What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Thanks man!

 

How much do you all think these wheels and tires are worth? About a year old, roughly 10k miles on them, need to do some digging for an actual number.
Fuel Block 17x9 -12
Toyo Open Country AT3 285/70/r17

 

I wasn't aware that Tacoma's came with trans heaters. The part you have pinned open is the thermostat. The thermostat will open at 190 or whatever the rated temp is, so the fluid goes up the cooler near the front of the truck (mines near the bottom the radiator). I've seen a few members upgrade to larger aftermarket coolers if they tow a lot or drive in hot climates as the factory cooler is pretty small. I thought I read about Toyota doing away with these trans coolers in newer year Tacoma's, but I'm not 100% on that. Pinning the thermostat open is needed to check trans fluid levels during changes.

Here's another discussion on pinning the trans thermostat open...

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/someone-talk-to-me-about-pinning-the-transmission-t-stat.682424/

 

how far do your tires poke outside the wheel well?

 

It can be slid in between I suppose. It’s clearly the round type without the bolt holed oblong type gaskets.

 

Shit string and a plastic cup are better than what the moco gives you.

 

Nice and clean. Love the wheels!!

 

Haven’t actually done it yet, but did some rough fitting….

The grille is a TRex billet
https://www.carid.com/2019-toyota-tacoma-grill/t-rex-billet-grilles-3507969592.html?product_ab_v2=1
And the lights are from Amazon. Not sure how they will hold up, but I am making them serviceable so I can swap them as needed.

$26 Turn Signal Switch Fog Lights Assembly Universal Car Accessories Sequential Turn Signals 12V LED Light Strip for Daytime Running Lights, Night Running Light, White Amber Flashing LED Light Bar for Car

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08WJD9MRZ?ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_title

 

Washed an waxed. WAiting for the rain

 

Or the Friday road grading that immediately followed my Thursday detail.

 

Or the hot oil an stone treatment. Oh that sux.

 

Rain just started. Perfect. Now the light even dust layer pools in nice little circles as it dries.

 

Got that right. I couldn’t believe how light weight the stock speakers were.

 

Kinda romantic if the wife bought most of the mods. Ya think?

 

Block heater and oil pan heater are now officially installed! I also put a remote outlet under the hood, It has a little key fob so I can push the button to turn on the heaters. I was going to use the remote outlet for my christmas lights on my house, but into the truck it goes! The little 1 x 5 oil pan heater ended up being a perfect size for the oil pan.

 

Wifey an me are gonna cruise the Berlin turnpike tonight. Hitting up Joey garlic’s instead of McDonald’s thou. We may act like teenagers but we have a bit more cash than teenagers.

 

Update to this...I previously installed the Meso tail stage 1 and had the 'hyperflashing-when-using-a-turn-signal-while-in-reverse' issue. I ordered the load resistors, but put off installing as it wasn't a big deal. Fast forward to yesterday...With the V5s now hooked into the DRLs I had hyperflashing only on the right signal (during normal use). Put the load resistors on the tails this morning and so far no issues. Everything looked good yesterday - but the lesson learned is to test with the engine on, which I must not have done.

 

I'm not sure if it counts as something I did TO the truck, but I took some time today to laser scan my 2019 TRD Pro. I mainly wanted to capture the undercarriage, so I put it on a lift and did about 12 scans underneath it. Once I wasn't paying for the lift, I did a bunch more scans around the exterior, and tied the two sets together.

My goal is to be able to model against these scans to come up with my own designs for things like skid plates, cat guards, tanks, etc.



Animation of the scans: https://imgur.com/0Mcu0il

 

Oh yeah it qualifies

 

Weekend of mods #1:
First was the LOSTAR faux Pro skid plate.
(I will gladly save $250 for future mods over the OEM version)
Fought the install for quite a while due to the diff drop spacers that were installed by previous owner. Keeping the diff drop for now until I can upgrade the suspension. Still need to find some longer bolts and spacers.