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

I just cut mine, there are 4 bolts in the middle that are inaccessible but 2 of mine were already cut so i just cut the remaining 2 and yanked it out

 

Perfect for my needs. I tow/haul occasionally and opted for the e-rated, though P-rated would have sufficed for the tow/haul specs on our trucks. The e-rated probably drives a little stiffer and is for sure heavier by spec by 7lbs a tire iirc.

This is a strong tire. Great on road, sand, and snow.

 

Some of us get tickled for some of the smallest things in life and while changing driver side turn signal bulbs, found this little noise chirper(piezo)

2004 DC Limited 4x4 if anyone wonders by and needs to know where that little sucker is in our body style.

 

After replacing the climate lights w/ LEDs, I'm on a full on mission to remove any of the green lights in this truck now. So I spent an hour or so fiddling with the search function because I remember seeing that someone sanded their gauges to get rid of the green. Well I did this over the weekend and it looks great. Since I think @Casper421 has kinda ghosted on us, if any of you 03+ guys want to tackle it, I could do a small write up with my tips. Its not that hard, just a little messy and intimidating.

 

Do it! I'd appreciate a write up for how you take it apart also.

 

I thought it was determined no sanding was needed on those gauges? Or maybe the 05-06 are different. Someone else chimed in last year and said you just had to replace the old bulbs with new ones rather than sand.

 

Mine were built into the gauge pod and there's no way to replace them. Im fairly certain if you have the gauges that have the same font style as pictured above, you're gonna be sanding.

 

Yep, 05-06 are different. Integrated lights with the board.

 

Have that in my stash of saved links....it was @Jerry311SD

What have you done to your 1st gen Tundra todOnce Upon a Time in Hollywooday?

 

It's just a little electronics project I'm working on. One of my several distractions from actual work is messing around with micro-controller electronics projects (Arduino type stuff). This project combines that and modding my Tundra and going on road trips, so it's extra fun for me.

Anyhow, when I'm out in the wilderness I like to have data (sometimes...this will have an OFF switch) and much of the data I regularly look for is already on my phone...in a half dozen different apps and screens and all. It would be nice to have a dashboard of data all at once, without having to get my dirty fingers in the right spot on my phone screen while bouncing off boulders and avoiding sliding off 500ft drops. Also, my 2003 Tundra, as most of you know, doesn't have an external thermometer or built-in compass, and the inclinometers out there seem to suck.

So this thing will bring all of that together in one gps-unit size case, plus a couple of external sensors. I should be able to see, all at once:

• Location (built-in GPS module, coupled with weather service API that returns a location name for coordinates)
• Elevation (from GPS)
• Weather: current (based on actual current coordinates)
• Weather: forecast (based on current coordinates...)
  • Temp high/low
  • General conditions
• Temperatures:
  • Local official (from GPS / weather API)
  • Truck exterior (sensor mounted behind bumper)
  • Truck interior (sensor in this device)
• Barometric pressure (sensor in the device)
• Humidity:
  • Local official (from GPS / weather API)
  • Truck interior (sensor in this device)
• Sunrise / Sunset times
• Truck orientation (inclinometer)
  • I usually sleep in the truck bed, so I like to know if it's flat.
  • Also questionably useful for gauging slopes and tipping over.
  • This can be calibrated when parked on a known level surface.
  • Will eventually include a compass heading
• Voltmeter (digital readout) for truck electrical system.
• GPS coordinate logging to Google spreadsheet
  • Automatic every X minutes.
  • Spouse has access to that Cloud file and can use to find me if I don't report in.
  • I currently log by pressing a button...when I happen to think of it, and when I happen to have a cell signal. Automating it to go every X minutes whenever there is a signal would be nice.
  • Also possibly logged to local SD memory card. I could log all the data for a road trip, but...I already have too much stuff to process and hoard when I get home.
• Current time in regional cities
  • These days I spend most of my off-road time in the Four Corners, often in the daylight savings time change periods, and it drives me nuts trying to keep track of what time it is, since my cell phone signal could be getting its time from Arizona (no Daylight Savings Time ever), Utah (MST or MDT), or Navajo Nation, so just knowing what time it is in Salt Lake, Phoenix, and wherever I am is useful, especially when trying to find a camp site before dark. Is that "sunset time" AZ time? UT time?
• Cellular signal strength
• Satellites in view

All of this is controlled by a cellular-enabled micro controller, and would all be contained in one case, with the exception of the accelerometer/gyroscope mounted fast to the truck (currently using the bolts in the eyeglass holder area), the temperature probe out behind the bumper, and possibly external antenna(s) for the GPS and cellular modules.

Again, all of this is possible with a smart phone and a few apps. But I hate having to tap through all of them to get all the data - I want it on one dashboard. And, I do realize, I could accomplish much of this by creating an app that brings the various phone sensors and online data together, but I don't know where to start, and besides it's not as much fun (for me, right now) as soldering some components together.

I don't have much to show, yet. I've tested most of the systems separately, and now I'm working on bringing them together - also waiting on a larger display to come in. (I did create and install an inclinometer first, before I decided to think bigger with this whole thing... I'll try to get some good pics of it.)

I'm also open to ideas of what else people find handy to know at a glance. I've thought about tying into an OBD reader to get things like MPG, but then I don't want to be depressed when I'm out in nature.

 

Done, I added a little write up to my build thread. Once again, I always forget to take pictures but just follow my tips and you can figure it out.

