WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO YOUR 3RD GEN TUNDRA TODAY?

Handling was actually better, not sure if that is normal or not. I lost about 2.5MPG on city and highway and I did the math about 3 times. So I think that is very accurate. The Ride quality - I do not appreciate a difference really. I run that at 50 PSI. If I could do it again, I probably would try to find a P-rated tire that looked as good or consider the 285-65-20. But every time I look at the tires on the truck I am like "damn that set up looks great"

 

Just added another 8.33HP

 

OP, you keep the Taco?

 

No there’s a 15 1/2yr old in Reno NV who is still freaking out at his first car. My baby became his first car. Haha

 

Damn! That was his first car?! Lucky kid!

 

I know! Parents showed up with 40k cash and the kid was shaking my hand like crazy promising to take good care of her! They seemed like a pretty cool family. I guess he will be paying them back they said.

 

Got my Method’s on today. 17x8.5 +35 wrapped with 315/70/17 Goodyears

 

Looks awesome! Love the silver grey combo. You're slowly rebuilding your taco only bigger lol.

 

That is the straight up plan! Haha

 

Napa! Land flowing with milk and honey…and wine bars!

 

Do you off road? I lead an Overland Bound group the second Sunday of the month in a Pleasanton CA. We usually have about 60-70 people come and do a lot of hands on learning about gear, winching etc. Next month we are headed up to the Lost Coast

 

Usal Beach, Giant Redwoods, Fern Canyon trip April 8-10th
https://www.overlandbound.com/forum...nd-fern-canyon-4-8-10-2022.42693/#post-606396

 

Fuel shoks 18” +25 offset 295/70/18 nitto ridge grapplers 80 lbs each
Stock setup was 69.5lbs For now spacer lift up front overall 1/4 higher in rear

 

Added a wireless charger.


JADJ Wireless Charger, Qi-Certified 15W Max Fast Wireless Charging Pad (No AC Adapter) for iPhone SE, 13/12/11 Pro/Pro Max, Xs Max, XR, XS, X, 8, 8 Plus, AirPods, Galaxy S20 S10 S9 S8, Note 10 9 8 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089VVG3ZP

 

New tires and wheels

 

What an amazing difference wheels and tires make. Looks like a totally different truck from the side.

 

Looking good!

 

Such a difference

 

Thanks

 

I have been wiring up a water proof box to run a switch box in the bed to power camp lights, fridge, tent lights, and my compressor. Eventually I’ll do a full write up but I made the cut in the bed tonight. Little scary but it turned out well.

First cuts


Hoping it is correct!


Backside of the waterproof boxes, open is the negative buss bar


Looking up under the truck to the space between the bed and the fender


How the switch box looks and the air chuck next to it. I decided not to center the air chuck because you can see the crease next to it that has a support rib on the backside of it.

 

Took her on a little road trip down to Portland to test out the new tires today. Really impressed with mpg. Was avg 20-21 mpg on the hwy with stock tires from seattle to Portland. After full 35s.. its avg more like 19 mpg even with a hour of traffic in between. No complaints on my end.

Two good looking beauties.

 

Driving to San Francisco today...best I am getting in the mountains is 17.8 MPG.

 

Down to Portland is pretty flat for the most part. 17.8mpg is actually pretty dang good in the mountains. I'll take that any day.

 

Where did you plug it into for power?

 

Pop that off and run the wire where the red line is. Then plug it into your center console.

 

Nice and clean!

 

I’m in the east bay about 40 minutes away from SF

I’ve done the drive to Seattle and a Portland many times. Gets boring south of Redding CA!

 

Well I finished most of my electrical additions in the bed. Switch box is wired up, loom to the battery is snaked and in, circuit breakers are in, and I mounted the ARB compressor in the bed. Flipped that switch and bam I’ve got air. Really glad it all worked.

Before I electrified the system I placed everything and ended up driving to Yosemite yesterday and back, 6 hours round trip and nothing melted. I didn’t want juice flowing till it was proven.

Wire loom crossing the engine bay



Two marine circuit breakers, 25A for the switch box powering fridge/lights/etc and a 90A powering the twin compressor. The breakers are nice because if you have to work on anything you press the yellow button to open the circuit and everything is powered down


To access the void between the fender and truck bed wall I had to remove the outer fender flare and the wheel well faring. There’s so much room in there and I could easily access the backside of the wiring harness to the compressor and the bulkhead for the braided compressor hose

I mounted the compressor up front and within easy reach of the rear is the switch panel and compressor chuck and switch


Compressor is mounted using large flange rivnuts and a mount by QuickDraw which allows flexible mounting options and includes rubber dampeners.
https://quickdrawbrand.com/product/arb-twin-compressor-bracket-universal-mount/


Got my dashcam installed, I drive about 35k a year.

Yosemite is gorgeous right now! El Capitan and Half Dome

 

VERY TRUE...been doing it for 25+ years

 

looks amazing