What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Reflection of the house across the street.


oh, added the grille.

 

Took my roof rack and side steps off
Drip mouldings back on and I’ll be shopping for a tonneau. Still undecided between a Bak flip MX4 and a roll up

 

That red cable looks awfully thin. What gauge is it? You may consider connecting with a 8-6 gauge, depending what you are running off the fuse box. Just a thought.

 

Thanks for coming by today Dan, best tune ever!! I hope you get to enjoy that truck for many many years now!

 

Replaced stock tires at 35k miles with KO2s 265/75/16. Looks much better

 

I love the bakflip, fwiw there seems to be a bunch on Craigslist/FB

 

I’m leaning towards the bakflip yea. I do see them on fbm and cl but a lot of them are beat up or scratched or whatever. I’m prolly ordering new from truckalter here on TW.

 

Didn’t like the Oedros? I sold mine without ever installing them. Going with sliders.

 

No they’re cheap and not the right look. Got these weep holes in them that rusty water started pouring out of when I pulled the grommet off. I got them for door ding defenders and I can’t seem to like them. I might do sliders or make ones. Not sure right now but they’re not going back on.

 

What does that equate to for 10M and 11M in SWR? No units on the side lines to know.
What kind of radio and where did you mount the antenna?

 

Not bad at all. I'm not a fan of larger screens in vehicles, as most look out of place to me. But this set-up almost looks factory.

I dig it

 

Looks good is there a gap at bumpers? I have seen people do body lifts and the bumper looks out of place?

 

The sweep shows 26MHz to 30MHz on each side and there are 10 divisions so each division is 400KHz. The CB band is from 26.965 - 27.405MHz and the 10m band is from 28 - 30MHz so you should be able to figure out roughly where each band begins and ends and read the return loss from the scale on the side.

If you can't figure it out from that, take a look at Markers 2 and 3. They're placed roughly where the CB band begins and ends. Marker 1 is right at 28MHz which is the beginning of the 10m band.

You can then go to this page to convert the return loss reading to VSWR: Return Loss to VSWR Calculator - Everything RF

The radio is an Anytone-AT6666 and the antenna is mounted on the right rear of the box.

 

I understand the sweep and I have 10 and 11 roughly plotted out. The lines for 11 help.
I was mostly talking about the horizontal lines. With out a marker, I'm not able to see what your SWR is and it would be relative. If the top is 2:1 and the bottom is 1.5:1 that's one thing but if the top is infinite or might as well be 999:1 and the bottom is 0, then that's another thing. But after looking at the page with formulas I've quickly determined I just don't care any more and this topic is no longer worth my time.
I genuinely hope you have fun with your radio.

 

im relocating rear bumper up when i stops raining. seems its been raining for 3 months straight tho...

 

I won't waste any more time on it other then to point out that the graph is labelled Return Loss, the scale on the left clearly shows the vertical scale runs from 0 to 50dB of Return Loss and nowhere on that picture is anything to do with VSWR. The instrument I used does not plot VSWR.

 

I guess if you have a high clearance front bumper that would mess things up. Post some pics when you get it done if you can. I would be interested in how it turns out.

 

I have the bakflip x4s. I'd go Lomax if I were buying again. https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/lomax-hard-tri-fold-tonneau.607175/

 

Sick set up bro.

 

Got the front door tint done yesterday to match the rear, they did great work, it was $100, but it seems to be a shade darker? Is this normal or can it be perfect?