What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Bought a hitch skid and a diff skid for the upcoming trip in January. And my sliders are sitting in the dining room waiting for the weekend to be welded on.

 

First ever dash cam. Garmin mini 3 w/ dongar adapter

 

Also just installed both of those.

 

at the toyota store today
saw this on a 2024 tacoma

 

Cleaned the bed. Actually, just got the OTT tune done to my truck and no joke, it is what everyone has always said. Makes it drive like a totally different truck. Got the medium/spicy setting.

 

Where does the other 15% come from?

 

Also you should mosey over to the “ford store”, hop in an eco boost mustang, and blow the doors of that ‘66.

 

Japan slippin on that tranny

 

Finally got my gauge mount. wasnt a fan of the craven speed center pods

 

Who makes the gauge mount?

 

https://www.yotawerxtuning.com/category/all-products

 

Hahaha... Oh man.. Thanks for posting this. It can be funny now to look back at all the drama, but I feel ya when you talk about going round and round with all those issues. I too seem to be able to find a way make the simple complex. Sometimes those "helpful" youtube videos don't help. You start out referencing the video and do exactly what they are describing, only to get to a part where they are like, "yeah.. don't do it that way man." WHAT!?!? Hahaha.. It looks good man. Well done and good troubleshooting.

 

Installed some tow hooks off Amazon today. Happy with how they turned out

 

I'm getting my vehicle inspected right now. They were going to fail me for "not having an exhaust"...

I have skid plates. (C4) The exhaust pipe is hidden behind the skid plates and dumps behind the rear axle. Had to point it out to them.

I'm glad my vehicle is going to be deemed "safe" for the next year by these guys. I'm terrified that other vehicles are also deemed "safe" by these guys though.

 

I had an argument with someone at work about the stupidity of safety inspections just the other day. From the data I found, barely 3-4% of vehicle accidents are attributable to faulty equipment. 90+% are user induced and 4% are weather related. The point of safety inspections is lost on me- the time and effort put into it is absolutely wasted.
Of course their argument was 'but why wouldn't you want safer vehicles on the road?'
Shook my head and had to walk away..

/end rant

 

Here in Arkansas, they just figure if it runs and you are brave enough to drive it, it's probably fine.

 

its just another tax

 

When I run into those people I try to not engage them but if I do I point to states like Florida that have no vehicle inspection and ask them if there's massive numbers of cars crashing down there due to it?

 

I think it’s one of those things that was introduced a long time ago when everything was truly a mechanical system and honestly many times not designed all that well. But I have also seen some rides around here that look like a death trap.

 

Same goes for dumb laws like window tint. In MN you can black out windows behind the front seats of trucks, SUV, vans, etc. or in some cases not even have windows behind the front seats, but heaven forbid you put anything darker than 50% on windows behind the front seats on a sedan.


Just another cash grab for the guberment