What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

The LandMaster - Still WAY better looking than the Cybertruck. Hell, that thing makes the Pontiac Aztec look like beautiful sculpture, in comparison!

 

Changed the power steering fluid today. Opened my last bottle of Toyota Dexron 3!

 

isnt high shipping normal for Hawaii?

 

FedEx trucks do not float. Also AK has high shipping despite being on the continent.

 

anything that has to be flown anywhere will be more.....the price of living in paradise......when those e-planes start flying prices will come way way down

 

100%! I put strip lights under my rails and have a switch under my seat but have been wanting to run a dedicated switch. Do you have a part list for what you did for yours?

 

Hope your pop n lock lasts longer than mine. After a little more than a year now the actuator no longer works. It gets power because you can hear it try to lock and unlock but nothing happens. One day I'll get around to replacing or removing it.

 

Apparently, it depends on what goods you order from mainland sites, shipping to Hawaii. Example: when I order something from Steelers.com to my house for personal use, I go FedEx Overnight (no patience, hard head), unless “custom order,” have to go FedEx Ground.

 

Dawg Pound material gets shipped faster.

 

Parts and requirements are gonna be different for a 2017 I think. 2020+ most came prewired for the switch, relay, and connections on the tail lights. Lots of good write ups on here. I researched for a bit and bought the stuff I needed for my 23.

All I needed to buy was the OEM switch and light kit.

 

Finally got around to installing some new stuff with the current parts deal at toyota:
1. Oem tailgate lock
2. Oem 2nd gen running boards to replace some old faded & starting to rust unsure of what they were i picked up when i bought the truck new. Looks much better and at least the abs/plastic will hide the rust from me on the new ones, lol.
3. Oem tailgate step. Wish i had done this one sooner!

 

Almost forgot...also replaced Tonneau with a new lomax.

 

I believe the actuator is a very common part that could be sourced on Amazon.

 

Where do you get these? I've been trying to decide between the Dobinson IMS, the OMU MT64 or the Bilstein setup you decided on. I can esily find pacakges for the first two, but finding the Bilstein pacakage has eluded me. I have no idea of the cost on those.

 

What is this deal of which you speak?

 

I think heading has it in stock. I’m currently debating on between the bilstein and dobison. My wife has dobison on her 4Runner and rides so smooth

 

I've heard from several people that Dobinsons ride great, but they are made in China and that just really bothers me. Not due to quality issues, but for all the other issues related to giving up manufacturing to China.

 

Really? Didn’t know that. But yes the ims does ride great

 

Hotshot Offroad

 

Since I had recently just hit 60k on the odometer, I had to do some maintenance. The oil change was easy as easy can get; done that a week ago. And then this past Saturday I had to change the plugs, air filter, and cabin filter. The filters were cake to replace but man, it was such a pain in the rear to do the plugs. It must have taken me like 3 hrs to replace them. I'm sure this has a lot to do with the fact that I've got big and clunky hands but there's so little space on the driver's side that it was so slow to do. I'm glad it's done and more importantly that I don't have to do it again for probably 4-5 yrs.

David