What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

Yeah I feel like I'm in a minority. I understand the motives behind chrome-delete because I did that with my old Tacoma, but my tastes have changed a bit with the Tundra. I like really liked the look of the Limiteds and Platinums, but couldn't find one in a 6-passenger.

 

Installed my carrier bearing drop today, super quick and easy install. I didn't realize how much vibration I had until I installed the drop kit, but it's all cleaned up now!

 

@BreyTundy
When I do my 3/2 lift, will this be a necessity?

 

Mine had 2 pads in box that attached to bottom of mat. Check box and make sure they were not in box.

 

I wasn't sure about the letters, but it looks good on red. Get flat letters, the 3d look dumb.

 

Took a year or so to finally complete the de-chrome’ing my 17’ CM. I added the TPO black bumper shellz from Ecoological, Falken wildpeak A/T3 W, tires, quicksand grill / bulge, Vision Granite alloy 18 wheels, have new badges on the way. Simple but looks good at 39 K. Thanks to all the members on this forum for sharing their knowledge and insight

 

re-torqued and marked all the bolts from my shock install since I hit the recommended 50 mile mark

 

I'd say it is necessary with a 3/2 lift. Mine is only lifted 1" in the rear and I still had some driveline vibration.

 

Before and after. Color matched LED third brake light.

 

Oh man, more blue ribbon stuff? You're killing me. That look really slick

 

Rear leaf springs rebuilt, re arched, and a leaf added to get the correct weight/ride height.

Stopped by @sdhq_offroad for some shock parts and battery terminals.

 

Thanks Sean! Gonna wrap the grill surround tomorrow.

 

Nice! Good luck with the wrap, definitely have a few extra hands available

 

Crap, I don’t. I’ll do my best. It’s mostly for the wife to get a visual, so I can get the go ahead for paint. Once in a while she likes to be included in the mods.

 

I tried to do the full grill insert. Couldnt pull it off. I hope you have better luck

 

Looks like trouble at the Toyota emblem. Can’t fault ya for trying. Still a cool idea. Maybe try your hand at some paint bro!!

 

^^ I bet that color matched vinyl was expensive!

 

I think I spend around $20 on the roll. Wasn't bad at all.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00KPX7M9Y?psc=1&ref=ppx_pop_mob_b_asin_image

 

I was thinking it was as expensive as the color matched stuff I found for my color... would have been cheaper to buy new parts and paint them

...yea it was that expensive.

 

Monday replaced my tire that the dealer ordered the wrong model of. Now I don't have a hub cap... Made appt. for next Thursday for oil change and they're covering the hub cap.

Been noticing a ringing sound at 70-77ish mph cruising. Thinking it's something with my exhaust as it goes away when I let off. Not sure what though, I suppose I can re-torque the resonator and check on my hole weld on the @dirtydeeds 10", I never repainted it and didn't tell the shop it was SS so hopefully the weld is still there (but I never had a ringing when I first installed and had the hole though).

Also been noticing a pretty bad grabbing/shudder in slow or stop and go traffic when off the gas (idling down, coasting) then touching the throttle again to move at about 1k RPM. Feels like the transmission is engaging really hard and jerks the truck. Not sure what this could be?

 

Color matched Spyder fogs, done!

 

Why must you torture me with all this blue ribbon beauty?

 

Finally got my MCM UCAs installed. Thanks Matt!

 

I finally swapped over my rear shock from the OEM black tokiko to the TRD Sport Bilstein.
They are quite a bit beefier, heavier, and much much more stiff as far as trying to collapse them down. I was able to use one arm to collapse the OEM shock down to remove it from the perch and could not even budge the new shock into place, I had to jack up the truck to full droop and pry the lower mount in. The recoil is also much slower. This could be a result of shocks with 40k miles vs 4 miles, buy they do ride better as well especially as far as bed bounce and recoil over bumps, it's much smoother now.
It has to be all in my head but the rear end of my truck appears to be sitting higher now since the swap, I know shocks don't lift but it looks higher than it did.
Now if I could just find time and energy to do the front coil overs swap.

 

Killer.

 

Washed waxed, replaced rear bumper, and installed a tonneau cover. I'm calling it for the day.

 

Spoke with David aka @Coachbuilder1 (Great guy) today about his recommendations for my truck. After the call purchased 3 shims (2 driver, 1 passenger) and +3 shackles. Can’t wait until they arrive!

 

Ha! That was the same recommendation for my truck when I called. You’re gonna like it a lot. Which suspension are you using?

 

@BlueRibbon4x4 Like the way ur truck Looks!! what did u used on ur front bumper?? i like that look