What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Had some black paint peeling on the snorkel so I removed it, and holly shit its beautiful. Still have some cleaning to do in the photos.

 

What have you heard about alpharex? I’m pretty satisfied with my Nova series headlights

 

Need a pic of the whole truck, that actually does look pretty sick

 

Installed a

$250 Wolfbox G900 WOLFBOX 12" Rear View Mirror Camera, 4K Mirror Dash Cam Front and Rear with 2.5K Rear camera, Smart Full Touch Screen backup camera for car, Dash Cam with WDR Camera,Night Vision,Free 64GB Card & GPS

Wolfbox G900 Pro. Tapped into my rear view mirror harness to run the hardwire kit, made for a clean install. I bought the Wolfbox OEM bracket kit so I removed my mirror and tucked away the cables all nice under the headliner.

I also had to replace my third brake light on my GFC Topper (housing faded and cracked at the screws) so I did that and made a notch in the wire access hole using a dremel to fit the rear camera cable. It’s clean but I’m going to add some butyl tape to push out the light a little bit for the camera cable and seal it up good. Waiting on a Shittco camera mount for the GFC to make it even better.

 

nice work - that tapping into the existing wiring like that looks very easy - i have this thing on my bench and have been putting off since it will take a while to wire etc (and i do like wiring, just takes me a while with 1. OCD and 2. I am newer so i take a lot of time to try to get it right and over kill).

So curious of any issues pop up.... or if working fine nothing to consider?

For me, not going back to the old mirror once the wolfbox is in.

nice work! appreciate any insights!

 

There is a thread but you can also use a dongar mirror cable, has a usb adapter. No tapping needed.

 

Thanks! No issues so far, but it’s been installed less than 24 hours. It runs flawlessly and goes into parking mode as intended once I turn off my truck. The mirror is bigger than I thought so I’m glad I removed my stock mirror because my driver side visor does hit the mirror if at a particular angle.

I am also OCD about my wiring. I took the opportunity to clean up some wires in my topper, soldered and shrink wrapped all connections for my replacement light, and added wire loom to make it look neat.

The biggest consumption of my time was running the wire from the back under my truck and back into the cab. I have done this several times for other accessories so I already knew where the wire would go but it still took a while. I also ordered a 10-foot camera extension cable, so glad I did because the cable would have been too short otherwise.

 

Yes but this is for the hardwire parking mode cable. I also have a Dongar and removed it for this kit. The Dongar is great if you only want the camera to run when your vehicle is on.

 

Nice job, looks good.. If I may give some unsolicited advise, add something to keep the wires from vibrating/rubbing on the metal edges of that brace, it will cut into the wire(s) and cause issues down the road... You can even use rubber fuel line hose slit down the center to go over the (sharp) metal edges and either glue or zip tie or whatever the rubber hose in place... Same thing as having a rubber gromet for wires going through the firewall or wherever to keep from damaging the wires down the road...

 

Good idea. I have some old bike inner tube I use for random projects, I’ll just put some of that there.

 

Finally got my new to me wheels mounted with tires...thnx @K9tacoma...and swapped them out this morning. Gained just over an 1" in diameter, an additional 1" of poke and dropped 5lbs at each corner.

 

love it, thanks!!!

 

Man those look good! Happy to see them rolling on! Almost as if I knew they'd look good on a Lunar Rock OR

 

Not looking for an adapter, but thanks anyway?

 

Noticed your fastrak. If you are in CA, they have small stickers that they will give you for free and it eliminates the box

 

Almost the same connector, there is a little green tab that needs to be removed from the harness. It took 2 seconds to pop it out with a box cutter

 

I swap it between two vehicles and I like being able to switch between 1-3 passengers for the carpool option, which gives you a discount.

Edit: I travel on I-15 a lot. Sometimes alone, sometimes with my boyfriend. If I have my transponder and select a carpool of 2 people, my express lane trip is free. If I had the sticker, it would charge me to use the express lane unless I email them to have them remove the charge, which is a pain.

 

My '21 premium has only wired Android auto, and it was quite frustrating until I got that wireless adapter lol, but your welcome!

 

I have ONLY used the key to open the door and tailgate. I do not own a fob. (Drvr side has the only door key hole, but two turns of the key unlocks pax side also.)

 

Picked up some guards for the BD ditch lights and threw in Desert Does It seat jackers. My only regret is not installing them day 1 of ownership. Truly a night and day difference in comfort.