What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Don’t rush your your decision.

 

If I like something and can afford it, I buy it because I could die tomorrow.. just don’t die before it takes fedex 10 extra days to deliver your stuff because of staffing issues..

 

Sorry, I missed a word. How much FUN did you have putting those UCA's in?

 

DO IT!

 

I unfortunately inherited my dads trait of looking at 5 of the same kind of thing in the store...thinking about it...putting them back....picking them back up...walking away....coming back....

I stew about way too many things. I know it is b/c we were poor growing up, so I rarely got anything new, and always had to think about budgeting money...I am not super poor now, but also not rolling in money, so I still have to make sure things are purchased for the long haul...this truck is only the 4th car I have had in 40 years of driving

 

yeah, i assume you’re asking because you already know the answer…it fxking sucked hahah. suspension was easy, but those UCAs were so frustrating and took so long. i mean seeing as i’ve never done a UCA install before, inexperience played into it a bit but it was just one of those things where I watched the install video from Total Chaos and he installs them in like 3 minutes and it seems so easy and straightforward, but then during the install, every step just like, didn’t quite work? things didn’t *quite* line up, things didn’t *quite* fit, and it just led to a very frustrating evening lol.
so yeah, there was no fun to be had. thanks for asking

 

That’s what credit cards and endless mounds of anxiety are for !

 

Installed Raptor lights. Tapped in to the tail light fuse (under the dash) and they come on as long as the side markers are on rather than if just the headlights are on which is what you get if you tap into the headlight fuse under the hood.

 

Yeah, that's because I did JBA UCA's too and replacing the stock ones with these was a god damn nightmare. I wanted to punch the design group that thought jamming a single long bolt through a UCA at an angle that would hit the body and battery at every point was well thought out. Bending the weld wall at that point was easy enough to do, but in reality, those two knuckles should have had one bolt each. Done and out. That's the way the design should have gone. Anyway, good on you for doing it. Extra camber is great, don't forget to grease them though.

 

Just finished installing Rough Country in-line speedo calibrator after going to 35” tires. Sorry no pics Very easy install other than having to borrow a windows based computer and learn how to operate said windows based computer lol. It is now spot on with my gps. Cheers to hopefully seeing better numbers on my average mpg at least on the dash display!

 

No Menards near me now, miss that place.

 

Got the rear and front right part of my lift in. Ran out of daylight so I will do the drivers side tomorrow after work.

Its the trd pro suspension with the eibach lift kit. Im about 2.5 inches over a stock trd offroad now (1.5 over a stock trd pro). I got a little bit left of my tires, so I am going to run them till about January, then buy new bigger ones. They are not terribly worn out, but they are cracking between the treads pretty good.

 

Installed the 4xinnovations sliders and rear bumper. There may have been some cussin n swearin, but they're on. Solid doesn't begin to describe them. Still waiting on SSO for the front.

 

So how crooked is your truck?

 

Not too bad, you can tell when in the truck for sure. Its about 1-1.5 inches higher on the passenger side right now.

 

Other than the two piece bed sides that rotted out, these were great little trucks, easy to work on, and looked good too!

 

Got the truck back after the exhaust reroute and had the ARB locker and compressor wiring and switches installed.

huge props to Jason (@Speed Freek) for the work.

finished installing the rest of the RCI skids.

also got to play around with the Morflate.

4 minutes from 15psi to 36psi.

 

Bilstein 6112s front (5/6 clip setting), 5160s rear, JBA UCAs, and Icon RXT Stage 1 leaf pack. Absolutely loving it!

 

Are those the bolt on 4x sliders? Usable as a step for front and back doors?

 

They're bolt on. They're high, so usefulness as steps, not so much, but you can step on em to get access to racks, etc.