What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I got my RCI Rock Sliders installed. A total pain in the ass but the work was worth it. All the truck shops in my area were booked solid for one or 2 weeks out. One shop quoted me 190.00 an hour to install them. Lmao!!!

 

Installed Diode Dynamics Elites along with the DD backlight harness. Easy install with just Phillip screwdriver. Thanks Hotshot Offroad for great Sale and quick shipping.

Daylight pics don't really show much and i need to verify alignment later when dark.

 

What brand and What size Lift?

 

What's the yellow thing on the background? Looks fast!

 

Xmas parade escort duty for my daughter's high school dance ensemble.
At least my rear speakers were upgraded!lol

 

You need to adjust the settings on your flux capacitor, Marty. Looks like you overshot by about 10 years.

 

Thanks to recent Toyota sale. I was able to get a new OE exhaust w/black tip and new gasket. Just like what came with my truck. I shouldn’t have sold mine. I couldn’t find a used one.
Got tired of the Borla S-Type. Although I’m tuned, I didn’t want to hear the noise and shifting anymore. I’m sure it sounds better with MT.

Gasket p/n 90917-A6001

 

They look great!I placed my order for RSG sliders on Black Friday now I wait.

 

Replaced the DD Elites Amber w/backlights with smoked/black OE LED fogs.

 

Bed-linered the Black Friday-discounted skid. Came out ok (not great - both rattle can and user issues) but it’s a skid plate.

 

I wonder how many of these skids they sold during that sale? After selling my RCI tank armor I bought a TRD Pro skid and some maintenance items at the sale price. I’ll install it when I do my EOY oil change and post a couple photos.

 

New wheels and shoes, early Christmas present to myself

 

Does the OEM tip make much improvement in sound?

 

Looks great, I got the RCI sliders for my long bed as well and LOVE them, especially the kick outs.

Had a close friend recommend the RCI sliders to me with a slight word of caution.......

He got his sliders with the top covers same as you, but let me know if I chose to get covers too and did any kind of mudding or dirty trails to clean them out ASAP, as the top covers collected massive amounts of dirt under them, and it was near impossible to get out of the crevices between the underside of the top plate and bars if you let it dry.

 

Old man emu 3 inch.

 

The RCI top plates are bolted on and thus are removable (or you can bolt them on later if, like me, you didn't get the top plates and want them later). Even without the top plates mine gather lots of ice and winter muck but not as much as my 4Runner running boards did. Of course after a bit of time I bet those bolts will be really tough to remove. I've cleaned mine thoroughly once and that was to do some touch up painting (such is the life of a slider - getting scuffed).

 

That looks great. Love that color!

 

Indeed they are, but my point was that after having to remove them just twice after two trips on the trails after installation, my buddy had LONG had enough of that, and I have never seen him remove them since.
They were just too much of a PITA to deal with, so he pretty much immediately heads to the self wash after a trip, but he found that even then because we are usually away for a week or two, they were super difficult to clean unless you did remove them, which he got super sick of doing.
Honestly, I'm not that sure he even put them back on after our last trip, although we haven't hung out in a while.

 

What type/specs on those wheels?

 

The theme was Then and Now. The 2023 was on the other side. 10 years or something. I dunno, I just drive!