1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

it’s my bday. Have a beer, or cake, maybe get your truck something.

 

Really? Today was your birthday?!
I was headed to bed, now I gotta stay awake, open a bottle….

 

the 28th. Forgot the west coast is a little slow.

 

Oh, good! That means I’ve got time to drink this whole bottle.

Happy birthday! How will you do it?

 

Gonna grill a tomahawk to split with my puppy. Might skip the shovel work today.

 

Happy Birthday, Son (relatively speaking). Which in itself is an ironic pun thing.

 

But only enough that aftermarket UCAs are not needed, or that he gets the slightest idea about 35s.

 

Maybe next year. I’ve still got over 50k miles to throw at my tiny lady tires.

 

2017.

tires last me like 100k.

 

I barely use my brakes, and I run around 42psi & rotate em regularly.

 

Tires are too expensive for those shenanigans.

if I’m gonna do burnouts I’ll do em in the ranger cause I won’t care if the trans grenades and Walmart wranglers are still pretty cheap in 235/75-15’s

 

The titan’s a/c doesn’t work, so it’ll be 2nd fiddle all summer.

the ranger, xj, and s10 aren’t insured, so I don’t take em out of the neighborhood.

 

Happy birthday slugger. @Mr.bee

 

If I don’t need anything more than will fit in the backpack, the buell is the DD. Might go shopping for a summer jacket today.

 

I’m up for the day. Polo woke me up at 4 because cats were fighting outside.

man’s polo will ride on the 4 wheeler, but he prefers to chase it. Could probably get him to follow me around hidden falls.

 

If I’d have known I was only gonna get a couple hours of sleep, I’d have picked up some ranch water.

can’t drink all day if you don’t start early. But I’m still working on coffee.

 

HBD, B

 

Happy birthday! I’m so excited

 

Fellers, I'm looking at leaf springs for crackie. I already know about Alcan, and have a quote. Here it is below...

"Thank you for visiting our website. At Alcan Spring we create custom springs to fit your Tundra by using the information you provide us for weight distribution, lift requirements, how you plan to use your vehicle, and any information on all prior changes that may have been made to your vehicle. The cost of the rear springs $1118.00 (500lb over) $1168.00 (1000lb over). These springs will be built with 2” lift and 500-1000lbs. over stock weight capacity your choice."

Still waiting on a quote from general springs.

Now, because of cost savings I'm looking at stealing the leaf springs from the silver truck, and putting in like a lift block in place so the silver truck won't have the retard lean...

Looking for lift block options, or experiences with general spring

 

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DCG42CB

 

Anybody know about the 4.7 supercharger? There's a 2002 Access Cab Tundra 4x4 local to me with this. I'm wondering what you guys think the trucks value could be before I jump all over it and over pay like normal. Thanks,

 

That’s an impressive feat! I still have a cedar chest filled with textbooks that I haven’t opened since 1996. It’s funny how some of the stuff you thought would be useful in the field are not. Most of what I needed to know required buying PRACTICAL engineering books with plenty of real world examples or reading about it online.

 

Under $500 shipped from RockAuto

https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=7467760&cc=1357938&pt=7544&jsn=971

 

Buy it. Buy it now and give us pics.

 

And sell me the smooth intake elbow and TRD-emblazoned plastic throttle assembly cover, @Bikeric

 

Plus if you buy it, you get to come hang out with the best gen crew.

 

Somehow that TRD emblem on the throttle cover doesn't seem legit. I've never seen it any 4.7L with the supercharger.

 

Want. But not really $20 worth of want.

 

This I can believe.

 

Speaking of which, I saw a pretty cool LP surround on my way home from Hendersonville NC Sunday. I couldn't quite find the same one online, but I did find this plastic one that was close. The one I saw coming home on 85 looked really similar, but the tricolor lines were diagonal. This is what I ended up getting

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I wanted the raised lower portion to cover my county, there's some judgmental mofos out there, but I also needed the bottom corners clear so my registration sticker shows clearly.

This one is a little closer to what I saw on a newer 4R driving down I-85, from SIGNWERKZ on Etsy, except the one I saw on I-85 wasn't using vinyl overlay like this one, theirs was raised/embossed:

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I also liked this one from RNGApparel on Etsy, but there are no lower holes in my '06 AC bumper, and a screw would bottom out into the bumper itself too easily:

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And was really close to buying this one but I really have this OCD thing about chrome plate frames...

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