What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

We've had a small handful of folks ask about mounting a firearm to our scheel-man mounting solutions. So instead of answering those questions one-by-one we figured it was a good time to do a general write-up about and posted it onto our blog:

https://www.tolerance-stack.com/post/beyond-the-box-exploring-firearm-holster-integration

 

Thank you, thank you very much. Hey I never know when I might be heading up north. I always thought the block heater was a great idea, and luxurious, also one that I never had owned while living in the rust belt where it would have come in handy during a few winters up there. And actually, would be nice to know if the install was simple and clean, or challenging and messy.

 

Me too

 

First bath with my free pressure washer.
Having a pressure washer is great.

 

Yes, a pressure washer will change your life. Careful when using to blast off what you thought were bug guts that turned out to be a paint chip that suddenly enlarged as you applied the pressurized water to the “bug guts”. Not that I have first hand experience, said no one ever!

 

lol Yea I can see how that would happen. I did the Tacoma the dodge and the driveway, The driveway changed from dirty to new concrete.

 

That block heater slides into a recess in the block and heats the block. No fluids, no plugs, just slide it in and run power.

 

Crawled under the truck and checked The witness marks I left from when I installed The lift

 

Picked up the truck from the detailers. 2 year PPF and ceramic coat inspection, fallout removal and wash.

 

I've run 2 sets. They're garbage tires.

 

they are very quiet for an mt. quieter than many ats ive had experience with. they wear like iron and wear evenly on both trucks ive ran them on without even rotating them. ride quality is also up with the best of them. basically the only flaw with these tires is they suck in the winter but pretty much all mud terrains do. i swap to general grabber atx for my winter setup.

 

Awesome! Thanks for the info. I had the Grabber ATXs a couple years ago and loved them. Then I went to the Yokohama g003s. I always feel like maybe I should have tried the X3s instead. I’m still considering them but I do a lot of highway miles.

 

It heats the engine block and by that the oil and the water in the block. There is a receptacle hole in the block already, the heater just gets pushed in it and tapped with a mallet a few times. No fluids or oil contact during install.

 

I appreciate that. I really wanted a MGM or Silver Sky Tacoma but I got a good deal on this one. Fingers crossed my paint doesn’t start peeling

 

And white is easier to keep clean!

 

Care to expand at all?
Did I miss this conversation along the way somewhere?

 

It was covered in the dedicated Toyo at3 thread.

1. My second set rides out of round like a bias ply until warmed up. They're been road force balanced twice, so I'm calling tire defect. I'm not the only one with this issue in that thread.

2. The tread life is 30k at best and they really lose traction and performance at 20k. Mine were trash after 25k miles, but I drive like I'm formula 1 and AZ is very hot in the summer.

3. They howl and make a lot of road noise which sucks for long distance drives. Did I mention they're noisy? Yeah they're loud.

4. Tire pressure swings wildly with temps and constantly needs adjusting (mine balloon from 31-37 in AZ). (SL tires do from what I've been told.)

5. They ride a little spongy and the 265/70/16 SL versions are slightly under correct payload capacity for these trucks.

Aside from the out of round until warmed up issue they're great for the first 15k. No issues hauling arse 85mph across the country for 4-8 hours at a time. I did a big cross country trip last summer with them. AZ to NC and back then all around the west and PNW. CA, OR, WA, ID, CO, UT, NV and back to AZ. I'm not sure why I came back to AZ.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/new-toyo-open-country-a-t-iii-tire.655094/

I'm going with BFG K03's next.

 

Beauty weather, so I started on my insulation on the inside of my rear door skin's. At the same time, I swapped out the super tiny speakers.

 

What should be the normal tire pressure swing? I'm getting 4lb + swings on my factory original Goodyear's.

 

Installed the footwell lights in the rear. Used protective tube again to ensure the wires do not crack or get damaged when moving the seat. Now I have front and rear and very happy with the new lighting.