What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Installed my Auxbeam and my Midland GMRS Radio.

Built the brackets for my circuit breaker and the fuse block. Nobody makes them for a 6MT. Used ABS sheet, heated it and bent it and then attached it using the same bolts as the clutch fluid reservoir. I messed up and drilled the holes for the positive cable to the sides so the cover doesn't fit on...deciding what I am going to modify, the bracket or the cover.

Also built the bracket for the ghost antenna for the GMRS and attached it to the ditch light bracket. It flexes a bit but it's not going anywhere and works fine so far. I may remake it out of some steel I have laying around but I didn't have time before our trip and the ABS was fast.

Used the OEPanels mount for the display. And the mount for the radio is TacoGarage DMM. The main part of the radio is behind the dash.

 

I was bummed to find the Skateboard Museum had closed. Elated to find the Tiki Hut still open!

 

Sing it!

Truth. The sadness is real. I'm from SF Bay Area so I am at ground zero for all the internet content.

What is Florida Man? I'm a fan of Florida as well. (EDIT) Looked it up. Makes perfect sense after some of the things (people) I've experienced down there. I got a story about Naples...

Haha. Busted. Only photo op. Actual fire/logging roads were out behind Solvang near Alisal Ranch. And I did venture, very carefully on to the noob area at Pismo. Chickened out though.

 

I'm from NoCal, love CA, and also a huge fan of Florida; what's funny is that Naples is one of my favorite places in FL.
But having lived in HI for so long, I'm just a fan of hot humid weather, anywhere.

 

Installed the Clazzio rear seat covers today. Installation was much easier than the fronts.

 

My 6112s showed up today. Got the 8100 dsa installed in the rear and will do the fronts later today.

 

And now the fronts are done too.
Also installed some 303Shocks lower shock bolts, because why not.

 

@DirtKing shipped it pretty quick. Got all the LT parts in today. Waiting on coil overs and shocks

 

I got this one, it’s flawless. JDG Wireless CarPlay Adapter for...

JDG Wireless CarPlay Adapter for Apple CarPlay Easy to Upgrade Wired CarPlay to Wireless Instant Connectivity Super Mini Car Play Dongle for iPhone Fit for Cars with Built-in Wired CarPlay

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DJ4SJRC5?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

 

Dude. My story is everything Florida Man. It involves hillbillies, beer, cut off jean shorts, smokes, mullets, nekkid people, hotel pool, a giant locust, more smokes, blood on a mirror, shag carpet, lightning storms, gators, sleeping in our clothes, and a sunrise retreat back to Disneyworld after a very Florida night in Naples....its rad.
Also love me some HI. We try and go every year. I always bring a skateboard and hand it off to one of the local kids before I leave. They stop mean mugging the pink Haoli, at the skatepark, once I do that.

 

you only forgot golf clubs and iguanas (not together at once tho...well maybe. Actually, no)

 

This is a recurring thing I keep seeing. Regarding the lower bolts, what is the benefit for doing this over OEM?

 

The OEM bolts shank is stepped down the replacement bolts are one continuous diameter.
Some people report clunking in the lower shock from the shock bushings rocking on the OEM bolts.
When I ordered them I didn't know what shocks I was getting yet but figured it was cheap and easy to do while I had everything apart.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/lower-strut-bolt-and-king-shocks-help-resolved.730249/

 

Houston’ll cure you of that.

 

I was born and raised in Naples, FL. I moved to WA back in 2001 and generally enjoy the weather here more. I love how green it stays here. Family keeps me visiting Naples a few times a year for now. It's really hard to beat their beaches with that soft white sand. It's not the same place that I grew up in at all though anymore. I started riding ATC's when I was five. I used to go explore and ride all day long and head back when it got dark. Now, even if I had all the money, I could never recreate that. Everything is a gated community or golf course. Not the city of my childhood, but what city is I guess. I was a lucky kid.

I visit my sister who lives in Castro Valley, but I've yet to take the taco down for a proper road trip down that way. It's always just faster and cheaper to fly for short visits. There's some cool looking places there for sure. I'll need to throw my hammock in the rig and head down that way soon.

I've only been lucky enough to visit HI's big island once. Super pretty there too.

 

lol. I meant that parking is shitty. Filled with holes. Everything is closed until it dries out. Pismo is cool if you go some random week night, camp on the beach. I’m not really into the crowds myself. You just gotta air down, fly a flag, and be ready to wash out a ton of sand. I lost 2 lug nuts out there.

naci-ferg was open a little while back.

 

I’ve had a victory Molle panel sitting in the garage for a minute. Finally installed it today. Then the other side arrived so I put that one in. Stripped the last bolt on the bed rail. The victory panels go behind the rail. Got very creative to pull it out. Got the tool shed look going on back there. Now I have to reposition my Vled bed lights. Maybe wash the bed out. Any one missing yellow button? Found it somewhere in the Sierra forest. Serious inquiries only.

 

What is the meaning of life?

 

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