What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Looks like the bumper took a lot of the hit. How did it hold up?

 

happened father’s day; chick pulled out in front of me, no time to react, hit her goin ~50. nobody got hurt. the steel bumper attaches to 6 factory studs and 2 hardened bolts, effectively becoming part of the frame. all damage is cosmetic. her whip’s totaled. my tow guy even attached his hooks to the bumpers d-ring mounts to winch me onto his bed. $300 dollar bumper prob saved it from a total loss. woman gotta ticket for failure to yield n her insurance taken full responsibility.

 

Ooof

 

thx

 

Out of curiosity what bumper is that it looks like the Body Armor one I’ve been looking at?

 

So I posted this half joking about the high desert removing the unfortunate decal I applied. Well the sands and stones of said desert required a larger sacrifice I suppose.

 

actually a chinese rip-off version of the same thing, company called KUAFU. gave mine a thick coat of bedliner before install. $374 from Amazon. here’s the link:

Front Winch Bumper Guard Bull Bar W/Winch Mount Compatible with Toyota 2016-2020 Tacoma 4x4

$240 KUAFU Front Winch Bumper Compatible with 2016-2023 Toyota Tacoma Guard Bull Bar W/Winch Mount 4x4 Front Bumper Split Type Brush GuardFront Bumper Grill Grille Guard Protector Brush Push Bar Steel

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08W8P6V1M

 

New parts just showed up! Pretty fing excited! @greenlaneoffroad
Skid

Stump bumper


Excuse the garage chair/mess

 

Thanks for the info !

 

then all your junk would be hanging out floppin around

 

its just dead skin - embrace it

 

What makes it better?

 

Yeah they do. At least it says it does. Didn’t know they changed the camera for the 22. https://tacovinyl.com/collections/3rd-gen-tacoma/products/2016-21-custom-tacoma-raptor-grille

 

I didn’t buy it. But here https://tacovinyl.com/collections/3rd-gen-tacoma/products/2016-21-custom-tacoma-raptor-grille

 

I really like the chemical guys total interior protectant. Keep it in my door pocket for a quick wipe down

 

I have that skid!

 

dust offers superior protection, it’s true!

 

i have been in this career field for 24 years now- all gasoline is the same basically- and all gasoline has a certain amount of additive whether it’s a cheapo station or Chevron, but the big name stations have better proprietary additives. So it does make a difference. In California i can tell you that even cheap gas has way more additives than the gas in say, Texas or Midwest. Its just our ridiculous requirements here. From my knowledge, Chevron techron is the best additive out there. Shell being pretty much on par with Chevron.
And yeah, as a pipeline operator its pretty cool how we move and seperate batches in the line. For instance, there’ll be a 5000 barrel batch of Reg Carb gasoline, followed by a 5000 barrel batch of Carb diesel, followed by a 50,000 barrel batch of Jet-A. We ship it out of the refinery at about 100 degrees, then the incoming terminal, such as Kinder Morgan, will see have meters which will give you a barrel count on when to anticipate a “batch change”. The operator would go out and watch a hydrometer, and as the interface comes through, they’ll see a big gravity swing if it’s different products, or minute gravity change if its premium vs regular. Once you see that first change you input that barrel count number into a computer, and once it hits a line fill to transmix tank, the remote valves will swing that interface into a transmix tank (slop tank) Until the desired gravity is reached, then that barrel count will be entered and as soon as the computer sees that number, it will swing the valves again into the desired product tank. Typically, on a differing product batch change, the interface that gets trashed is anywhere from 200-500 barrels (8400-21000 gallons) which is crazy, but then that transmix is loaded from the terminal, taken right back to the refinery and it is run through again and made right back into good product. Its a fun job for the most part. I got into it in the usaf. Now im a dispatcher working in a control center for a major refinery and managing and shipping hundreds of thousands of barrels of finished product out by pipeline, marine vessel, tank trucks, or rail cars daily. Its a staggering amount of product and money. Let me just say- none of these oil companies are losing money despite how they cry. Quite the opposite

 

This is very insightful. Thank you