What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Wanted to see if I could put a fresh set of rotors and pads to improve braking.

Stock was fine but kept getting deposits on the pads and would cause braking vibration. I don’t tow and my truck isn’t heavy so not sure why.

Went to Wagner coated rotors and Powerstop Z36 Truck and Tow pads.

While bedding in the pads yesterday, truck can now activate ABS at any speed!

 

Manuals have the double cup holders there

 

Agreed....not sure how you make something this useless?? If it was at least waterproof I may have thought about keeping them in the truck bed. The design on these is laughable!

 

Holy shot bro! Thank you so much! They must have spun around bc I installed it at night.

 

hahaha smooth!

 

Makes me want to check mine. Seems to be dimmer than when I installed

 

Maybe. They spin very easily I barely touched it and it spun.

 

The dome bulb is free spinning almost. I can see where it might rotate some on really bumpy roads.

 

Went out and removed my rear head rests. Didn't realize they blocked the view until I read it here.

 

Kind of like how you never notice how loud the cord is on wired earbuds until somebody mentions how loud the cord is on wired earbuds and then you have to go buy wireless earbuds.

 

Yup

 

What have I done for my 3rd Gen Tacoma today you ask?

Well hopefully this explains what I've done today (as it pretty sums up my week so far )

 

I got busy with some work stuff, then a two week trip out west, and truck prep for the trip. I was 1000+ posts behind and decided to not even try. So I'm back to 'noob" status with this thread.

 

Hs anyone else seen these from Alpharex:



The first two have an amber turn signal built into them. The 3rd is red. Kinda wanna see these in person.

 

If you're going aftermarket tails and don't mind waiting I'd spend an extra $200 and get the ones from Meso. He's in partnership with Morimoto on them so you'd be pretty safe on quality, and he stands behind his stuff. Alpharex quality has been known to be hit and miss.

 

After an unintentional hiatus, it's what have I done to / with my truck this summer. A few pics, and working on two threads to explain it all.
From this:


To this:


And did a bunch of this:


Building a trip report and updating the build thread in the links below. Hope to have the updates done in a week or two.

 

I’m hoping to get those wheels as my winter set..

 

Sorry, it's happened to me before just walking my dog

 

Bilsteins 6112s and jba uca

 

Well it's just a representation of how my week has gone so far. Worked a 16 hr day yesterday. Got told I had to cover on Saturday. So why not?

Just not my week starting out it seems.