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

Just helped my buddy buy this 06 double cab yesterday. 19k
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3lzwFgxb2H/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA==


06' Tundra Double Cab Limited with leather and all the options!

CA car babied since purchased new at Toyota of Escondido.

Truck has 237k original miles, and 12k on the NEW MOTOR installed in July of 2022 including new radiator, alternator, and Optima Red Top battery. YOU WILL NOT FIND ONE CLEANER! Engine went thru water the the block was replaced.

Extras & Modifications include:

SUSPENSION

Icon 2.5" coil overs on 700lb Eibach springs

JBA High Caster upper control arms

Siberian poly LCA bushings

Summit Racing poly steering rack bushings

Icon 2.0 rears

Icon progressive rear add a leaf

FAB WORK

Done by @80%offroadnick

• Custom high clearance hybrid front bumper
• Custom rock sliders
• Custom high clearance rear bumper
• Custom bed rack

WHEELS/TIRES

5 x KMC Wheels

5 x 285/70/17 Firestone MT

LIGHTING/MISC

Smittybilt 9.5 K Gen 3 winch

4x7" pods, 4x 5" pods, with running light function

8x rock lights

2x reverse pods

Snorkel

Custom exhaust dump over rear axle

4x roto trax traction boards
Yakima skyrise medium poler collab camo RTT

Mounts for shovel and axe

Waterport

Rear hitch shackle

Pioneer heading with 10" subwoofers in custom cabinets under rear seats and dynamat sound deadening in doors

8-gang switch panel

 

The ultimate fabricating tool lol

 

Just picked up the upper windshield weater struoibg trim and a set of the SR5 fogs for the wrong bumper on my truck. Used tha RockAuto discount code provided before.

Discount Code: 258856887229800630
Good till mid March.

Also what type of yellow/ amber LED bulbs should I use in these fogs.

 

I setteld on these. The 05/'6 SR5 bumper is temporary any how.

 

Remembered why our trucks are the best gen as I navigated through the parking garage of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston this morning. Talk about cramped parking and tight ramp curves.

Couldn’t do that in a turd gen.

 

Got me thinking. Any advice on keep or selling an orignal owner '03 4x4 AC v8 @ 247k miles and pickup the last year of the best gen? Sure have liked knowing the full history as an original owner. But a full DC and few less miles sounds enticing and still affordable.

 

keep the AC; get DC soon….the price goes up every month

 

Those look nice. Let me know how they turn out. I been wanting to upgrade my fogs

 

Can do bud

 

That's hilarious. I love that. Michael Scott is the man.

 

I looked into this more, only to find that Advics is apparently tied to Denso, Aisin and Sumitomo.

When you go to the Advics site, to look up their pads, their search tool goes to Aisin's website. When I look up the pads for my truck with them, they clearly show they're the OEM supplier to Toyota for this part, see the "Specifications" section below ... learned a lot today, thanks

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..... And I've got new pads on the way. My current pads are driving me f'n nuts. I can't wait to get them out of there and replace them with ones that don't squeal like a pig.

 

Picked up my gears today from the REM polisher.

Before:






After:







#justchebythings

 

I was thinking 10 hours - suck it up, that's a day's drive.
Then I WTF mapped it up from here - it's 9.5 hours from here.
Sometimes TX is just too big. LOL.

 

Foundation first - B cooling.
but polls are only done on Friday's so don't read this until tomorrow.

 

Recommendations on the best gen for just swapping in OEM shoes, turning the original drums, or replacing the drums with the shoes? Seems like new shoes with c-clip hardware but re-using the drums makes sense.

@ 247K miles with the slimmest part still about 3 mm (.012"). Drum IDs are stout at 295.32-295.35 mm well within spec (realize that's not measured in a groove with a drum caliper but definitely not deep to be out of spec if turned).

 

I’d only turn them or buy new ones if you’re having an issue with warped drums. Otherwise just replace the shoes with OEM or good aftermarket shoes. I went with Napa premium myself.

 

To everything ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_YsQu5tKEE​

 

To turn or not to turn. Having no issues with pulsation either combined with front brakes or testing rear circuit only with parking brake on hill. Was thinking better to leave them unturned to retain thickness, but didn't know if folks have success with turning and then not warping l(ike fronts can do especially with non-adjusted rears).

 

If theyre meaty turnem. If theyre iffy replace them

 

Fat, measured @ 295.35 mm with >1.5 mm to spare.

Per FSM: Rear brake drum inside diameter
STD 295.0 mm (11.614 inch)
Maximum 297.0 mm (11.693 inch)

 

Fuckit turnem a hundred thou

 

Race drums.

 

Are those ceramic?

 

Well, those beat conundrums any day.

 

I’ll show myself out…

 

Damn, placed my order with RA for pads just before the reply I’m quoting, like 6:55ish EST or something.

Just now got notification my parts shipped. CHAKOW! That was fast.

 

My tire goals
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2uwFZ0O-rN/?igsh=MWtkeHBzMXJpdGh6eQ==

 

What was the final price with the current sale off like $44 right?

 

The pad/shim set was shy of $45. Which was half as much as Toyota would’ve wanted for the same parts. After tax and shipping it came in around $60. I’ll get 5% off so probably land at about $55/flat.