What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Well done! Welcome to TW!

 

Finally was able to track down some in stock Yakima overhaul sidebars and they arrived today. Of course I had to get them on!

 

That’s exactly what would happen to me if I had those!

 

Accumulator delete mod

 

My favorite mod to date because it is so noticeable, and bugged me every time I shifted.

Here's a great thread on that: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/mt-accumulator-delete-mod-adm-and-bs-thread.568303/

Some guys in there are also coordinating a group for getting accumulators machined. Info on that is in the last couple pages of the thread.

 

I'm somewhat paranoid about mine....almost like my catalytic converters...that's why I quickly bought the Talon Cat plate.

In this instance, I want to get a tonneau cover sooner rather than later. For now, I've been fortunate that it's been a non-issue.

Ed

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Just ordered these for the dash……



Picked these up last night for the front doors..

Saturday morning project I’m hoping these will make a difference. I’ll do the rear door speakers once I have an amplifier to power all four doors.

 

Put in my meso v2 ultimate dome lights.. super bright, very happy with them.

…And this bed mat everyone keeps talking about

 

I was a little bored today and decided to remove the ugly airbag and rollover warning stickers on the sun visors. Used my wife's hairdryer to heat them up and pealed them right off. The ones on the plastic vanity mirror covers left a little adhesive but a small amount of Goof Off took it right off. You can barely see where the stickers were on the black fabric but it looks so much cleaner now. My OCD is happy.

Before:


A little left over adhesive.


Half way there.


And done.

 

Waitwaitwait...

Those labels on the fabric can be removed?!

I always thought they were melted on to the point that fabric and label became one.

Did you just attack it, or follow a guide?

 

First hand demonstration showing the difference between sliders and steps...

 

Steps are for sissies. And Pavement Princesses.

 

One of the better upgrades out there.

 

Awesome! The bed mat is worth it’s weight in gold! The reflection on the lens in the first photo makes it look like you have miniature satellite orbiting your cabin.

 

And don’t forget kids…..

 

Yes, they can. Not sure if its 100% legal, but it's my truck and I hated those stickers.
I did a little Googling and found people using a couple methods. I tried what I felt was the least harmful, the hairdryer. Heat them up and peal them off. Worked great. Did the passenger side first in case I screwed up, I wouldn't have it right in front of my eyes for the next 10-15 years. I had both sun visors done in about 25 minutes and that included removal and installation. Heat up a corner of a sticker, pick at with a knife to see if it started to let go. When it did, I used pliers (to keep my fingers from burning up) to slowly pull it up as I kept heating it with the hairdryer. Worked great.

 

My kids love the sliders! They are definitely a multifunction mod. Rock/tree protection, kid/wife step and a little door-ding protection when crawling at the mall.

 

Starlink mod lol

 

Got quite a bit done today. First off, remounted my bed step. Turns out the bracket was fine and I'm an idiot. The day I mounted it was in the negatives and I backed up as far as I could to the garage in hopes the space heater would help a little... nope. So I mounted it, tested it, cleaned up and went inside to warm up. The next day was when I noticed it being crooked. I decided it had to be the bracket because it was a PITA to assemble. Nope. Today I pulled it down in 40 degree weather, made one simple adjustment, and put it back up. My bad AMP!, it works fine





The next thing was mudflaps. After the setback(s) I had from RokBlokz, I decided to go with the original ones I should have got in the first place. GatorBack rubber flaps. Got them on SharpTruck.com and will get a free shirt out of it once I post a review with better pics. The only issue I ran into was with the fender flares, where some of the holes were not drilled. This was expected. The extended EAG flares did not use all the mounting holes. So a couple holes drilled and Voilà!













So, as expected, a slight rub. However, it would have been worse if I used their brackets. The brackets they include go to the stock mounting point, but made the flap stick out a half inch! I think even with stock tires, you would rub that far out. So I drilled a hole and mounted to a piece in the inner fender where I could fit my hand up and put a nut behind it. There is also no mounting spots near the very top of any of the mudflaps. No big deal to me. That far up does not show outside of my extended flares anyways. There is also a metal cover plate that could have been used on the inside of the flaps. I didn't like it because it left play in the flaps and did not allow me to screw in tight enough. By removing those flaps I was able to go deeper with the screws and hug the wheel well tighter. I do plan on changing the bolts and washers in the summer. I'll be going with some stainless 10mm's and also adding a Z shape bracket to get the top bolt attached to the flaps. I'll flush mount a bolt to the inside behind the flap to allow this. I will also be getting a small L shaped bracket for the very inner portion of the front mudflaps where the included bracket should be.

Overall, super happy here and definitely glad I didn't mess with the universal style flaps. These look so much better. The pics I took are not great. They make it look like the flaps don't cover the whole wheel (285/75R17), but they do, on both sides. As for the rubbing, once I see clear wear marks (also during summer) I will take a dremel and remove any part that protrudes too much. I suspect I won't even need to by then, but I'm more concerned about the rub under load - which I have no tested yet. Under load my tires clear by mm's. They NEVER rub. But they will rub the flaps. Since they don't rub any bolts, I'm happy for now. I'll perfect it later.

The last thing I did was mount a hi-lift jack that I don't really have much use for on the truck currently due to not having skids or bumpers. But, since I plan on getting them, I wanted to get this mounted.





The tonneau cover clears. Barely. It does hit the rubber part around the jack that holds the arm to it once fully closed. Not enough to make any bulge or mess with anything. It's still sealed. I did have to drill two holes for the EAG mounts. TBH, the EAG mounts are not great. My plans eventually would be to mount my recovery boards up there and have the jack/shovel/axe on the outside of it. I'm going to have to get creative for that one, because I'm not paying beaucoup monies for custom made brackets that I'd still have to modify. I'll mess with all that when it warms up and trail access is obtainable. If I need too in the mean time, bungee cords, 550, duck tape and zip ties are no stranger to me. Also going to have to modify those cheap plastic boxes to make sure they don't flop around, because they are not the most secure. I'll probably just screw in some L shaped brackets to the bed, and a secondary attachment point that I can lock.

So that was my day.