What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

S&B intake installed. Sounds magnifico la

 

I added the same tires in 265-70-17 to my stock Sport. I went with the C rated tires and kinda wish I'd gone with the S rated passenger tire. These things are rock hard on pavement which is where I do 95+% of my driving. They do handle quite well but provide a much rougher ride. Traction is good in snow and slush and they do look good, too.

 

I must have no sensation abilities. I cant feel the difference between C or E. And youre saying C is rough? Not being a smart ass, but is this your first truck? Then i could see being more sensitive to those things. Ive had load E since 2009.

 

I have found them to be softer in turns and more pleasant on the bumps than the stock tires at a similar pressure. I’m pretty sure they are basic C loads as well. I’ll have to go look again.

 

Doubt its the rating of the tire. What PSI are you running on your tires?

 

Good call. Do NOT put them at 50 psi.

35 is good.

 

i did a snorkel,
In case your curious how far the Templet had the holes off. This is it. Oh, fyi don’t buy the fender clips from Toyota. They charge nearly 3x as much if you would just buy them from autozone.

 

I have to admit that must have took guts to cut that hole and drill those hole in your fender to do that. Some lost of HP and Air Restriction in the Tube for Dust Control? They look cool when done but sure a branch would tear it off my truck if I did it. Not knocking what you did just I have thought about doing this on things before and decided not to it. Just don't drive thru that much dusty stuff fast. Have re/routed Air Cleaner intakes to stop water going in them crashing thru puddles on trucks before. Swamped a Air Cleaner a couple times in the past doing this and stalled the engine. Did put a Big Donaldson Semi Truck Air Cleaner on a Truck Cab once to pressurize it keeping dust out of my Water Tender Cab I built on Wildfires. Does not show in this picture but it was on the other side above the word fire and it still sucked in lot of dirt into the filter I needed to clean out after every fire I was on being that high and on the back of the cab.

 

Everyone complains about the steering controls but nobody's taken them apart yet to figure out whether its a simple fix.

Spoiler

Sure don't seem like a simple fix...

Welp, I bought some on eBay and took them apart. So step #1 done. Now somebody smart tell us what it all means....?





Tracing leads through the board:




Clusterf*ck detail:




Leads terminating at harness:




Unfortunately, even if this mod is possible, the button can't just be flip-turned upside down due to its shape:

 

Are you running spacers?
Thanks!
Truck looks awesome!

 

That's amazing! Well played.

Wait, didn't somebody say that the RAV4 or some other model had the controls in the correct orientation? I wonder if the boards/button caps are swappable between the two.

EDIT: actually, it looks like each button is wired directly to an individual contact on that connector. I wonder if something like a 'crossover cable' could be stuck in between the connector and the ribbon cable, then just add a corrected button cap.

EDIT2: wait, no @Agem_89 is right. So it's built the same way they do the cruise control stalk. Crap.

 

yeah I took mine apart to do the same thing. Looks to me like each button press has a different resistance value. (Just a guess) if you could move the values around you could probably make it work how it should from the factory. But then your left with button images that don’t match the function haha. Need someone (mesco) to make a new button! Haha

 

Yeah it looks like you'd want to swap green/blue and yellow/pink where they join just before the resistors.

To my completely untrained eye, it looks like a POC could be banged out by breaking a few connections between through holes and resistors and some thin little wires to bridge connection points. Unfortunately that's too fine for my skill level of just slopping on solder to join wire pairs.

(Edit) something like this:

 

This is why I'm gonna sell my house this year and move up to NH. I can still get some cheap land and build a cabin on it up there.
I've been in my house 6 years and it's valued at double what I paid, crazy times we're in right now.

 

Started taking off the "toyota" from my pro grill. Saw a picture yesterday of it color matched to inferno and it looked pretty amazing.

 

Personally if I were to do it? I would just re-arrange the wires on the connector harness, then try and rotate the Volume control pad 90*. Shouldn't be that hard to do.

But for me I don't really find it to be a problem.

 

Was also wondering if you have the glove compartment Tacoma letters in army green…didn’t see it in the pics. Looks really good though!

 

Some of us are incredibly picky about things like this.



EDIT: To support this notion, I cite my 5 page thread about the possibility of using an Arduino to "fix" the cruise control to automatically turn it on in Constant Cruise mode because I don't like having to hold the button for 3 seconds every time I start the truck:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/is-there-a-way-to-change-the-default-cruise-control.746902/

 

Unfortunately it doesn't look like a 1:1 button to harness wire. It looks like all volume/seek buttons use a single pin on the harness. @Agem_89 is likely correct about button presses being inferred by resistance.

 

And I dropped one of the little screws into the bottomless pit that is the engine bay...