What Did You Do To Your 3rd Gen Today?

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Replaced the torn seat bottoms with new leather and added heat while I had em off. Should have been a relatively fast and easy job but I initially put the bottom metal bracket back into the seat backwards on the passenger side and spent the following couple of hours trying to figure out why nothing lined up right - lol.
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Took my front suspension off and replaced the coil insulators...... no more sketchy noises coming from my suspension anymore. I also attempted to change out the upstream O2 sensor, that was a no go. I am going to have to just replace the headers and deal with it then. SO MUCH RUST that it ate away the threads on the nuts and it's impossible to free them.
 
Did some body repair. Used a high quality spray paint and clear coat. Turned out good enough for me.
 

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Did some body repair. Used a high quality spray paint and clear coat. Turned out good enough for me.



Looks pretty good! As a former auto body man for 20 years, I’m impressed with the bumper repair job..any reason you didn’t tackle the quarter panel? I know metal is a lot different animal than a plastic bumper.


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Went to Toyota to buy new crush washers for the front diff for when I replace the cv axles. Sales guy said he got some in last week and went back to find them. He handed them to me and said they were on the house!
Nice to have a great, local sales department.
 
Looks pretty good! As a former auto body man for 20 years, I’m impressed with the bumper repair job..any reason you didn’t tackle the quarter panel? I know metal is a lot different animal than a plastic bumper.


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Thank you. I ordered paint from
ERA Paints out of Oregon. I actually just ordered the new bumper end off eBay for like $35. I didn't want to do professionally given the cost for such a small area. The quarter panel ding was no big deal to me. Nice to have some paint on it though
 
Did a lot (kinda)! Added crossovers in the driver and passenger doors along with new tweeters. added 2x switches. 1 for the power antenna, so it works again! the other is for ambient lighting underneath the driver and passenger dashboard. My idea is that I want this car to have the smallest amenities of today's cars.

next up, ball joints. then followed by sound deadening the passenger area, heated seats and big 3 upgrade (probably going to do this before heated seats).
 
Broke three grille clips while removing the grille to perform a tranny flush. ATF was red but burnt, thanks to the failing torque converter I believe. Did find a pack of new OEM ones, ten to a pack, for $6 through Amazon.
 
I needed to replace the mic so my blue tooth phone calls would work so at the same time I completed the "blue wire" mod for my power antenna.
I added the antenna switch to the switch panel I made for ditch lights, rear lights, and a light bar.
 

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Washed her last night and of course it rains today...
 

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Supercharger/URD

Installed the supercharger and URD 2.2 pulley last weekend, and finished up the 7th injector today. Huge thanks to [MENTION=120071]mtbtim[/MENTION] and [MENTION=102606]infamousRNR[/MENTION] for their video, made the install a heck of lot less stressful.

As for the 7th, my advice to anyone contemplating it is drop the tank, I couldn't get the pump out any other way. Also, pull the wires through and into the engine bay, and work on them there.

I'm just pissed I didn't do this sooner, whole new vehicle!

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Getting so much snow this week and over the weekend here I had to go out with the big boys....

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Previous owner had installed a hood protection sticker that was severely UV damaged by the time I bought the truck. I have been putting off removing it because it was too brittle to peel off by hand.
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Found this tool at Autozone and it helped a ton.
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This plus some GooGone and I got this far in 2hrs...
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Super tedious but happy that it is coming off and the paint is in good shape underneath.
 
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