What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

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

 

Thank you sir. This is the way I'll go. One order and done.

 

You got it!

 

With. Either way they're the same length

 

Did the diff breather relocate today. Simple mod, only took about 20 minutes including prep time.

Put the new breather in the taillight cavity….

Ran the tubing along the top of the frame up to the axle…..


Left plenty of slack for articulation. Think I will change the diff fluid since I obviously submerged the axle on my last outing…..

 

Couldn’t tell from the picture. Thanks!

 

Just giving my 2 cents I had the same brand covers in black. Within a few weeks the sides started to fray badly I pulled them off hopefully you have better luck than me

 

Nice lookin' truck. Where'd you get that tailgate graphic? Love it!

 

Less than 5 minute mod today.
TRD PRO style shift knob on the budget price($35). No etched in TRD logo but I have a decal coming soon from TVD.

 

You're obligated to share a link

 

Nice job! Parts list?

 

Thought the Amazon bag would give it away. I assume all the ones on there are about the same.

 

Installed the gap shield today. Please don’t give me shit about the Tacomabeast sticker…it’s gonna be taken off

 

When you are applying torque, bump the fitting (toward the axle) with a hammer or chunk or brass/copper. Sometimes the shock load will allow it to move.

 

Thanks! Got it from this site:
https://www.gpwalshdesigns.com/prod...rue&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=20

 

Thanks. I’m very pleased with the way they turned out.

1” x 2” retangular aluminum tubing
1” x 2” rectangular plastic hole plugs
1.38” ball knob 5/16-18
5/16-18 stainless threaded rod & lock nuts
5/16” rubber screw thread protectors

Bought some of the materials through Amazon and some at the hardware store. I re-used the clamp hardware from my old tonneau cover to mount it to the bed utility track.

 

Added rock lights last night before the snow started to fall. Thanks @DSIM for making a great plug and play kit. I couldnt be happier with how easy the kit is to install and the functionality of it.