What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Went to visit family in Carson City, NV. Meant to take the truck on it's maiden off road voyage and go shooting in the desert, outside of town, with my Dad, nephew, and my son. Stupid holiday mouth breathers gummed up 80 into Tahoe and made my trip up take too long. Could not just jam off into the desert to go play when I haven't seen Moms in way too long. Stayed behind and the kids went shooting. Much disappoint.
So I'm chilling with my Mom and Dad and they want to check out the truck. Last time they saw it it was bone stock. I'm staring at it from behind and one side is lower than the other. Passenger side was 9" off the tire while driver side was 9 5/8". Got back to Commiefornia and started going through the suspension with a measuring tape and comparing each side. No differences. Just before I jump in to taking things apart, I decide to jump up and down on the rear bumper. Fixed. Each side is exactly 9 1/2" off the tire. I'm amazing...

Nobody likes a post without pics so here is a picture from my Dad's office wall. I drew it back in 1998. I miss drawing. Pops added the cut out image. He could never remember what car it was because, " its not a MOPAR."

 

Can you tell me what fridge that is and how wide the slide is? I am thinking of doing a rear seat delete with a slide but I'm not sure the max width the slide can be and not hit the door when it is pulled out.

 

Twin Pines, eh? I see you’re living in a timeline in which Marty doesn’t get the 4x4.

 

That’s where
Mine ended up. I found the wedges btw.

 

Hey! I been wanting a Tacoma ever since Marty said “ someday Jennifer, some day.

 

Truck came back good as new.

 

I just installed a set of the VLEDs tail light conversion, and the results are great! My question is: I had to use the resistor they supply on the passenger side due to hyperflash. The driver's side was fine with out, so I didn't install it on that side. Normal or am I going to fry something on accident?

 

There isn’t a short if that’s what you’re worried about. As far as the truck knows it’s business as usual. Resistors only cut back they don’t inhibit the circuit(s)
Imho.

 

I tried my hardest to convince my wife to get a 4Runner. She didn’t like them, got a Rav4 instead

 

Wash day. Supposed to be cloudy all day, but as soon as the foam hit the paint…full sun.

 

Could be worse. It could suddenly rain or the wind could pick up out of nowhere. I feel like that happens everytime I wash mine.

 

LOL... I got stuck in Sand, Mud, and Snow inside of 48hours





The sand photo is kinda not really stuck... so much as impossible. Its slicker then snow in this condition it had just rained and the arid desert sand becomes instant mud. But only a few millimeter deep. So just going slow works.

The snow i had the down hill gravity advantage. But a steep cliff on one side. So again, slipping off was out of the question. I shoveled, got stuck, shoveled... I made it 1.8 miles to the highway, only to hit conditions I said "no way not alone" backtracking 36 miles of forest service. Always fill up. No matter the price when you head out.

 

Utah-shaped five acres, for future cabin/barn/workshop. This is what I mowed before I went to take a picture of the ‘deep stuff’ and found that my phone was not in my jeans pocket where it had been for the last hour or so.

( Panic, search, audibly vent, search more, pack up and go home, return with family, find phone within 30 seconds. Find Friends got us within two feet. And it was in the deep stuff. )

Sharp? I just keep mowing till the tips wear off.

BTW - no Tacos were harmed during filming. The truck pulled the trailer just fine, it didn’t run out of oil, and the bell housing is still in one piece.

 

New key tags for the truck keys, ring camera up and running. I am a prisoner without bars or dept of corrections uniform

 

If anyone is curious what the "three" corners of Utah, colorado and Wyoming look like... here you go. Interesting enough you can not access this point from a truck in Utah. I didn't see a road or gate from Wyoming. The route from Colorado is next level.


DO NOT go here without load E or hard-core tires. You have to travers sharp rocks, and crawl over old sage brush about 3 miles.

A local boyscout troop made it out here a bit ago (1990) and built a cool monument. Shout out to all the boy scout dads that do this shit....

I found really amazing T-pee rings. And if your interested in arrowhead hunting. I would never ever come here.









Im also going to add this. ABSOLUTELY have a paper map. This is a hog Pog of forest service roads, country roads, trails through private property, and endless "wrong turns"..

Google was wrong, GPS was wrong, old maps the paper ones dead on.... know your rights about land use and "private property " yes they can put sighs up that say "private land" but the road is county maintenance therefore public land. Be respectful, drive slow. Ask if you see someone even if you legally don't have too. Sometimes they are amazing helping and are an ally on your quest. It never hurts asking.


Never ever let a "gate" stop you. Unless its posted and obviously private

 

Oh my gawd. I just followed this link, these vleds are the way the truck should have come stock. Seriously, I'm not picking up on the price though, 200.

Is there any way to just replace the brake and turn signal bulb, with a super bright replacement?

 

Moms always take priority.

Nice drawing! Now… what other vehicle could you draw? Or a portrait…

The ink -wants- to be on the paper.

 

Reduces engine power by 10 HP.

 

Sure, you can go led. But what the upgrade does is illuminate the complete half circle in the lens instead of just a quarter. As for signals they are part or the reverse assembly now in yellow. So regardless of upgrading the bulbs you will never get the same attractiveness of the mod in question. I justified the cost to the inconvenience of being rearended by a nitwit. The choice was obvious.