1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

No this is across the border in NC, right off I40. You want to join?

 

shoot I would like too but I’m stuck working, I appreciate the invite though

 

I like color matching the 3rd bar. Looks cleaner

 

Yep, lift doesn't effect tie rod. I used moog tie rods and have been happy with them.

 

I am so sorry, that's awful.

 

Color matched all the way!!

 

Thanks for the feed back. How many miles do you have on yours?

I realized writing this post that I'll need boots also, and possibly inner tie rods because the "rust" is at the ball joint inside the boots.

 

Idk if rtv is the route I would take. I believe that stickiest of the icky is butyl. Should be cheap and some good plastic sheeting will do.

 

Only bad thing besides the price is losing your abs. Not that it matters much for driving but if you're in an accident and insurance notices you've disabled abs, best of luck. If not for that I would have gotten the lift spindles long ago.

 

@Tundra2 you can either leave the tie rods for later, or do them now. A little grit in them won't hurt a thing. I go Moog on those, pretty good pricing and quality. Paint them when you install them or they'll rust in a week.

 

Thanks. I think I'll leave them be for now. My time off ends today, and resumes Thursday. Ends Monday after that. Will need to be on the road quick.

 

If money wasn't an option I guess the ability to self insure would also fit into that scenario Super hi-dolla to retain 4WD but them hubs though...

 

15,000 roughly. I agree with @Darkness that they don't have to happen right way and they are pretty easy to do on their own. You'll need an alignment again though. Also do inner and outer at the same time if your inners are looking worn

 

Met two guys from TacomaWorld and did a trail in NC today. By far the most technical one I've done. It took us 3 hours to go 6 miles. At one point we came up on an area with a huge drop. Going back wasn't an option so down we went. Crushed my trailer light harness/plug. All things considered I was actually relieved that was the only damage. I need a Brute Force rear bumper!

I didn't have time to take many pics but I think one of the other guys did.

There were at least 10-12 creek crossings. This one was the deepest and had some rocks we couldn't see.

https://youtu.be/uDdvC7qDp5M

 

Welcome to the club. Beautiful scenery, plus you can't go wrong with Steely Dan when it comes to wheeling music.

 

One thing I've noticed is that my transmission gets real hot, real fast, when I'm crawling in 4HI. I hit 210 degrees today. In 4LO, temps dropped dramatically and stayed around 160.

 

Right now I have my trailer plug harness in a janky hole mount until I can find a better option or bracket. I ripped the cover off the 4runner harness going down a steep drop(chimney rock trail) so I will try and recess is when I make the perminent mount on the MOastal offroad bumper.

3 hours to go in and out 6miles or a loop? Either way, that’s some butt pucker for a long time!!!! When me and @robabeatle did rice peak, I thought there was no way it could take 4+hrs to go 5miles, but it took all of that!
Hopefully you had fun and learned some things, that’s always the point!

 

So my buddy with a 4th Gen 4runner says, anytime it’s on dirt it’s in 4low.
I don’t know if I really want to run that high revs on a long straight aways. But....... 4low definitely helps lower trans temps. Timmothy the tool man has a video about such instances.

 

6 miles straight through the mountains. It wasn't a loop. I definitely learned a few things. There were a few times I was really regretting my decision to be there.

 

That's the case with my truck. Truck will be in and out of gears too much so I put 4-LO with any considerable rocky incline. I just watch the RPMs and don't go faster than 25MPH. I am constantly fighting the heat in my climate when I notice the truck getting warm I will pop the truck in neutral and put on the gas to get air cooling from the engine fan.

 

I'll put the shifter in L to keep the transmission from changing gears and it still gets hot in 4HI. I guess I'll be using 4L more going forward.

 

4-LO makes the truck feel like it could drive up a vertical wall, can be kinda fun.

 

Yes it's an entirely different truck. The skinny pedal becomes very sensitive. Saves the brakes when going down steep hills too.

 

Can a 1st gen tundra tow itself safely?

 

Ole Bertha to my rescue. Sure dies have some purty Christmas lights.

 

looks like a normal over 50k mile chevy to me

 

Yep. This dude holds the Tundra2 record for deer kills. 12. Think 13 might do her in.

Last one pushed the radiator into the fan flush with the fan clutch at 60mph. Big 11 point buck broadside. It was fun pulling the carcass out if the engine bay.

Parts for these trucks are readily available at any local junkyard. My tundra? I'm traveling 300 miles one way for parts at the pick'n'pull.

 

thats because wreaked tundras go straight to mexico it seems

 

Interesting. I just figured that most are still on the road, or sat long enough to be crushed at the yard.

 

from actually dealing with tundras that are getting totalled. they either end up in mexico, or africa.. no shit.. hell rough 4x4 tundras, sequoias, tacos, 4runners? we have a guy that buys them and sends them to africa...


Why i cant get a good deal on a rough truck thats traded into work!