What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Tufskinz rocker covers turned out great. Tape and magnets really helped with the installation.

 

Been on the look out for either these or the newer pro tail lights. Barcelona red needs either these or the pro tail lights, the chrome ones are too flashy for me. Next on my list... Appreciate the photos showing the whole truck rather than just the lights up close, looks good!

 

Looking back at it, I would still choose to do it myself because I now understand my truck's components more and have more confidence that if anything breaks off-road or in a remote area that I could devise a make-shift solution to get me back to a shop. The one thing that I would change is allocating more time from the beginning because I based my time allocation off of youtube videos where the truck is clean, all the bolts come off easily, and they have the convince of a lift. After driving in the Northeast for three years, my truck was nothing like that and having to work off the ground require more time.

 

I made a wire basket for carrying wood and trash, etc. I bought steel rod and a cheap bending jig from Amazon. But the floor is a makeshift piece of crap as I couldn't bend rods small enough to make the floor. Everything was either bent into place or held in place with zip ties... So I took the basket off the truck and brought it to a friend that has a welder. I still need to clean it up and spray paint it, but it turned out pretty great for a prototype, IMO:

 

I’m outfitting a heavy diesel service truck, it’s a 2017 base with the standard bed. Does anyone know of any good diesel transfer tanks I can put it the back - or is anyone running one?

 

Opted to swap out my stock tweeters for the DS18 tweeters. Sound is dramatically better over stock.

$80 DS18 PRO-ST 1.9" Replacement Upgrade Bullet Compression Tweeters with Crossovers- Car OEM Tweeter Upgrade Kit for Many Subaru/Toyota Models - Replacement for H631SFJ101 and H631SFJ100 (Pair)

https://www.amazon.com/DS18-Replace...=&hvlocphy=9032185&hvtargid=pla-1463417365565

 

Can the links be greased and they don't have Toyota trucks listed parts.

 

I did the same, my wife tells me it looks odd without them, so i told her to go buy me the OEM decals for $198.00 from the dealer and I will put them back on, she shut up right away....

 

How TF did you get the screw out for where the new one attaches? I've beat the hell out of that thing and it won't budge.

 

Maybe they don't have snow and don't need an ice scrapper so tint could be on the outside or whoever installed it , is a moron !

 

Where did you get that cool bracket?

 

@drizzoh

I couldn't get mine to budge either.

Went with the SabelCo.

 

Phoenix metro ... we have heard of the cold-ish form of water called snow, but ...

I may have to rectify the previous owner mistake ...

 

I'll try again at some point. Might pull my tailgate off and try to get some better leverage. I just didn't want to completely disassemble it to unplug the wiring just to get one screw out. Looking like that's my only option though. :/

 

what about the cover take that off and lubricate it from the inside and or hit it with a hammer to free it up

 

I whacked it about 100x with an impact driver, but the problem is the tailgate isn't rigid mounted (good for the tailgate, bad for this specific screw removal) so the shock doesn't hit has hard as it should. If I'm pulling off the insert I might as well just unplug the 2 harnesses and remove the tailgate to get a good whack.

It's also hard to get any leverage in that spot due to where the screw is located. Popping the tailgate out on one side and trying to whack that screw to bust it loose while supporting it is a nightmare.

 

Finally got the white lettering for the grill.

 

Did you paint those? I'm looking for some White for mine.

 

Tacos4cheap has them on here

 

Thank you sir