What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

(Oct2)
I got email confirmation from Total Chaos today for Bed Stiffeners.

Looks like the label was printed out today...just waiting on UPS pick-up.

 

After I ordered mine they sent me four e-mails Label printed,Invoice,Out for Delivery and order delivered. Communication is great and it arrived when they said it would. So much better than companies that take your money and you have to track them down.

 

Really not too big a deal for me, just nice to shut it off when driving around on my property clearing timber/etc. Will take a look at it though, probably has lots of value I am unaware of.

 

Finished installing these yesterday morning.
Man, that was a workout!

 

Looks great!

I bought some seat covers but I've yet to install them...lol!

Reason being...it's gonna be a workout!

 

The mundane...just a standard oil change. I must say the TRD makes it easier, and the motivx filter wrench is most definitely worth it.

 

I washed mine before installing, but they got all sweaty during the install so

 

I'll clean the upholstery and let it air dry for a week before I install the unwashed seat covers.

When the time comes to wash the seat covers, at least the upholstery underneath will be clean.

 

Today I put in a set of kicker tweeters, a set of spotter mirrors, and a dash cam. The tweeters definitely make a difference, the mirrors definitely seem like a nice touch, hopefully the dash cam never comes into play.

Up next is converting to LED headlights, and then door speakers. Any recommendations for a pair of door speakers that can run off the underpowered basic head unit on the Sr models?

 

Checked the lug torque on the new Methods after a 800 miles. Wanted to check it sooner but I had to make an urgent run to Longview hospital yesterday. The whole way there and back, I was kicking myself for not checking them earlier. They all clicked fine at 85 fp so no worries.

 

I find that as long as you are dealing with good shape (non-corroded and/or rusty) parts that as long as you properly torque in the star pattern as well as one more time around they never loosen up

 

Pulled the oem pan today bc stripped drain bolt and replaced it with all new plugs and gasket from dealer sprayed pan bolts down with wd 40. Cleaned the magnets and filter everything looked pretty good.. hand started each pan bolt then torqued them in star pattern to 9ft lbs. pinned the thermostat shifted through the gears and let it warm up to temp check mode then filled 3.9qts after check plug finished draining with Amsoil ATF
Drove until it got up to operating temp crawled under to check for gasket leaks and plug leaks. Everything looks perfectly normal

 

Did a coolant flush and fill over the weekend twice burped system and filled it with Toyota super long life antifreeze/coolant

 

Well I got this for my taco and guess you can say for me to
Picked up an impact driver and some accessories for future mods. Wished I would have had one when I installed my TRD Skid plate although a simple job it would have been even easier. I’ll probably use it for the K&N intake for the 3 screws holding the air box in place
Anyway I’m sure it will come in handy in the future

 

Hi all, looking to upgrade my USB port to USB-C. Are there any threads on this already?

 

Did you buy Amazon brand drill bits?
Jk. A friend of mine got that same kit and likes it. Lemme know how they hold up

 

I hope you renewed the filter..........

 

You know I actually did by mistake thinking they were deWalt lol Those late night purchases will get you every time
It actually looks pretty good though and has a lot of other sockets and other goodies to. They do look well made but we shall see


The DeWalt accessory kit does look like better quality no doubt.

 

is there one in your console?

 

I’m pretty sure you can swap the one that is in the center console with USB A connections for this one with USB C but I understand that it gains you nothing in respects to higher wattage output.





I just installed this in my center console instead: https://a.co/d/9fyTBbT