What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

That little plastic button on the seat belt to keep the buckle from sliding away

 

Received today the Metal Housing - woohoo! Shipping on this item was less than the gas required for me to drive to dealer and pick it up. But, like I said before, orders over $75.00 get FREE shipping.

 

Oil change threads are for Fridays, sir.

 

Looks like ADVICS is the manufacturer of each, economy and OEM, see that pic below.

Looking at these pads side by side, I see a difference in pad material, and shape where the OEM is chamfered which would decrease the braking surface of the OEM pad and reduce chatter. I've changed a-lots-a pads and if I remember correctly many of them had the chamfered pad edge, that alone should make a big difference in noise or no noise.

 

What @RichochetRabbit said...about Fridays! lol

I'll be doing another oil change soon...will evaluate again how much torque is needed to remove housing--I hand-tightened last oil change.

Whoops...it's only Wednesday.

 

Changed wiper inserts during recent oil/filter R&R. Went to update maint record and got jammed up with part#s. When I bought the inserts part desk gave me a bag with both inserts L and R but bag had a single part#. If you look up the part#s on a Toyota dealer website you will find this:
85214-0E140 Windshield Wiper Inserts - Rubber Insert / This is the right hand side insert
85214-04030 Left Front Windshield Wiper Insert - Rubber Insert / Obviously this is the left hand insert
Why the right side insert isn't in the part# description is anyone's guess. This info is from a dealer website online parts lookup. It may have a different description on a site like ToyotaPartsdeal.com.
Anyway, quick and easy replacement.

 

You can chamfer the edge of non chamfered pads as well...

 

Looks like the

$40 F133N with LC-10 F-Series Large Body FUMOTO® Valve with Long Nipple and LC-10 Lever Clip for M12-1.25

F133N does not protrude from under (above?) the skid plate. Is that an OEM skid you've got on there?

I'm just about at 15k miles and will be doing an oil change, along with whatever else is due at 15k (forget what else off the top of my head- I think mostly visual inspections). Figured I'd pop a Fumoto valve on there for speed/ease of oil changes since I do all my own and will be doing some Blackstone analyses.

 

That was my plan. That's I use them now anyway.

 

Took the bug guard off. It’s been on for so long, I can’t tell if I like it or not.

 

Probably worth taking off periodically to clean and protect the paint under a bug guard anyway, we had a 1st gen in the family that had one on for 20+ years, it was nasty as hell under that thing.

 

Took it camping. And showed my buddy how my Tacoma is better than his gmc (I have a ram 2500)

 

!!!!

 

Yeah. I always liked it. After TSS this grille kinda went away

 

It works with tss. I think it went away because it’s so flimsy. And you need the outer trim that the Offroad and sports grill do away with. I have one that I just replaced.

 

Next you will be replacing the plastic covering the dials?

 

Yea when it becomes a priority.