What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

It seems to work either way. So in my mind the 2 considerations are whether you want the valve stem accessible or protected.

 

I have mine valve stem down. I hit with some air at least once a year and don't have to drop it.

Just my preference.

 

I have a matched spare and keep it face up so the part of the lifter that interfaces with the wheel doesn’t scratch up the visible side. Since it gets rotated out the air is usually fine, but I should probably get some sort of way to air it up on the road

 

FINALLY installed my lean spacer and ECGS bushing. Serviced the front diff too (27k miles). Took about 2 hours for all of it. NOT bad at all.

Side note: check out that caster

 

Installed Vleds footwell light kit. Easy install, kinda of expensive, but the components all appear very high quality and the aqua color matches the interior OEM blue color perfectly. Nicely integrated with the interior light system. I may buy the rear footwell kit.

 

I keep my valve stem up, mostly as a preventative maintenance in the rust belt, having to drop the tire once a year is a good reminder to keep things sprayed down with fluidfilm due to the excessive pa calcium and road salt use.. my 88 rusted fast, and the hoist no longer worked when I needed it Years back.. Never forgot that lesson!

 

That's great to be able to access the valve stem that way. I wonder if my dealer will flip it around for me when they check the tire pressures?

 

Hit that 100k this morning

 

Doubt it. I did mine early on into ownership. I still had a couple free services from Toyota and they never checked it even though the valve stem was right there easy to get to...

 

I renewed my Sirius XM subscription (yup, I know a lot of people don't think it's worth it, but I enjoy it).
They have special deals for returning customers but not continuing customers. So I told them about a promo for new/returning customers and asked if I could just skip the BS about canceling and waiting for a new offer. They didn't quite match it but did give me $5.99 per month ($7.60 w/ taxes & fees) for 12 months. So it's just like the cable/telco companies for internet service. Call them back each year, threaten to cancel, and ask for a deal. I can play the game. In any case, you will need to tell them where you saw a promotion so google for that. Or use this: https://care.siriusxm.com/subscribe/checkout/flepz?programcode=MCP5FOR12

 

Something simple. Now I don't have to worry about 8 caps when airing up.

 

A lot of businesses call it a "Customer Retention Dept."

 

Got my 10k service done and got the weboost amplifier installed with Velcro under the driver seat. Still waiting on the switch replacement since the first was faulty. Going to install the external antenna today and test the position of the internal antenna. If all is well, then I shouldn’t have any mods for the foreseeable future and work on home projects.

 

I think what makes it challenging is that usually people are doing suspension and UCAs at the same time. So two hours for the UCAs is alot of real estate if you then have to spend another 5 hours doing the shocks & coilovers

 

Looks good! The rear kit is worth doing also.
Mine are red but if I had a blue truck I might have the blue ones like you.

 

Man that's pretty awesome.

 

The first time it takes a while I guess if you're new to suspension work. Not hard per se, but the heavy, bulky parts on these take a bit more effort than it does to lower a car. I set aside a weekend to lift the truck the first time (which included leaf packs and some other supporting mods) but by now I've gotten my shocks revalved so many times that I can have all 4 out in under an hour (and even faster going back in). The UCA's really aren't bad though. It's a bit of back and forth but mostly you just have to bend that one section super far out of the way and the bolt comes right out with some persuasion. Only vehicle I've worked on where the UCA BJ actually comes apart like it does in all the install videos with 1 whack.

 

do you know what the factory torque specs are for the front suspension?

 

I did but the ball joint is really the only one I pay attention to anymore.

 

@MrMobile

thanks for that!

I have subscriptions for both our vehicles so this is helpful.