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

Happy single Happy bank account

 

The Woman is on my case to swap the headlight bulbs in her Corolla S to LED as well as her interior lights. She's all jealous of the great lighting in my Tundra.

"Mildly irritated wife, amusing life" is my creed. Much more entertaining this way.

 

What did you use to pry the map and dome lights off with? Ima through led's in mine this week.

 

Small flathead

 

On a chart I saw, it says that the dome and map are both 3175 but for led they are 30mm and 36mm?

 

Do these in the auto store parking lot. You’ll thank me later.

 

Flathead will definitely do that job but I have a plastic pry tool for interior trim that I've used.

For the dome lights, one was longer than the other in my truck but the same size led worked in both.

 

Cool, I will probably just get 3175 for both and see how it goes. thanks!

 

Alright, what am I doing wrong? I can’t get the spring compressors off. I’m only on the middle setting because otherwise it flat out won’t work!

these are 14” 650lb springs made by eibach. Something has to be wrong. Stock springs are 14” too. What the heck?!

 

Where did you get that emblem?

 

I hate those damn spring compressors. They’ll get bound up easily

 

Agreed. Don’t have a better option though. Any idea why these things need to be compressed so much? I mean, they physically won’t compress enough to get on the highest setting.

 

Look at the banana in this spring.

 

Amaxon

yeah these are pretty beefy and aluminum. Not plastic like most.

 

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A slight chub to the right is how it looks to me.

 

It’s not very slight in person. It’s actually on the shock housing on the one side.

 

Why does your bottom perch look so weird

 

Bummer bud. Not an expert on shocks/springs etc. so I am of no help.

 

Look at my perches. Yours should be like that? 5100s right? Granted mines the bottom setting.

 

Mines to the left

 

Ball joints, camber sleeves and nuts cane in today
(Order this part number for 05-06, you’ll save 20 bucks)

 

What do you mean?

 

Nothing swings, curves, or can turn left on this body.

 

Take a picture of the spot where the spring sits at the bottom, also what shocks are those

 

nope, I have the Eibachs.

here’s what they look like, and my stock Bilstein TRD shocks. (Yes the have a spacer. It’s from the PO)



my theory is that these are not the correct springs for the mounts. The issue is, there are no other Springs that wheelers sold that are any different, and they offer assembly services for 5100s.

 

for the most part she’s done! Besides some gusseting and wing supports(which I’m no math wizard, so that should be fun!)
@Professional Hand Model, notice the unhandled glove supporting my work while I weld; I’m not very good about protecting my left hand after I lost all hope of being a left handed or ambi-handed model about 13 years ago.....
I was a young buck, cleaning a little sneazers “dough sheeter”(look it up you will have hand model nightmares) and my hand got sucked in......luckily my knuckles made the belt driven gear box skip the belt enough times for me to shut it off before I could turn it off manually(had safeties bypassed to clean). My right hand is a gem though!!

 

tax deductible business expense.

 

You have the spring backwards

 

Exactly