What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

Thank you. Suspension should be next.

 

Basically, it's just a readout for all the parameters that your ECU monitors. It's not a tuner but theres like 70 different readouts you can monitor. Your short and long trim,engine load, intake temperature, throttle position, etc. Its pretty useful.

 

Last time I made fun of crewmax underseat storage I got made fun of for my rear window not going down. You guys do have that advantage .

 

Put on the Icon UCA billet caps, looks much better than just seeing the top of the bj and grease fitting imo.

 

With 6.5’ or 8.1’ bed length options, DCs Rock!

 

Picked up a load of wood just as the snow started to come in. Good thing too because our propane gauge stuck at 20% and unstuck at 0% last night so we are without heat in half the house lol. Wood burning stove gonna see some work for the next 24 hours until we get refilled tomorrow.

 

What grill is that? Like the bumper too looks good.

 

DB Customz with SS Built bumpers front and rear.

 

Changed to black door handles, color matched mirror caps, and got the tech12volts audio package installed (eventually).

 

My truck has 16,000 miles and just went out of warranty. It was great to take it to Charley's for an oil change last week for the first time. Jake worked on it and commented that the access door on the RCI skid was a cool feature. He also liked the RC shackles. When I set the appointment, Charley asked me what year the Tundra was and then said it was one of the "big ones."

I had to sit outside the shop in my camping chair because of COVID, but I got to see Stinky, Jake's dog, at the end. I'd much rather give my money to Charley's. All our trucks now go there.

The family bought new ski helmets yesterday. REI with Crystals, an independent locally owned ski shop across the street. Pretty easy decision who got our helmet money.

 

Why only 24 hrs? I'm on propane baseboard heat so with the cost of that I have the baseboard pipes filled with antifreeze so they never need to see work. Unfortunately I'm the work bc I burn wood 24/7 for almost 6 months out the year with an upstairs and downstairs woodstove. Zero heating cost is great but I'd be lying if I said it was easy. The Tundra gets plenty work off it too. I just brought the wood in off the deck for the week 2 sec ago. Here I sit now.


Not an uncommon site in the fall. Spring you will see a big ass trailer attached loaded to the gills with firewood. Way I look at it is the money not being spent to heat the house is just more money for mods. Work pays the bills and firewood buys the mods lol.

 

I typically run the stove when I'm home, but I work a lot (anywhere from 60 to 70 hours a week). Wife has the two kids to control so no way she would remember to keep it going beyond that. So for at least the next 24 hours I will be keeping it going nonstop. I'd keep it going nonstop if I could but I'm rarely home home tend to it.

 

So much for the de-chroming. Was about to remove the grill insert and saw the end is cracked, went to unscrew the four screws and one was sheared off and fell out when I removed the screw. (the thing is paper thin, really Toyota?)
Reached out to Sparks but am expecting a ‘what did you do, Richard?!’ response. Its cracked right where the pointy part of the plastic is so my best guess is it was drop-kicked out of the back of the fedex truck and hit point-first and my dumb ass didnt notice until I went to take it apart and got my face next to it. Fml

 

I hear ya, winter is my busy season with work too. You can usually find me standing in a hole in the road turning wrenches on water mains, or sitting in a machine or dump truck moving stone or snow.
I gotta say I'm lucky that wifey is comfortable and willing to at least load the 1st one usually and whenever I'm not around she'll step up to tend to it. I can't say she's out there splitting, stacking, and cutting, but I'm not so sure I'd want that anyway lol. I got the same 2 kid problem lol. The oldest is at least getting to that age where he helps me stack. Soon his little ass is gonna be dragged out there to assist in the cutting and splitting too lol.

 

My wife is very book smart, however common sense and practical house stuff eludes her...so I wouldn't want her on the stove lol.

Kids are 20mo and 6mo so they're a bit too young to help at the moment lol.

 

Yup just think soon they'll be the age where they want to help but get more in the way and cause safety concerns. Then soon as they pass that age where they can help in a safe manner they want nothing to do with helping. See what u have to look forward to lol. Good luck with it all.

 

Washed, waxed and cleaned! Installed some AJT designs chrome delete pieces and some Clazzio seat covers. Started vinyl wrapping some interior trim as well. Steering wheel trim color match wrap and blacking out the center dash trim soon to come! (Also getting my vinyl wrap on that front bumper fixed this week )

 

Wow - thanks for sharing 75 degrees outside.

 

That grill is sick!! Any tss issues?

 

That sucks. Is there any way to repair it?

 

Nooooooooo!

 

That happened to me as well but with 3 Pro grilles from Sparks. They have a easy return policy for up to the 3rd grille and after that they refund you all of your money. Great customer service just back luck with FedEx delivery. Ended up ordering another Pro grille through Lewis Toyota and am waiting for it to ship. Pics are from damaged delivered grilles.

 

Truck looks awesome. You now have me rethinking my (future) black end caps... did you remove those pieces to wrap them or did you leave them installed?

 

Nope. Did at first (one of the first few with the grille) but that was solved with some washers just to reangle it. $0.20 fix.

 

Thanks! I pulled the grill and front fender pieces and popped the fog lights out and wrapped them in place. I've got a buddy who has a wrap shop who helped me do it.

 

That's awesome! What about your interior dash pieces?

 

Info on rear seat cover?

 

Those are some surface trim covers I found on ebay that we wrapped and stuck. They don't wrap around the whole piece but I don't mind it.

 

Um... you happen to have a link? I've been trying to debate how much blue I want on the interior