What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

WHAT!???

 

Stay off the tail unless you are on two wheels!

 

I let the dealer change the oil, cause I don't want to change the ecu or the entertainment display.

Its a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation.

 

Something about that front end looks different between the two pics

 

the only mod to the front end is that I changed the grill…

 

If you're wiring to a switch panel like an Auxbeam AR800 the 2 blue wires for the backlights go to their own circuit (5 amp should suffice) the 2 red wires go to another circuit (15 amp or 20 amp depending on which lights you have and what they draw; I used 20 amp for ss3 pro ditch lights) and the 2 black wires go to a ground elsewhere on the truck like a battery terminal or ground on driver's side fender. You'll have a button for backlights and a button for normal ditch lights with this method.

 

There is no shift linkage. The gear shift lever directly engages the shift rods at the top of the transmission. There is nothing to adjust.

 

Ah, I see. My Tacoma's an auto, but my 4th gen Camaro is a 6spd.

 

True! It took me a bit to find the spot to reset it in the radio…I took notes this time!!!

 

This is how I wired mine to my 8 switch auxbeam and it works great. Blue to 5 amp and red to 20 amp

 

Had no choice to get where we're were going.
It was actually a lot of fun, we took it at around 4:30am.

 

I'm incredibly impressed with that shelf holding up 4 jack stands.

 

Thanks man!

Hell yeah, haha. I used to go every year for Miatas at the Gap, but haven't been in a while. My Miata is currently not running so I figured screw it, I'll run the Tacoma down there We just set up at Fontana Dam. It's mostly just turned into our annual camping/driving meet at this point. We had a guy with a V8 porsche, built/turbo NB, mine and a buddy's Tacoma, and one dude brought his Grom lol.

 

On Amazon, they are now priced at $70, which seems very good:

$96 DS18 PRO-ST OEM Subaru/Toyota Upgrade Bullet Compression Tweeters with Crossovers 1.9" - Car OEM Tweeter Upgrade Kit for Many Subaru/Toyota Models - Replacement for H631SFJ101 and H631SFJ100 (Pair)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HVCQZXF

Try music with the widest dynamic range, and sound-field / separation. My vote would be just about anything engineered by Alan Parsons.

 

That’s a good price. I paid 79.75 back in June.

I’ll check it out thanks.

 

I am interested to hear what you think of them, as well.

 

Yeah it is. In Jan, I purchased same from a Subaru dealership, with free shipping, 88.95. and THAT was a good deal.

 

I installed an Eibach Pro Truck Stage 2 Kit (yesterday) that I got new in box from a guy on Facebook Marketplace. The kit was from @HeadStrong Off-Road and included a sway bar relocation bracket, 3 leaf AAL, and longer U-bolts. I only got ~1.5" of lift from the coilovers (stock front end, no extra weight), so I cranked them up until I was at an even 2.5" of lift on both sides (that meant cranking the drivers side about 1/4" more). I was very happy with Headstrong's AAL and the instructions they provided on their website, however if the centering pin was a bit shorter it would definitely make the install easier. I had almost 2" of excess that I had to grind off to fit the factory bump stops back on. The ride quality is almost the same as stock, just a tad firmer. My wife said she couldn't even notice a difference.

A local shop quoted me $600 to install the kit. I wanted to save that money, but I am by no means a mechanic. Up until this point, all I had self-performed was fluid & filter changes and 1 tire rotation. I've always paid my local stealership to do everything else, which I was tired of doing. Instead of simply spending the $600 and be done with it, I did my homework, spent ~$100 on the necessary tools that I didn't already have, borrowed a floor jack and jack stands from a buddy, commandeered my parents garage for the day, and spent my entire day (~11 hours) installing the kit. The install went well overall. The hardest part for me was getting the tie rod ends and control joint knuckles to bust free, as all I had to work with was a 16oz claw hammer. The rusted cotter pins on those nuts were a bitch and a half too. I also accidentally installed the AAL's backwards at first, so that added an extra hour of work . I'm very happy with the way my truck looks now, but I am far happier that I was able to do the work myself, save a net amount of $500, and learn a LOT in the process. Here's to trying new things and learning new skills

Pics below are before and after. My 265/70/16 tires look small now lol

 

Worked on my Rock Lights install and got a lot done but failed to find my heat shrink tubing, so I wasn't able to connect any wiring, just basically got it all ran. Pretty time consuming as I am running all the wiring for each light along the frame and paying attention to avoid moving parts. So far I have only 3 lights mounted, the OEM Toyota looking rock light switch is mounted- although the dremel kept slipping out of my sweaty hands and I marked up my switch panel. I will have to clean that up later. I have the lights control box/bluetooth module mounted, and its associated leads for each of the lights ran down to a point right behind the driver side fog light. I figured this to be a good point to chase each of the lights wiring to their respective locations. I have the relay and harness for the switch ran and ready to be tied in. Control box wiring and relay harness wiring fed through the firewall and ready to be connected to the switch. After I get some heatshrink I can hook all the up. I am wondering how that control box is going to work being tied into the relay, I didnt want to just hook it up to the battery as I bypassed the switch it came with, and instead using a cali-raised relay harness. It's just power and ground for the control box, but Im wondering if the relay will mess with it functioning the way it should? Guess we will see. I have one light each in the forward front wheel well area for driver and passenger fronts, and the third light I got to mount is located right at the frame crossmember where the front diff is. By the time I got this far it was 104 outside and was just too hot for me. I still have like 7 lights to mount. Will try to get some pictures later and share mounting locations and I plan to clean up my horrible switch mounting job before I share that lol.