What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I'd love to see a defector in a wind tunnel flowing bug's or debris up and over the windshield, compared with not having one in the same test. I'll take my chances not having my truck look like Burt Reynolds.

 

Lol! Bert and Bernie - my kayak.

 

The old leather bras actually touched the hood, so anything that got trapped underneath would rub the paint. With this deflector, nothing can get underneath (that I can see) as there’s tape around the entire perimeter. If something were to get underneath, it would merely sit on the surface without any friction to create damage.

 

Cool, great info! Thanks. I mean, I honestly don't know why they don't make a decent deflector that "DEFLECTS" things. I have seen them on other vehicles and have even considered buying one and using a heat gun to soften the plastic and then rolling it with a piece of pvc pipe but they cost too much to test that out. Back in the day, I had one on a 1980 Bronco like you typically see on a tractor trailer. It was completely vertical and about 4" tall. As long as you were going over 15 mph you would never get a snowflake, bug, or rain drop (unless it was pouring) on your windshield. Looked like crap but sometimes function beats form.

On a good stretch of road up near me, there is a bottom alongside, on the right, and a horse farm pasture on the left. It is wet most of the time. After a couple days of rain, at night, traveling down that road, it sounds like sleet hitting the windshield.

The only thing I can compare it to is one time down in Myrtle Beach we took a trip on our bikes down to Charleston. We left during the day and came back at night. Worst night driving experience on a motorcycle I ever had. LOL

 

Nice work! Same here. Power to the silver club

 

http://diymodifiedtacoma.com/differential-breather-relocation

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/rear-diff-breather.431400/

 

Thank you!

(Whew. I was about to say "Well, here I go. If you don't hear from me by tomorrow sometime, send out the St. Bernard with the keg of brandy.")

 

I was gonna get really fancy and mount this to the hose:

$14 K&N Vent Air Filter / Breather: Washable and Resuable: 0.375 in/0.5 in (10 mm/13 mm) Flange ID; 1.75 in (44 mm) Height; 2 in (51 mm) Base; 1.5 in (38 mm) Top, Red , 62-1600RD

https://www.amazon.com/62-1600RD-Ve...pID=41hpub7Y8yL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch

 

By the by... Another method for mounting your fuse box:

Magnets. I haven't looked yet, but if there isn't a nice, empty area of steel up under the dash (like maybe on the firewall), you can always screw down a piece of steel plate wherever it's convenient, but out of sight. Still means getting under the dash, but just the one time. Now, epoxy some relatively thin Neodymium magnets (you can find them for cheap on evilBay) to the bottom of your fuse box and stick it to the plate or wherever. If you need to make changes, replace a fuse, whatever, you can reach up and pull the fuse box down.

There's also rubbery magnetic sheet material. My multimeter at work has its back covered with the stuff. I'm always near some steel, so I can stick the meter where I can read it while poking around.

 

Whoa. Deee-luxe.

 

Naturally I jest, but I do like the tail light area exit better than the cubby and gas filler areas. I pressure wash everything but the inside of the tail light areas.

 

Interested in how you stopped the mat problem for $5

 

X2

 

Amp Research power steps

 

Nice! Didn’t know door striker covers where even real! Want

 

Looks great. What’s your lift?

 

This is the only thing I really hate about the east coast and all that salt for the harsh winters. I do not miss it but I miss everything else about it. Sorry

 

^^^^^^ This!