What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Unloaded and back to its rake
All 12 pavers unloaded and placed
Now I can put a Rubbermaid storage shed on there without any critters digging through
I still need more pavers but didn’t want to stress the truck (and my back) on its maiden hauling voyage. That footprint will fit the structure for now and I’ll swing by Blowes on the way home from work this week and pickup some more for the entry

 

Installed the Rough Country low profile cover.

 

Tires look awesome.

Re: brakes: I've come from a history of driving tuners with beefed up brakes for aggressive driving and never thought the tacos brakes were that good, even fully stock. Then after I went to 33's I found the stock brakes incredibly inadequate and downright scary. Quickly swapped in the powerstop z23 evolution kit with pads and rotors and they were a little better than stock when hot, but zero bite cold (which is weird because they have tons of bite on every other car I've run them on). I prefer pads with a lot of bite, so I then changed to their z36 pads and now the truck finally feels like it has proper brakes. No noticeable dust on my te's either. Been very happy for the last 6k miles on this setup and multiple times a month I'm glad I upgraded to the z36 pads with all the idiot drivers out here.

 

Sorry I missed that part. No, the machine sits in the garage like the queen it is. The shed is for patio furniture cushions and hot tub chemicals and whatnot. Shop build is in the works for next year hopefully for the tractor and other crap

 

Sorry but I do not, I know they are sold on eBay from stock FJs but they aren't cheap in my opinion for what they are. The ones I got were from an early 4R which the front caps were much longer for the auto-hubs. So I cut them down and tig welded them so they are all the same height. They were in rough shape and weld wasn't super pretty but painted all black you can't even tell.

 

A local guy had these from an early 4R. But they can be found on eBay from the base model FJs that came with steelies.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1946595873...486&ssuid=&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

Pavers are 65 #’s ea
Yeow. 20" x 20"?

Cool project. Please post a pic of the shed when you are done!

 

You are right about the price. I’ll keep an eye out for some junkers.

 

I wear my ring on my right hand for this reason. I always get crap for it.

 

Welcome to TW!

 

I use a combo of two pavers, six, sand bags and my dry box of tools/recovery gear for winter weight.

 

I use 40lb softener salt bags, even in my little Corolla. 80 lbs in the trunk goes a long way for the Tankrolla.

 

Yea they advertise as 20x20x2” (19.5x19.5x1.5”). God for if the product matches the description. Not too heavy but they add up quick.

Plastic shed built and in place.
Yes that’s a rock garden and needs to be straightened out now that I stole the back corner for the storage container. For the record, this isn’t the one I ordered. It’s a lot bigger than the link I sent to the wife. Either way that’s my grandsons bedroom window and he’s a vampire so it stays closed with the drapes down for his gaming. I still don’t like it there but we’ll see how it goes through this winter. I may move it in the spring if it aggregates my OCD.
Edit: that window opens on the left side fyi

 

How fo you like ot so far? Was thinkkng about that one myself

 

Similar OEM Caps are Available Here, a little Pric’ey.

https://www.hubcaphaven.com/p/24075/c69504-toyota-fj-cruiser-oem-black-center-cap-426033561.html

 

X2. That’s the low pro one I got my eye on. Anxious to see his review of it

 

Installed Cali Raised cat shields this morning. I didn't raise the truck at all - just shimmed underneath as this seemed a pretty simple, straightforward install. Looking back I just made it harder on myself. Driver's side was easy peasy lemon squeezy, passenger side was difficult difficult lemon difficult. Shield just didn't want to seat right. Took a lot of finagling and the use of weird muscles I've probly never used, but it's done. Going to give the transmission bracket bolts and nuts a few shots of rustoleum as I worked 'em to death, and they lost a little paint in the process.

 

Looks good! Quick question, though... shouldn't one of the security bolts go on the front part of the cross bar and the other in the rear (one on each end)?

 

I thought ab that too. CR says they both go in that one spot (how I did it), prob because that part is threaded through the shield itself where the others aren't. But I suppose it should work either way. I went with this method bc I figure even if they take both other bolts off the end attached to the transmission support and bend the diagonal bracket back to expose more of the shield, there are still two security bolts holding it on instead of one. Of course if they have the little security nut all they would need is time. All they would need to do is buy their own set of shields. Most security nowadays is just convincing the marauders to move on the the next guy, so hopefully this accomplishes that.

 

Mine had some rust holes after blasted so I JB welded them then sanded them and couldn't even tell. They are out there just gotta find them!