What Did You Do To Your 3rd Gen Today?

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Drove it to work. Smiled. Went to the junkyard and pulled some '99 tall coils to swap out. Filled it up with gas. Parked it until tomorrow morning.
 
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Spent the past two weeks recovery from surgery. Septoplasty and something else I can’t spell but fixed my severe deviated septum. Also had surgery for a tonsillectomy at the same time. During that time I ordered all these parts for a major maintenance upgrade to my runner for next month.


VC Gaskets, spark plugs, sending fuel injector to whichhunter to be rebuilt, timing belt (still waiting on the kit), steering rack bushings, LCA bushings, inner tie rods, cv axles with boot stretch mod, and swapping all differential fluids and tac welding the steering play weld fix.
And if I have enough time upgrade all the speakers and add a sub as well



And then the fun stuff begins in August :banana::banana:
 
Got Runner back from paint shop Wednesday.
With new sport hood painted blended into fenders and the biggy AOR Plate bumper color matched Millenium Silver.
Then rain moved in Thursday, Friday got scoop insert put together, I stripped black
paint from scoop mesh now nice stainless color.

Today Scoop insert goes on, Cladding goes back on.
Then A/C condensor and drier come off, time for new ones.
Paint core support since it's half black half silver, going with silver.
New grille goes on.
 
Got Runner back from paint shop Wednesday.
With new sport hood painted blended into fenders and the biggy AOR Plate bumper color matched Millenium Silver.
Then rain moved in Thursday, Friday got scoop insert put together, I stripped black
paint from scoop mesh now nice stainless color.

Pics???

Paint core support since it's half black half silver, going with silver.

This may not apply to you because of silver and the new bumper. But I did this for my white truck with the OEM bumper, and found out that the white was way too visible through the lower portion of the grille, and it looked really bad. So I went back to black again for that middle section. Just saying, have a look at it first before committing.

Painted white:



White showing through:



Back to black:

 
Dropped off the Sport hood at the painter's, fingers crossed he doesn't screw it up.

Also replacement carpet day! My old one wasn't all that bad, but it had a hole worn through by the driver's foot, which even though I couldn't see it with the Weathertech mat in place, bothered me knowing it's there.

The '99 donor carpet installed:



Old carpet:



Hole:



 
Used the last bit of my tube for this bar. Turned out nicely. Once I get more tube I’ll finish this door and move to the passenger side.

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Got my tcase and transmission skids bent and on. Coming up with the front skid should be interesting.
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Should give me a little more coverage than this lol
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FINALLY replaced my lower ball joints. Shout out to Timmy for making the vid that made it look easy enough to do!
 
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Pics??? Silver and black core support

Pic's, maybe, I stopped taking them in April 2014.
A EF5 Tornado Decided I did'nt need 44 yrs of history anymore.
Took Grandmothers house, my man cave/shop office, required total interior gutting of main house and roof was half gone. We were in center of main house with this chit going on, LOL, what a ride. This was in the country with lots of fields lots woods never did find my computer, photo albums or most of my stuff. Just have'nt got back in the groove of taking pic's yet.

Like what you did with your black and white. My runner for some reason, PO repairs, a little here a little there of black, could'nt find any damage to core support or evidence of replacement.
Started prepping for paint with acetone, low and behold all the black paint wiped off with the acetone and now have a good looking silver core support.

The frame is black, going to carry the black forward by painting the bumper mounting bar frame black, silver bumper mounted on black mounting bar.
Sounds good, we'll see in a couple days. Need to paint the frame ends and mounting bar, paint don't dry with 90% humidity.
 
Good to see everyone keeping up on their 3rd Gen yotas. Spent a good half of the day prepping and fixing the famous rear passenger side frame rot on my SR5. Lots of metal fab to armor it up- gotta love Wisco salt. To continue tomorrow...

Hopefully will have a build thread up soon (with pics of course).

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I am paranoid schizophrenic about blown head gaskets so I checked today with the Lisle Combustion Leak Detector. Blue is good, yellow is bad. Looks A-OK. :rockon:

That's just for Sandy. On the other hand, I know Snowy has a blown head gasket so no need to test it...

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