What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I thought that after I replied lol!

 

Howdy folks, from Houston Texas!
I'm a little embarrassed, I've had my '22 Tacoma TRD Off Road for almost a year, but was hesitant to post pictures since it was basically stock, and since the title of this thread is "What have you done to your Tacoma today", and the fact that I hadn't done anything except put a TRD Pro grill on it, but didn't think that was worthy of pics.
But this weekend, I splurged and installed a lift and some new shoes for it! Changed up the badging color to match the wheels a bit better. I don't see too many 6 ft bed Taco owners posting photos, so I hope you enjoy!

The basics:
Old Man Emu lift 4004 springs, Nitrocharger shocks in front
Old Man Emu leafs and Nitrocharger shocks in rear
Old Man Emu Upper Control Arms
Fuel Blitz D674 17 x 9, -12 offset wheels in matte bronze/black
BF Goodrich 285/70R17 KO3's

Just to help others out, immediately after installing the KO3s, there was slight rubbing on the body mount, but I took it for an alignment and now it doesn't rub after getting everything into spec. Thought I was going to have to do the cab mount chop, but lucked out.

 

Perfect, thanks. One more question, so the mounting bracket is one bolt to the rail and it holds the three gallon securely? I was worried about the weight of the gas and just one mounting point.

 

Yes, one large bolt with lock washer to it's own channel nut in the rail, also has two support tabs on either side to prevent sway, and the bottom is a padded foot that keeps the whole thing from shaking against the bed. It actually seems quite secure but haven't loaded it with fuel weight yet, if anything I think that'd actually help.

 

Nice looking truck, I think those wheels in a matte black, maybe gloss black would look good with my B-red... But they look great with your blue... Thanks for posting the pics....

 

Welcome to TW!

 

There's a sub forum "Let's see those Double cab long beds" that a lot of us like to add pics of our trucks to

 

@Dlo_houston

So....I'm torn between the Wildpeak AT4s and the BFGs.

I'm sure pricing will be the deciding factor.

My fellow Delawarean has the Wildpeaks so I'm leaning towards those...

 

Thank you

 

Looks great! I enjoyed the post.

 

Same here. Waiting till I get some new shoes and other things till I become a pic whore with my new to me 3rd gen thats been mostly stock for a bit now. Ha. Got my whole lift done tho.. Just a waiting game for me bc of insane lead times on some parts to finish her up, as well as long wait time to get into the shop for my cmr and fender trim.

 

Thanks! When I was looking at Tacos a year ago, I had narrowed down to this one and another one in Barcelona Red. What steered me to this one is it has a sunroof, whereas the B-red one didn't. It was a tough choice but I really dig the sunroof. If the red one would've had a sunroof, I have no doubts I'd have picked that one. However, I am noticing there's very very few Blue Crush Metallic Tacomas in Houston, so still very happy that I found a relatively "unique" color to work with!

 

I had the same issue, I waffled back and forth on them both. The AT4's are also warranted to 60K miles as opposed to only 50K for the KO3s and some other popular AT tires like Nittos and Toyos. That's about another year of driving on them, which more than makes up for the slightly higher price tag. But ultimately the KO3's just had the "look" I wanted, which is totally subjective and when its time to replace them I may regret not going with the AT4. lol

But either way, they're both great looking tires.

 

Oh, I totally missed that, I will take a look, thanks for the heads up! Would like to see how others have built theirs up, what rack options there may be! Appreciated!

 

Upgraded the camp stove setup from our old Coleman. Glad the drawer was just big enough by 1/4 inch!

 

I really don't see many B-reds around these parts either, there is a 2nd gen red I see sometimes, but there is another 3rd gen that lives further back in the neighborhood from me that looks alot like mine... I see it most days.. lol


Most are black then silver or gray and then white, very few blues or reds and any other color is a Unicorn... Now the guy next to me has a 2nd gen blue that is sharp and a 4th gen that is black...
Only ever seen 2 real TRD Pros and both are black, and other than those 2, I have the only Pro grill..

 

Hopefully off-road you won’t have any issues. If you do you will probably need the CMC. Let us know how it works out.

 

I wrapped a piece of 3/4ply in outdoor carpet, and found some fiberglass heavy duty bins for machine parts, that are perfect height and strong enough to easily support any weight I put on them.
Seats are all the way back.

 

Where do you find that sub forum

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/lets-see-those-double-cab-long-beds-3rd-gen.417031/page-178