What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

This is awesome! Did it come with the switch and the lights?

 

wish i could afford one lol

 

No.The bracket,lights and switch are bought separately.

 

Installed some new LasFit floor mats. Great fitment!

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Installed custom mini mud flaps. Needed something to help with the rocks chipping my paint but dont want them to get in the way offroad. Purchased some Amazon returns of already cheap OEM knockoffs and trimmed them down with tin snips and cleaned it up with sand paper. Also cut off the side ridges so that they will bend easier when hitting rocks, etc which I hope will decrease the chance of them getting ripped off. Still need to do the front ones. May end up going shorter and will have more trimming and probably some heat gun work to do when I get bigger tires.

I also replaced some of the plastic fender flare clips on one of my fender flares with nuts and bolts to try to get rid of the gap. The mounts are a bit bent and cracked so even new clips wasnt going to fix it. Overall I like the bolt concept but my execution was a bit poor. Really need to epoxy some nuts and studs to the fender flare to do it properly. Still a big improvement over the gap I had going.

 

So if my tank is 21gal and I’m getting 25 mpg I should be able to get 525 miles on a tank?

 

Damn, dude, that is sick.

 

as long as you only drive it the first 10.9 miles at a time then yes.

 

Looks nice, I like it.
If you end up using the aluminum for the battery box, protect it from getting battery acid on it. The two don't play nicely together.

 

Testing. Testing. This quieted some noises that cropped up recently, can anyone recommend a more permanent solution?

 

Turn the radio up louder

 

Tried that.

 

Warranty replaced my headlights yesterday. Out with XB's in with XB Evo's! Also redid the plasti-dip on my mirror caps. They were looking a little rough, ha.

 

Clean between the leafs then get a lubricant in there. Might also be able to install leaf spring pads between them.

 

Why, isn't there a magnet on the tcase plug? Doesn't make sense to me.



Super strong, anyone ever try adding one?

 

You might be able to separate the leaves and put a shim in there to stop the steel from rubbing.

Lift the truck off the ground to unload the springs, spread the 2 leaves with a screwdriver or pry bar, then put something rubber between them. I used parts of an old bicycle tube.

That should shut up the springs for quite a while, mine have been quiet for over a year now.
You can kinda see it on mine near the leaf mount.

 

Looks like it's missing an isolator like the leaves beneath it. Should be able to add one back.

Also thought this, and have a few these in a box for when I do my fluids. IIRC it's the same plug for the transfer case and rear diff. Magnetic Drain Plug | Trail Toys

 

I'm sure there are a plethora of magnetic replacements available. I found magnetic ones for every orifice in my Subarus...

 

Yes, I found one that was dislocated, it lost the nub so it's wasted. I found 12 pcs on Amazon for $19.99, and I only need 2, hoping a trip to local auto parts will result in something less than $10.

You got me thinking. I normally have plenty of material around but few years back I downsized for a move and I wound up tossing some ~1/8" edpm that was up to the task. I searched a little bit now off to autoparts store...

Yeap, same plug. I dropped a small but mighty rare earth magnets inside in both and sealed it up. I'll be posting again on the next change and I'll let y'all know how that worked.

I cannot believe, there is only ONE qt of oil in that Tcase (1.1 per manual). Mine was nearly black so I'm going to change it up again in about 10k miles, and again same each 10k. I did notice, there was an atmospheric difference as I released the fill plug. I'm guessing since it was cold, it was therefore a suction.

And I am sure there are! I made one, I'm trying to cut down on buying something everytime I think I need something. hehe.

 

What happened to your XBs?