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

I appreciate the effort that went into this. Super clean.

 

The metal work is art with the bolt head cutouts and weld beads ... and Dale's pretty cute too. After seeing this probably need to figure out how to get a CNC plasma cutter some day at home. Did you bend the 90s in the leaf pack holders hot and quench; what is the best process to do it right? And what size pipe did you canoe to fit the axle OD?

 

Mmmmmm that's all purrty and cleeeean

Outstanding job man

 

This may be a stupid question, but I thought the “canoes” would be welded to the axle tube?

 

Wagon style for quick detach.

@ToyotaDude I'll provide some more details in my build thread when I update it.

 

Your pinion angle will hold tight?
Color me impressed

 

Sorry toasty, I thought that was a joke. I will load it with some weight and set the pinion angle before welding the doubler to the axle tube. Probably tomorrowish.

 

Hahaha with all the cool shit your doing, it wouldn’t surprise me if you came up with something that could detach!

 

Nothing to do today so I squirted 4 coats of single stage urethane on my 2003 RCLB. All I need to do now is slap the topper back on and drive it until I'm dead.

 

I wonder if could use one from an AC back seat

 

Y'all fancy. I use an 16" piece of copper tubing. I'll take a pic later. I know I've mentioned this previously. Stupidly, I have a nice breaker bar too, I just find myself reaching for the copper more often than not.

Dang, now do my cap!

Is that 056 Natural White?

What color was it before?

 

This thing might’ve seen some shit over the last two decades. It has never failed me. No need to be embarrassed about cheap tools. I consider myself the smarter dude for not spending $$ where it wasn’t warranted. 1” copper ftw!

 

I thought it was one of the new fancy pastel tans or something. Whatever Toyota calls that color. Lunar rock maybe?

 

It's a little late in the game, but i just saw that ORA has U bolt eliminator kits on sale for 20% off (discount code is "1776").... https://offroadanonymous.com/product/u-bolt-eliminator-kit/

 

What's the draw of eliminating u-bolts?

 

No u bolts .... "Come one man" it's self explanatory.

But for reals it hard mounts, welds the leaf perches to the axle. Just eliminates a potential mechanical failure point, well as long as it was welded in correctly it'll eliminate a mechanical failure point lol

 

I mean if I welded my flip kit u bolts to my axle it would be kinda sorta the same thing, but not quite, but close.

Ground clearance

 

Should have fuck it and color matched the mirrors.

Made them cateye Bois jellyfishin bout it lmfao

 

I'm just having a hard time wrapping my head around how four bolts is any better than two u bolts per side.

Just seems like a different way to accomplish the same thing, with no clear winner to me.

 

I get the ground clearance part at least haha

 

You completely eliminate the risk of left/right slippage on the axle? Could be kinda important if you intent to huck* it hard. Or am I just f’n nuts?

 

I don't know. Because you got the notch in the spring perch, on the axle, where the leaf pack center pin goes inside. That should eliminate any left to right anyways.

Either way it's cool and goes to show there at least three ways to skin this particular cat haha

 

Yes, 056 Natural White before and after. I was tempted to paint it Sunset Bronze Mica like some of the newer Tundras, but a color change is a whole lot more work, door jambs and cab to bed gap etc. My Leer cab high topper is also 056 Natural White and in excellent condition but if I had found a mid rise topper like ARE MX in any color I would have pulled the trigger on a color change and sold the Leer.

 

Looks great. How did you handle the bed to cab gap below the rear window (looks like you shot the hood and roof separately)? Was wondering how I was going to handle the roof carrying it over the back and down the the bed ....

 

I painted the roof, hood, grille and tailgate (on sawhorses) first, then painted the rest 2 days later. It really didn't involve that much extra taping. I just couldn't see myself reaching over wet fenders to paint the hood, much easier this way. The area below the rear window only got the first 2 coats, this truck always has a camper shell on it. I removed the bulbs out of the cargo light while I had the camper shell off.

 

So weld them to my axle....... question mark