What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I noticed that I had been readjusting my passenger light a little more often that expected and after the last time, I contacted Morimoto and they asked for before and after adjustment photos. I sent them these and they warrantied them out immediately. Said the adjustment was clearly broken.

Before:



After:

 

Much better

 

Drilled into my bumper to reinstall the air dam. Kinda like the look and trying to claw back some mpgs. Gunna swap to stock tires for summer and selling my canopy soon too.

 

I'm really digging them. Had buyers remorse when I got white drl's and not amber. Now I can switch between the two haha.

 

Did the grill today in a mall parking lot..

 

Drove it to work, it is my daily. There's a little park area near my office. Took some pictures of it.

 

No experience with that particular problem, but try some creeping lube like Boeshield T-9, I think that would quiet it, and slow the rust.

 

Finally have my stock OR rims blackened out (poor man's way, LOL) - premium class vinyl stickers (Flat 6 graphics) from ETSY.
Wasn't too difficult to install, wet method. Wheel should be in horizontal position on comfortable height. Time per wheel approx. 30 minutes
Material seems to be super sticky and strong. I like the look, now let's see how long it will last.

 

....are those the Firestone A/T's?

 

Yea the previous owner installed them.

 

What sort of noises? My son had a 2017 that squeaked and there was a TSB the dealer installed (replaced bushings?) to resolve. Also, found these sections of Tacomaworld:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/leaf-spring-squeak-squeal-solved.735704/
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/tsb-0273-17-leaf-spring-silencer-noise.506384/

 

Parked next to a 4th gen.

 

I appreciate those links, the TSB for the noise got me excited, then I realized since I have replaced my leafs with OME Dakar the dealer probably wouldn't honor it with me.

This link, well I never read this one, but it is very interesting and I just laid under the truck to inspect these as well on my Dakar leafs but I'm good to go they look centered and I have that plastic padding which should prevent the squeak should any torsion bring the leafs any closer to those C-guides.

But I have been chasing this noise for ~20k miles now, I think, and mine is a metalic clunk, with a hit of tension in it, and locating it has been crazy. I swore, it was coming from the front coilovers, I even removed my sway bar in front to see if that would resolve just in the case the sway bar was interferring with the coilover, but the noise persisted. The noise seemed to transfer to the steering wheel so again I was 100% convinced the noise was coming from front. Only recently I noticed a couple leaf pads were missing on my topmost leaf, see this post https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...3rd-gen-today.399305/page-14601#post-30559884, and you can see that I got leaf on leaf and no pads on back, and a dislocated pad on front passenger side. SO now I think my noise is that top leaf slapping down on the bottom leafs because the noise presents itself with certainty when the truck flexes like when the left front wheel drops into my driveway thus lifting the passenger rear end of the truck.

So finally I think the solution is, if not replace the rear leafs they are about ~60k miles old, to replace the missing pad disc separators, and, put a couple leaf clamps on the spring in strategic locations. I got the clamps in my shopping basket on Amazon now, but they cannot be installed until I get the pads in place. I can't wait to give it a try, seems like a cheap fix for under $25.00, that is, if I can find a couple those pad-disc-seperators for about $5.00.

 

Looks like a good product, and plenty of it on Amazon, I may try it. I use a similar product, similar price too, called XPS Anti corrosion spray for my jetski, I think these have similar purpose as well.

 

If you don't want to give Amazon your money, local shops usually carry T9 such as bicycle shops, tool stores, outdoor gear suppliers

 

3rd gen looks better imo.

 

I'm not knocking the 4th Gen Taco but I think the design evolution peaked with the 3rd Gen Taco myself. It has excellent proportions, not too boxy and excellent lines. The 4th Gen is too squared off and the character lines seem to sharp for my tastes. Not saying it's bad looking, just not as nice as the 3rd Gen.

 

Check your breather vent to make sure it is not clogged up, should be able to breath easy...

 

Are you sure the T-case has a breather? I know the 2 diffs have a breather, but I'm just not that familiar with this one.

 

I really like the new look. Wish they came from the factory like this. The rims have a decent look being all one color. I have noticed many cars following the machined painted two tone look. Not a fan but to each his own.