What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

What type of lights do you have mounted under the tailgate? I like that location.

 

Used mine as a moving truck today. Got some few scratches on the bed. Supposed to get the new wheels yesterday but there was a delay on the shipment

 

Changed the Diff oil front and back at 37249 miles. Oil looked a little brownish I didn't think it looked too bad. The magnets on the other hand appeared to be at capacity therefore I think I'll change again at 60,000 miles. Used valvoline 100% synthetic 75W90 in front and Mobile 1 75W90 in rear, went to more than a few car parts places to source the Mobile 1 but gave up after the 4th. Next weekend tcase and transmission get Amsoil changes.

 

Highly recommend the North Rim. Much more green, much fewer tourists.

 

went to MCNP today! what an amazing experience!

 

Explore, brother! So much great stuff to see in this state that many don’t even realize is here.

Hell, this is in the Grand Canyon(Havasupai Falls). People often think it’s Hawaii.

 

Beautiful

 

Installed some black lug nuts and went up to 5/4 setting with the front 6112's.

 

Yeah, and that goes beyond stupid. Penalize the consumer because they’re way lazy!

 

Awesome pics!

 

How’d you get him to jump into that basket? Most I’ve seen run into the vehicle and bend sheet metal.

 

Wow! Like a desert oasis!

 

pretty sure that’s closed right now :/

 

It costs more to send a bill rather than bill a CC.

 

I am not much of a wrecnh so this was challenging for me. Installed:

• LOSTAR TRD Pro Skid Plate Knock off - $230
• Talon's Garage Cat Shield

Both were lacking great instructions and both required some man handling to get things to line up. But it is done. Anyone who steals my catalytic converter more power to you. Some of Talons Allen head bolt heads were deformed so I had to reuse some of the stock hardware. Thieves will be like, who the hell installed this?

Despite the frustrations I am happy with Talon's shield and the 1/4" aluminum to double as a skid plate. I know not steel but lighter and I am not a rock crawler. More for insurance.

Looks good to me. Took me 4.5 hours including clean-up.

 

Love it!

Your explanation and pics are great.

I have the same set-up but I spent $302 for the OEM TRD skid.

 

I was frustrated enough with the LOSTAR that I was sort of wishing I spent the extra on the OEM! Not sure it is was me or the product. And the youtubers who did videos on them all made mistakes. My mistake was not watching their WHOLE video. I watched up to one point where I was like, ah, OK that is where the hardware goes. When it didn't fit I went back and continued watching. Yep, later on the say "Well I screwed up and put the hardware in the wrong spot". I'll write a review on AMZN and put in the correct orientation of the hardware.

 

I hate that shit. Just edit the video or reshoot it

 

Have had my tickets to hike down for 2 years now. Just kicked another year….Ugh!

 

Sorry to hear about your frustration during install.

The bolts were pre-positioned when they arrived in the box.

The only change was the Talon Skid bolts had to be used to connect the TRD Skid because the OEM ones were too short.