What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Mad sleuthing skills there Yo.

 

You bet, tomorrow

 

Yours is bit tougher…

 

Looks great Jan. If not the dealer for service, where will you take it for service in the future?

 

He borrowed your C-clamps ... or did you want to hide that inconvenient little fact from us?

 

Finally wrapped up the suspension with the ICON Multi-Rate RXT leaf springs (option 1). Paired up with Bilstein 6112/5160 and Bilstein B8 UCA's that I had installed a few months back . California potholes are no longer an issue. I actually look forward to seeing them on the roads and smashing them.

 

I need to do this this weekend. Pretty straight forward install? Tedious?

 

Tonight, swapped out my 16’s for 17’s trd gloss black wheels and upgraded to 265/70/17 tires. Also passed 140k miles

 

It’s my dialect. I knew I should’ve used a different accent….

 

Sea clamps my friend.

 

I shell accept that response beclaws I want to be be civil.

 

Changed the oil in the Taco. Just so busy these days.

Back to driving.

 

Really loaded the truck for the first time yesterday. 1300lbs of red oak flooring, 952sqft. She didn't love it, but handled it well. The most surprising thing was that I was getting 22mpg average while it was loaded. Max speed of 55, but still. My normal average is 17-18.

 

Feel like this deserves a repost in the “doing work” thread!

 

Thankfully the taco is an easy vehicle to disassemble the interior.

The wire routing from the grille, to the left hand switch panel, and to the back of the head unit was the most difficult part due to access. I've had to work in smaller more confined environments but it's no less aggravating.

I would say tedious, and if you wanna route the wire the correct way, you need a "wire fish" or something similar to pass it through the firewall grommet. I've already ran one wire though the grommet with my hood latch cable, and I temporarily ran the wire on the outside of that grommet, because I need to find a permanent solution, Since I couldn't fit it through the existing hole with the hood latch cable.

I'm gonna use a heated up screw driver to melt a hole through it probably, and then immediately pass the wire though as to try and make a water tight seal. Trying to get the wire through the bulkhead grommet was a good bit of my frustration before just giving up and temporarily placing on the outside of the grommet. Going to handle that this weekend.

Other than that however I tested functionality on everything once I made connections and then cleaned up the wire routing with panduit ties. If you got the same Anytime camera I did, double check it's a fitment with your existing mount. The $40 3D printed one I bought with my V2 grille didn't work with mine, as it was probably for the factory camera, to which my truck didn't come with. I was able to fabricate a mount out of left over carbon however.

 

Would a cheap soldering iron work any better?

EDIT: Bad idea, too many wires close by you could damage...

 

Did you tie up the camper rear window so it wouldn't close and shatter? speaking from experience from my first gen...

 

Got an Alpine subwoofer installed.

 

WoW that's a lot of wood flooring !

 

OPT 7 LTAILGATE LIGHT BAR,
Can anyone recommend a better brand?