What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

its awesome so far. One of the mounting brackets/snaps for the tailgate bar is defective (snap in the wrong spot) so I am waiting for softopper to send a new one before use the tailgate velcro/magnets to make sure it's all aligned properly.

you got a pic of the PVC pipe by any chance? Whats it for?

 

Not today, but yesterday.
Kids were at grandmas, me and the wife were driving home from a weekend getaway. Kids called and said "there is a sick racoon at grandmas, dad come help it!"
Well, grandmas is on the way home from where we were, so we swung by their house. Yep, young racoon on the side of the road by their house. Just kinda twitching, so probably has distemper. I pick him up and put it in a box, kids are saying I should put it in the backseat so its not too hot in the bed (I have a topper).... I told them "no way, if that things comes around and starts running around in the truck I will be bit."
So, into the bed of the truck and I am off to the wildlife rehab. About 10 minutes into the drive I see the racoon in the back window standing on my winch walking back and forth in the rear window.
I get to the rehab place, tell them I got a racoon in the trunk and he is walking around. They get a few people, gear up in leathers and nets. I open the side of the soft topper so it cant run out when I open the tailgate. They pull out the racoon and bring it in.

Since I think it had distemper, they will probably put it down, but a quick death is better than twitching on the side of the road in the sun for the next 2 days.
But, I had to clean out the racoon diseases from the back of my truck. Luckily I got a couple gallons of expired sanitizing liquid from fleetfarm over covid (they were just giving away unsold stuff, so I filled my cart with gallon jugs)
Loaded up the sprayer with sanitizer and water and gave it the old wuhan spray down.

Bed of my truck is now cleaner than most Papa Johns pizza counters.


Bonus video of the weekend getaway

 

Heck yeah! I grew up on Krystal’s. Every time I go back home or someone is coming up by me I get 2 24 packs. Lol.

 

So instead of attaching the front to the inside of the truck I just slipped the pvc pipe into the flap that goes down between the cab and the bed. Once it’s in it doesn’t fit tightly but it takes a little effort to get it into place. It slides in much like the rear bar does at the tailgate.

 

‘yeah! Running wiring through those wiring passages to the doors is ROUGH! 9 especially the drivers side!

 

ah, understood. I didn't notice it was a stitched flap to accept a pipe. i'll check it out after work today. thanks!

 

Finally got the RTT mounted. FSR high country mini v2

 

Thanks Man

Almost a week out and I feel better. I was sometimes feeling ill after smoking and just decided with that and someone riding in my truck commenting on the smell was enough. I'm already noticing being around other smokers is too much for me after a while. Hopefully I won't pick it up ever again.

The Coffee grounds in an open dish overnight seemed to have helped some so far. I did look at ozone generators and they are cheap from $40-50 up to several hundreds. It could be used later for my rental unit when cleaning out between tenants so I might consider one if the Maguires or Ozium doesn't work well enough.

 

They sell boxes of baking soda for refrigerators with large zip-out sections of the box walls for maximum pass-through ($2-ish). The opened packages of bacon were creating bad smells, put the box of baking soda and just one of those has cleared that up. Took 2 weeks for maximum effect, though. No ozone, just looks funny in the truck.

 

So worth it though! It always amazed me when I walk up to my truck and pods turns on.

 

I should have thought of baking Soda.. that stuff is an all natural wonder. You just reminded me about the time in my 20s I was driving a back road in my ole beater Isuzu doing my pizza delivery job. Someone I was following hit a skunk. Some of the spray got sucked in my vehicle too. I got some boxes of baking soda, spread it and brushed it in to the carpets and seats. closed it up two days in the sun. vacuumed it, extraction cleaned the seats and carpeting. that was maybe over the top but it was the freshest I-mark. Putting a fridge box under the seats will likely be helpful and less expressive than charcoal bags, after all I want to save some of the coin that's not going to Marlboro any longer.

 

Not questioning the skill involved at all. Just if the $900 or so above normal dyed tint is worth it.

 

What is a truck that does not need AC blasting worth? My truck with what may be not-ceramic (they did a good job on my Corolla 3 years ago, why not use then for my windshield no?) but even after a full day in AZ sun it is just a little uncomfortable and cools down fast. Sometimes you must spend money for comfort and safety.

You choose for yourself, though.

 

I kept marching back and forth to my truck last night cause I couldn't get enough of it . They're super bright.

 

That looks awesome! Love the Softopper

 

Nice SRUP... Access Cab My favorite Taco.

Join in on the discussion here for all the SR owners.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/the-sr-thread-lets-see-them.411453/page-402

 

I've been back and forth with wanting to do this mod.

 

Will do! Thanks

 

Just set a whole day aside and take your time. Wrap the harness/pigtail with elec tape and use some dish soap in the door boots. Go slow...