What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Blew an interior fuse farting around with hard wiring a radar detector. Did not know it until I left for work, at 0400, and half my dash was black and CEL's all over the place. Crazy part was I had the headlights in "AUTO" and halfway through my drive they shut off too. DOH! Pretty sketchy at zero dark thirty at 80mph. Rookie move playing around with the battery connected.

 

Installed Badlands Apex 12K winch on my Demello bumper. Torquing the fairlead was a pain.




This has to come off. It’s spot weld in three spots so a step drill made easy work.


Perfect fit. Did not need to relocate the control box.


I cut a piece off the bottom of the grille to access the clutch handle.


All wired up. I followed instructions. A lot of people will ground to the body from videos I’ve seen. The distribution block is for future hardware.

 

What was your method for removing the overhead console?

I have a microphone to reroute up there.

 

You just pull it down.

 

It's an older thread, but it still works...

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/how-to-3rd-gen-map-light-bulb-replacement.649129/#post-22543577

 

did the responsible thing. removed my LED bulbs from my lows and put some German Phillps H9s in. sorry to all the folks I've blinded over the years

 

Bought my truck in California in 21. Moved to Utah for a couple years and just moved back to Cali. Registered truck back in Cali today and had to provide a weight certificate since California apparently considers all trucks commercial vehicles. This conversation occurred when I handed her the weight cert...

 

All good!

 

There's no way I would have made it out of there w/o a "if you were going to argue about it then why TF did you ask me for this"

 

Wait, wait, wait...you left CA for UT, then went back to CA voluntarily?!

 

Ha! I used the xacto knife cause it was in the house and I was nice and warm and didn’t want to go out to the garage.

 

trimming the tabs was easy

 

no worries; in the pinball restoration circles, it is common to take a whole wire harness and clean it in a dish washer (without the heated drying cycle) and then just be sure to put it somewhere to dry thoroughly. these harnesses are pvc coated wire, and carry 5v to 100v. I have no concern for your wires getting temporarily wet, just think of the wires under hood and under carriage.

 

Just don’t tell your wife. Big mistake there.

 

Bought this so I have an excuse to crawl under my truck ... before the weekend. Bought a self-contained oil pan to save pouring out of the open-plastic pan into the bottle. Going to drop the skid plates for clean/degrease and will post pictures if Schnebly Hill put more gouges in the plates. @MGMDesertTaco, @RIX TUX ... do you want to know how close I am to 30k?

 

cant wait for that info

 

If you have a holesaw drill out that opening for less mess. Otherwise, crack the big red knob on the side. Those pea sized drain holes and the small vent on the top don't work with the Tacoma's "I gotta wee oil everywhere at once" drain procedure.

Mines currently 63k and change. Wanna swap drivetrains? I wish I had under 30k still.

 

Thanks for the advice. I will work on the holes under the fill-cap and open the drain side a little. Fumoto controls the oil outflow for main-pan. I somehow locked the silver cap on the filter housing before so that will be a mess to remove ... but I have a second filter-housing/cap to swap and will break the silver cap loose on the old filter-housing later. I bought enough nitrile gloves to hopefully have clean hands.

Swap may not work ... you have 2WD IIRC. But I have also burned brain cells to forget pictures posted by certain members ...