What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Don’t feel too bad about an $8k hobby…

The day I bought my ‘02:


How it looks today:


And it’s still not done. I’d do it again in a heartbeat, I’ve been to some pretty amazing places and taken some epic trips in the 1st gen. Now it’s my purpose built adventure rig.

I just bought the ‘20 a month ago, it’ll stay “mostly” stock… for now anyway.

 

what makes this different from OE?

 

You can find all of their claims here: https://rippmods.com/products/toyota-tacoma-3-5l-v6-coil-packs

https://youtu.be/QTs5PZyWDXY

 

They make quite the claim... I'll look into this from several other sources first.

 

Ordered a Siebon carbon fiber scooped hood today, a CAI (since the scoop is functional), and Morimoto XB fogs ..can’t wait.. couldn’t justify the money on an OEM scoop hood that’s non functional.. if I end up hating the CF I’ll just have it painted.

 

Nice list.

Any mods you regret?

 

I spent the morning cleaning up the power steering fluid that seeped out of the return line that connects to the reservoir. Then put a few miles on it and came back to see it's still seeping out of the return line hose where it connects to the reservoir. I've only got 17k miles on it, so I'm not sure why all of the sudden it's a problem. I'm going to try a couple of hose clamps from HD tomorrow to see if I can get a tighter seal around the hose. Maybe I'll trade it on a new vehicle.

 

Which CAI uses the scoop?

 

Just all of a sudden?

 

Seems that way. Haven't lost much fluid as indicated in the picture, but it's slowly leaking every time I drive.

 

Finally found the time to put the RCI sliders sitting in the garage on. Those front bolts, efffin fun.

 

At 1309 miles I got the “kid with massive backpack dragged it across my glovebox and dash really hard” scuffs on the dash and glovebox mod out of the way. FML.

 

The first cut is the deepest

 

And that's why all backpacks go in the bed now kids, rain of shine.

 

No, unfortunately not... However, the mag light mount can be sourced from Amazon at an affordable price.

 

Good Morning, new to the site. Installed a soft bed cover yesterday. Fit and finish is really nice.

 

That's an interesting Toyota grille where is the safety sensor located?

 

I have the tss relocation bracket.

https://www.ajtdesign-llc.com/online-store/TSS-Relocation-Bracket-10052B-p194252238

 

Did you have to do a recalibration