What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Those are the ones I just ordered/received. I'm hoping for a better long lasting solution.

 

I have had the AJT Knobs for about a year and they have been really good so far.

 

I noticed that about my Tacomods too. I thought it was the volume stalk on the head unit. I wonder if it’s cracked already?

 

hahah. I was half joking but also knowing I am super OCD myself I couldn’t not joke. Hahah.

 

Finally got around to finalizing my rear fogs.
Here is everything, turned off.

Here is reverse (with the SSC1Rs turned off)

Here is the rear DRLs

And here is the rear fogs

What isn’t lit up here (yet) is the sidemarkers that will be parking lights and turn signals combined, as well as the puddle lights.

 

Dope

 

With the weather around 95-101 and 80%+ humidity in Tennessee lately I decided to install a transmission cooler to replace my stock. Very simple install and I plan on installing a push fan for it as well and the fan will be switched by a thermostat most likely but I’m still researching whether to do that.
The cooler alone I’ve noticed an average of transmission fluid temps about 8 degrees lower than with stock one. My temps up hill pulling nothing at times we’re getting close to 212 and while towing a 16ft tandem axle box trailer It was reaching 220-230. I’ve also got a OTT tune and have had a KD Maxx tune for the last 80k miles so I drain and fill my fluids regularly with Amsoil ATF and Amsoil severe gear 75-90w.
This is a Mishimoto product that’s listed for a 2nd gen but it fit my 2017 TRD Sport nearly perfectly with no modifications. It’s about twice the size of stock. I had to add about .4 quart of ATF fluid with new cooler. May install a bypass at some point

 

Which Kicker speakers did you get? I just got the Kicker CS series. I'm planning to install them after I get my truck back from the body shop.

 

Hello Tacoma Owners Today I Installed some new KMC wheels wrapped in Ko2 285/70r17 on my 3rd gen. I also added the cali raised catalytic converter shields.

 

Another mod I did last weekend was a J and L “Oil Separator”. I’m happy with the extra peace of mind with it and I went ahead and changed out my pcv valve as well

 

Since they’re not coming from Crutchfield and Amazon instead, will they come with the right adapters and harnesses ?

Or does Crutchfield include them for free?

Rears:

$77 46CSC674 6.75" 6-3/4" 600w 4-Ohm Car Audio Coaxial Speakers CSC674

46CSC674 6.75" 600w 4-Ohm

Fronts:

$111 46CSC6934 Kicker CS Series 150 Watt 6 x 9" Car Audio Coaxial Speaker Pair, Black

46CSC6934 6x9" 4 Ohm

 

Yup! One of the camshafts is setup differently on the crawl control trucks, since it doesnt need a vaccum pump driven off of the camshaft.

 

Nice! I got the same ones for the fronts plus the DS18 tweeters. I'm going to wait on the rears for now. Let me know what you think after you get them installed. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to wait a couple of weeks before I install mine.

 

For sure!

 

Footwell lights

 

Too hot for my weekend wash so I finally got it down to Firestone for an alignment. They are having a 169.00 lifetime alignment special, great deal so I went with that.

 

Dang those are cool!

 

Buy what you want, think what you want. The laws of physics don't change. And I'm not about to teach you structural mechanics on Tacomaworld.

What you are trying to do with a bed stiffener is stop the (rear) bed sides from spreading outward due to a load on the tops of the bed sides. The rear of the bed is especially a problem because, unlike the front, there is no piece holding one side of the bed to the other--the tailgate is not designed to do this.

To stiffen the bed sides at the rear of the truck you need to tie the bed sides more strongly to the bed bottom.
When the portion of the stiffener that attaches to the bed bed bottom is weak, so is the whole stiffener. You could probably bend the horizontal piece of your stiffener with your hands, which shows that it is weak. Like the saying goes, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Same thing goes for bed stiffeners. The only strong portion of the horizontal leg is that small triangular gusset in the corner, per my original comment--and it does almost nothing for the overall strength of the horizontal leg.

Like I said, I'm sorry I'm raining on your parade.

I see a lot of people buying similar stiffeners that do almost nothing. they fall into three categories.
1. One or both legs are weak (yours is in this category)
2. The legs are too short to be any good at all (ie 3 to 4" long).
3. The corner (the most important part to be strong) has been weakened by being cut out (ie those triangular pieces which are in your stiffener have been cut out) to make the fabrication of the stiffener cheaper.

 

I like that a lot, might have to do this to mine.

 

There are many members on these forums who have voiced that bed stiffeners are not needed. With that, any increase of "stiffness" is better, right?
If these "un-needed" items are pleasing, who can say they should be "better" ?

I see a lot of very useful tie in locations, but do not care to give up the clear side to slide stuff in and out.

I say a WIN for the OP, and to each their own!