What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Brand new tire.
7,600 miles
I noticed the oem firestones have a beige embedded wear strip.






reason for the replacement. Someone lost a bucket full of cleaning supplies and I ran over the broken brush

 

Sir I believe there’s something in your tire…

 

Damn! First time I’ve ever seen that. That sucks man.

 

Hows on road driving ?

 

After a few drives you barely notice it's missing.
I'm running 600lb springs up front, if you have a heavier spring rate it's even less noticeable.
I've had mine removed for almost 10k miles, when I take cloverleafs on the freeway or if I swerve the truck hard you can definitely tell the front has a lot more roll.
Another benefit to having it removed is when you hit a pothole it is a lot less jarring.

 

Removed the beside decals and installed Total Chaos bed stiffeners.

Slight ghosting from the decals.

 

Today, at long last, I installed the Miller Cat Shield. I ordered this back in October but not having a garage meant I was going to wait until warmer/dry weather. I guess 6 months late is better than never!

And earlier this week, I applied decals to my engine cover. Got these off eBay.

 

New start button

 

She looks like nothing but trouble brewing,

 

That is actress hired to play "Harlequin" in the next Joker movie.

 

and here I thought you came up with a self cleaning tire!

 

I wonder if they make these "color burnout" tires in truck sizes?

 

Quick install. TRD Pro Grill . Love this freakin truck.

 

Installed d rings on bed bolts closest to cab. Took me all day. Had to attach a 4 ft copper pipe to 24" breaker for leverage. Crap those bolts are ridiculous tight and long! Couldn't get washers off so just used a bench grinder and took off one side so d ring would slide on. Hands are all cramping and back is killing me so no pics. Hard for me to figure out how to do that anyway. Just wanted to brag that I did it for an arthritic 70+

 

Installed the Ironman 4x4 stage 2 kit. Ended up with 2.5ish in the front and about 3” in the rear.

 

always love seeing a TRD Pro Grill install, best bang for your back upgrade

 

Did my spark plugs. Why did the passenger side take 35 minutes and the driver, 3 hours!?
Also. Two had blow by and weren’t completely tight. On a truck that’s been dealer maintained most of its life. That’s what I get for being “too busy” to do it myself.

 

mileage ?

 

I’ve been stockpiling parts since I got the truck last June…today I took andvantage of the sunny day and installed the center console tray-arrived without instructions…docked one star. ZPrecision cupholder-now my Red Bull cans fit. MESO bucket, Morimoto license plate lights, VLEDS V6 Extreme Tails, VLEDS interior lights, and a Diode Dynamics C1R Hitchpod. Word of advice for the taillight conversion…they specify using the tougher rubber seal for the reverse lights-give them a good crush before you install, or you’ll shred your fingers trying to rotate them to lock.