What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Finally got my 43in light bar installed. Just in time for my trip to WV in a few weeks.

 

Mine didn’t stick good there. Placed on mirror. Driver side in board low. passenger side inboard high.

Low on driver side since it was less in my way there. On passenger side high was fine

 

I fabricated a simple a tool from two paint stir sticks to hold a razor blade and sliced that sucker off. PITA it was but didn't damage plastic bracket.

Damn rodents.

 

I successfully flashed the OTT Magnuson tune today. I went with the lite-mild combo, so far so good! Going up in them there mountains next weekend, will test it a bit more.

 

Updated KDMax from v9 to v10. I don't have any road time with it yet, so there's something to look forward to this week. V9 was great, so I'm excited for the update. And as per usual, customer service is outstanding.

 

it would still be brighter than the 194 bulb

 

Nice work!

 

Dang, sweet truck!

 

Something done to help prevent loss of tailgate. The $30 clamp made by the TW member seems too much drama around the security (teeth on the underside) screw that must be removed and I do not have PayPal.

SaBellCo only has PayPal for online purchase option so I need to call them to see if they are reasonable over the phone.

In the meantime I put on a hose clamp and will find plastic that can wrap around it very soon. Put washers on the cable hooks (one photo) using some coaxial cabling clamp rings (I have an embarrassing collection of little used product!) as a spacer/pivot for the gate-cable.

All-in-all, a small drill with the right adapters can easily-enough remove these, but maybe for the $1.89 washers and $2.50 hose clamp (after they break the tailgate lock) makes them walk past, it worked.

 

Wish I had known that back in 2016!

 

Put the truck to work early. Drove from my place near Houston to NW Louisiana-Black Bayou area, and picked up an 06 Mini Cooper S that I bought for my other half. Then made the trek back home. Truck did good. I'm not a trailer engineer, but the way the trailer is set up the car rides all the way forward on the trailer, so it was tongue-heavy and made the truck squat more than it should. I would think it make more sense to have the car centered over the axles. Anyway, was fun at all the odd looks we got from folks on the road. One guy even cruised next to me for a good couple minutes and had his driver door positioned right at my rear tires. He was just looking at something....idk what though lol.
https://ibb.co/ZhBr38j

 

You could just do a shock upgrade to get better performance out of it without lifting it. There are a lot of options though, so you'll have to narrow down what you want, then look at those options.

https://exitoffroad.com/product-category/toyota/tacoma/tacoma-3rd-gen/full-kits-tacoma-3rd-gen/

 

Paid off the truck.

 

Best feeling! Awesome!

 

To be fair, I only financed $9,500 @3.99 but I hate having a car loan.

I was able to put down A LOT due to selling our paid off 5th gen and having to wait 5 months (able to save more money during this time period) to find a DCLB TRD OR in Lunar Rock at MSRP.

 

It’s finally getting so green around here again I love it. Definitely would have had to check for brookies in that creek

If you’re ever this way again and want to do some class 4’s let me know! Lots of cool places. I drive slow and jump out and fish if i see a good pool though, so be prepared to be out for a while

 

What's the benefit of this?

Do you have the part #?

 

Love my AC got it over a year ago used had to travel to get it but I only wanted an AC. Heard a Toyota commercial on the radio pushing Access Cabs now in stock “see your local Toyota dealer” it said for me it’s still a pick-up and not an SUV/pick-up

 

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