What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

My Bakflip MX4 finally showed up. Now I just have to install it!

 

I remove my cowl once a year to deep clean that area. We get lots of stuff that falls between the cowl and the wiper transmission through the wiper arm holes. By the end of summer there is a nice sludge built up there.

 

Finally got around to removing the chrome Toyota emblems from the center caps and applying some cheap temporary TRD decals until the custom center cap decals arrive. Just need black lugs now.

 

Hmmm... interesting. Does the cowl come off fairly easily? Also, the design of the fresh air intakes, related drain holes in the cowling and the wiper pits seem like debris magnets.

 

Comes off real easy.

Remove wiper arms (with hood down or you will damage the hood)
Each side has a push clip that connects it to the fender trim, remove those.
Then it just pops up and slides out from under the windshield.

Its a terrible design for anyone who parks under or near a tree.

 

Not sure what happened there. Sorry.

 

1. got it on! Just have to get the drain tubes installed but I think I’m going to re-rout them to the side of the bed using a PVC elbow .

 

Another 5k miles down. Oil change and tire rotation. Still a bit bitter that the 3rd takes twice as long to change the oil but I do love the truck!

 

Careful when/ if you drill. I recently read about a shop that punctured the fill neck of the gas tank as it's super close to the bed. I haven't crawled under the truck to confirm, but I thought I'd throw that out there.

 

Yeah....so apparently a buddy at work climbed under my truck and "installed" these a couple weeks back. smfh




Yes, those are gold baby truck nutz.

 

bought a battery jump starter from noco to carry around in the truck. fast shipping, only took 6 days to get it used discount code: Crt15 and got an extra 15% off...

 

Link?

 

I like the door panel molle, nice set up.

 

Having a closer look at this design today you are right. It's a terrible design with trees around. It's very stormy here in the Pacific Northwest at the moment. I was just out on a errand and happen to park under a tree. It's a Honey Locust with small leaves and long narrow stems. Bloody hell if it didn't all end up back in the vents I just cleaned out. Moving forward I'll be paying more attention to this area. Worst case scenario I'll pull the cowl apart as suggested by you to give it a deep clean if needed.

 

Got tired of fishing all the leaves and debris that accumulates in the windshield wiper wells.
Bought some large gasket style washers from Home Depot
and installed them under the wipers.
Hope this keeps the extra crap out since I have to park outside and under a tree.

 

Smoked sequential mirror signals. 100 times better than the chrome.

 

This should of come standard on these trucks really.

 

How do you remove it?

 

Oh nm great