What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I tent camped up there a ton when I was in high school. I owned a couple of campers years ago and used to camp quite a bit back than. At one point we used to haul the camper up there every other weekend. Lots of good times up there.

 

I installed the UpTop Overland Truss bed rack today.

Overall, I'm very impressed with the build quality, packaging, and instructions (there's a QR code on the box that links to the online instructions). Installation was pretty straight forward once you determine that the bed rack instructions are for all versions of their system including affixing it to a Diamondback bed cover or drilling into your bed if you're not lucky enough to have bed rails that accept the sliders. The Tacoma was very easy, and it was 100% bolt on.

My only gripes are these:
The hardware bags are labeled very well and there's a code printed on them ex: 9000.4, but the instructions don't reference them. Instead, the instructions just state use M8 x 1" bolt with fender washer and lock washer.
The Tacoma requires the use of three different bolt/washers for the end caps, side armor, and bed rail legs. They're all allen bolts. My gripe is that some are 5/32 and the others are 5mm. Why not just use all SAE or all metric?
My final gripe is that there are torque specifications for all the bolts. That's not a big deal. My issue was that it was in inch pounds not foot pounds. I had to break out the ole calculator to convert the specifications. In case anyone is wondering 115 in-lb is 9.6 ft-lb. Also, I don't have one of those fancy digital torque wrenches, so I got as close as I could.

I went with the mid level Truss height so that I'm not creating a huge air damn above the roofline when I mount my future rooftop tent.

 

FYI, if it bugs you that the driver side lower MOLLE panel mounts have no attach points, you can order two matching black M6 torx bolts that are used on the passenger side, then drill two 5/16 holes and install two M6 rivnuts, securing the tabs with the black M6 torx bolts. Unused mounting tabs bothered the sh1t out of me.

 

looks good! What are you attaching?

 

I realized I forgot to mention the ABS speed sensor covers that I had installed at the same time as the Stoptech big brake kits.

https://jomaxcustoms.com/jomax-buy-now/abs-speed-sensor-armor-for-the-toyota-tacoma-full-set-4-item

 

GIF fixed, was driving me crazy

 

First thing will be a rooftop tent. I'm leaning towards the Smittybilt tent. They've had good reviews on YouTube and the price is pretty good compared to many of the others.

 

Finally got around to sanding down and repainting a new set of center caps for the powder coated wheels.

Unfortunately the color still isn't a great match between the wheel and caps, but whatever, I give up. The final step is to get the vinyl "TRD" cutouts cut and applied and these wheels will be ready for show time.

Lift goes on in just over a week, then I can finally get these bad boys wrapped and mounted

 

Thanks! Send me a DM brother. I don't have a list of all the tools but I can send you some links from Youtube that I used to help me out.

 

Thanks for watching bud! Next week, after putting in some more miles, I'll retighten all the bolts and mark them with a pen.

 

15,450 bonus points for using “montage”!

 

Haha. Didn't want to upset a bunch of people thinking it was an instructional video.

 

Don't know if that vinyl will last long on the painted plastic with your weather. Might be a good idea to get a little brush and paint it in. You'll definitely have a one of a kind set. What color you going with for the TRD?

 

Buddy and I Finished up the square tube sliders!

suppose the voodoo hi rise bars are new (and need to be repositioned), and added the license light covers that someone posted the other day.

 

Not sure yet.

Either: pure magenta, orange chrome, or purple chrome.

 

Haha I’m not bothered but I understand for some people

 

Lower part I’m planning to mount heavier things. The molle on the cap are flimsy so most likely small bags etc. I just like having the ability to mount everywhere I want haha

 

@upTOPoverland bravo roof rack today.

She’s almost finished

 

RSI Smartcap EVOa
Got some closet light on Amazon, since the cap is steel, the magnetic light works great.

 

Installed some bed lights, a TRD skid and a power tailgate lock.