Installed spidertrax wheel spacers and drove around town a bit. I didn't detect any problems. My wife however moved it about 30 feet and complained about brakes grinding. It sounded like she may have been describing the traction control. I went out drove it around the block and again no problems. Anyone had this issue?

Also, I probably over torqued the lugs on a spacer, no wheels though. Could this cause a problem?

Installed a TRD exhaust and some Toyota All-Weather floor mats

Fixed my CB radio antenna, yelled at the cow at chickfila over my pa system, and drove past a cop going 55 in a 45 and didn't get a ticket.

That was yesterday, but i think i would consider that a good day.

Hi snobrdr033,

1. Can you please elaborate a bit more on what soldering you had to do for the under-running board LED install you did?

2. Do you have any close up pics of the soldering as well as the lights themselves? I want to see how you zip-tied them.

3. Any pics of the LED's on at night?

I'm guessing you hooked them up to the dome light circuit so that they come on when you unlock the doors or turn on the dome light? If not, what did you do?

replaced my in cabin air filter...old one looked like hell and smelled just as bad.

took this picture and post it on forum

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Washed off numerous pounds of road salt and per her back to bed.

Hit 147mph , and scratched the piss out of my front driver fender flare .

Sorry for the slow response, I did not check this thread lately.
1. I bought a 30" (I believe that was the length) piece of pre-made LED strip (5000K) and on the actual strip, it has markings where you can cut it to make smaller strips. It has small points where you cut that you can solder wire on, if that makes sense. I was kinda confused until I actually had the LED strip in my hands.
Then I bought some small, 20-22 ga wire to solder on the leads for each individual strip. I also got the small rubber caps that you silicone on the ends to seal it from water/dirt. I ended up with 4 separate LED strips - 1 for under each door. Wire leads were a bit long but easy to zip tie up to hide and still connect, I think I had the leads around 12-18" each, which is more than enough.

2. I didn't take any pics while I was installing or soldering, but can take some now if you'd still like them. I tried to glue and double sided tape the strips onto the undercarriage, however they would not hold longer than a day. So I did some looking around under there and saw small holes from the running boards/plastic rivet type pieces. If you get under and look where you'd place the LED strip, you can see what I am referring to - hopefully, ha.

3. Can take pics of this if you want.

I don't know how to upload pics to the forum here, but can snap them with my phone to show you the close up. Just let me know, I can email too.

I used the 3M "quick connect" splicers to "cut" into the pos/neg wires on each of the running board lights. They come on/off on some sort of a dimmer when you lock/unlock the truck. The LED strips look pretty cool when you lock/unlock since they also dim when turning on and off. Very cool mod and well worth the time for the look and functionality.

Hope that answers your questions.

Those pics were taken on the way to and on Bear valley loop, about 15 miles north of Truckee off of 89. I like the trails around our 3 reservoirs: Bocs, Prosser and Stampede. A lot of fire roads but plenty of side trails with some more "challenging" stuff, nothing serious. Im by myself most the time. At this time last year you could have driven over the gates with all the snow we had but this year its still mud.

I took a little drive around Boca and noticed that the Boca hill trail gate was open and ventured up a little. Then went over to prosser and did some flexing in the snow. I saw alot of open gates, even one out of the ground. Here are some pics from today:

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Bullet holes (or shotgun) through those signs......lovely! haha, must be the rednecks on the loose or out in the wooded areas. See that all the time in the small towns in Florida.

Jeez. What small towns are those?

On the fire road down to the river near my house, there's a left curve sign with about 4 rounds of buckshot through it, some funny stuff... Casper, just curious if yours is 2 or 4wd, great ride with the Firestones and OME But on topic, I topped off the never-ending-money-tank and hauled some furniture to and fro Hobby Lobby for my mom

Not today, but on the 25th installed Daystar 2.5/1.5 & 1.25 Spidertrax

I finally got around to changing the oil. It was slightly overfilled and had a driveworks filter. Changed the spark plus still had the originals I am assuming denso on one side ngk on the other. I also changed the air filter which was nasty. I bought this truck 2 weeks ago from a local Toyota dealer with 69k miles, it was detailed up nice but you would think they would have serviced it before putting it up for sale.