What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

A couple of weeks ago I installed the Off Grid Engineering Dual Battery System with the Redarc BCDC 1225 and the Redarc Jump Start kit. At the same time, I also installed an ARB Dual Compressor on a Rago Fabrication mount. By using the Rago mount for the compressor, I was able to keep my SwitchPros in relatively the same spot.

In the past, I’ve sourced my own components for dual battery kits I’ve installed but I was on somewhat of a deadline so I wanted a plug and play system. I also like the option of the BCDC 1225 because I plan to add a solar panel in the future. The other cool option with the Off Grid Engineering kit is the dash mounted switch to jump start the start battery.

 

That thread made me LOL. I'm about 50% certain it was a troll thread, but I can't decide what's worse: if it were, or if it weren't...?

 

Nice work! It looks like you upgraded the J hooks

 

Yakima hd Roof bars, got them used on Amazon, thinking of maybe swapping for the jet stream bar

Hd bar is nice because of tie down point on end of bar

 

Installed large front cupholders from Z precision this afternoon.

 

That looks pretty cool, how was the install?
* nvm, I see they have a video

 

Super easy. Hardest part was the e-brake boot got twisted since I didn't fully remove it from the handle and I had to work it around to get the console reinstalled.

 

Finished the Clazzio and Seat Heater install today. About 15 hours over two days to get this done. My install was made more complicated by the fact that I ran the power to a distribution unit under the rear seat. As mentioned in a previous post, I spent about five hours lengthening the harness, testing, re-testing, and checking the connections, etc. I also had to move a keystone mount I had from the switch panel to the passenger side of the center console which required a lot of filing, dremeling, test fitting, etc.

Overall, not something I want to do again. But, I know my future self will appreciate the protection afforded by the covers and the warmth provided by the heating elements. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a bottle of Advil to devour.

Some tips:

• Get a muscular friend who doesn't mind hard work
• Set everything in the sun for a few hours in order to loosen up the material
• Do the headrests first
• Once the seat covers are on, unbolt the seats and tilt them back to get the covers secured (seat bolts are torqued to 27 ft-lb.)
  
• Give the covers a few weeks to rest and then re-tighten the strings and cords

 

I do have a bit of a confession, I actually installed them last weekend lol. This picture was from today though. It settled pretty nicely. I got the set for a pretty good deal and I was honestly about to pull the trigger on a set of Bilstein 5100s but the price on the Foxs were too good to pass up. I’m pretty new to the off-roading scene but I can definitely tell the difference between these and the stock Bilsteins. A bit firmer and rides pretty nice. Soaks up potholes like a dream, pretty excited to take them out off-roading soon.

 

Met with @cheddars and swapped our bumpers! Was awesome meeting a cool fellow Tacoma lover!

He is going to put that steel bumper to good use, and I’m glad to be stock Replacement fenders ordered already. For now.. I’ll be rocking the “high-water” equivalent.

We setup a mini shop in the Lowes parking lot, that was also cool. Lmao

 

Oh man. I admire the spreadsheet, but Jesus I don’t want to know how much I’ve spent but the rough ballpark is scary. I think the random bits (bulbs, screws, L tracks, tools etc) is brutal enough. But there has been a lot of big purchases. After a certain point everything just cost 1k or more and I just went with it. I’m not rich, just irresponsible.

 

Yeah it was a rabbit hole that I did not want the answer to. I started thinking the other day, if I had to uninstall all of my shit, could I? So today I started generating a list. And because it's excel, might as well supplement the list with numbers.

The answer is no. I threw a lot of that money away.

I hope I get my entertainments worth out if it at least.

 

1st Wash

 

There are some things I could uninstall and some things I couldn’t. And most everything I wouldn’t, as in I don’t want to. However the camper shell/cap is currently sitting on some blocks off to the side. That thing I have a love and hate relationship with.

 

And last thing I’ll say if you look at the video looks like he’s got his phone up to his mouth holding it in one hand and then transfers it to his other hand after impact. Compressed on YouTube but I see it in my photos pretty distinctively. He wasn’t mad or anything it’s almost as if he knew it was his bad. Just reflecting on everything. It is what it is though
https://youtu.be/2D3dThfrC04

 

visor screws?

 

cant take it with you
thx for helping out the economy

 

he could have missed you, lots of room, he never hit his brakes, he was moving too fast, scary if someone would have been walking to their car