What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Also interested in your thoughts on the exhaust.. How does it sound? TIA

 

Yeah it was dented when it came, I didn’t sweat it and installed it anyway, figured it was functionally fine and it’s like not anyones going to see it.

As far as my thoughts on it, I think it sounds fine except when sending it at about 5000 rpm’s it goes silent into this weird whooshing air sound. Kind of strange. Other than that I think it sounds pretty good, doesn’t drone as much as my wife’s TRD Pro 4Runner.

You have one too?

 

I only ran it for a little over a week and it was too loud for me. I have a supercharger which I’m sure contributed to the noise. I switched to the Magnaflow Overland exhaust and I’m happy with that.

 

I have had the dongle powering my dash cam for a few years now with zero issues.

 

I bet those sound awesome.

 

I brought my Body Armour Hiline bumper home and installed an Inno aero rack with the flush feet. It's not a Prinsu but it'll do for hauling the wife's kayak around. I'll get the bumper installed shortly. Now I need to get rid of the wheels, figure out how to convince my tiny son he doesn't need the steps and get rid of the crappy Toyo tires. Here's a pic of the rack....

 

Oh that’s cool, I’d love to make my own bumpers. The only thing I don’t have access to is a tube bender right now. But always looking to see how guys are doing theirs. You going to powder coat or rattle can it?

 

For this very reason (...messing w/ the trucks electrics) I added all new circuitry for any add-ons I installed. I also put a circuit breaker between the battery and my new fuse box/relay box/buss bar so that I can isolate my additions from the trucks electric if anything questionable shows up.

The only two things I added to the existing elec sys was the cruise control on the steering column stalk and the 4x2Lo switch. All other lights, winch, cameras, etc. have their own system (but still using the truck battery).

 

enjoy that road trip. sounds like a good one.

 

and this

 

That’s one of the coolest rear cargo mods I’ve seen.

 

Those tires any good? Still can't decide on an AT to swap out my factory shit tires

 

The pictures show it raw but it’s kind of powder coated now but I need to drop it off to officially get it done. If you’re down for a bumper let me know maybe he can work a quote up for you.

 

I’ve had them 24 hours with no off-road but the 50ish miles on them so far feel great. E load counters the soft OR suspension and makes it feel more lively. I’ll be pulling a heavy trailer later this week and look forward to seeing how that feels. The stock tires made the truck feel like a 70s boat. Nice off-road but too squishy on road.

 

I got the Miller Cat shield. I have a Pro with the skid plate. I was able to install the shield while keeping the skid plate on. I did have to use tape to hold parts in place as at least one step was blind (by feel only)

 

I put some Wolfpack Pro boxes on the prinsu. What do you think about 'em?

The plano is semi-permanently mounted to the rack. I wanted to try a storage system that let me remove the boxes, when I don't need them. Wolfpacks + mounts seem to be the cheap & easy way to do that.

 

I've always liked the look the general grabbers, just have no experience with them. Gotta be better than the Firestone destinations highway tires that came on mine

 

Yeah they look great. 245/75R16 looks “correct” on a Tacoma I think. They are slightly narrower than stock but effectively the same diameter. The first gens look great with full on pizza cutters but this size suits the third gen perfectly.

 

used the bed to haul around new patio furniture i got

 

Oh dang that’s a good idea. I have them wedged in there really hard. Electrical tape or something else?