What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Unsure, this is a customers truck

 

A customer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jB4EZ2rP4Y

 

At that cash, get it dry ice blasted and treated for about $1300.00
Get it treated with Krown, nhoil, or fluid film for less than 350.00 I'm cheap and sprayed 8 cans of ff. Not fun.

 

Not sure I understand these high priced oil treatments. Just buy a few cans of Corrosion-X and do it yourself. That stuff is truly magic and I have used it in much harsher environments than our trucks will ever see.

 

Oil change, plugs, air filter, transfer case fluid and rear diff fluid all done. Starting to prep for a Windrock trip in January. Dirty work is done, fun stuff coming up.

Anyone here notice if the threads on your plugs were real sticky when you removed them? Mostly on the rear plugs closest to the fire wall. Thinking back to a lifetime of changing plugs on everything I have ever worked on and I can't remember if I have ever had sticky threads before. Normal wear on the plugs, nothing obvious stood out and they were tight, none were loose.

 

I feel the same regarding my 2019 TRD sport.

 

Truck bed TLC the last few days. All Pro front bed MOLLE installed:

 

I could probably get some later, but I don't have any at the moment. The only other cover that I've ever owned was a Retrax and that allowed me to use my OE tie downs but I can't get them to fit with the Bakflip due to the side rails so lowering the rails would've been nice. I've been looking for some replacements like the billet ones since I actually use my tie downs, but they are a bit much, so we'll see.

 

Rust prevention is not a "one and done" type deal. It requires annual application and touch up's. I would stay away from anything that "hardens".

I've been using Fluid Film for the past 7 or 8 years and just switched to WoolWax this year. I applied WoolWax to my frame at 1,500 miles, so it is essentially brand new and I plan on doing it every year.

I do all of my own applications with my air compressor and spray gun so I can't comment on searching around for shops to do it.

Just make sure they spray inside the frame and pull skid plates and body plugs which are often overlooked.

 

Yes they do inside all body cavities, inside fenders front and back and inside tailgate.

 

I just did my plugs 4k miles ago at 60k miles and I don’t think mine were sticky in any way.

 

That's one heck of a sturdy-looking antenna. What's it for?

 

Got my Alu-Cab third brake light re-wired. I learned fourteen things:

1. Alu-Cab doesn't label any of their wires.
2. Alu-Cab's wiring doesn't apply to any coloring scheme I've ever seen. (Blue and brown for positive and negative?!)
3. Just like reading all of the instructions, watch all of the YouTube video. Sometimes they don't edit out their mistakes and point out half-way through that they were wiring it on the wrong side and you should be using the wiring that's on the passenger's side of the canopy.
   
4. "The 9V trick." Use a 9V battery to test wires on 12V lights to confirm you're using the right ones.
5. The Alu-Cab third brake light is LED, but works even with reversed polarity.
6. My Tacoma does not work with reversed polarity on a brake light.
7. The 10A STOP fuse, like many others in my Tacoma's fuse box, requires an ATM-LP fuse.
8. I don't own any ATM-LP fuses.
9. The lid of the fuse box has three spare ATM-LP fuses in it.
10. I now need to buy at least one ATM-LP spare replacement fuse.
11. My Tacoma is a drama queen. Instead of just blowing a fuse when there's an issue with the wiring to the brake light, it proclaims "Brake Override Malfunction" from the instrument cluster and refuses to start.
12. Switching the wiring around and replacing the fuse is the Xanax to my truck's anxiety.
13. Even the ease of installation afforded by the VLED plug-and-play wiring harness and its included heat-solder connections was no match for my innate ability to turn a fifteen-minute job into an hour-long ordeal.
    
14. The operable third brake light looks cool.

 

Best I’ve got are a couple pics from when I washed it last week.

 

This is friggin’ awesome. As someone considering an Alu-Cab, I thank you!

 

Mine were sticky when I swapped them around 65k shortly after I bought it and shipped it in from North Carolina. I chocked it up to humidity, which I’m not used to in CO?

 

It's a regular old GMRS antenna, just trying to be cool like the Aussies. Strong enough to hold your gear during an open air morning dookie. Taller version in the pic.

Appreciate it, thanks.

 

Thats good.

Not sure what your location is but on the WoolWax website they have a dealer locator option that you can put in your zip code and find a shop locally.

Always good to shop around for the best price. You mentioned $899 and I think that is wayyyy too much.

I hardly use Facebook but I'm part of the Lanolin/Oil Undercoting Users group and there is a wealth of knowledge there too and you could find people local to you that way as well.

 

You picked a nice view for a little AM BM.