What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I think it best that NO ONE should know you are armed till After you have made the LIFE CHANGING decision that lethal force is justified, and worth the costs, maybe even a home re-finance. People are crazy, Knowledge is power, so keep them in the dark until/unless the situation escalates all by itself, to the level of necessity. In any confrontation, knowing you are armed, automatically either escalates or deters, without your having any choice or influence on which way it goes; reserve that choice and influence, so you can explore de-escalation first. For me, the decision to reveal a weapon has exactly the same consequences as deciding to take a life; there are many other options and considerations before making that decision. After the reveal, you have fewer options, with one of them being Life Changing.

 

That makes sense, 98% the time it is the solenoid that goes bad, not the starter itself. Somehow we got trained to understand the solution is a more expensive modern fix. I'm sure I would have tried fixing a solenoid if I even knew it was an option.

 

Off to golf tomorrow. Wifey wanted to take the truck. Hmmmm I think I created a monster.

 

I got mine up to this on the way up the hill to Tahoe

 

6.4, not bad.

 

I also added this silliness. Will use for hauling trash and stuff. This short bed is somewhat hindering compared to long bed.

 

I had always assumed these mounted to the rails but I guess not. Where does this mount to and how hard is it to remove it?

 

Do I recall that you customized an off the shelf bracket to work with the clutch reservoir? What bracket is this? I want to add a fuse block, but my clutch reservoir is in the way of most of them.

 

bro not silly at all, my tacoma came with an OEM one and since i added a tool box to my truck bed it takes up space, so having this is actually clutch cuz i basically recoup the space i lost with tool box. comes in handy.

 

Looks like it may not work, if bed stiffeners were installed. I can't see clearly, maybe I'm wrong on that.

 

Well, they got back to me and those are enormous - 35mm between the top holes and then 45mm from top to bottom. I'm still striking out trying to find a triple hanger that fits and I don't really feel like searching anymore, so looks like I'll be popping one off as well and going standard hanger for the rearmost one.

 

Installed propane tank, bed light, and gas can mount.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...feners-with-amp-research-bed-extender.484522/

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https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...023-toyota-tacoma.535627/page-8#post-17617608

 

Man. I like that lock. I wonder if it could be adapted to a spare tire?

 

Installing resistors. Tail lights or front drl/ signals I think the front would be best. Thoughts??

 

Yeah they would have to be shorter on the sides or at edge of tailgate. I don't think the OEM would work, either. But these were cheap.

 

not to bring up an old thread, are your uptop rack pod lights dual color or single color?

 

There is a hardware gidgit you add to the inside of the bed by the tailgate. The entire rack can be removed but this thing stays. The rack can flip into the bed and make a nice partition, esp with a tonneau cover.

 

How much should I ask for my '21 OEM LED headlights?
Looking to get a custom set done.

 

Yes. I removed the clutch reservoir bracket, then fabbed some 90° angle brackets and screwed that into the clutch bracket and attached to the bottom of the fuse block bracket. The clutch bracket hangs just off the edge of the fuse block bracket. The reservoir hose wraps around in a nice loop without crimping, but ymmv. Brand name is visible in one of the images, got through Amazon, and it works well enough for me.

It was a pain. It was enough of a pain that I ran some extra control wires and even an extra power wire to the back seats that isn't even hot atm. Figured if I was going to pull cable through firewall, I should pull multiple. Future expansion possibility. Edit: this was in addition to the 8awg I ran for a subwoofer behind the rear seats. I hate pulling trim and trying not to break the tabs, too.



Not shown is an add-a-fuse to the cigarette lighter fuse in the cab. I used one of the pairs of cables (as a single conductor) in the cat6 cable, which you can see going to the accessory lug on the fuse block. This has a small fuse on it (3A) because it should only power the relays. Should be 1A.