What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Made handles! Link

 

Coming up on 5 months of owning my second 3rd gen (first one was stolen). Looking a little different from when I bought it and much more to come.

 

Installed the Tackform accessory rail that came on Thursday.
Easy install and looks great.

 

Washed the trailer trash house siding. Also installed full LED's on the wife's Camry interior, and some V6 Triton reverse lights from VLED. The factory LE Camry reverse lights were terrible.

Took Ole Red to the store for stuff. My 1 ton Leaf sprung F350 rides better than the 5100's. Still trying to find a good replacement. The stiff as hell ride for my preference, sucks. The local roads are a minefield and I'm sick of the jarring ride. Shame too because they are great off-road. Stuck between Dobinson IMS, Eibach Pro truck or ball out on Accutune Fox 2.0's.

Tough decision, don't wanna waste anymore money and be disappointed with the ride. It rode better on the factory Bilsteins lol. At least it looks cool.

 

Just finished the rears with Allpro leafs, 8100 bypasses, and a diy u bolt flip with gm bumps. TMR fab parts had the strike plates for $60 cdn, u bolts were cheap, and the gm bumps were $30 bucks shipped! Although I did have to drill the center hole as they only ship it with 1/2" holes instead of the 3/4" needed to clear the bolt and nut.

So far so good. Tackle the front tomorrow with 8112s, spindle gussets and some other goodies. Much excite.

 

Method 701 - 17x9 with -12 offset
BFG KO2 - 35x12.5

Had to do a lot to get those to fit though, ha. CMR, flatten the pinch weld, high clearance fenders/liners, inner fender massaging with a sledge, ha, and a high clearance bumper.

 

If you added the 1/4” MotoFab spacer on both sides, do you still have the "Taco lean"?

 

Finally decided to remove the Air damn and gave it a wash. Checked the coolant this morning for the first time while the engine was cold. Noticed the level was a little below the full line so I added a bit of coolant. Haven't noticed any leaks anywhere, taking it in for the 60k mile service in a couple weeks.

Other than that it's been great so far. I really want to get replacement wheels for it, something in black.

 

Check your crossover pipe?

 

My understanding is that most trucks seem to come filled to be close to the low line when cold.

 

Going to check it out. I did a quick search on here and that seems to be a common issue.

 

Think I found the culprit
That little hose seeping. Put a small zip tie to tighten it down.

 

Finally finished up the fluids. Would have gone quicker but ALL the splash plate bolts (I refuse to call the OEM stuff skid plates) were jacked up. A tap and new bolts were acquired. Dang the dealership and their impact wrenches! :LOL:

 

Changed tires over to summer set. Decided to throw on 1" hub centric spacers for fun.

 

are you getting enough thread engagement on those?

 

I would say more than 90%.

 

Curious to know what specific size, bolts, etc or you went with for this. One of mine is completely messed up and another is halfway there.

 

Talking about the lug nuts that secures wheel spacers to brake drum, looks like lug nuts cover only half of threads covered. What brand wheel spacers you get? I have BORA 1” wheel spacers, the OEM lug nuts completely covers all threads.

 

It is good idea to know, if it is leaking, so you can ensure that it gets fixed at your last warranty check appointment.

 

The factory bolts are M8-1.25 x 20. I grabbed M8x1.25 x 25 body bolts at Lowe’s. They actually have a bigger bolt head and washer. Cleaned the old bolt bits out the nuts, applied a wee bit of anti-seize, and torqued to 21 ft/lbs (I know, I know. Wet torque versus dry and all that jazz). Snugged up just fine. If I was guessing I would say the bolts are designed to die before the nuts as a few of the nuts are hidden in the crossmembers and would NOT be fun to replace.

Link to the bolt...
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Hillman-8mm-x-25mm-Black-Phosphate-Coarse-Thread-Body-Bolt/3013022

Link to the tap (and the drill that isn't needed)...
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Kobalt-M8-X-1-25-Metric-Tap-and-Drill-Set/5013366885