What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Below zero all day here, so no work on the truck, but used the Taco to bring home construction debris from our new office.

While loading, I noticed that Tacos are fairly popular here.

 

Finally took her onto the freeway today after deleting the sway bar yesterday. Body roll is negligible on the freeway as well. Once I receive and install the extended front brake lines I will test it off road. Will report back with findings.

 

New Ko2's just in time for winter weather in Colorado

 

Bet it goes in and out of 4HI much easier.

 

Installed a brand used Pelfreybilt bumper, and changed the BD bezels and mounts to fit the square foglight holes. have to get the front valence wrapped(i retained my OEM white bumper, seller had a spare valence), Winch inbound.

 

Just thought a frosty taco would be a good breakfast post for the forum...

 

Any pictures of the cable run and zip tie locations? I’m doing this next week. Thanks!

 

I don't but it's pretty much self-explanatory when you get under there. As soon as you drop the cable through the frame, you're going to bring it to the passenger side and zip tie it to the existing cables there. You're literally following an already established run. You can't miss it.

 

Thanks, I watched a few YouTube videos on it, shouldn’t be that bad. Any other things I should know before install?

 

Ooohh! Might wanna keep this in my back pocket for next year! How did you do it? Just make a hole underneath?

 

The instructions call for some 3M frame treatment (I forget the specific name of it) that you put into this clip you attach to your frame. I didn't have any and didn't want to wait so filled it with silicone and sprayed it with cosmoline. No idea if that will make any difference but you should figure out what you're going to do with that. I'm betting many people didn't use anything.

Once you take the tailgate apart and give it a good look over, you'll see how it works. Probably the most complicated thing was installing the two 2 hole clips that go in the bottom of the tailgate and the underside of the bed.

Mine didn't come with instructions. I just pulled them up on my cell phone and kept it handy for when I plugged in in the passenger side footwell.

Seriously, the entire install is really easy. Now that I've done one I could probably do it in less than 30 minutes without breaking a sweat or looking at instructions.

 

Just did this. Worked out GREAT.
Shout out to @Shiftin2Sixth for meeting me in San Diego and selling me the Meso volume fix. I added the AJT Design steering wheel sides. I trimmed the rubber near the volume up led and then some..... turned out 98% perfect. I cut off the rest of the rubber led covers just because.


It lites up just fine in the dark,I really don't look at it anyway when driving...

Unhooked the battery for 15mins beforehand.
Changing out the parts and chopping the rubber took a total of 15min.

I used a T-30 Torx, small flat blade screw driver and a Phillips screw driver.

Questions or comments welcome.

 

What was the purpose of trimming the rubber?

 

It provided more illumination to the volume up portion of the button. so it doesnt look like this.

 

Those radio knobs...

 

Looks great, just installed the same one on mine

 

@wh11 were you able to remove the extractor?

 

Behold, the non-OEM skid plate. Kind of a PITA to install, I swear I'm like one turn away from snapping the heads off the bolts, but it's on. Until I have to change the front diff fluid, it ain't going anywhere.

 

Here's the thread I created on the Rough Country with a handful of pics. Great company and support but the new rails killed it for me.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/rough-country-low-profile-12-hour-shelf-life.815924/

 

Forgot I recently installed the Form Lighting tailights. Love the start-up sequence and I love that I can activate the sequence anytime. Don't love that I can't see them when driving