What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Darn kids always leaving crap in the driveway

 

A garage might work.

 

Its a constant battle

These 2 live in the garage

 

New battery day for my 2019 w/ 82k miles. Had to jump it several time the last couple days even after immediately taking it off of the charger. Costco battery was $80 cheaper than the auto part stores.

 

Looks like someone is trying to steal your 'Cuda!

 

My Fas-Top soft topper has about a 2.5" gap at the top by the cab and then funnels down to about an inch at the bed.
You could get some pipe insulation from Home Depot to shove in there.
Here's what it looks like with a random piece I had laying around.

 

Got a 2023 OR grill to replace my cheap honeycomb grill.
I needed to move the TSS back up to the logo area because this summer I'm putting in a bumper with a bull bar that blocks the TSS where the Pro grill has it located.
Also as an added bonus it has the camera mount so when I finally get around to doing the Anytime Camera mod I will have a spot to mount the front camera.
Glad I went with the massive 9" lights behind the grill so even with most of the lights covered they still put out a blinding amount of light.
Can't wait for the summer to get them properly wired up and test them out off road (because using them on road would be illeagal, and I don't want to break any laws)

 

a number of things can make a connection go bad

contaminants in the connection, moisture, salt, road grit, non-galvanized/coated crimps, and also poorly-crimped wire.

 

Those lights look good what lights are they?

 

I have a post with pictures of the grill removed in this thread, post #251676
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...3rd-gen-today.399305/page-12584#post-28231162

The lights are:
https://backwoodsadventuremods.com/products/pathfinder-9-prowlr-driving-light-white

Originally I was going to put Diode Dynamic ss5 behind the grill, but the Prowlr lights were on sale for half off and that's too good of a deal to pass up.

 

I cut my grill for my DD SSc3's

You can easily do a little trimming of the grill. I have a similar setup but use 4K DD SSc3 on a BAMF rack.

 

I can't bring myself to cut up a $200 grill lol, plus I kinda like the stealth look of my lights.

If you look at my other post, I spaced the BAMF bracket out 1.5" to bring the lights closer to the grill. I would bet if you are just running ss3 pods you could space it even closer than I did.
The 9" lights are really heavy and I don't want to push them to far forward because I worry the mounting points aren't strong enough to hold that much weight pushed out that far.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...3rd-gen-today.399305/page-12584#post-28231162

Here is the post where I have the links to the hardware I used
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...3rd-gen-today.399305/page-12586#post-28233532

 

Yes, I've been following. I would have mounted hung the lights from home fabbed brackets instead of pushing the BAMF mount outboard. I think keeping the longer BAMF tabs in contact would better counter the leverage of heavy lights but you have a better handle on the weights.

My cutting started with the bumper, so the stock grill was no issue.

 

The 2 upper mounts are basically resting on the radiator bushings so using round spacers gives me pretty much the same contact area. The lower mount did have more contact but the piece of metal that it does contact is thin and flimsy so I didn't think it really helped that much.

I thought about making brackets using angle iron but seeing as it's 20degrees outside and my garage isn't insulated I figured $25 in new hardware was a worthy experiment.
Maybe this summer I will try to think up a good robust mounting solution that brings the lights within a few inches of the grill.

The 2 reasons I wanted to bring the lights farther out was to mount the horns in the factory orientation, instead of making new brackets for them. And the lights I got have side shooter LEDs, like Baja Design LP6, so I thought if I could get them closer to the grill I might be able to get some function from the wide angle LEDs.

 

Phone/GPS/Handheld Radio mount is complete! Yes I’ve posted parts of this before but I tend to do stuff like this in stages re-evaluateing my next move at every step.

 

Which light bar is that? I painted my stock grill as well. I think it looks great black!

 

Is it just me or does the axle looked pushed too far back towards the rear of the bed?

 

I think its just that mud flap that makes it look that way