What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

I like many did not care for those small plastic stock radio control knobs. I considered buying those silicon rings some have used and also those Hondo Garage knobs. But then I remembered I had a set of nice billet aluminum knobs I took off my Corvette before I sold it.

Since the Taco mounting posts were recessed too deep to use the knobs as is, I took the Taco knobs and trimmed them down to just the post and the flat base and glued them to the Vette knobs using some E6000 adhesive. I then grabbed a rattle can of black paint and gave them a few coats. I think they turned out looking pretty good!.

 

Nice work! Looks good!

 

Installed TRD CAI and 2020 pro black exhaust. Install was easy and took two hours. Not much of a difference but I feel like it handles a tiny bit better.

*Located in San Marcos Tx - I now have the stock intake and exhaust left over if anyone is interested

 

Thanks! I gained only around .65" as advertised using the circlip location #2.. To start, my rake difference was only .75" at on the drivers side and 1.125 on the passenger stock. So with the Taco lean, I decided to not go with the 1.1 circlip location #3. Found it interesting that I now I have around a .25" taco lean. I measured from the wheel well to the ground with a laser measure..

 

what do these go for?

 

Hi- cool install . Been thinking about buying the TRD exhaust also. May I ask how much you paid and where you purchased it from? Thanks

 

Ouch man. That's a bummer.

 

Here’s a view of mine for reference, frame was bent. I don’t think yours looks as bad. Hoping the best for you!

 

As others have said, the u bolts should close all the gaps. The center pin is basically there to keep your leafs lined up and tight ish until you can get the u bolts back on. I didn't torque mine super tight. Can't remember if I did or not, but you can probably tighten it back up after the u bolts remove the slack. Remember to tighten the u bolts progressively and evenly.

Edit: I'm dumb, you cant tighten it afterwards because the bump stop will cover it.

 

Got my bed cover installed today. Only took 1.5 months to arrive from RealTruck. Thanks @keoniboy70 for answering my questions about the cover.

 

Isn't the hitch bolted to the frame? If it is then no doubt the frame is toast.

 

I got some custom bedside decals installed today. The matte black looks pretty good to me.

 

A.R.E. CX Classic w/ yakima HD bars installed today

 

Ya!!! someone posted an Access Cab. We are so few.

 

I saw one today, access cab 4x4 off road... couldn’t believe it. Chrome bumper caps though... no tech package

 

We’re out there

 

Now that's my kind of winch bumper! Adding to wish list.

 

Thanks and yeah no problem $660 for the exhaust $358 for the intake. I buy all my oem parts from Mike Calvert Toyota, best prices I’ve seen.

Intake
https://www.mikecalverttoyota.com/parts/order-parts?path=%2Foem-parts%2Ftoyota-performance-air-intake-system-trd-ptr0335160%3Fc%3DZz1wZXJmb3JtYW5jZSZzPXVuZGVyaG9vZCZsPTMmbj1TZWFyY2ggUmVzdWx0cyZhPXRveW90YSZvPXRhY29tYSZ5PTIwMTcmdD1saW1pdGVkJmU9My01bC12Ni1nYXM%253D

Exhaust
https://www.mikecalverttoyota.com/p...vbWEmeT0yMDIwJnQ9dHJkLXBybyZlPTMtNWwtdjYtZ2Fz

 

Took it in for the 5k maintenance and used the free car wash