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

I'm pretty particular about my lubes

I'm Mobil1 on oils, Valvoline on greases where SuperLube isn't applicable. This is what I've been running the last two oil changes and had been doing the full syn 'Extended Performance' prior. I'll usually run a bottle of Seafoam through the crankcase 200-500 miles prior to my next expected OC.

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Nice, that is the exact same oil I use @shifty`

 

Dealership life: We use BG products (except for oil) and the BG rep gives us all the additives and cleaners we could ask for.

 

The important thing is that we all maintain our vehicle with something. You don't get to 300k and beyond without it.

 

I would love to have access to a place that was on the BG plan. I'd love to go through a BG Dynamic Engine Clean cycle with the truck, after what I found under the valve covers from the previous owner's habitual short-trip driving and quick-lube-oil-change preferences.

 

When I lived on the East Coast, all we used was wynns. BG is far superior.

 

I've only used a couple of their products. I was really happy with Frigi-Clean product. My wallet wasn't happy with the price. I wish someone just sold the cans alone, at a wholesale rate, where I could buy half a dozen at a time for a fair price.

 

I sprayed Frigi-fresh in my vents yesterday

 

The coil cleaner that's part of that package has a great smell to it also. Way better than the overbearing sweet-ammonia-sterile-cleaner smell of the OEM Toyota kits.

 

Choice of moly and regular grease brands for driveshaft? Synthetic or regular?

 

I do full synthetic anywhere I can unless otherwise problematic, oil, grease, or otherwise.

I had been buying this, but now I have SPC arms and they wanted something with 3-5% moly, instead of the 2.5% that one has, I bought this last go round:

 

Years ago I had a toolbox on the back and I removed the 2 bed tie down hooks to allow the box the sit flush. Years later as that box was no long useful, I removed it and remembered that there used to be hooks back there. Being OCD I couldn't let the holes remain and I couldn't find the hooks. Today I replaced them.

2 66312-34010
4 90148-A0015

 

2 missing tie downs would bother me too. Although mine are all removed at the moment, but they are stored away for safekeeping!

 

So now I need to replace or paint the older 2 as they are discolored. Damn OCD

 

@shifty` AND @metalpete got me thinking about maintenance. Running an Air Fuel Induction cleaner.

 

Damn, now thats OCD!

Oh cool you have the 3.4 in your Tundra as well! Mine is a V6 4x4 manual trans version. How about yours?

Edit: Just read your profile and saw 2wd A/T, haha

 

Yeah, I need to pull mine, they've got a nice orange patina on them at the moment and should be cleaned up.

 

Darnit Shifty, now im all paranoid. Only complaint is box was not taped shot. I just glanced saw both arms, ubj's and a few bags of alignment hardware. Soon as I get home ill go through it. Thanks for heads up. Uppers themselves feel nice and beefy.

I bought mine from elite race fab and box was not secured. Bags of hardware and stuff were not open though.

 

Same same - box not secured. And this was true from both places I purchased from. The 1st place, with missing parts, box was beat to hell and it had clearly been tampered with. There's supposed to be a cardboard insert separating the left and right arms, and the balljoints nestle into that cardboard sheet. The hardware and instructions were loose.

 

So funny. I had carboatd but cr*p was all over the place. Super crazy week so i just looked through everything quickly. I will do full inventory as soon as I get home. Who ships a 25 Lbs. Box with no packing tape?

 

Apparently a lot of warehouses

It was a joke how smashed up my 5100s were too.

Here's how my stuff arrived. They didn't believe me at first, this is how it was dropped off ... then I showed them the doorbell video : https://www.tundras.com/threads/wha...-gen-tundra-today.2558/page-1409#post-2858475

 

ToyTech hand delivered all of my goodies wrapped in a pillowy velvet

 

Yeah, I'll say, they do a great (albeit hip not for the environmentalist) job of packing. The expanding foam packs, it's almost impossible for stuff to be damaged. Heavy duty staples used with thick-wall cardboard.

 

Delivered on the wings of angels

 

Springs: Ordered. Lets see if I also get the 1.5" - 2" others have experienced.

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Hell naw, I intend to have these f'ers in within 48 hours of them arriving. I ain't got no time to waste. Just hoping they get them in transit today.

I guess I should probably get rear bump stops today too, before these arrive.

I should probably get 4 new stops for the front also.

And I need to fab up a new LSPV bracket this weekend, and eventually order new longer brake lines up front.

 

You'll be fine with just two up front if you wanna save some coin.

 

Which wheels did you order now?

 

I'm just gonna get two, put 'em on the left side. I take more left-hand turns than anything, so ... j/k, I'm OCD about symmetry. I'm going to pop 'em both off and throw the OEM ones in the spare parts bin. Unless they end up being like $100/ea, then maybe I'll settle with left-to-ride symmetry rather than individual side symmetry

What I originally wanted. Price was tolerable, sale was about to end, I had to do it.