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1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

Discussion in '1st Gen Tundras (2000-2006)' started by NUDRAT, Jan 18, 2020.

  1. Feb 17, 2023 at 7:12 PM
    Jack McCarthy

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    Is the synthetic line spec’d out for what it can handle for static and impulse loads? Can the synthetic line deteriorate with time due to the environment thus weakening its handling capacity?

    Nevermind. I wasn’t aware of what a synthetic cable was about until I took a look at one. Also, made in USA for a few of them.
     
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  2. Feb 17, 2023 at 7:43 PM
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    Cummins3500 Never finishes.....

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    Fab rats has already been mentioned but Matt’s off-road recovery is another channel using those badland winches also. He puts them through their paces. He’s also a big fan of the kinetic ropes:anonymous:

    @FirstGenVol
     
  3. Feb 17, 2023 at 7:47 PM
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    I'm gonna have to unfollow the first gen page on FB. Both of them. I thought there might be cool shit somewhat locally that I could buy, like wheels or parts. Maybe doors. There's just way too many dumbasses there, and you can tell em I said so too.

    Joe Joe.
     
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  4. Feb 17, 2023 at 7:49 PM
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    FrenchToasty The Desert rat, 6 lug enthusiast

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    Your just now figuring this out?
    Our local Tacoma page is basically the same, sometimes I troll it, sometimes i offer help. Usually just for comical relief.
     
  5. Feb 17, 2023 at 7:50 PM
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    I've only really looked at it for the past two days. Big DUM-BIE
     
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  6. Feb 17, 2023 at 7:54 PM
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    Facebook is for weenie crybabies
     
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  7. Feb 17, 2023 at 9:11 PM
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    NUDRAT [OP] 6 lug life

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    oh - we know what's in there...
     
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    Somebody posted a blue Ridgeline on there with some rock warriors the other day and I’m not embarrassed to say, it made it move. Wait, I am embarrassed to say that.
     
  9. Feb 18, 2023 at 12:20 AM
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  10. Feb 18, 2023 at 4:07 AM
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    NickB_01TRD You don't need less cars, just more driveway.

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    I'm just gonna throw this post in here before I head to bed. My daily driver 08 Lexus ES350 (a Camry with a v6 essentially) started smoking a bit the other day up near the rad. Long story short fluids are good and I'm thinking it may be alternator (I know @shifty` has experience with burning alternators). Smoking has since stopped but I'm still getting a smell. I have been driving it for the last 3 days anyway but definitely not getting any better.

    It's got some oil on it (must have an oil leak I hadn't noticed) so not sure if that's what did it in or something else. I know some on here say they have some easy to replace parts in them but I'm not sure it's worth messing with if something has started to burn. Drove home and checked voltage while idling and at 10.4 volts. Gonna have the batt checked in the next couple days just to make sure. Alternator job seems like a 27 step process so not looking forward to doing that.

    Planning to find a Denso part. Would prefer new but maybe reman denso would be almost as good. Gonna do some more research tonight but seems like an expensive unit from the little bit of looking I've done so far. This is why I'm glad I own way too many cars as there's always a backup to drive.
     
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  11. Feb 18, 2023 at 8:55 AM
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    Saw one of these today. Wasn’t particularly impressed.
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  12. Feb 18, 2023 at 8:57 AM
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    If it’s that or a Tahoe for me and the wife with 2 dogs, I’m going Seqouia. Just need to win the lottery.
     
  13. Feb 18, 2023 at 9:08 AM
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    ... or factories in Mexico (*cough*Bilstein*cough*)

    Don't get me wrong. I'd 1000x over prefer it all to come from Mexico. My comment here is entirely of a jab at the OEM practices than anything.

    EXACTLY. I just chucked the wheels I hosed in my wire racks because the rubber delam'd. But you pictured it in a nutshell.

    Nothing wrong with re-man on alternators. Electrical smoke smells distinctly different from oil smoke. Which is it?

    Need to know what a burning-up alternator smells like? Find any tool with a brush-based motor, drills are a great example. The more usage it's had, the better. Stick your nose at the vents above the handle. Take a whiff. Pull the trigger if you can't smell much If that general smell is what you're getting a whiff of, I wouldn't be surprised if it's the alternator. Based on the idle voltage, I'm pretty sure you already know what I think.

    This is funny because everyone keeps calling it a foreign object. Waiting to see what comes out at surgery is like waiting for Geraldo Rivera to open the damn vault.
     
  14. Feb 18, 2023 at 9:19 AM
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    We’re gonna need an official poll on this one. Who’s our local poll taker here?

    I’m gonna go with experimental baby tracker you unwittingly agreed to within the fine print of one of those medical forms you sign in the hospital.
     
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  15. Feb 18, 2023 at 9:23 AM
    shifty`

    shifty` Is the Gila Copter a love machine?

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    Yeah, weird part is, when she sprained it last time, this didn't show in the x-ray, so it's new from the last 3ish years for sure.

    It's possible it was actually a chip or shard from that incident they missed, and it's working its way out?

    But w/a 12yo kid, who the hell knows?
     
