What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

DUDE your truck rocks! I'm a fan of the ka-bar decal on the side too. very well done with the bronze and black combo

 

I lost page 3 of 4 in my Mapquest print out.

 

Are you wheel well flares painted or aftermarket or just really shined up? Looks to match the body panels.

 

SR5 and Sport came with painted/color-matched flares

 

I dig it. It's like if Burt Reynolds drove a Tacoma instead of a Trans Am. Have you considered any hood graphics yet?

 

Hahah no

 

Well absolutely and is for the mass majority. This why I said it wouldn't appeal to most. In my 14 years of building off-road products as Bash Fabrication I've made exactly two sets of these... Some folks just have different needs. The first guy had a truck with a drop bracket lift and his wife is like 5'4" so he requested them. This guy getting these is military and doesn't do any wheeling at all but all of his body mounts for typical "steps" were rotted out and he takes his grandma places so useful to him. He never plans to wheel however the strength of a slider will benefit him alot more now being able to use them for slider things in related to wheeling

 

Look good on the outside but that washer is already screaming for help. Hope you never use them too hardcore. Hate when companies send out just a standard ass washer out with their sliders

 

How do you like them? Considering getting some

 

I've had them in my truck for five years or so. They are holding up really well. They honestly look like OEM seats if you don't know any better.

 

Thanks dude !!

 

Shoutout to @Soft Taco for a great video how-to. As expected the driver side was a PITA, but definitely doable, perhaps more so than I thought originally.

job took 2 1/2 hours, most of that on the driver side and fighting electrical plugs (a pick helped) - 68k miles

 

LOL yeah it's a bitch, even worse with the manual because we have extra lines to deal with on the drivers side. Not the worst thing I've ever done on a car but far from the easiest!

 

Can you post the link?

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tc9FYrD7vUw

Lots of good maintenance videos

 

Yep definitely saw that I had more garbage in the way then the video lol

 

Thx for the vid. TBH the way everyone talks about the driver side I was expecting much worse.

But that's been my line of thinking for most of the work I've done on this truck lol (UCA's, leaf hangers, etc).

 

The washers are an 1/8" thick and I bent it on purpose.

Installed normally it was about an 1/8" from the brake lines so I kept torquing it down until it bent inwards to give me about a 1/4" clearance. It took a lot of force to bent that washer.

Also that is the only one I bent, all the rest are installed properly. So 1 out of 14 bolts isn't bad

 

ok send me a link about where the different size mats are made to back up your statement

 

Thank you! Like most I think, a work in progress and a drain on the wallet!