New to board, new to toyotas

But like them so far. I bought an 05 tundra SC V8 with 13K miles on it, so some observations and questions.
1. It was a pleasant surprise to find out it had a full size bed. Looking at it I thought it would be a mid size truck with a smaller bed, but nope. The downside is that it's not the traditional full sized bed, it's a few inches skinnier, so makes getting a bed a custom deal.

2. Anyone recommend some mud flaps? I have to replace on on the other tundra I bought a week later and both had toyota stock mudflaps. [2nd one has 110K miles].
Anyone have good ideas for mudflaps other than OEM?

3. Was told toyota auto transmissions are about a 180K unit. Any truth to this?

4. This is the only thing I have found wrong with the 13K mile one, in the picture. This is just the emergency brake that needs to be reattached to the other side, right?

That's all I have so far. Will get the timingbelts replaced in each due to age.
Miss anything?

 

Welcome from NY.

Mike from www.autoanything.com could help you. @eccracer104

 

Thanks Jim.

 

Welcome! Not sure what a "tundra SC" is - do you mean a regular cab? Those are the only ones that came with a full length bed (versus the AC and DC which have a bed just over 6 feet-ish). The powertrains on these are the strong point (4.7L plus the transmission) when maintained well. The frame, not so much. Not sure where your 180k transmission rumor came from...

Speaking of frames, and not wanting to sound negative, but that undercarriage looks to me like it has seen more than 13k miles.

Yes, that appears to be the brake cable that needs reattached and adjusted.

 

13K???? Thats insane.

Yes, you have to fix your parking brake. Not only for parking, but the parking brake is what adjusts the rear drum brakes and you will eventually have poor braking without it as the shoes wear down.

As a for transmissions, people have gone a 700K miles on them before having fix them. I'm almost 320 on mine. 180 would be a baby, just broken in. Don't worry about it.

 

looks like the cables broke. hard to tell from the photo. may need a new cable

 

Welcome

 

Welcome from Maine.

Do you mean bed liner? If so, they're readily available. Maybe less so for the Regular Cab, but they're out there.

My OEM mudflaps are still in good condition, so I haven't needed to shop for any.

In a word: no. A varient of these transmissions have been used for decades in many makes of vehicles including Toyota trucks, RWD Volvo cars -- both of which are known for exceptional longevity. If properly maintained (regular fluid changes) they go many hundreds of thousands of miles without a failure. I would be disappointed if I didn't get 500K plus out of mine. (I'm at 200K now). There are two things that will kill this transmission:
1) Don't change the fluid
2) "Pink Milkshake": failure of the fittings on the transmission cooler within the radiator. It allows the coolant from the radiator to mix with the ATF from the transmission and vice versa. Inspecting the fittings, and/or preemptively replacing the radiator are good preventive maintenance. In all honesty, the Pink Milkshake appears to be more of a problem with the Gen-3 4Runner and Gen-2 Tacoma. I don't know if anyone on this forum has experienced it with their Tundras. I feel it's worth keeping an eye on though because the cooling system fittings on our Tundras are the same as those used in the Tacoma and 4Runner -- and the fittings are the failure point.

Yes, that's the parking brake cable. I can't see if the hardware is broken at the bell crank or if the crimped on swage is just torn off. If you have the ability to crimp a new swage on you might be able to salvage it. Otherwise, you'll need a whole new cable.

 

One more thing: has the frame been replaced on that truck? The small part I can see looks pretty black along with the springs. The rest looks a little rusty. Are you in the north east/midwest?

 

Welcome from Ohio.

 

Thanks for all the welcomes. Lord Empty, I do like your collection of Modern Sporting Rifles. My wife keeps our freezers full with hers.

My bad for abbreviations out of the blue. SC = single cab, 2wd, auto and full size bed. They are clones of each other except the 13K one has a v8 and the 113K one has a v4. The florida one has a factory drop in bedliner, which will be gone as soon as I can find a topper for it that doesn't cost a lot and/or order one. Those drop in ones do nothing but rub off the paint and trap stuff underneath. And are slippery to put stuff on.

I didn't realize not attaching the parking brake would affect the regular brakes.....but if I actually thought it out, it would make sense. The only way it wouldn't would be if it had the old school jeep parking brake where the drum is on the rear driveshaft. Yeah, had one of those and took it out.

The guy that told me about the toy trannies is a long time toyota fan and he said a broker told him that when searching for a used one. I've always been a Big Three truck guy, American Steel, so these are my first toyotas and it's nice to see how much of them are actually made in the US, unlike most of the big three trucks these days.

The truck was a florida truck from an estate, thus the low mileage. I figured there'd be some speckles of rust from the salt water spray down there. I live up north, in a salt on the roads state, which is why I bought another one to drive when there's salt on the roads. This one came from iowa, 113K and rust around the rear fenderwells. I figure that's common as that's where snow sits on most vehicles. This summer I'll blast it, bondo and paint it. Probably put some fender extensions to cover up my lousy work.

On the 113K Iowa truck, when I washed it, pieces of what looked like undercoating came off the frame by the rear tires, so I figure on an 04 they coated the frame and now that's coming off.

the 13K one, 05. The heat shield above the muffler has a lot of flash rust on it