What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Yeah the red has been my accent color for the truck. I'll eventually get the rear recovery hooks in red and get a custom TRD Off-road 4x4 decal

 

Maybe, but I think it depends on your driving style, if you like to push it when the road is twisty, then that will work the edges of the tires a bit harder, and you might consider this just the right pressure. If your test drive was at your typical in the turns, then yes, I would think this indicates you can go a little softer.

Either way, best to measure and track the tread wear, and adjust the target pressure as you monitor actual wear.

 

My Pop 'n Lock stopped popping and locking... (The physical key worked). So I had to open up the tailgate cover and clean out some muck and dried grease. Some WD-40 and it's as good as new.

 

Even without pop and lock the regular lock requires some lube now and then, I use one that has a solvent that disolves and leaves behind a dry graphite lube, I forget the brand.

 

Rear shocks are going in today! Still waiting on the front coilovers to arrive to be able to install the Old Man Emu leafs

Happy Saturday!

 

graphite and spray silicone are better for locks

 

Those 38 sc’s with the 295s look sharp! Would love to get them shoes!! Running 255/85/16’s on OEM TRD Pro Fox set up - doubt I could pull it off without a little lift.

 

In my long 21 years of life I’ve so far owned 4 Toyotas. Previously a 2019 Tacoma sr and a 2017 Corolla now got the Camry and Tacoma OR.

Toyota has definitely treated me well, excited to put this Tacoma to some tests and try out the crawl control and 4x4. Recently bought this 21 Tacoma OR from the auction and got it fixed up.

 

Got my lift all done recently. Went eibach stage 2r with elevate uca's and the medium dakars in rear. Along with ubolt flip and bumpstops all around. Absolutely love how it rides. Got a lil more lift out of the rear so gonna be raising the front to level her out.

 

Getting ready to put a bed cap on so I decided to take a peak inside the tailgate. Added some sound dampening sheets, 3M Thinsulate SM200L, and wrapped with some polyester carpet.

 

Supervisor has to make sure your work is up to snuff.

 

Just curious - I get the carpeting, but why the sound sheets and the Thinsulate?

( BTW, your helper did an excellent job! )

 

Honestly, I just have some extra of both and when I opened up the tailgate to get the edges of the carpeting in there, it was all this hollow space that I thought could benefit from both. I'm going to be sleeping in the bed once the cap is on when driving cross-country and it's usually in cold climates so I figured, while I have it opened up, might as well shove some insulation in there. I was originally planning on putting the thinsulate between the carpet and the plastic tailgate cover, but this seemed like a cleaner (and less bulging) solution.

 

Sniff

 

I had the same issue with my pop and lock, when I opened up the tailgate and checked it out I noticed the mechanism was trying to work but the pressure on the lever was too much so I backed off the screw that tightens down the lever arm a little and everything started working fine and has been for over 1.5 years now.

When the temp changed from cold to hot I think the plastics just expanded a bit and made it harder with the extra friction to open.

 

Thought about typing it that way but thought it was too on the nose

 

Front diff, rear diff and transfer case gear oil changed.

 

Nice, how many miles on the truck? Same weight oil in all 3?

Looks like FL area, am I right?

 

Finished up my drawer slide system over the last couple of weekends. Few more things to do for the electrical system portion, but its working and happy with the end setup so far.

 

Greetings from Largo!

I have 35,000 on there, I was meant to do it at 30K but life got busy and finally got everything I needed to do this.

I did end up going with Redline 75W85 that has the same weight as OEM. It wasn't as easy as it would have been with the squeeze pouches but I figured I'd get the closest I could to OEM. For the transfer case I went with Redline MT-LV since I have a manual transmission.