What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

A friend and his wife were in France doing a movie for a casual night (as early as things close there!) and the movie was MadMadMadMadWorld. When the old man kicked the bucket down the hill they were the only ones ROARED laughing. They had to explain to their fellow French movie-goers.

 

Lol, I have a cut on my shin too from jumping in and hitting that thing yesterday

 

Changed plugs tonight. 70071 miles. 3 hour job. Old plugs still gapped correctly, I was happy with their performance and visual condition. All new plugs came pregapped, all spot on. Thank you TW, for if you had not told me it was possible to replace these thangs, Per the vid below, I probably would have given up on the drivers side. Yeesh.

Oh, while I was in there, I finally found my coolant crossover pipe connector, and found no coolant seepage. Using the Teslong, snaked it back there and then switched to side camera and all was good.


https://youtu.be/tc9FYrD7vUw?si=Z_SRAnjr3boTv851

 

I have always thought different amounts of lug torque contributed to rotor warp, the lug wrench makes them all equal, as well as the correct amount of torque.

 

Heat compounded by the over tightening of the lug nut causes stress in the grain structure of the metal. Heat created by braking subsequently allows the stress to be relieved, this can often cause the rotor to "warp" which can then be felt in the brake pedal. That's why it often takes a day or two before you feel it since it requires the repeated heated and cooling of the effected rotor for it to manifest itself. It's science not magic, see photo of cast iron below.

 

THIS! So much this. Great idea!

 

Paintless dent repair. They are generally mobile repair guys who will come to you for the job. I had a PDR guy repair my tailgate..

 

Should be able to look up local paintless dent repair near me and it'll spit something back.

 

no........paintless dent repair

 

Yes exactly. The H9 has same external dimensions on connector with a different tab pattern. Essentially you cut a tab off the H9 and it will plug right in. However an H9 bulb had a much shorter life span than an H11. But I just have a spare in the clove box with a pre cut tab and it will fit either bright or either low beam. The highs are also H9 bulbs but are directed differently.

 

Remove the green insert from the harness ... easier than cutting anything.

 

Well, so far, the H9s have lasted longer than the PIAA H11s I was previously using and they're a helluva lot cheaper!

 

Well I finished bolting on all of my old mods to the new upgrade finally. I have put back on my cali raised cat shields, bakflip mx4 bedcover, interior led lighting, seat jackers, dashcam, go rhino rb20 slim rock sliders, ac drain fix, and a few other mods here and there. One new mod was creating TRX skewp lights out of a cheap raptor light kit I had laying around.

 

Welcome to the Interwebs.
Broken bolts are the main hazard of over tightening.

 

Within the last 3 months: found a great deal on some paint matched flares and SCS Ray 10 wheels with 285/70/17 Falken AT3w
Today: washed the truck and it started to rain immediately afterwards

 

I took a closer look at those Fifteen52 wheels and specifically the stud holes. What kind of lug nuts would you use on this style of wheel? Are the holes counterbored to a flat internal surface?

 

Those flares look really good painted.

 

Mine (TurboMacs) and I believe all Fifteen52 wheels use a conical style lug nuts. I'm running gorilla extended thread splined lug nuts. The tacos need the extended thread ones.

 

Installed some Christmas goodies, Santa brought some standard VTAILs and a new fuse panel cover to allow for fuse adapters. Oh, and rolled 10,000 miles finally!

 

Love the color matched rear bumper caps, looks so much better than the chrome...

One day... lol