What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Got a Decked System for the truck as well as made labels and additional decals. All in getting ready for spring and summer fun.

 

When I did the drain extension a few years ago, I used a piece of some window screen/mesh repair patch. Formed it around the end of the drain and used a hose clamp to hold it in place. Water is free to drain out, while allowing nothing to get in.

 

Bought a Harbor Freight 2 bike rack and bolt on receiver for it. Bolted receiver to Up Top rack with additional support going back to middle cross bar. Cut the rack down by 1 ft just to where bike tires clear tailgate. May have to slide it over a little to center bikes and may remove front wheels to narrow it up.

 

Bit of a cheat post because it didn’t all happen today but if I posted every time I puttered on this thing nobody would care. So last fall I picked of this contractor canopy for $300 (because as much as I wanted an alu-cab I wasn’t willing to swallow the $4000 pill). Since then I’ve been building it out as the weather permits. This weekend I bed lined some of the check plate panels, added a pop out window and some other little things. Still have more to do, notably painting the top . But it’s coming along nicely.

 

Looks good!

 

I put in a order, can't wait

 

Good for the plantars you say.. I'm gonna have to get a pair.

 

Hit 10,000 miles today. 2018.

 

I used a heat gun and plastic scrapper on my other truck and the tailgate of my taco. The fun part is always trying to get the remaining tape of the vehicle. This weekend Mother Nature doesn’t seem to know what she wants. Sun, rain, hail and snow all in different times the same day.

 

I have a 32 oz Klean Kanteen in the cup holder in the center console and a 1 gallon Hydro Flask in the passenger seat. Little stuff like that will get us in an emergency.

 

I rolled my brothers Land Cruiser on the switchbacks between Flagstaff and Sedona in AZ on a snowy road. I wasn’t going fast. It barely had enough momentum to roll onto the roof. If I hadn’t been seat-belted in his spare tire, that he had just sitting loose on the floor in back, would have nailed me in the head.

 

Installed locking fuel door today. Link to buy from Amazon was here, but I can't remember who's manufacturer e.t.c.
Few important things: it comes WITHOUT any casket (so, offering to tide metal against painted body panel just as is)
Shape is not 100% matching (bend it slightly against piece of wood)
Screws are too short
Spacers are wrong size (3 out of 4).
SO,
I bend slightly whole thing to correct the shape
I fabricate nice rubber casket
I replace screws with longer ones (and tomorrow will buy stainless screws of this size).
I make my own spacers of right size.
Result are satisfactory for me - it's not bad looking, and it's lockable.

 

How you like them? I’m thinking of going with him too just got to make the drive

 

Now you need to slide the across some rocks to test them out.

 

Damn! Glad you had it secured. I just got a little too brave/stupid on off-camber transition and just flopped onto the passenger side. Slow motion terror lol! I was fortunate everything fell away from me, big plus was no airbags! Rookie mistake, will hopefully never happen again! Can laugh about it now and have a buddy who was in another vehicle that said “if you haven’t flopped today then you’re just not wheelin hard enough “. A little levity goes a long way in these kind of situations.

 

whats this ? texting and driving?

 

are they bad?

 

you been grounded for the last 5 years or in jail?

 

Diggin the Metallica themed Tacoma decal. Nice work!

 

Agreed!