What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Again thanks.

 

Couple more pics from today:

 

Finished my weekend mods by adding Matt Gecko's fantastic LED under hood lights (too bright right now to take a picture), replace the chrome grill surround with the black one (Toyota Part #

$154 52711-04010 Toyota Genuine Parts - Moulding, Fr Bumper (52711-04010)

52711-04010), @ACEkraut 's low profile plate bracket (was told my plates were finally mailed to me on Thursday, so great timing), and installed the UpTop full height TRUSS bed rack (still need to add the eX Alpha cap, maybe this week if I have time after work).

All in all a productive weekend.

 

Gotta love the red.

 

What bug guard is that on the hood? Truck looks good

 

Thanks! It came with the truck when I bought it. I tried to find it online. This is what I have so far:
Tough Guard FormFit Hood Protector (Textured Finish) - Toyota Tacoma (autoeq.ca)

 

Ugh, finally. Two weekends wiring, cutting, and bolting and here we are. Don't have a winch yet so I guess whenever I get one I'll have to do it all over again, but looks pretty slick even without it. And haven't installed my other lights yet, but that should be relatively simple. I'm glad my hacking, soldering, crimping, heat-gunning of the wiring harnesses and the various terminals for my relays and fuse box worked; when I first turned on the truck and hit the switch, the light bar lit up and then immediately died. FUCK! But then I realized for some reason the fuse I had installed for the ditch lights (I thought 3A would be enough based on Diode Dynamics paperwork) had blown, probably because it is a single dual switch so they are somehow linked together. Regardless, replaced it with a 15A and it works fine now. Hopefully that won't be a problem though, maybe try a 5 or 10A.

 

The RCI sliders come up a bit short. I'm looking to replace mine, I'm thinking Wescott as they've got some nice sliders.

 

Wow! Are those without the kick outs?

 

I like those mirror caps! Where did you get those if you don’t mind??

 

eBay, ship from China, took two weeks to arrive. The fit is alright not great, I had to make some adjustments with electrical tape to cover up some white on the back part that shows through.

 

Slapped this guy on this afternoon. Solid unit for sure.

 

Don't JBA have two different arms? OEM & +3 caster? Pretty sure they do so he prob just got the wrong ones.

 

Or you could go with a kit from the Yota Shop. Just finished installing mine. I’ll post pics shortly.
https://www.yotashop.com/toyota-off-road-vehicle-differential-breather-extension-kit-1012/

 

Solid I’m going to order one! Thanks for this!

 

Two weeks ago

 

I really like my White Knuckle sliders, you can get them multiple different ways (different angle, with full or partial diamond plates on the top if you want to use like a step). And fairly reasonably priced, or at least in line with other options, though I forget exactly what they ended up at. I mostly try to block out how much money I've spent on the truck.

 

I just installed RCI transmission skid yesterday and it covers both converters and protects the transmission from rocks. But if you’re not taking it off road too often then that does look like a pretty sure way to deter cat thieves.

 

Ditched my messy, leaking, corroded mess of an OEM wet battery. Still held voltage fine, just got sick looking at the f^cking mess it was spitting all over the place.

Installed a Die Hard Platinum AGM- gets great reviews, is reasonably priced, and is readily available at Advance Auto Parts, which is less than 1/2 mi from my house(O’Reilly & AutoZone are too) so if warranty issues arise, I don’t have far to go. Money isn’t really an issue here, but I’ve only ever seen Odyssey batts in stock at Batteries Plus; I wanted an AGM battery solution with much more common availability. Optima batts also seem to have fallen out of favor these days. Die Hard seemed to be the best combo of reliability & availability.

Also installed my SDHQ heavy duty battery terminals & SwitchPros mount while I was at it. If I’m honest, not exactly thrilled w/ the SDHQ SwitchPros mount. It’s of excellent quality but when bolted in place, the bottom edge of it rubs 1 of the 2 wiring harnesses near the fender well. Unsure why they orient it vertically when horizontally directly against the inner fender seems to look better, take up less space, and eliminate the need to re-orient the wiring harness(SDHQ has you cut a press-in zip tie and add two cable clamps to slightly reorient the aforementioned harness to clear the mount, but the mount still rubs on the harness). They may have some specific reason that I’m unaware of for orienting things that way but barring that, it seems to overlook a much easier mounting orientation that requires no change to the wiring harness tiedown point.

I’ll start wiring up my light bars later this week.








This seems a much better mounting solution to me:


You can see the cable clamps I mentioned & the mount touching the wiring harness here