What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Nah. Oem spare doesn’t have a sensor

 

Puttering on Father’s Day; led to a shiny engine compartment. We had a variety of wild weather, including snow in the passes, so plenty of driveway time.

 

Love them!
Better sell them black ones before you start a machined trend! Got me thinking about stripping and polishing mine! Hmmmm? I love the old school clean machine look! I like how black wheel kids call them chrome!
I was never ever a fan of paying extra for the poverty wheel look, I tried to go back a little further back to the wagon wheel, white letter BFG era!

 

This is pretty cool.

 

Just switched from ome nitro sport shocks in conjunction with their 887 coils to
Bilstein 5100’s on all 4 corners, JBA upper control arms with the same 887 coils and I must say it sits way higher in the front than it did before. The measurements from before were 37.5” from ground to fender and this time around it’s almost 40”!
Also wanna do a small review on the hurst shifter from core shifters, had it for a few years now, 10/10

 

I’m sure you’re frequently asked and have answered, but what lift and tire size are you running? Your stance is perfect imo.

 

I thought when using OME coils on 5100's you were supposed to use the bottom clip slot. It appears that those shocks are almost topped out and you have little down travel left. The shaft guard isn't doing much there.

 

I put the c clip on the bottom before I took them in and told the shop I set them already. When I looked in myself it did look odd but I sent a video to my brother in a panic and he said “It’s there. It’s up under that black sleeve that’s hanging over where the c clip would be, That black sleeve or spring holder slide over it and basically hangs off of it so you can’t see it. Go look at your old ones in the garage after you put them together“ so hopefully it’s good, it rides nice, 4wd high and low work, drove it up north and back seems fine. I appreciate the feedback that’s 50% of the reason for posting, I was curious myself and to be honest it sits way higher and most tacomas I see and wanted to make sure everything was ok

 

Added some red to the grille and had 4% tint installed..

 

The front will likely settle 1/2-3/4" in the coming days.

 

Not really an added part, but I did detail the ole' Taco and she looked purty.

 

Fun weekend for the Tacoma and I, took it up some pretty rough and tight trails, even scaled a tiny waterfall and put my hitch to good use. LF wheel took some curbing damage when I turned into a wall to give myself some space, nothing a small little at home wheel repair couldn't fix today!

 

How did you fix it? I have some damage on mine I need to fix up! TIA!

 

Not the owner of that truck but they look like Reika R35 Rambler wheels. Hope that helps.

 

Right, but you can see in the pics that it is at its highest setting, not the lowest. That might work with stock coils, but the OME are longer than stock. That is a shit ton of preload and your axle angles are pretty severe. I don't see how it could ride nice, but if you are happy with it, that's all that matters.

 

Thanks!! I actually don’t post too much on here. But I have Bilstein 5160/6112 combo ( older ones at the 4/5 setting). I just switched to some bfg ko3 in 285/70/17 and got the icon rxt leaf pack installed. My old aal wasn’t cutting it anymore, I enjoy some rake.

 

I love them! I was a bit apprehensive to make the jump but once I got to see them in person I pulled the trigger so fast. Something very nostalgic about a machined wheel. I may keep the black ones and throw them on my stock 4runner. The tires still have some life in them.

 

various sanding disks on my right angle die grinder, starting at 80 grit and stopping at 220, then just clean with IPA and spray with some form of matched spray paint. I topped mine with satin clear and tried my best to blend it into the existing finish. I made a quick video on my instagram showing my fix process (I'm far from a pro )

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8VANkDvWLD/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

Test fit the Expedition Essentials 3TPAM with 67 Designs/Ram Mount accessories. I retapped every hole for M5x0.8 titanium hardware. Gotta grow a bigger set and drill a hole in it for the Spod cable to be routed through the dash to the engine bay. Fingers crossed.

 

that is so clean. what do you use to clean it?