What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Thank you, yeah that's them... Book marked now... lol

 

Big one, mostly just for me, not necessarily a big deal for the truck. Completely hand made, DIY HC tilted style rear bumper. Drew up my own design in fusion360, got the laser cut brackets from SendCutSend, and well we were off to the races. 3D printed my bed caps (under taillight fill pieces) so I can also adjust those as see fit. Some raw tube, flat bar, a hitch receiver, and lots of hours of (very) amateur welding in the garage and we've got a final product.

Taking an angle grinder to the bedsides on something I 100% designed and fabbed was absolutely terrifying, but it all came together in the end. Definitely going to do some tweaking here and there, but I wanted to get it all mounted up and painted ASAP (winter was going to ruin raw steel). Plus once I cut the bedsides I couldn't just put my other rear bumper back on (OCD ya know).

Good pics first:

 

Probably the coolest thing I've seen on this site. Nice job dude

 

all jokes aside, thank you man, it was a vision I just had to make a reality. I couldn't be happier on how it all polished out.

 

Very nice! I might suggest adding some kind of brace/support from the end of the tube back to your frame plate. It will make that bumper so much stronger.

 

That is badass!!

 

For sure, it's in my original design and on my list of things to add. I ran out of tube, welding gas and I wanted the bumper to be fully bolted up to get that piece on there. I was also having trouble making sure I was going to have plenty of clearance to the leaves/shackles without everything on the truck so I just kicked it down the road. I'll get to it though!

 

Supercharger, is that an add on to the lights?

 

yeppers

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/new-16-23-morimoto-xb-evo-headlights-are-here.848777/

https://hotshotoffroad.com/collecti...ights/products/xb-evo-headlights-16-23-tacoma

 

Do you think they will work with Alpha Rex?

 

negative

 

Okay. Thanks

 

yes. they cant sell them with these led drivers because with them installed the high beams put out so much light the headlights become illegal to use on the street. not sure why highbeams have an output limit since if you have them on with oncoming traffic youl be blinding them regardless. but it wouldn't be the first dumb law dot came out with.

 

Hell yes!! that is impressive and it looks great.

 

looks good

there is a reason Toyota didn't paint those

 

Can they get scratched?

 

Finally installed the XB Evos

 

I just put about 450 miles on my new Dirt King 2.0 kit, and I must say I'm impressed. This kit is so plush compared to my Fox 2.0 kit I previously had. It's set to 2" in the front, and I went with a 1" block for the rear (for now). I plan to upgrade the leaf pack when I put my camper top on.

 

they are powder coated gray from the factory