What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

omg that smoothy looks fantastic. Reminds me of a smoothy place we had at the beach in San Diego.

 

Got my truck back from the body shop yesterday.

Installed a Fab Fours bumper, which thanks to getting rear ended was free.

And today I installed Icon Rxt leaf pack on option 2 matched with some Dobinson shocks. Before I was sitting at 20 3/4" and the leafs had negative arch. Now I'm at 24" unloaded, I tossed 300lbs of sand in the bed to help break in the leafs. My target height is 23 1/2"

Next weekend I'm installing the front lift so it won't be so raked

 

Are you talking about the rear sway bar ?

 

There is no rear sway bar. These trucks only come with a front stock.

 

Wait I saw a picture of a Tacoma where someone installed hellwing rear sway bar and drop links

 

Anybody can install anything aftermarket, but they are not a factory option.

 

Added this to my truck recently. +5 HP!

 

Got a new grille badge.

 

Now that's funny

 

How did you mount the ram mount to the dash? Did you just drill and through bolt it or is there a backer plate?

 

Installed a set of Striker hood support struts today. SO much better than muscling the hood up onto the prop rod. Release the hood and it pops up a few inches, disengage the catch and it raises quickly up to about 3/4 of the way and then slowly to the top. Set it at about 6" above the OEM prop rod height.

 

This etsy seller has them in metallic silver

https://www.etsy.com/listing/689908...m=f01b35e9&ref=search_recently_viewed-1&sts=1

 

removed the oem red/black decal and replaced with this:

 

I change every 5k on my 4x4 4 cyl. I use a Toyota filter/crush washer and whatever 0w20 full synthetic oil is cheapest. I really don't think it matters.. however this is a highly debatable subject.

With my 475k first gen I did 5w20 every 3k with the same method.. just get what was cheapest and keep up on the intervals.. it's not worth spending the extra $$$ or thinking too much about it to me... I'll get over 300k with cheap oil and regular intervals.

 

Nice looking! Specs on the lift/wheels/tires?

 

Got a Dobinson lift and a pro grille!

 

This happened…Toyota said the tire needs to be replaced. Is that true or can it be patched? My tire pressure hasn’t gone down at all.

 

Thanks man. I have the eibach pro truck lift kit on the top notch (in preparation for a front bumper and sliders). The wheels are SCS 16” Ray 10’s. The tires are 315 yokahama geolanders. Of course I I had to do an aggressive CMC and pinch weld flatten to fit that size tire.

 

It’s pretty close to the sidewall and imagine most shops are going to tell you it needs to be replaced.

 

Yeah, I went to a tire shop I've gone to a few times (they remembered me) and they said to just replace it, but just wanted other peoples' thoughts before I spend $350 tomorrow at Toyota