 sports each side, 2x S2 pros to the rear) to be mounted on the RLD roof rack. Pain...In...The....Ass!!! I wish I could just wing it and just use quick crimps and run wires. But no, I can't. Everything needs to be soldered, heat shrinked, and run in plastic tubing. The design of the RLD rack allowed me to run the harness within the rack tubing, so it is completely hidden and not subject to any abuse.

After the wiring harness and lights were mounted on the RLD rack, next job was drilling and setting up for the bushing for the canopy to rack transition.



This is not the end product. Once I had the bushing in and sealed, the rack was brought forward to its final resting place and placed over this bushing. The bushing is not visible and instead resides within the load bar seen just behind the bushing in the photo.

Then came bolting up the rack and running the wiring harness inside.

Sealed up rack mount points, tightened everything down, and am ready next weekend to land the wires.

This will be an awesome set up for me. I typically arrive out at camp about midnight, setting up in the dark. About 2am, there is a firewood run. These lights will be a godsend when setting up camp, cutting wood, pulling boats onto trailers after dark, or any other night time needs.

The RLD canopy by itself did not look great to my eye....but I loved it because it will serve a great purpose. Adding in the RLD rack and lights really made this go from just "eh, okay" to "hey, that's nice".

Didn't snap a pic, but also installed a Yakima spare tire carrier on the rack. When going "way out there" it will be nice and will now be able to add a second spare to the roof rack.











Will need to upgrade springs to Deaver Stage 1 leafs soon. Lost about 3/4" ride height in rear. Want that back as I'm not a fan of the leveled look. I don't like the squat when carrying a load in the rear.

Never ending shit. One mod brings about the need for another.

 

2nd the never ending. Just got an rsi on like two days ago. Placed an order for an aal today. Truck is sitting levelish but looks like it’s gonna sag with 10# in the bed.

 

Ordered these a while back, finally installed these R4T LCA skids. Black was out of stock so I went with the gray thought they might match my Aluminum skids.

 

Installed a bed rug, and made my own bed track nuts to mount my camping propane tank.

 

Nice! I just drove out to Vegas a few weeks ago and picked up a new Mt. Rainier hybrid and a matching hybrid awning.. Such a good group of people there at CVT.

 

Put my labor day sale diode dynamics SS3 pro fogs in. Ended up taking the fender liner off on the first side then just did the second through the hood opening, prettt straight forward. Will have to see how I like where they’re aimed and potentially adjust more after some driving. Seem like they’re pretty high quality and they’re awefully bright!

 

Installed a pair of BD S2 Pro on CaliRaised low-profile brackets.

 

Changed out the radio dials into some black anodized ones. Recently saw AJT designs are taking pre orders for knobs that will match their chrome delete package (which I have) so Im very excited to get those. Waiting on Monday to get all my LEDs so I can FINALLY switch out my whole tailight unit

 

This happened yesterday. It goes with Saturday's post. It ended up being a little late, so I didn't make the 'Today' deadline.

I finished the front. I'll need to measure once it settles. It should be about an extra inch and a half over the one inch on the Pro. So that's two and a half inches for the peasants.

 

So I decided to see if I could reduce the amount of road noise coming into the truck. I did the Noico butyl and second skin sound mass loaded vinyl with the closed cell foam. Quite a reduction in noise. Happy with the results

 

impressive work!

 

4runner trd pro