What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

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

 

^^this^^

 

are the raptor lights on all the time?

 

Yeah but I wasn’t referring to those as DRL’s.

 

do you have the toyota app?
they may be just guessing when you need a service
toyota oil is made by exxon mobil
its what dealers do now...emails, calls, text messages....some people(sheep) love it

 

then they are DRLs

 

Installed Sumo Springs front and rear (bump stops). Loving my truck.

 

welcome......you have a pic of truck

 

Do you have Toyota Connected Services? The new trucks come with a year for free, then you can pay or not pay. One service is for safety and will call emergency services; another gives you the ability to see the status of your truck remotely (remote start from anywhere, lock/unlock doors, etc.). One of those may be snitching on you.
I kept the service active and both my app and my head unit have told me about the axle recall.

 

I do have the app, but I don’t see a setting in there that be changed to stop it.