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

Sounds like the opening to a Pink Floyd song.

 

Here in Texas we didn’t get rain for six months and then we got six months worth of rain in six days. Couldn’t tell ya

 

That's the best way to get snow.

 

I said Texas, not Connecticunt

 

Spent a couple hours bashing out the damage from August's storm, pretty sure it's a permanent fix. Unfortunately she just isn't worth getting a new hood and fender.
Good enuff to protect the metal here in MI. Still love this Jalopy. If things go to plan she will be the plow/farm work truck when we move to our rural/acreage, and there will be a decent FGT in the garage.

 

For a minute I thought those were perfect reflections of clouds in your hood.... and not failed clear coat

 

Bro, this was mine before sanding and paint. Age is a bitch

 

Yeah I saw the roll on you did... and it's been looking better like you sanded/buffed it out?
I used Rustolium oil based satin and a brush... and a heat gun, it was maybe 50 out.

 

I loaded mine up with stuff. That's about it. I needed to work in the yard. I'm hoping that comes tomorrow. Right now, gotta wake up, roll out to meet a (maybe future member?) to hand off wheels and struts, then come back, take the youngest to a recital, leave from the recital to get a cap, then hopefully mow the yard, and maybe have time for a beer on the porch. Won't get any time to enjoy the 71° weather though. Similar to today.

You mean another new hood and fender? That's already a new hood and fender. Unfortunately, whoever shot it decided to throw 2-stage paint on a single stage painted truck and it sticks out like a sore thumb at the angles you shot.

I've seen a couple of parts trucks around here with the right OEM white parts to get you fixed up! Too bad you're up in the BM! You ever roll down this way?

 

Yeah, it's been in a Hard front drivers accident, and it's "OK" now but not good. A Mortal wound to her, at some point Ill show some of the Ugly shit. Maybe tonight i'll dig up some ugly show and tell shit .
The PO didn't match the paint, its Def not natural white 056. We don't travel at all, we've been saving up hard core for Launch day (my retirement), and getting the Fuck out of the outskirts of Babylon.
Your down in AL, AR?

 

You found one?

 

Why is it not worth fixing? Bad frame?

 

More deets if you scroll up from these pics: https://www.tundras.com/threads/camper-shells.94096/page-12#post-3376676

Will confirm tomorrow evening if all pans out.

Actually, the dude I'm buying that cap from is having trouble selling his 2001 AC V8 4WD Limited with wood grain and other nice options. Bought from Cramer Toyota in Venice FL, so southern truck. Says it has a blown rear end, otherwise fine. 186k miles. I'll check it out while there. He's under $4,500 right now and it's been listed for ~2wks with no sale. But also lost the title (it's a hassle to get here in GA, honestly) so he'll only give a bill of sale with purchase.

If it was 2WD I'd be tempted (to buy and lower).

 

BRB, more to come.....

 

Crackie has a good rear end. Thing it's the right width for an a/c.

 

If it wasn't 4WD, I have zero doubts I could find a suitable rear-end and maybe even do some fun stuff to it.

But honestly, I wouldn't want to sit there and try and figure out wtf the gearing is on it so I can match front and rear, then expect a damn yard to figure the same out.

And I wouldn't want to drive away w/o being able to test 4WD was working either.

 

Didn't mow with it but I did fix my mower troubles. A couple of days ago. Twas the battery. Lowe's battery was like 5yrs old. I put a charger on it and when I grabbed it off the table one-handed, I lost my grip and dropped that sumbich right into concrete floor on the posts. Fucked them up real good. Lol. I threw a load tester on it and it failed miserably. Swung by Walmart and grabbed another one. Fires right up now.

 

I was more thinking if it's nice might be a cheap way for T2 to upgrade crackie into something a little more family friendly.

 

Spent a few hours on the 1st gens.

Oil changes and greasing the drive shafts.



Fixed the brand new $180 passenger door handle with some Gorilla Glue.



And sanded and coated my completely roached out eBay special headlights. They came out great. Saved me from having to buy a new set. And only took about 40min start to finish using the 3M headlight restoration kit.

Not the best pic, but they are clear. No more yellow.



From right to left. Girlfriends pretty well built 2007 Limited Sequoia 210k. My 06’ SR5 Tundra 333k. My sisters 06’ Limited Sequoia 250k, and my brother in laws 14’ TRD Offroad Tundra, 210k sadly in the middle of a Head Gasket job both banks.

 

Forgot to say, That hood looks like something you'd see on a truck that traveled the Alaska (gravel) highway every dam day... holy shit man.

 

As far as I can tell there is prob a 1" inflection in the frame where whatever entered the drivers wheel well and SLAMMED into the cab mount. Cab is tweaked. It doesn't dog-track, but you can see its fucked up.
They left the UCA and LCA but replaced the entire spindle/caliper/rotor... so now I have a 13WL on drivers, and 13WE on passengers... Fuckin bastards. Brake job surprise...
I'll say from a MI perspective the frame isn't that bad, crusty over most of it, no huge holes. But its not right, and after doing LCAs/LBJ/UBJ/links... Doing driveway caster/camber was interesting... struggled to get positive caster on drivers side.
I didn't even consider taking it to a shop to have it laughed off the lift/device, but it drives straight, and no crazy tire wear, and it's what I've got for now. I don't do a lot of driving.
The whole front end has been tampered with.... No condenser, No curved reinforcement under bumper, no skid plate, one horn, it didn't even have fucking fender liners. What you see hanging in the picture is cut from a huge black tree pots, they actually work great, for free.
I swear this truck is Crackies long lost cousin (still have to make it through all that thread...) This thing put me through 8mo of hell before I got it to stop stalling @ stop lights, NO CODES. Turned out to be the ECM... which looked pristine.
The rockers were rusting the fk out and I rebuilt them with steel studs from HomeSleepo and a shitload of rust converter, polyurethane caulk and rivets, and self tappers, roofing sealant, and herculiner. They actually did pretty good through the first winter 0 rust.
Ill dig up some pics.

 

This is stuff you do on a truck that isn't worth going all in on, with no budget, and to make it half ass better.
And in some instances, to make it so it wont kill you. It aint perdy, but it's paid for

 

Can you give us some more details? Like what area did you reform? How long did it take for the snorkel to get hot enough?

 

some other wft moments

 

Ratchet strap around the snorkel neck and attached to the drivers grab handle on the A pillar. Pulled the snorkel in and took the heat gun to the snorkel base until there was slack on the strap.

 

Grace water and ice shield to the rescue!

 

Well I didn’t mow today but I did weld up a firewood rack and picked up a quarter cord. That’ll get me thru winter in Texas. I did however take a casual peek at my shocks up front. And realized the shock bodies don’t look so hot. Also with the bed not even full to the brim with firewood, the old leaf springs were hurtin. Like totally on the overload with a reverse curve. Not sure if these suspension issues are par for the course in a 185k truck, but the suspension may need to jump up the list.

 

Fuel tank replacement

Truck sat for 6+ years after its "accident", Tank got pretty bad.

Death wheeled it up to dispose of easier, pretty shity in there.


New tank, Herculined, sealed up. New DENSO pump as well.

 

I did throw a bit of Converter in there under it. There was a big bump in the floor from the accident that I put the Beat-Down on.
I vented a lot of anger on that thing... I had a few neighbors come out to see wth was going on..