What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Sure doesn’t look it. Were the faces flat when you started?
Is it leaking?

 

Once it warmed up a little it was a great day to give the Tacoma a bath!

 

I would try reaching out to whoever you ordered them through, hopefully they can just send you some white fog lenses.

 

already in contact. since they dropshipped directly from DD it sounds like they have to contact them about it first. SUPER NICE lights, just not what I want for fogs LOL. If I could just get the correct lenses I'd be more than happy.

 

Perfectly normal!

Some flange clamping systems have strong coil springs with longer bolts clamping the flanges together. That way the flanges don't need to distort in order to provide pressure to the gasket.

Of course, the sealing gasket is "special" for such systems. sometimes donut shaped.

 

dip can in your pocket or are you just happy to see us?

 

so after steadily watching my mpg drop. The practical side to side of me decided the juice was not worth the squeeze. I can't stand losing 2 MPG's. Just so I can get a little bit more noise and a cleaner looking engine I'll never see. So I put everything back to stock. I'll keep an eye on the mpg and see if it gets back to 18. But I'm also wondering if the cold weather we're getting now affects mpg. I did leave the mass airflow adapter in.

 

The stock exhaust flange is thicker I believe and I didn’t pay enough attention but assume it was more flat. The trd exhaust flange seemed thinner with a rolled edge. I’ll look at the stock flange again

 

yea the stock exhaust flange is thicker than the trd. Same thickness as the other half pictured. The trd is ss and thinner- the edge is rolled but if you look at the bolts you can see a difference in old exposed threads to now exposed (looks close to a 1/4” more threads).

Unless I was supposed to bang on the exhaust to get a better seat I just lined them up and started threading the bolts evenly until torqued.

care to share your thoughts @Bishop84

 

Like you said, there's two different mating surfaces. The trd flange looks flat while the oem appears to have a slight curve. You've torqued it and you have the new gasket to seal up the difference. I'm sure you'll be fine the way it is. Don't over think it.

 

I seen the bolts with springs on another flange opposite of the y (near the cat). This flange was just bolts with the welded on nut. That’s what I’m guessing is that the new exhaust being thinner has more flex than the thicker stock. Gasket did get replaced and it’s not leaking (I’m assuming when ppl say leak it’s a liquid leak).

 

It looks odd for sure, but as long as its not leaking, don't sweat it.

It almost looks like the new pipe simply bent inwards when it was torqued.

 

Is that an Aux Beam? I’ve been eyeing those as well, a couple guys I work with have them and love it

 

I was happy in that very moment for sure but no dip
I carry this medallion with me

 

oh man thats heavy, thank you for sharing and I meant no disrespect. I saw you’re in Florida and figured it was a can of cope or grizzly

 

You ever have to beat on one to seat it or just butt up against and tighten

 

I send it. I would likely try a bigger gasket in my tool box to try and compensate for the bend on this scenario though. Not sure.

 

It’s probably the angle- I’d say the oem (left side) is flat just for the fact how thick it is and the trd (right) has the slight curve from torquing the bolts. It’s thinner and slightly bent the flange in versus pancaking the gasket.

 

I didn’t take any disrespect from that- I actually made sure I didn’t have any other imprints before the post

 

This is the remote switch unit. It uses a VGA cable to connect the controller to the relay box.
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