What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Don't stop there, get at least your General license as well so you can talk all over the world. People do not realize that when SHTF battery-powered radios will be your only form of long-distance communication. HAMS are generally very honest people and practice to relay what they have heard exactly so that will be your news source when things go dark. The going dark part has been happening around the world much more frequently here lately, just saying.

I got addicted to the studying part taking practice exams on my phone. I went from Tech to Extra in 6 months due to CERT involvement; Community Emergency Response Team. Basically back up Firefighters. Congrats man! N5WOI.

 

Congrats, now encourage your off-roading buddies to do the same. I get so tired of reading CB and GMRS threads here. What a waste of money on very limited radios. It takes 20 minutes a day for a few weeks and a $5 license prep app to pass the tech test.

 

No pics, but just spent maybe 45 minutes to an hour de-icing and getting into my Inferno Taco. You'd think that hot-colored paint would prevent 3/8" of ice forming on it overnight...

 

Got the front windows tinted

 

One of the best mods you can make.

 

I agree! Not sure why I waited so long

 

Dug out yesterday.

 

2" of hard rain dug us out in the south. Probably in your area by now..

 

And a super frustrating one if it turns out not to match the rear...took two tries with mine, unfortunately. This looks great!

 

Installed my fresh Diode Dynamics SSC2 Floods in the rear. PnP easy with the 2 harnesses. Switched so they run on reverse lights, backlit when headlights are on, or turn on anytime you need tons of light back there.

 

Looks good. I'm waiting for Spring to install mine. Is the backlight part of the plug and play harness, or did you need to splice for those?

 

Mine aren't quite as dark as the rear but I prefer them that way. I can see well enough at nigh not to have to roll down the window.

 

Totally PnP. There's a Taco specific harness that plugs into the taillight (reverse light/headlight) and then into the DD pods. Then you'll need the universal harness that has a relay and a switch built in. There's a connection on the taillight end of that harness and you'll unplug the section that has 2 open ended bayonet connections. That won't be used. Plug the Taco specific harness in to that and that's it for the back of the truck. Run the rest of the spaghetti up to the engine compartment for connection to power. I have a Power Tray so it plugs in there. There's a lead from that into the cab for a switch if you so choose. You can leave the switch on POS 1 if you just want reverse lights. POS 2 will turn on the pods anytime. Center POS will just kill the pods all the time.

I'm connecting to a 3 POS OEM switch in the left side interior Meso panel. That's next!

 

Wow, that looks nice.

If you don't mind, when you say "pricey", how much are we talking?

 

Might want to consider a location closed to the hitch. I have sratches on the underside of my bumper very close to that location due to contact with the ground.

 

Do you have any sound clips of the R4T dumped exhaust? It's supposed to be deep, but not raspy.

 

I don’t . It’s definitely deeper. Reminds me of alittle bit quieter ecoboost raptor

 

Certainly a possibility. I bought mine with flush mount bezels as that was the direction I was going. I went as far as to pull off the bumper caps to size up the template for mounting. There's a lot of composite structural support in that area that needs to be cut away to allow ample rear clearance and that's not what stopped me but adjustability of aimpoint did. Our bumpers aren't quite square with the world and unless I shimmed the bezel, you'll have a slight off to the side focal point. Probably not such a big deal with a flood lense but it donned on me that having some adjustability would be a good thing so I took the easy route.

 

How have you liked it? Not many reviews over a period of time just install and initial impressions, still holding up?

 

Looks great! I’m anxiously awaiting the arrival of mine. There will be a small pucker factor with my install though, as I plan to flush mount into the bumper.