What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I can count the amount of times I've parallel parked in my life on 1 hand

 

Detailed the inside of my Taco completely, vinyl and leather. Not doing the outside yet cause the green and yellow pollen cometh.

Ditto !!

 

Dude - your truck, your money, first off!

Second, I like it!!! Good on you for making that work and sharing. It's great to know. Keep on truckin!

 

I like the look of it...is it for aesthetics?

How do you go about utilizing its features?

 

Installed some sound mat in the rear of the cab. Still got some spots to cover up before the rear seat delete arrives.

 

Bashed my skid plates and one of the crossmembers on some rocks really good on a road in Death Valley. Wasn't even rock crawling was just a downhill section of gravel where someone before me had dug very deep holes in the slipery gravel by braking hard. It snuck up on me and I couldnt slow down enough or get around it and it caused my suspension to bounce wacking my bely against the ground 3 times.

Looks like there was a big rock somewhere it the gravel that caught on the crossmember and skid plate. My OEM front skid plates are bashed in as well.

I am just glad the rock didnt hit 6in forward where the oil pan is not covered. Amazigly the exhaust cross that hangs even lower than all of the stuff that got bashed is completely unscathed. Honestly would have welcomed the excuse to reroute it.....

 

My IQ goes up; doesn’t help with chances of winning the lottery, however.

 

Hopefully, this will be the last oil change on this truck for me. I plan on either trading it in on a new hybrid sport Tacoma or selling it outright and buying a new Tacoma. First I need to remove and sell many of the mods that I have done and put back the OEM parts that I took off.

 

Got my rear seat storage a little more organized and modified my platform to give enough space when closed for my molle bags.
Behind my seat I've got;
-Milwaukee m18 inflator
-ammo can with m18 charger and battery
-headrest (in case I need to put the seat back up for passenger)
-bike lock
-battery jump pack
-Indeflate tire deflator with patch kit and spare valve cores
-Blue Ridge Overland tool bag
-molle bag 1 four ratchet straps
-molle bag 2 handheld gmrs radios
-molle bag 3 Milwaukee headlamp, usb charger, and assortment of charging cables

Some time this spring I am going to make a full seat delete platform that can be removed easily so I can have it installed just for when I go on trips. Unfortunately I occasionally have to use the rear seat for 1 extra passenger so I can't make a really nice full time seat delete.

 

New Tails bringing it all together.

Side note, anyone ever successfully solved their door rattle when the bass and volume is up? it's coming from the damn window switch panel.

 

Take off panel, wrap each wire in cheap weather strip foamy stuff. Done. Worked for me. Or, use electrical tape to tape wires to whatever is nearby like inside door panel...

 

Try foam tape in a few spots

 

what tails are those?

im about to try and use felt tape to wrap the switch panel clips in. ill post something here if it works.

 

the wires? i dont think its the wires on mine.. if i just put my finger on the panel it stops vibrating.

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one dealing with the rattle. It's awful sometimes. I wish someone made a new switch panel with like a 3D printer with tighter tolerances

 

Id pull panel off in a couple of places and put 2 sided tape where panel touches a surface.

 

A much needed wash to remove all that darn pollen.

 

Vehicles lined up at the car wash across from the grocery store I go to. I get it. It’s unsightly and can actually be damaging to paint. But I keep my Taco in the garage where the pollen still gets in but not as bad as if you have to keep your vehicle outside. And in the time it takes for me to drive to the store and back the vehicle is just about covered again. So paying for a a car wash vs a quick spritz with a garden hose? I don’t know. I guess there is really no good answer. Yellow pollen blows.