What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

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Installed UpTop Overland Bravo roof rack

 

Is that a heater hanging from the ceiling?

 

Yeah it is - installed before I bought the place. Pretty nice to have it this time of year. Connected to a thermostat on the wall, crank it on for just a few mins and warms up the whole shop

 

You may want to re-think that post. The right mod sees it and you may get a 30 day vacation.

 

Busy weekend this weekend. Spent Friday and Saturday swapping the transmission from an RC62F to the RC60F out of a 2024 Tacoma. What a fantastic result that turned out to have. I am having a lot of fun driving it with the new ratios.

New, fresh out of the box



Old, had just been removed



New, dressed as the old so it will bolt in



Spent this afternoon fixing a rear diff leak. We used RTV at my regear and the third member started leaking at the bottom. Not sure why. Cleaned all that off and went with the OEM gasket this time. Hopefully good long term now.

The diff leak



Cleaned up the third member



Cleaned up housing and put on the gasket

 

...very nice

 

Down with the pro grills! Had this old thing laying around so I got a black surround and tinted the emblem. Might go a bit lighter on the emblem tint but I like it overall

 

But you can't mount raptor lights in that grill! OMG!

 

...saw a Trailhunter in a parking lot today. Is the door badge supposed to be crooked like that?

 

Back in the first stages of the build.. anything’s possible lol

 

There is a factory recall in the works just for that.

 

Dang! Very impressed, how did you find lights that fit? or did you rig them up?

 

https://yotaleds.com/products/tacoma-led-grille-lights-sport-offroad
here they are if you’re interested.

 

TrAiLhUnTeR

 

Even with a multi link, coil spring rear suspension, it is still not an independent rear suspension...

So with leaf springs or coil springs, it has the same rear-end, just different mounting brackets welded to it...

 

So that’s just a sticker on there or did they apply every letter by itself cuz it looks like ass

 

I must confess ... the owner of that truck asked me to apply it after a full bottle of Cuervo.

 

Man. I half assed applied a decal, in the full hot sun, same placement. And it was straight. It was a Tacoma decal as opposed to the badge. But they are all gone now. After my truck got keyed, I pulled all those decals. The bed sticker was intentionally hacked at.

 

I cannot imagine this is real. Ray Charles wouldn't even buy that.