What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

What size tires and rims?

 

One more question. Did you use overlays or did you replace the bulge and grille surround with painted pieces? Anybody have experience good or bad with overlays like these: Tundra Grille Surround and Hood Bulge Overlay Chrome Delete Kit (ecoological.com)

 

Seem gimmicky and cheap to me, I’d get the real thing for $250 more. It’ll last and you won’t have a little line of chrome showing at all times

 

They were genuine Toyota grill and bulge from local stealership

 

I have the overlays on my front bumper end caps and grille surround…the end caps have held up well but grille surround came loose on one side. I ordered color matched grille surround and hood bulge from Sparks Parts Toyota and a new bumper will be purchased soon.

 

How do you keep your phone from sliding off??

 

Found the cement bulge piece for $240 but only option I see for cement grille surround is $630. I'm probably looking in the wrong spot. Will just give them a call on Monday and see what my options are.

 

It's got a MagSafe charger so the magnet holds it in place.

 

What year is your truck?

The one I installed was the grill with the surrounds, bottom of the grill and the 2 sides of the grill, pre painted, one piece.

 

It's working like a charm - I absolutely love it.

 

Waxed my tonneau cover before it rained.

 

This was a real quick search, so triple check but this maybe the part number you need. This is probably what you found.

Pics show TRD grill but sys trail edition? Confusing for sure.

531010C560B0

toyota-grille-assembly-531010c560b0

The 2017 doesn't have the Toyota safety sense, that maybe why its cheaper?

 

Yeah, that’s what I was coming up with. Thanks for looking. My guess is that it is due to the TSS. Maybe someone else knows otherwise.

 

Ecoological grill cover

 

Doing the 30k diff/transfer case service. Of course the maintenance required light comes on for the engine oil.

 

Is that the same stuff you cited the link to in previous posts? Looks like it will be a good day and a happy truck!!

 

Yes sir.

 

Are you trying to change to a different insert style as well or just the main goal to color match?

 

My Cement baby! Will have to wash it and get some more detailed photos of everything that I have poured into this puppy. I had a 2016 and traded it in for the 21 when the pandemic hit and I know the last V8 was being produced. I knew exactly what I was going to do to this one after going the cheap route on my first truck. Very happy and proud of this bad boy! I’ve posted the new OEM chrome face, suspension, and exhaust that I took off of this one to replace with TRD cosmetics and 2.5” FOX Reservoir suspension. Drives better than when I took it off the lot

 

I like the stance and height. You say that's a 2.5" lift. What size tires are those.

 

Haulin wood

 

I’ve got no real issue with my grille but would like to get rid of the chrome surround and bulge.

 

No sir. These are the 4" suspension lift FOX shocks that are 2.5" in diameter. That's the largest ones offered for a Toyota. I had to get the adjustable upper control arms to make all that fit. Otherwise you can only fit a 33 tire. On my last truck, I wanted to do a 35 tire but I did a 6" lift with 2" body lift to be able to fit the tires, worse thing I could have done. I bought the rough country set up to save a buck. I can't describe how my truck drives in comparison to the whole body lift and all that. They did have to cut and roll a very small section of the fender all the way at the bottom and the inside of the bumper plastic but I didn't care. When I was told that they had to do some cutting on my first truck, I told them no and that was why I had to do the body lift. Totally worth it but make sure you have the right people do that work. Not your guy on every other block.

 

Last of the chrome is gone...

 

Removed the 60 rear seat section. May still remove the single seat at some point. I swapped the seat bottom brackets. The one under the single seat has an extra bracket to support the other seat and I didn't want it to stick out. It's the same bracket, you just have to cut off the locator pin. I didn't feel like waiting for paint to dry, so I just covered the marks from the cutoff wheel with tape, so seal it off for now.
Next on the list is to remove the front center seat, then build a raised platform in the back for storage and to set tool boxes on and for the dogs to sit on. Then a custom console, arm rest up front. Gotta stare at it for a while and wait for ideas to come from,.....wherever those come from.

 

Knocked out a few more of my mods that have been collecting dust.

First up was removing the last chrome piece on my truck and installing the pop lock at the same time. Easy install took less then an hour.

While I was under there I went ahead and extended the diff breather to behind the tail light. In this pic you can see the brackets that hold my brake lines, these were extended when I installed the extended brake line kit from sdhq.

Next was the ajt black steering wheel trim pieces. Let's see how long it takes for my OCD to kick in and I sharpie the volume buttons black.

Lastly I'm working on installing my switch panel, I ordered the sdhq shifter trim with the hole cut already. Just needed to transfer my black trim over to it before installing it. Tomorrow I'll try and get the module installed under the hood and work on connecting everything to it.

 

@RichterScale Not sure, but since you’re looking for ideas, something here might give you one:

How-To: Plywood Platform in Place of Rear Seats

 

Thanks. It will be plywood and similar.
I'll probably come up with something overly complicated and involved, spend a weekend getting it 40% complete, then just use it as is for 4 yrs until it's ruined. That's typically how my projects go.
I'm picturing removing the center front seat/console, then making a one piece raised platform that's about the hieght of the seats. It will cover the rear and flow out over the tranny hump between the front seats. There'll be a raised armrest on top of that, storage inside and hinged lids in the back to store straps, cables, etc and a big flat surface on top for bigger items like tool boxes and whatever I'm carting around. And the dogs will be able to hang out back there on a nice flat surface and able to look out the windows without scratching the crap out of the plastic door panels. I'm thinking of a finished panel on the back wall too, to possibly mount the inverter and DC-DC charger.
I haven't thought about any of the details yet. I'll have to pull the center seat out and see what's under it. I'm also considering rerouting the heater vent under the driver seat to the back window somehow.

 

So, this happened…a couple days anyway

 

I swapped out my leaking Falcons for some Icon 2.5 VS IR...23" hub to fender on front and 24" on the rear; I dropped the front down x8 revolutions on DS and x12 revolutions on PS for a 1.25" lift (1/8" actual lift per revoltion)...crappy photo of end result but you get the drift... I'm happy to not bounce anymore!





**edit: Icon adjustment data