What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Nice!

 

Let the shipper know that Fed Ex sucks. I recently had a package that was on Fed Ex vehicle for delivery all day and didn't show up. later that evening I checked tracking and it said "Delayed due to weather". This could not have possibly been a bigger lie. It was bright and sunny all day. Fed Ex sucks and I cringe every time i see them as the shipper.

 

I like those...........looks like they are a new tire cooper has come out with correct? I don't recall seeing them before.

 

Yes. Got them through Discount Tire

 

One of my Captains and a Chief Warrant Officer served together on the USS NEW JERSEY, both were Cannon Cockers. A title bestowed on those who would wrap their elbows and knees with rags in order to crawl from breech to barrel tip. CO is now retired, RADM Robert Katz, and the CWO, CWO4 Dan Trevino, passed away from brain cancer.

 

Welpt, first time my Taco’s left me stranded. Parking brake is froze solid. Tried rocking back and forth in reverse, even dropped to 4LO, won’t break free. Called the dealer, mechanic said it’s a know issue. Don’t use the parking break when it’s below freezing.They said heat gun/hair dryer the rear drums, or wait for it to go above freezing. Oh well, life goes on I guess…

 

Well I assume the hair dryer / heat gun is better than leaving a bed of charcoal under your truck... I've seen that dumpster fire - literally - too many times... I'd be sitting in my seat at Shea. (There was parking visible in the outfield.) I'd see white clouds of smoke appearing from what seemed to be the back of a truck. Then the smoke gets black. Then you see the flames. And then the fire trucks show up... I sometimes have to ask, "What were they thinking?"

If that pic is fresh, the sun should help, too.

 

Damn, that sucks. Thanks for posting this though. I've always lived in moderate climate areas. And even when I've visited colder climates, I've never had this happen, so it never would have occured to me. Will definitely keep your experience stored in my memory bank when applying the e-brake out in the snowy snow.

 

The hell? Didn't know that was a thing. If it's a known issue, does anyone know if they fixed it before the 2020 model year?

 

They are nice looking. Kind of look like the ridge grapplers to me.

 

I've never had an issue with mine. I have heard if you wash your car it can freeze if you don't drive it around to get the water out.
It routinely gets below 0f where I live all the time in the winter, I always park leaving the trunk in N with the brake on and never had an issue with it sticking. Though I will say the hydraulic clutch does not like negative temperatures

 

I see you're from SE PA. Is the 41-33 on the tailgate your FP Radio Identifier?

 

I noticed that as well. Never had that problem before on any MT vehicle I've owned.

 

Apparently not. The mechanic I talked with said they just had a loner Tacoma do the same thing the other morning… He said nothing broke it loose until they drug it inside to take the drums apart and it released before they got to it, presumably from the heated bay it was parked in…

Haha, nah, that’s the Eagle’s winning super bowl score…

 

The heaters worked, I’m back in business, but missed my shift, so one lost day of work not bad… Never using my parking brake again!

Edit: It is such a force of habit for me to put the parking brake on, I had to think of something to stop me from using it until the habit is broken!

 

I think I'd have to dig through that system to figure out what the engineering mistake is and try to fix it because I'm one of those weird guys that will only use the parking brake rather than parking in gear.

 

Well I read through a couple old topics here while waiting on the heaters, and most guys who dig into it just end up frustrated because they literally find nothing wrong with the whole system. To the point the mechanic I talked with said don’t tow it in here, cause we’ve looked at them, we can’t even figure out where it’s sticking(pads, line, handle). So I don’t know. I have an auto, so don’t really need it for anything, but I’ve always used it out of habit that was formed from years of driving manuals…

 

My past experience has always been not with freezing temperatures, but with how wet the environment is when the temps do finally drop below freezing...

If the roads are dry, and the underside of your truck is dry, you can apply the parking brake.
If the roads are wet (snow, melting snow, cold rain, etc.), and the underside of your truck is wet, and you KNOW the temps are gonna drop, do NOT apply the parking brake.

 

The last (4) tires I bought made by Cooper, well 3 out of the 4 were out of round. What really bothered me about the issue was the damn tire techs could literally physically see the out of roundness and continued mounting and tried to balance them without alerting the powers to be that these tires were a POS. Just saying.....

 

Great mod...is that etsy or ebay? /s