What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Installed the 4RT tailgate pop n lock - super easy. Finally a mod that didn’t take longer than I expected! Lol

 

C4 Fabrication sliders this morning. These things are sexy. Not fun to do by yourself and with no jack or stands, but I improvised. Took about 2 hours total.

 

When they added the new runways to the Atlanta airport, the city bought up whole neighborhoods to flatten. My buddy asked if he could salvage some existing fencing in one of those neighborhoods before it was all destroyed. The told him to take all he wanted -free-.
Three of us showed up with a 10' length of chain, a steel truck wheel (no tire), and a trailer hitch on one of our vehicles.
Choke the upright fencepost as low as possible with the chain, run the chain over the steel wheel in the direction of the truck, connect up to the trailer hitch, and pull. The truck will extract the complete post and concrete ball effortlessly. Takes longer to reposition the truck than to hook up & pull. I suppose, with a long enough chain, one could just stay in line of the other posts and pull repeatedly without repositioning... our chain wasn't long enough.

(My buddy simply dug extra large holes and re-used the concrete ball at the bottom of each post. No comment if that's a good thing or not. The fence was still standing years later.)

 

Those are rad. I love that they have the fillers in the areas you would need a step, but not the entire length of the slider.

edit: Yikes, I just looked up the price lol

 

That's a great idea and I can see how easily it would work. But I would need the wheel and a fortune to purchase enough chain to run to the back corner of my yard as there is no access except from the street. In certain situations your idea would be ideal. Thankfully we have had a good bit of rain lately so the soil is pretty soft so it didn't kill me to dig the old post and concrete out.

 

I got the smooth. Looks pretty close to the factory one. You could always paint it yourself. I didn’t see the reason to justify spending the extra money for the textured. If it was $10 maybe. But not $35.

 

Textured

 

Sumo Springs were one of the first things I added to the truck.. inexpensive and effective. About 600lb tongue weight here.. not quite as much as your talking, but they make a few different models based on the weight you need.

 

Installed Diode Dynamics SS5 Pros to my bumper. Now I have to wait for it to get dark to really check them out, ha.

 

Yeah, they're proud of their stuff, but they make the best stuff. And that's before powder coating.

 

It’ll never be dark again for you and those small suns.

 

Could be different gas station. I've noticed mine will fluctuate a mile or two depending on where I get gas. Could be more traffic. The more I'm stuck in traffic doing less than 50mph the better my economy is. Could be better tail winds and less headwind, or more gentle usage of the right foot, or lower cruising speeds. I know that now that we are coming out of winter there is less butane being added to the fuel which usually results in a fuel economy improvement this time of year, but that wouldn't account for your experience for the last 1.5 years.

 

Washed, waxed, and detailed the interior. Also added 5hp with my new emblem.


I ran out of the normal wax I use. Then I remembered I had a bottle of Nu finish that I use to polish my brass when I reload. Actually works well on cars too! Who would of guessed. Interested to see how long it lasts. Very shiny

 

Last weekend, but finally installed the CBI T3 Front Bumper. Was sitting for about 5 months for things to warm up and do this. Still need to spool the winch.

(There's some free take-off parts if you're in Denver: Colorado Trading Post)

 

Sounds good, louder than stock but not obnoxious. No performance gain that is noticeable.

 

I added the Talon Garage Catalytic Converter Shield and GBS sensor today. GBS not working. Looks like I might need to use Tech Stream to make sure it's working. Anyone near me that can help a Brother out.
Redding California

 

Got a pelican V730 installed on the RR this afternoon.

 

Truck is looking good and really coming along. Now black out those badges.

 

URD Spec-U exhaust. Sound is incredible

 

It’s on the list!