What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Not a big red fan but that color is really nice on the eyes. Nice rig

 

Hotter than a 5 dollar whore’s doorknob on nickel night

 

Got that same 1/2” rattle gun. It’s a beast. Busted open the final drives on a CAT 320 excavator with it. That thing slams.

 

Phoenix will be 100 +/- for Sunday - Wednesday. 89 is practically freezing.

 

STL was 75 yesterday and 70 today. After about a month of rain, it's finally perfect out. It's caused me to consume a lot of beer outside in the last 2 days.

 

There are 2 seasons here. Winter and summer and no in between. When it flashes hot weather we bake and complain and when it’s cold we freeze and complain. It’s the PNW.

 

Yeah, try Phoenix in the middle of August. 115+ The pavement and buildings soak up all the heat so the valley never really cools off that much in the evenings.

 

Phoenix Shmenix. You ain’t got this
Skykomish river a mile and a half from my house

 

Got my truck retinted. I went with 15% on the front doors and 35% on the rear windows over the factory privacy glass using FormulaOne Pinnacle film. I love the heat rejection ceramic window tints offer and I personally like the look darker tints have

 

I grew up in Seattle. I walked the "ice caves" on Mt. Rainier when you could. I hear you, brother.

 

hello fellow rabbit

 

Unless your in Florida and the humidity just engulfs you

 

I had to go back to work in my wife’s jeep to pick it up. My compact 1/2” drive didn’t have a chance. This one pushed the joint right out but after freezing the ball joint and heating the LCA it still struggled to set the new one.

 

I took mine in to @Discount Tire my local shop has been doing tires for my family for probably 10 years now. Very happy with Discount tire.

Toyota Certified Pre-owned apparently does not include checking the tire balance, or making sure that the rims aren't bent.

Three of the four balanced no problem, the third needed 6oz to get it right. I guess new rims may be closer than I thought.

 

AT 61K miles and felt it was time to replace the front brakes with all the shit I have bolted on.

Driver side OEM brakes.





Behold the Powerbrake X-Line 4x4 Big Brake Stage-1 in Red. Sourced from Sibibuilt and finally had time to install 'em at home.






Cut off the shield, clean, and prep!






Total job took 5 hours for both sides. Hardest part was finding someone to help bleed the brakes.


Here's the current state out things

 

Can the brake shield just be removed or does it have to be cut?

 

Can be removed by knocking the wheel bearing off but i didn't want to bother with that. The dust shield is malleable and made it easy to grind off

 

Ah, thanks for the response. Plan on doing the same Powerbrake upgrade soon.

 

This vid helped a lot! Super easy

 

Awwww ... seriously? But it is a DRY HEAT ... very different!