What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

So stoked right now! Just picked up my Relentless Fabrication Defender bumper today. First thing to do (other than repainting) is get the 12k winch mounted along with some LEDs.

There are a few small dings and scratches on the edges, along with some powdercoat flaking off or gone, but -- to be honest -- that's to be expected sometimes when ordering parts like this shipped via freight; also, I'm not one to complain (much). The bumper is gonna get scratched eventually so I'm just going to end up rattle canning the cosmetic defects with some flat black Rust-Oleum with a quick bed liner topcoat to top it off. Function over form when it comes to bumpers but Relentless achieved both with this beast.

 

That's going to look sick!

 

How many cans did ya use? Gonna grab some off Amazon

 

I used 5 cans, that also did my door handles and mirror caps.

 

Installed my Hypertech Speedometer Calibrator today. The unit fixes the odometer readings also. This was a mod way overdue because when the truck read 80mph I was actually going about 86. I've been running 37s since around 5k on the odometer and now it reads 36k but I'm sure it's really supposed to be at least 40k.

No pictures of the actual install since the hardware is stowed away behind the instrument cluster panel but I did mess around with the ICP while I had it out by painting it white and blue to match the ongoing theme of Pluto. Had some fun with the 90-120mph readouts, too.

 

Holy smokes batman! What where are those flares?!?! Any drilling???

 

Can a rear sway bar be put on a 4" lifted CM?

 

Whats the size of that led light bar on the valance?

 

Also do have a close up photos of how u mounted it?

 

You have to both cut and drill a lot of the fenders and bedsides. A lot.

 

Yeah A LOT of cutting

 

I think you're gong to need longer links with that lift.

 

Sy inspired me to finally do this. Grill came off much easier than expected. I just wasn't a fan of all that chrome on the grill so this is a happy medium. It'll do until I have the money to drop on a TRD grill. Next mods are probably N-Fabs and Spyder headlights and I'm done for a while. Level goes in on Friday.

 

The after pic is up there Ron. All I did was plastic-dip the chrome in the center and left the chrome surround.

 

Ha.. the blue tape you put on first to spray it makes it look like you did the body color surround. I think that is what he was talking about, because that is what I first thought. Ha, looks good!

 

use the blue tape to color match your bumpers!!!

 

Hmm. that might not be a bad idea. Wonder if anyone could photoshop that?

 

That looks good man. Clean finish.
ps. Great color

 

Thanks guys! Getting ready to pull the trigger on the Spyders tonight and I need some help. I was thinking the black housing but should I go chrome? Thoughts?

 

Ask @r4z0r51o If I remember correctly, Dave had black grille insert with chrome surround, kind of like yours. Then got black spyders, which made him get rid of the chrome surround because he didn't like them together. So then he got a TRD Pro Grille with color matched surround.

 

So these headlights are actually a lot more expensive than I think....thats what you're saying? haha

 

Black fo sho

 

So potentially these headlights in black can cost an additional $500 on top of the lights. And your plastidipping would have been for naught. But I definitely like the black ones better.

 

Thanks Fellas! I was able to get a smoking deal from AutoAnything after some research!

 

Yep, that's what happened. I was very happy with the chrome surround but once I installed my black spyders the chrome had to go.

If you buy the clear/chrome it doesn't have too ...

Whoops, too late! Hopefully you can be happy with how the black spyders go with the chrome surround. If not, the painters tape thing works ... lol.

By the way, the black ones look better since the LED strip stands out better and are easier to see during the day.

 

Installed the covers.

 

Didn't "do" anything to it today but laid out a few things tonight for what to do tomorrow..

 

Nice

 

So this happened today....

More pics tonight when I get home of the actual truck. looks so fucking good