What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

How the HECK did that happen? [I'll read on, 55 more posts...I'm sure you have answered this one.]

 

Started making my blackouts for my truck bed. Need a surf trip soon so need to finish these asap. Learning to sew will suck

 

Installed the Rago Fabrication CB antenna mount. Wire wheeled some of the powder coating off underneath (the mount is SS) to ground the antenna.



Capped off the coaxial connector for now until I run the cable and install the antenna. Started raining so I called it a day. I’ll probably install the CB tomorrow morning.



Gonna have to “feather” down the powder coating a little. It rubs the tailgate when closing it. This mount is pretty stout and should last a long time.

 

Nice looking truck.

 

CaliRaised cat shields. First one was a learning curve. Took me over 10x longer than the 3 minute YT video. I had to completely remove the diagonal brace in order to get the screws to line up and thread in properly, but once hand-started they tightened up without a fuss.

 

Thanks for the great write up. Your dog’s face cracks me up.

 

Thanks. He was a wonderful dog. I lost him last month.

 

I finished installed a new bed cover and took wife for a ride shortly after only to have her tell me smells musky in here, you must have a water leak. Sure enough I did have a leak in the rear. Both rear sides carpet was damp. Went to work today (I'm a tech) and pulled rear seat bottoms and rear portion of carpet up, took all day to dry carpet and insulation. I'm pretty sure it's my 3rd brake lamp leaking. Is this common on 3rd gens?

 

Dang, sorry to hear that.

 

Installed the Powerbrake BBK today! Did a quick drive around the block to start the break in. Holy cow are these the real deal. If you're like me and have been researching a BBK these are phenomenal. Costly yes, but I'll feel alot better with all the weight of my truck knowing I have improved stopping power especially loaded down with camping gear

 

They never live long enough. He was 13 yrs old.

 

This is true. 13 isn’t bad though. It’s still hard though since they’re family members.

 

That true. I lost my female pup 3 yrs and 1 week to the day before I lost my little boy. She was creeping up on 16 yrs old. I was hoping he would live longer like she did.

 

I installed some DS18’s in the dash and some 6x9 Kicker KS’s in the front doors. I ran out of time before I could do the new speakers in the rear doors. They sound much better than the oem ones. The HU doesn’t seem to have enough power to take advantage of the new speakers but that’s, I plan to add an amp later on and possibly a sub. Adding the amp later is one of the main reasons I went with th KS’s over the CS’s.

 

I got the same ones. Super nice. Only issue is the tightness if you end up mounting some Desert Does It Molle Panels and Fire extinguisher. It'll fit, but its snug like a bug.

 

Sorry.

 

Go meso customs, dude. Worth it.

 

anything plastic that screws together might break when dropped

 

Leave him alone, you big bully!