Build thread here: https://www.tundras.com/threads/06-dc-daily-driver.48447/#post-1620631

@Pinay, this might be good to add to the info dump.

 

I like it! I'm usually looking for something like that when road tripping while pulling a trailer, hauling a camper, or in the motorhome, so wind and weather warnings, in addition to the forecast, would be handy. A way to have one button access to the different state highway condition reporting sites as well.

An OBD reader, if we can work out all the PID codes, would be excellent. I was going to add a Maestro to my stereo install, but everything I read said I would not get much data from a 2004. I have not called to discuss with them as of yet.

 

I finally installed my fog lights and wired all 4 to the factory switch. Of course it was crazy foggy here all January and now that I actually have fog lights again it probably won't be. It hasn't been foggy in like 2 weeks here.



Maybe I'll finally wire the ditch lights I've had for over a year now lol. Or maybe tomorrow. Maybe next weekend.

 

Sweet! I'm still trying to decide if the Coastal is the style I want to go with and if my welding skills are up to the task, but lovin' the look of yours.

 

Well I feel silly for bitching about my mushy brake pedal. I think @Aerindel asked me once or twice if my rear drums were adjusted correctly and I swore they were. I was wrong. Here is what happened, around this time last year I had tightened the shoes too much to the point where I couldn't remove the drums. So I had to back them off and I apparently went too far.

Since adjusting them again over the past 10 days the brake pedal finally feels like a normal vehicle. I would still like to upgrade calipers and rotors up front but this will do for now. So when people stress how important rear adjustment is for pedal feel, they aren't lying.

 

Looking good! I got my bumper back from being powder coated today. Still need to install the winch & lights as well as tidy up a bit and paint the white areas that stick out black to hide them a bit as you did. This is just test fitted currently.

 

I got my load sensing proportioning valve shackle(10$ eye bolt) and adjusted it up so about an inch is showing above. This morning on the short drive to work, it was stopping much better, but still pretty far pedal travel. Hopefully this weekend I can get to adjusting the rears

 

I don't follow. What was wrong with your LSPV? I forgot to add that I also adjusted mine yesterday.

 

oh really? fixed wing or rotorcraft?

 

Nothing was wrong w it, but I broke off the bolt trying to raise it higher on the threads. I just got it installed and adjusted up, and it’s a lot better

 

I wish mine fit that well haha looking good. I need a winch. One if these days

 

Definitely nervous about the fitment because quite a few on their site looked to gap more in line with yours (not terrible but not as tight as brute force) but the guy I took it to is really meticulous which I knew and I actually tossed him an extra $150 for doing such a good job so over all I paid 600 to have him weld it up for me and deliver to the powder coater as well as pick it up and re install it and then 200 for powder coating. So total $1450 and it didnt take 16 weeks!

 

Fixed. Heavies and trainers. Just enough time in rotors to know I would kill myself very quickly. Long story, but I was a fighter qualified guy that wanted to go see the world...so I did!

 

awesome. I got my private rotorcraft license back when I was 20 but really haven't done anything except fly in hawaii a few times....
Still a dream of mine to fly in a fighter jet though.

On Tundra topic, I order a RAM ball grab bar ball mount and am hoping I won't have to modify my iOttie phone mount cradle too much to work with it since I hate the windshield suction mount anyways.

 

Well, after a 600km+ (around 400 miles) weekend trip, I decided I need to change my sparkplugs and clean my MAF because it was NOT running nice once it gets up to highway speeds.

Pulled and cleaned the MAF, reinstalled ...

Removed SEVEN of the 8 sparkplugs and reinstalled. One does NOT currently want to budge. It moved around 1/2 way then stopped - I don't want to use more than a medium ratchet as I don't want the leverage to strip it ... so it's currently soaking in PB Blaster. I'll try again in a couple hours.

I even took a quick run to warm it up more to see if a warmer engine would help. Nope. She's still super tight. I'm hoping it's not cross-threaded by previous owner ...

Other than soaking it in penetrating fluid and trying to back/forth the thing slowly, any suggestions?

 

Closed the brake chapter on the truck today by checking the brake fluid rez. Yep, still right at the MAX line and green looking versus yellow or brown.

Crawled under to check the caliper bolts paint confirmation marks holding them on the spindle thingy and yep they haven’t moved.

Test drove her after yesterdays wheels painting to make sure everything is properly put back. Yep it is. I highly recco this Duplicolor Silver Wheel Paint. Goes on like a dream. Just do multiple light coats after the most important prep work. These wheels now look better than when they were new.

Pulled off and cleaned up the window vent/visors.

Not much left to do mechanically on this sweet girl until the timing belt in 30k more miles barring any unexpected problemos.

So stoked on the truck right now.

 

You may need one of these after you finally pull the plug. It has to come out and if the threading is stripped then this is what a member used with success to reinstall a bad plug while traveling on a trip out of town.

Hopefully your plug threads are just gunked up and the penetrator oil will loosen it with no problems.

 

I'm glad you figured it out. You can lead a horse to water....

The real trick is, if your parking brake is adjusted right, it will adjust your brake shoes for you.

 

Another member had a stubborn spark plug and he said the trick was to not just try to loosen but to gently turn it back and forth until it loosened.

 

This.

And not going on the assumption the goofy mechanic that did your brake service prior put the drum parking brake cable back on properly.

Both side of my drum cables were not slotted in their designed channel, but instead were pulled over the channel groove.