What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

The straw does help to get the material into the cavities. I bought one of the spray can trigger grips before I event started the application. It sprays exactly like spray paint...after I got the cavities coated to my satisfaction, I gave up on the straws and just applied the material like spray paint.

 

I like chemical guys butter wet wax. Also griots spray on detail works as a good clay lube. The ceramic stuff smells like ass compared to non-ceramic.

 

Note that stainless steel black oxide bolts can be had.

 

Installed Trd pro taillights and bed light kit

 

Absolutely! My go to for that would be McMaster-Carr, they’ll have just about every fastener you’ll ever need with no minimum purchase quantity.

* If you go stainless, make sure to use anti-seize on your fasteners.

 

this post gave me a headache

 

That is new information for me and good to know....and could explain why the fancy license plate screws (unfortunately not bolts ) the auto broker gave us on the RAV4 are now a permanent part of the car. For bike parts I use a tiny bit of grease but I suppose for an auto it's different (depending on the importance of the part staying attached?).
Now, do I leave those screws in the RAV4 until we sell it 10 years from now, or figure out how to remove them? It will probably depend on how motivated I get.

 

The seizing or galling shouldn’t happen between dissimilar metals, but stranger things have happened. Also making sure the threads are free of burrs, sand, or other debris is a good rule of thumb. We went through a couple containers of anti-seize on the bridge that I just built in Michigan. And yes that’s exactly why a dab of grease on bike fasteners.

I will caution you anti-seize magically ends up on everything. In fact the most dangerous part of anti-seize is to get it on your clothes and sit down on the wife or girlfriends white couch.

 

they are sold everywhere

 

Sound distinctly like someone speaking from experience, and a rather embarrassing one! Note to self NEVER buy a white couch, ever...

 

When I’m done working in the garage now I go through a DeCon process that makes hazmat clean up look like taking a quick shower.

 

I wish my driveway had pavers like that.

 

Haha thanks man. They are super nice to have. Our whole neighborhood has them as standard but we got lucky to have them in the backyard too

 

I did do one thing to the Grey truck today…



Feels good so far. The snow was starting to stick so I didn’t give ‘er the beans. Being a manual I don’t have the gear hunting issue that autos have, but definitely more responsive & smooths out the accelerator lag/bobble. Also adjusted the alternator amperage to work with the AGM battery in the process.

 

"what have you done to your 3rd gen today"
Me - totalled it...

 

Hope you’re alright. That sucks, just remember Tacoma’s can be replaced but people can’t. I’ve totaled a few my self.

 

Vehicles are replaceable. Hopefully you and any passengers were okay.

 

Husband and I spent a few hours in the ER. It wasn't our fault so I won't get into the details.. but we did roll at 65-70mph, super impressed with how well it performed. We are lucky to be alive.

 

Glad you weren’t driving faster than your angels could fly.

 

I'm sorry ....... but you have a nice purse