What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Yeah headlights I’m not sure about. I went with Attica 4x4 Rouge series for headlights and have been loving the look and output of them

 

We have a deep rabbit hole of information for headlights lol. Fun read

 

What size wheels/tires are you running? It doesn't look like it should rub much at all.

 

scrap day today.


mostly a grille and exercise bike, with some other lightweight crap piled on top.. turned into $60, which was enough to pay topping off the tank from last weeks usage. so all-in-all, i didn't technically pay for gas for an entire week this time around.

i don't know how the 5' bed guys do it. there's plenty of times i'm wishing for an 8' bed!

 

you mean raptor lights

 

you will need a new wheel

 

Read the first post in this, but have a big bucket of popcorn ready. The consensus is basically "OEM LED" or "H9 upgrade to H11 halogen". But anything else tends to be a losing venture.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...ctor-headlights.589465/page-332#post-29829290

 

I bought my 2022 in January. Dealer serviced it, according to the records, before it was put on the lot. I don’t know what kind of oil that they put in it, but probably the cheapest that they could. Today I did my first oil change. I did it with the help of a video. All other vehicles I had used spin on oil filters. Now I’ve done this style. I got the tool for taking the filter canister off, some oem filters, and some full synthetic oil. I was surprised when I pulled the oil plug and the oil flowed so quickly that it hit the oil drain pan splattered and sprayed all around the pan until I got the oil flow lined up with the drain hole in the pan. Lesson learned the hard way. As quick as the oil flowed meant that it didn’t take long for the oil to drain. Then moved on to the filter. That was a learning experience too since I’ve never done that style before. The hardest part was breaking the canister loose. The dealer had to have over tightened it. I had to get a breaker bar out to break it loose. I torqued everything to spec when tightening it back up again. I got a new engine air filter and went to replace it. The thing still looks brand new, so I left it in place and saved the new one for later. I also got a new cabin air filter. The old had just a little dirt and debris on it so I knocked it off and reinstalled it, also saving the new one for later. I was surprised at how much oil this thing takes. It takes as much as the V-8 in my POS ram pickup. It was much easier to do the oil change on it than my ram. Now that I’ve done it once I’ll be set for next time. Of course when it was time for the maintenance it not only notified me on the dash, but also notified the dealership. They in-turn called me wanting to set up a time for me to come in for service. I work longer days than they do, so I would have to take the day off so I could pay them to do it. I can’t just drop it off on my way to work since I work out of it. I also don’t trust the dealership to do the work. I’ve been looking to see how I can stop my taco from telling them I need service. If anyone can tell me it would be greatly appreciated.

 

you went camping in a parking lot?

 

Turn signal lights or in the mirrors, not the grill.

 

It was close to everything that he needed.

 

he called them DRLs plaid boy

 

plug it

 

He was also referring to three different lights. The turn signals, the hitch lights, and the DRL’s. The DRL’s are located in the headlights, not the grills. He never mentioned the grill lights.

 

i did

 

Or I mean the white DRL’s in my head lights and the white DRL’s on my turn signals

 

This was supposed to be a post about me installing my new Bilstein 5100s with 1.5" lift on the front. But I ran into a bit of a hiccup with the lower control arm. You guessed it, the cam seized to the inner bushing sleeve. It's 82k miles old.



I'm well aware of the issues with these cams/bolts, I just didn't think that it would be this bad on a six year old truck.

I tried everything. Even made a DIY puller out of pipe and threaded rod. Wouldn't budge a millimeter. So after hours of struggling I cut it off.

As for the bushing, it seemed fine. Same with the lower ball joint and control arm itself. I'm going to keep them until the ball joint fails. Here's how I got the old cam sleeve out.

Now I'm just waiting on a replacement $20 cam bolt. In the meantime maybe I'll do my ECGS bushing. Everything is already torn apart for it. Stay tuned for the next post.

 

That would make his posts far less interesting.

 

Personally when I did have OEM halogen headlights and put in LED bulbs I loved the output and had no issues but like I said I have aftermarket headlights now and love the output