What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Tiresize.com should help with this question.

 

I believe so.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/fj-cruiser-wheels-on-a-3rd-gen-tacoma.676719/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ToyotaTacoma/comments/swm7tx/fj_wheels_on_a_tacoma/

 

Good idea. The way BC is burning up these days you never know. In nature that’s a natural fire break. In our forest industry the pursuit of monoculture is making things worse. Spraying glyphosate on Deciduous trees is not helping matters either.

 

Had the OTT done on my truck Saturday. Drove it the last two days and it has transformed the truck. All of the videos and posts are accurate. It solves most of the throttle and shifting problems. I'll take it on a long drive next weekend to Nor Cal and that will be a true test. I need to drive some inclines. I'm in So Cal and I met Quoc. Nice guy, great service and I can't recommend this mod enough.

 

Just had the OTT tune done to my truck as well. So much nicer to drive. This how the truck should have came from the factory. I went with Lite for every day driving and mild on the ECT. What did you go with?

 

I got mild & spicy on the ect. Reminds me of my 2nd gen power in mild, and occasionally enjoy ect.

 

I wanted to go with mild and medium but didn't want to spin on the ice all the time leaving lights due to the way the throttle hits now.

 

Yes. 139 and 139.7 are just different degrees of precision in converting the "real" dimension of 5.5 inches. The wheels are interchangeable.

 

What kind of hoist system do you use? I use the Harken hoist. Works great so far, but curious to know what good experiences people have with others. Thanks!

 

Ha, why didn’t I think of that?

 

Mine is one I built about 15 years ago. It uses a Harbor Freight electric hoist (similar model linked below) that is mounted to the wall above the garage door and pullies and rope mounted to the ceiling towards the back of the garage. I have safety chains hooked to the top once it is hoisted up so the weight isn't on the hoist.

Here is a rough drawing of it. I will do similar for the RTT but probably just use a manual crank winch since its pretty light. Looking up the Harken Hoist, it is exactly the same concept, but added an electric winch. I got the hoist on sale for $80 when I bought it. It was also the 880lbs hoist, that I don't see anymore.

 

I am planning on getting the OTT tune as soon as I can (life keeps happening), but at 1st I was driving around in S mode as I hardly get over 45-50 mph and D if higher speeds, the transmission felt much better, for the last month I have basically been in drive while using the ECT PWR (sometimes using S mode also in heavy traffic) mode and I like it much better, doesn't seem to effect the gas mileage either.. Lots of hills and curves in my area also..

So my question is (remember I still want the OTT), how much better is the tune over running in EST mode??

I am still trying to figure out which level of the tune I want... The tuner is about 45 minutes away with no traffic, so not easy to test and tune over a week or so..

 

1. Tune will make shifting way better.
2. ECT as far as i know giving you a little higher RPM's before shifting.
3. You can choose which tune to install i've got OTT in mild\medium settings, and i use medium only under heavy load, and rarely on highways.
4. OTT also changes MPG if you will switch to 93 (i was told so by OTT guy)
and OTT is way better than ect. i gave it a shot because i changed tires for 255\85\16 and each tire is 20lbs heavier than stock... and after installation acceleration was weird

 

OTT is by far the best mod I have done to my truck. 10K miles plus on it - no issue and always a smile on my face. I have mine on medium for regular driving and spicy when i hit ECT. Love it. I think other tunes are probably very good too. the broader point here, IMHO, is that Toyota has built a lot of unlocked potential into these trucks to have great longevity and EPA stats when in stock form. Tuning seems to be like a cheat code.

 

I have to second this. The tune is such a night and day difference that I really question whether or not Toyota made the right decision to cripple these trucks for whatever benefit they deemed worthy.

 

The differential noise on my truck came back after a few hundred miles. Hopefully yours doesn't do the same!

 

Wait.. this happened this weekend.

 

Man that’s such a great album…

 

That is what my avatar is... lol

Is the android auto showing on the MID screen a upper trim line thing or package??

 

Atmosphere ftw.

The track information showed up after I swapped out the headunit to the

$1,100 Pioneer DMH-WC6600NEX 9" Capacitive Touchscreen, Modular Chassis – Wireless & Wired Apple CarPlay & Android Auto, Amazon Alexa, Bluetooth, HD Radio, FLAC, Backup Camera, Hi-Volt RCA

Pioneer DMH-WC6600NEX, as did the factory compass option (though it doesn't actually display anything). I believe it is something that would be supported by the factory system with nav/jbl but it was cool to have that info added - I certainly wasn't expecting it.