What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Thx.
I had it installed at the dealer as a "comp" when purchased in 2017.

 

Thats a work of art haha, awesome rig

 

Easy trip to cow mountian

 

Can't do that in Boston, or New England in general. So many people will cut into that football field of space that you'll end up stopping. Gotta keep no more than a sedan's length in between me and the next vehicle to prevent it.

 

By chance did you buy the cab side as well? Just curious about the fit as I understand it only works on the short beds.

 

I just don't get drivers who insist on getting to a red light right away... I usually roll up to a red light... I mean, there are cars there waiting... what good does it do me to get there faster only to idle standing still for a length of time... It boggles my mind. Drivers most always try to get around me. It's like they see open road in front of them, and are compelled to fill in any gaps.

 

Can't speak to that one, but what really drives me nuts are the people that sit at red lights and periodically keep creeping forward and inch or two, even when they are behind other cars that haven't moved at all. I just sit there like, "...Where TF do you think you are going?"

 

I hate it when the driver stops three car lengths behind the car in front then slowly creeps up leaving a big gap between me and them like I stopped short. I just sit and don’t move.

 

Got the FN Konig Countersteer Offroads mounted this morning, and while I didn't get new tires because I'm a cheapskate who saw that the stock Goodyears had a few more months of meat left to burn through, I still like how they came out. I'd imagine they would look even better with the 265/75/16 tires in a few months. Perfect amount of poke too I was worried about them either not sticking out enough or too much.

And so with this done I think I'm pretty much finished with exterior aesthetics mods. Next would be to get new tires in a few months and after that seriously consider a tune, but other than that I'm mostly satisfied with how my Off Road Taco that doesn't has turned out...

 

I used to feel that way about people getting in front of me, but then they get inpatient after speeding to a stop and change lanes again. It’s traffic, anybody can get in front of me, they just get nowhere faster. There’s an art to it.

 

Lol, true, I just hate getting nowhere slower.

 

I’m a 2 car length stop behinder.. don’t want to get pushed into the car in front of me when Someone rear ended me staring at their cell phone. And back to the smash and grab thing, I’m gonna have a way out of that. That’s in major metro areas with high crime. I’m not creeping up on you though.

 

I did nearly the same install except with SPC UCA. How much overall lift did you end up with? Did you use number of threads exposed or inches of threads exposed to determine lift?

 

Looking good man! When you get your tires and lift the 265/75/16’s might look too small. Here’s mine with my new wheels a couple weeks ago. 265/75/16 KO2’s. They looked good on the factory off-road wheels but look small on these wheels (16x8 with 4” backspace and -12 offset)…..



But now I have room for 35’s

 

So, when I ordered from Accutune I let them know I wasn’t looking for any lift up front right away, I was just looking to remove the sag caused by my adding weight (skid and sliders).

That being said, I’m currently going by numb of threads exposed. Accutune shipped my coilovers with 15 exposed threads, which by all my searching should net me 3/4” of lift (thereby lifting my sag and bringing me back to stock-ish).

8 full turns of the collar = 1” of lift

OR

5 exposed threads = 1/4” of lift

*** for 13” x 600lb coils ***

^those are the two rules of thumb I’ve seen passed around this forum.

edit: before and after, not really any noticeable lift with 15 threads showing but it’s back to stock height with all that weight added. Haven’t measured hub to fender yet, waiting for alignment and a little settling.



double edit: post settling measurements: 20.5/21” hub to fender. They nailed it!

 

I have not done it myself, but some on here are using vinyl wraps on the emblem to cover the chrome.

 

Stopping that far back, like, I get the reasoning behind it. It's a totally valid reason, but you do know that it annoys just about everyone behind you every single time you do it, right?

 

No lift for me. Well I mean in the sense of paying to upgrade suspensions components to gain lift for bigger tires. I was referring to the (slight) lift by upgrading from stock 265/70 to 265/75...

In any case thanks for the kind words. I have a set of SCS F5 that should get here by the end of the month so I might go with those instead. Kind of a fluid situation haha...

Those tires you got look good on the Taco.

 

Yes they will (16-22 are swappable) but those aren't the Pro tails if that's what you're looking for. Those are the SR/base trim tails.

 

It wasn't today. About a week and a half ago.

I was stuck, I backed up, slid sideways a bit, and the very bottom of my front bumper caught on a log. The truck came out, and the bumper decided that it was going to try to stay with the log, even if it's life depended on it.

The next picture I post in about a week will be the new high clearance bumper upgrade.