What have you done to your 1st gen Tundra today?

Added bed lighting. It’s tied into the cargo light circuit.

 

How did you tie yours in exactly? I've been thinking about doing this but haven't done it yet.

 

Thats pretty tits

 

Now do the colight mod and you'll be doneskis

 

Behind the dash going up to the left "A" pillar is the wiring for the dome, cargo and high mount lights. The cargo light wire is red with a black stripe. The ground is white with a black stripe. I tied into that and ran a line down through the gromet under the carpet and to the back. Then tied all lights in together hiding the wiring as far up into the inner parts of the bed as I could reach.

 

Sweet. What lights did you use?

 

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Pressed my wheel hubs back into the new bearings / steering knuckles. Installed my CV axles, new lower ball joints, got the steering knuckles in, then the sway bar. Got started on putting the brakes back on then had to stop.

 

Its pretty easy, just need access to an air compressor. You can use the video shifty posted and, yes, the part number I posted is for 13WL calipers not the WE.

Thanks, it took me about 3 hours and I was taking my time. I just used a wire wheel on a drill. Scothbrite would probably be a good option too.

 

Doing a thing. Shout out to @bmf4069 for the hookup. These will be the sexiest thing on my truck. @shifty` approved gold.

 

After picking this Tundra up on 2/29/24 and then traveling from 3/1/24 through 3/10/24 - I was able to spend a little time cleaning it up today. I had some leftover headlight cleaning materials, which I used on headlights and fog lights. While not perfect, they cleaned up pretty nice. I washed it and put a quick coat of wax on it. Overall, pleased with how it cleaned up. Also drove it to landfill this morning. Really like the engine/transmission combination. Has plenty of power and isn’t constantly shifting when in high gear. Last item I did was remove the glovebox handle (it was broken). The video on how to remove handle from this forum was so very helpful. Now I need to see what I need to do to get the glovebox back in working condition.

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I just installed those yesterday. Definitely an upgrade over stock. Hardest part was holding the end link bolt still while adjusting the nut over top the sway bar, but definitely still doable though.

 

That could have been better described in the instructions. Need a skinny wrench. Or what I did was loosen the bottom nut to slide the base out to get my crescent on it. Then retighten the bottom nut.

 

Also stuck the Shifty` Approved sticker on my 2.5Gen frame since it’s so clean. Hope that’s cool.



























kidding!!!

 

I think the hardest part is holding the lower cam parallel to the ground and preventing it from kicking up while tightening it down. I can't recall if that tidbit is in the instructions they provided with the end links, but it was in one of the versions I either found at their site or got with my replacement bushings...

 

Nice! Wish I thought of that. I had an old cheap 9/16" wrench and I thinned it out a little using a bench grinder to make it fit.

 

Nothing to my Tumdras. New valve cover gaskets on my 05 Burb. Looks OK for 310K miles.

 

I used cone wrenches that are specifically used to bike wheel teardown. Worked great.

 

to 249 for now....

 

Drove mine to work.

 

Mocked up the Auxbeams this morning

 

Whoa, daddy likey

 

@The Black Mamba
How many other people would like to see a glamor shot of those sweet ass gold starfish wheels on the truck!?
(unless I missed it somewhere)

 

More gold!

 

damn 2 more in yellow or amber would look the tits.

 

I haven't even seen them ON the truck yet