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

This came in today. Not sure when it's going on but will probably knock out the timing belt, valve cover gaskets and intake upgrade all at once.

05/06 intake, throttle body and 12 hole injectors

 

Pretty sweet!

 

Love to hear some real world feedback on seat of the pants performance and MPG’s as claimed.

 

Very nice! We were thinking of doing this if we keep ours. I'm curious on your feedback as well.

 

I will certainly update the community with my impressions once it's done. My gas mileage can't get much worse. I'm averaging between 12 and 13 mpg most every tank driving around town and a lot of idling. I'm hopeful it improves. These are probably the original injectors, unlikely to have ever been cleaned with 290K miles on the clock so also room for improvement with the fresh DD 12 holers in there.

I got everything you see in the pic for $520 so I'm pretty stoked on the deal.

 

So grabbed a couple shots of my garage today to share with you guys. Im liking seeing peoples work spaces!

 

That benchtop belt sander is pretty neat.

 

Thanks @Mr.bee, it was an early welding project when i was just learning how to weld. So built that stand for the sander and a vice on the other side.

Edit: Oh the belt sander, lol. I was thinking the grinder for some reason. Yea that belt sander is cool, bought from a coworker who moved away for 40 bucks

 

It looks like you could gain a bunch of space if you doubled up on some shelves on the cube wall

 

@FrenchToasty : you mean like add a second shelf within the cubbies to make 2 shelves?

If so, that is a great idea! I will probably have to do that now. Well tomorrow actually, haha

 

Exactly, it looks like most of them only occupy less than half the area, so much more room for activities! And a lot of you stuff looks like it’s in little bins, so it would work perfect, in my mind hahah


Do some test runs, but I see……. vision being a issue if they are high or low, so I’m thinking middle chest height or somewhere above or below depending; for placement of double shelf’s

 

Im literally looking at my pic of the cube shelves and thinking ,damn hes right there is a lot of extra space to be gained! Why didnt i think of that . Well I guess im glad i shared my garage photo!

 

Happy Place . . .

 

Follered Larry

 

There’s a Washington monument in Kentucky?

 

Jefferson Davis. Fairview KY. I drive by it twice a day. 351 feet tall yall
https://parks.ky.gov/fairview/parks/historic/jefferson-davis-state-historic-site

 

Had no idea he was born in Kentucky, super cool.

 

Man, talk about luxury of space. I'd love that much room. I'd also love the drill press and band saw and belt sander too

What's that knobby thing at the under the (Hobart?) in the weld cart btw?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBujFdeyVCk​

 

It’s a good thing this group is not easily triggered as someone might want to tear it down and rename it after someone picked by the DEI office.

 

The main reason is because we know it's best to not go down that road, even with being baited by comments such as "rename it after someone picked by the DEI office"

 

EBC slotted rotors and Orangestuff pads in the rear. Old caliper is totally fawked and won't really push in. Notice how the old rotor is missing the slots and has a layer of brake dust inside it.






Cerakote headlight kit, we will see how it ultimately turns out, but so far a worthy investment.

 

You drank the Cerakote koolaid too?!

 

Something had to be done about the headlights, they really show the truck's age.

 

washed mine today, too. But i only polished my lenses with plastx.

not perfect, but not terrible. Better than they were.

 

Oh nice, what area is that? Looks pretty cool and you got the spot at the end of the road away from others!

 

I saw I commercial for that stuff. Glad to see it works. I need to pick up some

 

Lower Colorado River . . . Half way between Blythe & Yuma.

 

Yea it is a nice space that ive slowly made for myself. It used to be insanely cluttered with boxes and stuff i didnt need. It also wasnt as organized which made it much less usable. But now its looking like a little shop.

yea it is a hobart, and directly underneath it is some welding accessories and on the bottom is my original forney welder i learned on.

 

What brake calipers are those? Im looking on the EBC website and cant quite figure out which ones you got. Also, my calipers seem to have completely cracked and split rubber seals around the pistons on my powerstop brakes i bought a few years ago.

Are the rubber seals easy to replace or should i just buy new calipers? @des2mtn got me curious about these new calipers. Have you had them before? Any one else have input on these or recommendations for something else. Or should i buy powerstop again? Kinda surprised the rubber seals gave out after only a couple years. Maybe thats normal though? I never paid attention to this stuff before i got the FGT.

After buying this truck about 5 years ago, I made a point to learn how to wrench on my own vehicle and its really fun keeping this thing running and do most of the work myself!

 

I did a similar job on my headlights a couple years ago when i bought the truck as the headlights were terrible. Basically just clearcoat with fine sanding and they came out incredible! Now about 2 or 3 years later they look terrible again. Might be time for new headlights