What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Thanks!

 

OEM exhaust gasket part # 90917-06076

 

Transmission fluid change, amsoil. Removed pan, cleaned magnets, cleaned inside pan, and emptied and reinstalled screen filter. Installed new gasket on pan, and replaced 5mm Allen overflow nut with a drain bolt.

Obd II port lacked a pin in location 13, so I used laser temp gauge and this was easy. Ambient air was 86° today, truck was in garage all night, started it up and since instructions stated that it takes about 10 minutes to get trans oil temp above 95 I laid under truck for 10 minutes checking temps every minute in 6 different locations of trans pan. Pan area under screen filter port heated quickest with an average temp 1 or 2 degrees hotter than the pans corners. All areas of the pan eventually reached 98° then I pulled the overflow plug. Oil streamed out as expected for what seemed like 2 minutes then finally started dripping , I replaced the overflow bolt at that point. Checked the temp after tightening bolt to 15 lbft, and was 107°. Victory.

I had to jump on the bike to O'Reilly's auto parts to pick up a short 15/16 socket, either I lost mine, or forgot how to use my deep socket in that tight space, didn't want to get fluid temps up right before the fluid change, this was the first bolt I dry loosened before removing any fluids, haha luckily.

Thumbs up to the TW write up on this process.!!

Bought a 3/4" waterline insulation noodle to do the bed to back of cab noise dampening tomorrow.

 

Thanks.

 

may need for newer models



removal of visor stickers:
heated the visor up with a small space heater, or

can use an iron by covering sticker with old tshirt
worked a corner up -fingernail-enough to start peeling slowly,
after sticker gone glue residue left so,

put a clean piece of t shirt over spot and ironed it for 15 - 20 seconds,
one sticker had more glue so re ironed with clean piece of shirt a couple more times till it looked good,

in real life you can not see the spot in photo

 

Ah, I see, a fellow Home Depot quart bucket fan for fluid changes lol. Way better than any oil pan I’ve ever used.

 

What’s with the drill bit??

 

Does the gasket just pop out and you pop the new one in?

 

Yep, the flange on the y pipe has a rounded extension portion that the gasket fits over and it'll stay in place while you bolt up the catback to the y pipe.

 

Pins the thermostat open on the trans so the fluid circulates fully through the trans cooler.

 

Wired up the DRL functionality of the Meso V5 mirror switchbacks.

 

I jumped back into the Tacoma game after grabbing a used 2021 with 29k miles. I got tired of daily driving a manual, so I went from a 2020 to a GX460, but missed having a truck. The GX460 was great, but the outdated tech, premium gas and not having a truck bed was enough for me to cut my losses and come back (I'm definitely going to miss the ventilated seats though!).

Bronze TRD wheels will be going on soon, maybe some 5100s and then I'll probably look for a used camper shell or diamondback cover in the Socal area (keeping the build budget friendly until 2024/2025 tacoma details come out ... just in case I jump into a 4th gen). I should have skipped the GX step and gone from manual taco to auto taco, but the GX is an amazing vehicle as well (looking forward to seeing the next gen version).

 

That’s the one I got. I really like that compared to the one I had on my old truck

 

Exactly. Which was the key tool in determining I was about ONE half quart low of fluid from factory.

It now shifts smoother and differently than it has for the vehicles entire life.

 

That, disengaged the thermostat on the transmission fluid heater. The car care nut recommends this. Drill bit removed prior to truck leaving the garage.

 

Heater. That round thing in the pic is a trans fluid heater. Right here, bad angle but it is round.

 

Replaced the front door speakers with some really old Pioneer 2-ways that I had kicking around. I think my brother has them in his Bronco about 20 years ago. I couldn’t find much info on them, but they sound pretty good to me ( not an audiophile by any means). I completely forgot to take any pictures though.

 

Took her fishing yesterday. Didn't catch sh1t but it was a beautiful day.

 

Hey there! I used an upholstery vinyl and used one yard for everything, i'll stick the link to where I got it below. Not super helpful but as far as a template goes I eyeballed it. I initially was going to trace the OEM fabric I took off but then I ended up laying out the trim pieces on the yard of fabric and cutting with plenty of fabric overlay to spare and started trimming as the install went along. Kinda like getting your hair cut, you can always cut more off but ya cant put it back on.

Richloom Valpariso Embossed Vinyl Upholstery Fabric in Saddle (fabricguru.com)

 

Thank you! Appreciate the kind words man