What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

You’re welcome.
You bring up a good point. It would take some MacGyver’ing.

I like your idea of adding the pull strap to the tailgate, Brilliant.

 

Ha! Dashboard art, I love it.

 

Busy morning…now time for some football!
1- Hood stripe decals
2- Yellow fog light decals (painful but got them on…sort of off center a bit, prob try again if it bothers me too much, that said, might as well schedule that root canal I been putting off, can’t be as painful as putting on those stupid things)
3- TRD Skid plate
4- Tyger 3.5” runners

I also did some interior cosmetic stuff continuing to black-out and add accent colors, but this finishes my initial set of mods. Waiting on my Diamondback SE still.

 

Nice work, looks great!

Tip for adding the fog light film... take the fog lights out, add the film, reinstall the lights. The fogs are held in place with one (yes one) phillips head screw. You can easily reach down from inside the engine bay on both sides to access them. (I swapped out the OE halogen fogs for OE LEDs previously so I had a little head start.) A tiny bit of brail work, but it only took me about five, maybe ten minutes tops to install Lamin-X film on both. Just sayin'.

 

I'm going to have to do this. I used kryoln stained glass yellow spray paint twice in 3 years. Unfortunately it just doesn't hold up to the elements on the front and bottom of the truck. I guess I'll eventually get a set of these, pull out the lights, clean off the remainder of the yellow paint, install, and forget.it sucks because at first the stained glass paint looks great. Oh well...

 

Mounted an ammo can to the rack for gloves soft shackles and snatch block. Used some Leftover rigid utv mirror mounts to eliminate lateral movement when going down the highway. Added a stainless padlock lug. I have a little bigger one for the other side for my kinetic rope. There are spacers between the can and rack so the lid does not rub the rack when opening and closing. when i get the other one mounted i will have them both powder coated blue

 

This is mostly temporary anyway, I’ll likely swap out for Halos, got a link to ones you bought?

 

Nothing much lately just enjoying my Taco. Put a K&N filter in today haven’t driven it yet but should be a nice compliment to the OTT that I am really enjoying.

and of course the K&N stickers gotta represent

 

Blackvue 700series

 

Does your hood sit jenky now with the strut installed? Mine is pretty whack!

 

Can you update how you like it? Was looking at this one to compliment the same tune as well

 

In the past few days:

New Emblem overlay
Tinted the tails
Upgraded to a weighted shift knob. Will upgrade to the yota expedition shift eventually.

 

Two projects implemented today.
1). Added a SONY amplifier to the non-JBL head unit. There was plenty of room because this thing is small:
https://www.crutchfield.com/p_158XMS400D/Sony-XMS400D.html
Did I write small? Well, it's mounting location is attached to and underneath the head unit. Yep amazing the amount of room in the dash.

To avoid any OEM wire harness cutting, I purchased the following Red Wolf harness:

$14 RED WOLF Add AMP Amplifier Subwoofer Speaker Wiring T-Harness Radio Stereo Plug Connector Compatible with Toyota 2018-2022 Camry RAV4 Tacoma Corolla Non-JBL System

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DTY8PMD?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

then cut the wires in the middle, and one half plugs into the back of the radio where the 10 pin speaker wire harness of the truck used to plug into the HU, and it is wired to the input of the amp. The other half of the RW harness is wired to the output of the amplifier, and the truck's speaker harness is now plugged into it.

While the volume in the rear is now very audible, those speakers in the rear door need to be swapped out for sure.

2). I've been playing around with OBDII and Android Auto lately. There is a work-in-progress available through the PlayStore called "dashOBD". I'm hoping the author of this program builds upon what he has and makes it great. So my issue was, do I want to leave a small OBDII reader attached to my OBDII port all the time? No since the port is always "on", so I wanted to limit current draw with the truck off.

I purchased the following splitter off AMAZON:

$10 bbfly-B11 OBD II OBD2 Splitter Extension 16 Pin Extension Cable Adapter (0.5FT/15CM)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CWG7WM?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

First off, this thing fits into the OEM bracket. You pinch the sides of the OEM one to remove it from the bracket under the dash, and connect it to the black connector of the splitter. Then one port is inserted back into the bracket. In my case, the other port has a small OBDII Bluetooth reader permanently connected to it now. I cut wire 16 going to that port, and wired it to a switched fuse with an add-a-fuse. Now the OBDII reader only powers up when the car is started.

Next up, replacing the dash tweeters, and the rear door speakers.

 

Absolutely I will update in a few days possibly a weeks time. I haven’t even driven it yet since I just installed it today and I’m home bound. I will update with sound , performance and mpg improvements if any. One thing I can say out of gate needless to say is it’s a well made filter that fits perfectly with a nice seal.

 

Installed the Talons Garage Cat Shield on 2023 DC SR 2.7 Easy install, the fit is super tight and vibration free. Used three different types of fasteners so the would be thieves will have to roll up with fully loaded toolbox and pack a lunch because it will take a while to uninstall.

 

Could they sawzall through it?
Interested in this one myself

 

Went wheeling this weekend, and truck threw either a steering alignment code, or pre collision code, thus not letting me use the rear locker at first. So, hard wired that to a switch, and later lost the ability to switch into 4x4.
So, getting rid of all the electronics (factory elocker harness/switch, manual tcase swapping it, and getting rid of the add tube) so I do not have this horrible problem again. So stupid how its all linked together, all for probably a slightly crooked steering wheel (i bend tie rods like no other).

 

Looks great!

 

Digging the truck!