What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

TW-inspired expenditures:
Miller Cat - $300
DS-18 - $80
Black exhaust - $30
Bed liner - $120
Gas holder - $10
TSS/emblem cover - $45
KDMax - find out Sunday morning.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/3rd-gen-cheap-easy-license-plate-light-glare-fix.739648/page-26

 

And another $11 dollars added to the total, so far.

 

BAK covers: roll or flip?

 

You mean like vinyl or aluminum?

Vinyl offer zero protection against tweakers and crackheads, fades in the sun, cracks in the cold and doesn't last as long. It also looks a little ghetto when it ages.

Your call

 

today I realized I have new interior lights, r4t control arm armor, and new foglights all sitting in my garage that I ordered months ago and never installed. ugh

 

All hail the off-road limo!

 

Got to agree after having a couple non metal tonneau covers busted into. I ended up switching to an aluminum Retrax Pro model and havnt looked back. Really handy, and a well made unit that I regularly have walked, slept on in a pinch and lay on to work on my rack and equipment

 

They have the bak-flip (3 folding panels) or the bak-revolver (rolls up)

 

had coffee w the ole man and his xmas present from me and my brother

 

Could be worse, could be a “school bus “ AKA Gladiator.

 

If you lift them, even a little, it helps counteract the ultra long look. I personally like having something that is not only useful, but seen a bit less overall.

 

Flip: you can have your bet partially covered; I think w/ the Revolver it is all open or all closed. With the panels you do get to keep the bed rails (lowered by about 1.5"); I don't know about with the Revolver. I compared the two and chose the flip but I don't remember why I chose it over the Revolver.
If you call them they can talk you through all the options. And yes, actual humans answer the phone.

 

Is your family open to adoptions?!

 

I was about to ask what the gift was, but Taco, Vette, Bike, doesnt matter........................I guess the adoption question is the one I should have been asking!

 

no. dad got a new vette, mom got a new 4series vert, and I have a new m2 arriving any day. we're out of money, can you Venmo me 20buk please?

 

Sure! Just need your bank account #, DOB, SS number and I'll be sure it gets deposited right away.

 

seems sketchy. ill settle on just holding a 20 for a min to see if I remember what it feels like

 

Finally got my behind-rear-seat molle panel fully installed. I bought the one from Underland.
I used Noico sound deadening panels and covered it with black automotive trunk liner attached with spray adhesive behind the panel.

 

I saw that thread about leaks from the coolant bypass so I decided to take a look. Looks nice and clean.

However, my ujoints on my main drive shaft were totally caked in mud. My last trip was not really muddy at all, but drove over a lot of fresh cow pies. So, maybe mud pies on them. They did stink. I hosed off the ujoints and then greased them.

That is my 4th or 5th time greasing them this year? First at start of year was normal maintenance, then 2 more times after a couple of deep water crossings. So maybe 4th time.

The Lucas red tacky stuff, seems to work pretty well. I just keep pumping until clean grease comes out of each joint.

Mine is 2016 TRD OR, about 72K miles with 15-20K of that on some hard off road conditions.

It is first half of 2016 production so it has 5 zerks on the driveline. The other 3 looked fine and it was not that long ago I did those ones. Original ujoints so it seems they like frequent grease, at least for the amount of off road driving I do.