What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Nice! Welcome to TW!

 

Finally got around to finishing them.











I just threw the waterport mount on there trying something out. It will not stay there.

 

your mpg will drop to single digits

 

delete the scoop

 

Nah. It’s like a trim tab on a boat, gonna have some real Carolina squat going now.

 

sum beeches

 

Lower quarter panel stability above 38 mph is going to feel like the bed is coming off the rails.
Hahahahaha - just kidding. Or am i?

 

I should get bigger wings then huh

 

Yes. Please start this trend.

 

Make sure you’re carrying comprehensive on your auto insurance policy! Turned my $6K cable replacement into a $1K deductible.

 

My truck sat for two days and there was mice footprints on the engine cover.

 

I’ve read probably too much on the rodents eating wires topic, with many accusing auto mfrs of using soy based cable jackets (to be environmentally sensitive or some-such) and their feasting on the wiring. Not sure there’s any traction there with BIG AUTO. Does seem like they’d shield or protect the wiring somehow, with EVERYTHING being controlled with computers/chips/electronics/low voltage signal cabling. I think Honda has some rodent deterrant cable jacketing/wire wrap. Anyway, the 3 or 4 wires gnawed in that bundle on my Taco caused all kind of faults/alerts/and running in limp home mode (Taco wouldn’t go faster than 15-ish MPH). There was no actual component failure but the control signals were gone. That kinda pi$$ed me off.

Or, maybe all the controls should be via wifi/bluetooth…...

 

Bypassed the Accumulator valve.

just an FYI, if the clutch lines are all corroded be prepared to do some work to get the bypass done. Was going to Dremel out the passage between the input and output channels in the actuator but the plate inside the actuator was seized in with corrosion.


I ended up buying the PAJ312 brake line and a double flanged female to female fitting, machining one of the mail fittings down to 8.4 mm in diameter to a length (or depth) of 3 mm so that it seated correctly into the slave cylinder.I Imagine without doing that there’s a risk of tightening that fitting to seat the line so tight that it strips out the threads in the Slave.

 

It would be like a rear diffuser

 

On my ‘17 SR5 they chewed up my knock sensor harness. Fortunately my comprehensive covered it and I just had to pay the deductible. Geico even covered the rental… nothing out of pocket for the rental. Just picked it up and turned it in and Enterprise even gave me a ride to the dealership to pick it up.

 

There’s a handful of those things around here and a bunch of Rivians. Every so often I’ll see one of the big teslas. They look much better.

 

I was driving my father’s 2003 Corolla today and noticed the mileage… a few more miles and it’ll be 111,111 miles.

 

Do those "bags" eliminate the need for a pump? Was it pretty clean to do it that way?

 

I had a similar issue with tree rats. Chewed through an injector wire. I have recently sent several squirrels to see Jesus with my Mossberg. I have no Geniva Convention with the squirrels.