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

That's how mine are. I already sanded and cleared them, but they're too sun worn.

I'll have my painter lightly smoke them whenever I get around to buying them.

 

How'd you snap the cable by the way? Was it just too rusted/rotted and stretched?

Just an aside, I plan on replacing the bushing on the equalizer and any other frozen parts this weekend (I think I posted these on my a previous post as well)

 

Yeah, it was just rusty, and I was really cranking hard on the parking brake trying to get the rear brakes to adjust. I replaced the front one over the summer and should've replaced the rear one too.

 

I noticed some oil on the driveway under my rear diff, which reminded me I needed to buy more diff oil to top it off anyways. Paid $30 for a pump, because I didn't feel like taking off the spare tire or fighting the bottle again. Worth it.
Anyways, my dumb ass didn't torque down the drain plug. It was finger tight the last two weeks, including my trip from Houston to Dallas and back, for those three Kendas... Ooops!
Surprisingly it didn't start leaking til after that trip and it only took like a 1/4 qt, which is about how low I expended it to be before the leak. So I'm feeling pretty good about it.


Then I noticed exactly what I always feared...
The 1" lift blocks me and @Sirfive installed in place of lowering blocks are shifting. Gonna need to swap em for the proper fitting SOS 1/2" lowering blocks soonish.


This really shows how they never fit properly.

The shift is not the appearance of backing out. It not going anywhere that way, the shift is the twisting. Either way, they never fit right.

 

3/4 of my skidplates showed up. Hoping @FabulousDale has my sliders ready for t2s.


I’ll call em skidplates, but they’re really just diapers to hold my leaks a bit. Impressed with skidrow’s packing. They added foam on the edges to keep things from falling out of the boxes.

 

Son of a shit...

Why is @shifty` always right?
Gonna bind.

Fucking sending it.

 

guess you need to go lower. Gonna call you sparky if you dont get stuck at the train tracks.

 

Without the jack lifting the crontrol arm. I can live with it.

 

And you're already an expert on installing and uninstalling these on Penelope

 

Not sure it counts with regard to "doing" anything to my Tundra...but I received shipping notifications for my new driveshaft, fr33lance gusseted spindles, and Radflo set up. I did open a box that arrived today that had the GX calipers and Wildwood LSPV kit. Always fun to collect parts, then look at the pile early on a saturday morning and rub the rosary...praying for no broken or stubborn bolts.

 

No centering pin on those?

 

The front 2 plates will get kopper kote. The rear 2 plates will get loctite. (After a tcase d&f and planning for future d&f’s for the tranny). If the time comes, who knows, if i can blow a tranny i’ll unlock the manual trans perk… so i’ve heard thats how bmf got the manual vic.

 

So it was an ⅛ low?

 

They do

 

Maybe before it leaked.

 

I did do something. Got a bit carried away with the cerakote today. Did the Diode Dynamics bezels and some pew-pews. I won't post pics as I'll probably get banned. The Foxbeam bezels I was giving away for free were also cerakoted...if anyone wants them. Sort of a darker grey.

I pulled the lights to change up the set ups. I'll put the SS3s on ditch brackets along with the SSC1s. The SSC2s are getting new lenses and will be my left/right camp lights. Speaking of ditch brackets. I'm running the Ragos, but ordered some under the mirror mounts to try out. They have slots to mount 2 lights each side, one at an angle out and one sideways. I always have blind spots in the mountains and this may fix it. Plus, it'll get the lights out of my view. We'll see.

 

Why they slippin then

 

They aren't. Thats just how the lift blocks sit with the SOS kit and exactly why I need to swap in the SOS lowering blocks.
They are twisting.

 

https://youtu.be/cP4yAnbtDZE?si=02QYzFN4ZF9tMRtf

 

New radiator and hoses along with the PCV. Also ordered new transmission cooler hoses. The current ones look...old and a few are cracking a bit. May as well swap them out.

Also updated my Auxbeam from the BA80 to the RA80 yesterday. Changed all of the electrical to fully run off the house battery.

 

Took the boys camping, they drove me bananas most of the time but we all had a blast! It rained pretty much all night and into the morning as we were packing up, we then took the control road up the backside of the mountain to the top and played in fresh snow; we were probably 3rd thru the fresh snow, I can’t complain
Diesel heater kept us nice and toasty, I actually kicked it on right after we set up camp because the boys hands were cold from messing with the snow they got the night before
I employed some different fire building and maintaining techniques gotta have that ice cream! I was tripping last night, I sware that was Godzilla in the fire! Put it in the air!
turkey town, hadn’t seen them at all until this morning. Camp was kinda busy last night; all the rookies showing up at dusk while it started snowing lightly
Played in the snow, made snow cones, and went to the general store up top and got a elbow of fudge

 

Today I bent my front driver side rim in Big Bear. Mud n snow trail and remember a hard knock. Can see air escaping along the bead and wobble over 30. Good times

 

Diode Dynamics lens swap. Converted the SS3s to ditch lights and moved the SS2s to side camp lights. The S1 pods will go onto the mirror bracket when they come in...see how that works. If no one wants the foxbeam bezels...they'll go out with the trash tomorrow.

 

The OG Jack come through like a champ
Ya that’s pretty bad
Fyi Remax keeps their parking lot nice and clean. A+ work Remax. Thank you

 

Thats cardboard corner braces from a big AC box, the ground was soaked so I figured it would help keep the fire going better while it started

no I threw rocks at the lil kitty

 

Those beadlocks didn't save you?

 

Polekitty

 

Don’t believe they’re real beadlocks but they did get me down the mountain. For that I am grateful