What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I know and I drool over it constantly. I just really am struggling to think of dropping 1500+ on a bumper. It’s so gorgeous though.

 

Ouch!! Sorry to hear that someone ripped you a new one… no spit or nothing! Lol. $3200+ I’d have just snatched up a set of white TE37’s! Karma is a bitch… who ever charged you that will get theirs.

 

Just gonna ask a stupid fucking question. Should I try to stuff 35s with this lift? Or Is that asking for trouble?

Aka would it be drivable on road without (and scheduling appointments for) cmc and regear?

 

Yes on the rim seizing. Our trucks are hubcentric hence the tight fit. The steel hub will rust and seize on the rim. I take all of my rims off when the cars are new and put a thin coat of anti-seize around the hub. I do it with all my cars. Pop them off, wire wheel all the rust off and you will be good to go.

 

What lights?

 

Got some free black “Tacoma” badges today

 

Nice Tacoma!! Looks like we have the same background in our profile picture.

 

I did the same. Very happy with this mod.

 

Yellow Lamin-X covered LED fog lights reinstalled and new Proclip phone mount installed. https://www.proclipusa.com/

 

Hit 20K today

 

I pulled the plastic bed rail protector off today to have a look at rack mounting options.

It took about 3 minutes.... Off. have a look and back on. I have the tools...
I'll never get those three minutes back... (-:

 

Nice shot...Lens? Aux lighting?

 

Raptor lights came in today. Decided to Lamin-X them. The eventual plan is Baja light bar, fogs, and ditch lights in yellow as well.

 

Used for work and fun today. Got a load of straw for the yard and used it to tow a new toy home. Sorry, no pic of the trailer in tow. Was too excited and forgot. Then went for a ride. Trying to keep up with you @JDSmith but still short by one...lol.. Was a great day.

 

Installed the front runner rack, revolver x4, and rci bed rack with tonneau adapters. Now for the hard part of putting the plates on...

 

My truck was initially built as a demo / show truck, built by professionals to withstand the rigors of a photoshoot and perhaps a drive around the block.

All super high-end gear but installations, bar none, were pathetic. All the electrical has been redone, etc but I have been procrastinating on remounting all the fender flares. Air Design out of California has some really top-notch products that they manufacture, and they're mounting system is superb. Unfortunately the original install decided to do it their way, including leaving 90% of the release tapes on all the rubber mounting feet. I also got to enjoy the rework of removing multiple attempts by the PO to "reglue" the fender flares without removing them or attempting to use the real mounting system.

My install was done using a new hardware kit from Air Designs (German system, crazy strong). 13 hours, mostly cleaning up the various amateur adhesive experiments!

 

Installed my $155 (shipped) tri-fold bed cover from eBay. It's not the sleekest looking cover on the market, but the quality was much better than expected. It has 4 small brackets that slide into the tie down rail, and the cover just clamps down onto that.

I plan on installing the cover a couple times a year for extra storage space when we go on trips, and leaving it off the other ~350 days per year. I should be able to install it and remove it in less than 5 minutes, which is exactly what I wanted. If it lasts a year or two I'll be satisfied, and maybe at that point I'll invest in a soft topper.

 

How's the ride quality with those? I've been thinking about doing the same. Your truck looks great man, congrats

 

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B08H1K66MQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I have the same installed under the rear bumper as well.

 

Just a suggestion. I added some foam pipe wrap around the supports. This keep water from pooling in the middle as well as reduce the wearing effect of the vinyl flapping against the support brackets at highway speeds.