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  16. Feb 18, 2023 at 10:05 AM
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    Am I still allowed in here if I now own an 07, 4.7 2UZ?
     
  17. Feb 18, 2023 at 10:09 AM
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    Do you still own the best gen?
     
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  18. Feb 18, 2023 at 12:18 PM
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    More tinkingering this PM before work.
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    I'm trying to get rid of the rest of my M12 stuff except for this impact. I've got 3 more tool holders like this if anybody wants/needs any.
     
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  19. Feb 18, 2023 at 12:42 PM
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    It's definitely not an oil smell but it isn't a smell I recognize oddly enough. It doesn't smell the same as a drill. I just highly doubt that my smoke/burning smell and sudden lack of charging voltage could be unrelated. When I was originally looking for the smoke source it was running and the smoke was up near the rad it seemed like maybe I had something dead in the engine bay burning up or something.

    Now I think I've let out all the magic smoke as I have no charging voltage left. Probably gonna stop driving it so I don't have to worry about it burning to the ground. Just not excited to pull so much stuff apart in order to change it out. Might need to knock out a valve cover gasket too and keep oil from leaking down in the alternator.

    Oddly enough I don't have a battery light on even with such low voltage. I've got an aftermarket battery meter under my radio that I've been keeping an eye on. That was the main thing that pointed me towards a bad alternator.
     
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  20. Feb 18, 2023 at 12:51 PM
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    I never had a battery light in either truck, for any situation, ever. Dead alternator in the silver truck, and the attempt to skoot home. Ended up dying at the gad station. No battery light there except for the pre-ignition, key on light. As per the norm.

    Crackie wouldn't start. Swapped batteries from truck to truck. "Dead" V6 battery started V8??? And "dead" V8 battery started V6??? And still do???????? A little over a whole year later??? :alien: (bad connection.)

    My projectors ran my battery damn near fucked on the V6. Never had a light. Had weird charging because the alternator was struggling to keep up.

    Long story short, I've had a LOT of situations where the battery light should have/could have come on across two trucks, and it didn't.
     
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    Damn it.
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  22. Feb 18, 2023 at 12:56 PM
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    NUDRAT [OP] 6 lug life

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    Squirrel?
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    Sunnier Pity the warrior that slays all his foes

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    Did the new boots wreck yer socks?
     
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    Nawl. My toenails wreck my socks. Doesn't matter on the shoes. Lol

    They don't make these socks anymore or if they do I can't find em online. I've had these same socks for 4 years.
     
  25. Feb 18, 2023 at 1:37 PM
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    Sunnier Pity the warrior that slays all his foes

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    4 years is a pretty good run.
     
  26. Feb 18, 2023 at 1:42 PM
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    I got one in my truck, but it didn't trigger until my voltage got down around 6v-7v when my alternator fried. That's ultimately what caused my alternator-contained fire: I dropped a fresh new batt in there and it lit up whatever was arc'd in the alternator until something managed to go alight. Fortunately it went out just as fast as it lit up, and didn't burn up any connectors. Could've been way worse, and I bought the truck "as-is" from the dealership months prior, so I would've been totally f'ed.

    They just don't make quality socks anymore. Mine seem to blow out in the toe faster than the heels these days. And I stay on top of trimming nails. Hell, I've even tried filing edges after trimming just so there's nothing edgy down there, still didn't help.

    Only ones I've found that hold up in the toes are some Bombas I was gifted, and they're comfy as hell, but I checked the price and I can't justify it for socks. So if someone is buying me a gift, at this point, everyone knows to get me Bombas. They still eventually go in the heel, and there's only a couple of styles I like, but ...

    I wish I could find a 3-5pk of good socks for $10 or so these days, ones that'll last. It's not just reasonable, I guess. I know we're getting fleeced by gas corporations, or hell, almost all the corporations at this point based on how their profits skyrocket as my pay stays the same, but I didn't expect sock manufacturers to rail me too :rofl:
     
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  27. Feb 18, 2023 at 1:45 PM
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    Do they lock up the socks at your Walmart too?
     
  28. Feb 18, 2023 at 1:49 PM
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    This is going to make me sound hardcore left-wing granola, or maybe just hardcore suburban yuppie, but I don't shop at WallyWorld. I don't support companies that make taxpayers pay to subsidize them offering up poverty wages while offering an overwhelming majority of Chinese goods on the shelves. I'm also lucky enough to live somewhere I've got a choice in the matter - plenty of other stores nearby. Sorry, with that, I'll step off the soapbox. (Ok, maybe not - the Walton family can eat a bag of swollen, rotten chubs)

    I'd hafta check at the local Tar-jay to see if they do it there. It wouldn't surprise me. They lock 'em up where you are?
     
  29. Feb 18, 2023 at 1:53 PM
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    I assume target is doing similar just with a flashy French sounding name?
    But yes they lock them up at the cess pools near me.
     
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  30. Feb 18, 2023 at 2:01 PM
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    Damn. I just got around to throwing out my socks from 2005. Usually when I can’t rotate the holes past my toes or the heel wears through for lack of material, they gone.

    However when I buy socks, I buy enough for a full month before I need to wash them again. Just bought 30 pairs today at Marshall’s.
     

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