What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Just skimming through saw the 2-n-1 shocker reference gotta like it.
Two in the pink, one in the stink, dos en el rosa, uno en el apestoso

 

Best way to enhance the shocker is to bring a taser for the other hand.

 

Ok. I had a pinhole sized leak in my drivers side cv axle. So I got a new one, and gonna reboot the old one, hold it for a spare, seeing as how this is an easy fix to a pretty obvious weak point. While I was in there, pulled the needle bearing and replaced it with the ecgs bushing. When all said and done, the vibration/whhhuooph noise were gone.
However. I may have dropped the puller piece from the removal tool into my front diff. After like 30 minutes or so, contemplating my abilities as a shade tree mechanic, and not giving up, I had the piece back in my hand.
So I stuffed a rag in there, fitted that puller, yanked the bearing, tapped the new one in (soaked in ice water), and went to replace my axle seal… which the dealer gave me the passenger side seal. Put it all back together, using the old seal, lost a bunch of oil today, went to three part stores, got the right seal + 2 qts gear oil and ripped it all apart and put it back together. Gear oil is rough, stinks so bad.
I can say the dealershit nonsense pisses me off but I’m kinda above that. Shoulda paid more attention to the part number, instead of relying on them. Gonna spray some simple green all up in there and give it a good hose down.
Best part…I got Biff’s car covered in shit.

 

Im in the same predicament. Driver side. Can't tell exactly where the leak is, but must be small. Waiting till I get time to install my lca's and knock it all out together. Can't decide if I wanna do what you're doing with new and keep old spare, or just reboot mine with the boot slide mod. Not that I really need it bc my angles are pretty good, but plan to raise her more at some point down the road.

 

All I know is my mileage (on the screen menu) went up a few mpg. ??
Haters gonna hate.

 

Looks like I won't be adding green raptor lights :/
Appreciate the heads up.

 

I thought about the boot slide too, looked at the wear pattern, and it seems fine. New cv axles aren’t cheap. So I feel like I have this piece of gold hanging out, all the extra parts I have kicking around this one is the most important.

 

A stick jammed in my CV boot. I found out by seeing the black sludge all over the wheel-well. Haha, highway driving after exploring will do that . My dealer fixed it up for about $250. Totally worth it because I would have struggled with it for days like you did.

 

There was some struggling involved. But that’s life. I’d hate to change out my cv on a trail. At least I have a smooth concrete floor to slide around on.

 

Made a shelf for my power bank. Vertical storage is a big space saver. Im thinking ceiling mounted table next haha

 

Has a loose connection on my head unit. Created some deep scratches. Any idea what the part number or what the black plastic above the climate controls is called?

 

I'm old, I got tired of lifting my ocean kayak onto my Tacoma.

Of course nothing ever is a direct bolt on. I had to modify the rear Thule Evo Aero bar because the Tacoma stock roof rack is just just over two inches narrower across the rear of the roof than the front. Of course the slot in the underside of the Thule 60" rack was about an 1" shorter than I needed to allow the Thule feet to slide in far enough to clamp to the Tacoma roof rack.

Not cheap, but a very clever bit of kit that works well. It has close to 50lb of lift assist, that is more than what my kayak weighs

 

That thing is sweet. You got folding steps too?

 

I'm embarrassed. Slacking.

 

I got my Sony XAV-9500ES in the mail a couple days ago. Just waiting to head down to my brother’s shop in a few days to take care of a few maintenance checks. And install this Bad Boy. Pictures when it’s done. Cheers

 

Did some fab work making a hitch adapter.
My 1up RakAttach bike swingout hits the d ring recovery points on the high clearance bumper. So instead of extending it outwards I took a cheap drop hitch adapter then cut/welded it up so it works backwards.
Now the swingout will be tucked tight under the bumper, my only concern is how bad I am at welding. I did put the swingarm in and jump on it and nothing broke so that is a good at least.
I got it damn near perfectly square but I'd say most of the welds are pretty shit.
I was able to weld the 3/16" tubes together really well, but on the 3/16 to solid 2" shank I kept burning through the 3/16, and then the 1/4" steel plates I welded on top of all were tough too. Still for my third time welding in my life I think I did ok. I will blame it on the equipment because I only have a flux core welder, someday in the future I will get a MIG and take some classes.

Also the spare tire is hanging loose in the picture.

 

In case you were wondering if you needed to trim anything to fit 33s, you don’t.. technically the truck will do it by itself if you let it

 

Were those interior lights a kit you bought?

 

VLED's kit for the Footwell lights, KTJO4x4 for the door handle pocket lights, and mix of Diode Dynamics or VLED 6000k white dome and map lights etc.

But after finding the wife's interior lights on AliExpress, I'd say get everything but the VLED Footwell lights from them, it's cheaper and seems to be the same product. The VLED kit appears to be their own product though.