What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

For the price, the Ultra Power kit isn’t bad.

As for mileage, the pulleys could go another 50k km, or start squealing next week. Either way, I would just replace all four now. When they go, they can go quick.

If you’re the DIY type and have a press, you could order the just the bearings and replace them, keeping your existing pulleys. This is a screen grab from the Gates kit: 6203 bearings.

Otherwise, I would go with the kit.

 

H9 low beam swap. Definitely worth the few minute hassle of snipping the top rib of the connector on the bulb. Honestly surprised at how much brighter they are vs the factory osram h11’s.

 

Remove the green insert ... even easier.

 

Installed Boomers (Oostroma’s)"faux" TRD Pro shift knob with dual color option.

Tied Red option to security signal. Tied Blue option to dimmable dash lights.

Outstanding support by Boomer! Will post additional install tips on the relevant thread…
Boomer's "faux" TRD Pro shift knob illumination mod(Tacoma and Tundra)

Flashing security

Brightest dash lit

Dimmest Dash light


Thanks again Boomer!

 

Thanks!, I did that in my driveway. Measure eleventeen times, cut once, ha. I did the CMR for two reasons. 1, I guess I was still rubbing on the cab mount, and 2, I broke the welds on my original CMC. After the CMR and pinch weld, I clear everything back there. With 33's I was only rubbing the top of the inside of my fenders. Can still see all the rub marks. Going to do some massaging of that soon.

With 35's, I'm rubbing my JBA UCA's now. I've got a different pair on its way to see if I'll clear those though. Otherwise I might have to look into wheel spacers.

 

I’ll have to look for it whenever I swap these out for new ones. I didn’t look too hard so I just used on flush cutters on the bulbs. Only took a couple minutes to cut the plastic and install them.

 

Did that Matchbox start life looking like this?

 

eBay rear bumper had to drill the bolt holes out to center it. Also drilled 4 hole to add 4 extra bolts so hopefully it doesn’t rip off $370 all in

 

My son-in-law bought me that camper looking one...

 

Things that showed up the last couple of days and hopefully will all go in this weekend.

• RCI Rock Sliders
• Sherpa Roof Rack
• Diode Dynamics Stage Series 42" LED Light Bar w/ harness
• KC Wire Hider
• OEM Style LED Light Bar Switch

 

Where can you purchase them from?

 

https://arksplashguards.com/collect...roducts/2016-2024-toyota-tacoma-splash-guards

 

Are you running the Magnuson tune or a third party tune? I went with the Yotawerks Stryker tune and I’m very happy.

 

I have OTT tune waiting but right now im using the magnuson tune to vet out the install

 

Installed another set of Wildpeaks today. Got 76,000 miles out of my last set.

 

Yes. I found that one on ebay without the color accents. However, I also purchased one with the color accents. I found that the color accents can be easily removed using acetone without damaging the underlying white paint. The head light and tail light decals are from another ebay seller.

 

My oem non jbl radio has been rebooting itself during long drives whenever the brake is depressed. Someone mentioned the brake booster on the off-road draws a heavy current. Others have tried removing paired phones and claimed that fixes it and some say the radio is on its way out.

Anyway, the battery is 2.5 years old, so I bought a new 24F AGM Everstart battery from Wally World today.

If this doesn't fix it I see a Sony 9500es or Pioneer 6600nex upgrade happing soon.

 

I found one at a local big box store a couple years ago and sanded it down and tried to paint with my Cement touch up paint to match my truck.

 

I used a pice of a pool noodle to fill the gap, I think it was left from a piece between the cab and the bed…