What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

BC flower is the Pacific Dogwood
Bird is the Stellars Jay

Pulled the winch out of my bumper a couple of weeks ago when I took the bumper off for cleaning and touch up painting.

Tucked in my offroad bumper the winch must have been a real dam to airflow. Truck runs cooler, big difference in transmission temp and possibly better gas mileage. Removing the front skid plate for an oil change would also be a big factor.

See what happens when I put it back on.

 

A few pictures from the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC today. I really want the turtle water fountain!

 

Do may NOT want to spend any time looking for Mt. Mitchell, highest point east of the Mississippi. You drive up to a path, then walk the last distance. View is nice enough, but the brick walkways make it too touristy for my taste. But Blue Ridge Parkway is close, if you can handle MAX speed of 40 MPH.

 

I went to Overland Expo East when it was there. Beautiful place. I misheard which way the guy told me to drive to get to the parking area and I drove right through the grounds during some wine event. Oops! Live to go there again sometime and take a tour.

 

Let there be light

 

Just do not start with "On the seventh day, I rested".

 

genius

 

Got the Meso Total Tail Stage 1 hardware installed. ✅

 

60k service, which included a surprise rack and pinion replacement with alignment. In addition to the normal checklist items and a few other maintenance requirements based on time.

Happy to have the cash to care for the vehicle I love, and a good tech doing the work correctly. Sometimes regular maintenance is the best mod.

 

Still does not make "parting with that cash" easy ...

 

Also accurate. I had plans for that. Now plans deferred for another day.

 

I think so. But I have an access cab, so I only needed two doors. Love them since there is no adhesive needed.

 

Big Richard's sticker emporium.

 

I never liked them, I guess I only noticed them when they were broken. When I bought my Taco, it had guards on all 4 doors. They have grown on me. I like that I can put the windows down an inch or so when parked at work and not worry about sudden rain storms. This helps keep the heat down inside the truck.

I like the way my truck looks, but I haven't compared side by side to one without the guards. Not sure on wind noise either.

 

They definitely look way better on access cabs

 

Installed a tonneau cover. Didn't need anything fancy. Just something to keep (most) of the rain out, and conceal the contents on the bed... And to keep smaller lighter things from yeeting themselves out on the freeway.
Tyger T1 soft roll up.

 

I have had one for a few years and it has been a good one. My son bought one for his truck a year before me and his looks good as well. His truck is parked outside regularly and it is holding up well. For a cheap bed cover I think it was a good purchase.

 

This site has a lot of advertisement. What drives advertisement? Traffic. What drives traffic more than a good flame war. So then wouldn't it make sense for the admins here to create burner accounts and then flame other people in an attempt to start a back and forth. So I'm not so sure that Rix Tux, and Ricochet Rabbit, and some of these other people who always seem to come on here at the same time and chime in together, aren't admins with buner accounts.

 

Yeah, for $186 (Amazon) it was an easy buy. I added some extra weatherstripping at the front, but there was still water in that area after a rain. Still much better than the cargo being completely exposed.