What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Long time member, 1st time poster it looks like... What are you wanting to do with it?

My 1st mod was drop steps, LED bed lights and gas cap holder... My last mod was the VTAILS...

Are you looking for form over function, or function over form or both function and form??
Are you looking for off roading, or just daily driving it??

Lots of grey areas in your question...

 

Get a bed mat.

 

...my favorite part of TW is when Rix Tux shoots from the hip.

...and yes, you need some tools.

 

Damn you. Made me realize i forgot something.

 

Good Call.

 

What zirks..... Lol

Wish my truck had em

Generally until you see grease starting to peek out

 

installed the TRO pro tail lights with the VLED vtails kit yesterday, very happy with it... but 2 questions...

the LED bulbs didnt "snap" in like regular do (tried them both ways), is that an issue? dont want them to shake loose..

the OEM assys were so hard to pull loose, i assume due to that extra grommet on the bottom metal guide. should that be swapped over to the new assys? new assys very loose until screws put in.

 

As long as it was a bit of a tight fit, you should be OK, nothing there to really snap into place, as long as they are not just loose...

I am more worried about the sockets falling out of the housings than anything else, nothing locks them in place.. But I haven't heard of it happening yet so I won't worry to much about it...

If the bottom grommet can be swapped over then yes, swap it over... I just thought they were made that way, never looked at them that hard, had my taillamps out 3 times for different reasons in a couple months, hard to pop out every time, feel like I am gonna break something... lol

 

i had the whole truck moving trying to pull it loose! definitely felt the same
thx for input!

 

The first pull is ridiculous. I sold someone a shell and he pulled his tail for the 3rd brake light, it took him a while… I showed him my drivers side, which was missing the bottom screw post (there’s a lot behind that lamp). The bottom grommet likes to stay with the taillight on my truck.

 

Yeah in a 2wd it would be a pretty smooth process. The only reason I had to cut into the cab was to clock the t case almost completely flat. Skids should run from trans to t case crossmember about 1/2” below the frame rails. So really flat belly compared to stock

 

anyone got a fix for the squeaky driver window switch panel? now that it's cold its making a racket

 

Yeah when mine 1st popped out, the noise it made in the garage, I thought for sure I had broke something, then I looked at it and saw the bottom gromet thingy and really thought I broke it, when the other side did the same thing, I took a better look and was relieved it was ok... And yes, it is easier to dig a toy out of my Pitbull's mouth then it was popping the taillamps out...

 

Had to add a front plate to my “new to me” 2023. I decided the OEM mount was too bulky. So I made my own.

 

Took advantage of more sales and replaced my original OEM battery with a 24F Duracell Ultra from Batteries Plus.

 

Got my (mostly) new suspension put in over the holiday weekend with some assistance from my dad. Even though I offered him the crucial role of project manager, he insisted on being more hands-on which was a huge help. It was great working with him and truthfully it wouldnt have gone as easily as it did, or be as fun, without his wisdom and side comments.

Front is the mostly new part. A fellow forum member hooked it up with a set of 5100s/OME 887s that he ran for 3k miles and only swapped out due to installing a new front bumper/winch


Rear is Icon RXT leafs set to option 2, paired with Eibach shocks


The new setup gave the truck 2 inches lift in front and about 2.2 in the rear, along with a much much better ride than stock. At 116,800 miles this refresh was way overdue! Now just need to get some bigger tires....

 

When I first got my truck a friend followed me home and complained about the dim tail lights. They were aftermarket LED and ugly.

I got some others (LED) and when I went to replace them, the lights had fallen out of the sockets in the ugly ones. Other clues led me to believe that whoever installed them was an idiot but I guess I should check them now and then...

Showing brake + turn + running

 

So you replaced the whole assembly with aftermarket?

 

Yes. Just picked some I liked on Amzn. They were around $100 for the pair.

I really disliked the ones on it and they appeared to have lots of salt dust in them.

 

Good catch.