What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Fabricated some rock sliders. It was a fun but quite lengthy project.


Here is the project from beginning to end:

I had a fab shop bend the 1.75 tubing


then picked up the square tubing and 3/16 plates (welding them on)


I went with four gussets. Welding these up was the easy part. The titanium 125 flux core mig welder from Harbor freight made it a breeze. Especially with the blue Demon wire.

Since I wanted them at 5°, I decide to build these stools at the exact height and angle that I needed to make The fit up easier.

Here I attachedthe plates on my frame and cut and welded the square tubing, tacking everything together, so I would have no issues with fit up later. This way I did not have to pull a single measurement, besides measuring the distance from my frame to the slider which was 6 inches.


my original intentionhere was to weld the 3/16 plate to my frame. But as you’ll see later, I cut these down and ended up welding 1/8 plates to my frame to weld these 3/16 plates to. I didn’t feel comfortable running the welder at the 3/16 setting and welding it to my 1/8 frame. And also I decided not to do vertical welds on my frame, so I had the plates cut in a triangular shape which I rounded all the corners

then welded them to my frame in the exact spot that they needed to be
I used plug welds as well as stitch perimeter welds to attach the plates to the frame. Then ground down everything nice and smooth.

Already having the sliders sanded, primed, and then painted, I was ready to weld them on.


The stools made this part pretty easy. I chose to use some automotive sealer on the top of the plates since I could not weld them also sealing Between all stitch welds.


I applied it quite thickly so I’m gonna have to wait before I can prime and paint all welded areas.

I spent a little over $400 on the steel that I needed. And another hundred bucks on primer and paint along with some welding supplies. so about 500 bucks in all. Not bad. I will not be doing any rock crawling though just hitting some Michigan trails. I did bend up my side steps last year, so that’s why I made these. They should perform very well.

 

Yes

 

Not all too long ago, I finally decided going back to stock wasn't going to happen in my lifetime:


The cardboard is to catch any PB Blaster dripping off of my LCA pivots, which are frozen and need to be replaced. Hopefully I can break them free in a few days...

 

TL;DR: Got some BFGoodrich KO3 tires installed. 265/70R17 E-load

Had an unfortunate sidewall puncture on my old General Grabber tires. I wish the construction workers do better job cleaning up after performing road work…

I decided to just say screw it and treat myself for some new tires. The tire shop only have BFGoodrich KO3s in stock (I originally wanted to try the Toyo Open Country AT3s) so I said f it let’s go with that. 265/70R17 E-load compared to my prior C-load tires. Got the certificate from America’s Tire too, so if this happens again, I don’t have to spend to replace them.

Hopefully these KO3s treat me well. If not, at least I gain more experience running different tires

 

I do not have the 360 package, so can't comment on how it integrates.

Regarding functionality

Middle position = functions as stock. Rear camera engages when you put it in reverse. Head unit functions in all others gear selections

Reverse position = camera reverse

Front = front camera. Will override reverse gear selection and will display front camera.

 

That’s because you likely only see running bamboo, which is more common in temperate climates. Clumping bamboo is more common for tropical and subtropical climates.
Running as name suggests is or can be invasive and should be “controlled”. Whereas clumping does as the name suggests- stays in a clump varying diameters based on variety.

 

Hidden light bar. Amber flavored.

 

Where'd you get the grill? I've been trying to find one similar but I keep finding the ones with built in raptor lights.

 

https://www.yotaverse.com/products/...lMNWT1OY_-z24f-83xIe_8LqFG9UCfosaAuRLEALw_wcB

Yota Verse, has options for the side lights, raptor lights, no lights tec.

 

One more pic with the K03s. I do think they look aggressive which is a great thing!

 

This is where I got mine without the raptor lights

 

Installed an aux fusebox, which required fabbing a bracket (for the bracket). Manual trans need a clutch reservoir, but all the fusebox brackets want to use that space.

 

I created this monstrosity.

 

okay I'll bite. Is that a wrench-ish thing to tune the suspension?

 

That’s high tech engineering.

 

Huh. Didn’t mention the peddle commander, or the extra pep it now has. Good thing I had it in a mid range setting
Sport +2

 

I need to do this. Nice job.

 

it’s the icon spanner wrench for my coil overs. It’s just a piece of sheet steel cut and a couple pins welded to it. Using it sucks. So I wrapped it with towel and tape. Icon shiv.

 

Just Necessity