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

Does it pull to the side with the bigger caliper when braking?

 

Wheels are likely authentic. I think the ring was teplaced

 

This looks good! I run full size spare in the bed. I don’t like the tire poking out when you go high clearance. But I need to do that X brace on mine as well. Just don’t want to create more stuff to “undo” whenever I go SUA.

 

OCD4WD on Instagram. Can’t take credit but I love it.

 

Just ozone’d the camper/bed and aired out. Can’t get over how clean this is now. The carpet was literally clay orange tinted when I started and it’s deep charcoal again now. Cleaned and 303’d the liner before ozone. Smells like nothing again.

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Tell me you've never lived in your truck without telling me you've never lived in your truck. Damn thing looks like its never seen a shovel or gravel.

 

That truck could be a metaphor of my life. Seen hard shit, almost had ticket punched, a little crusty and hagard, but dependable. Looks good from 20ft.

 

No

Not one bit, or ide have completed the switch over.

 

I don’t have experience with removing the rubber bushings from the Tundra control arms, but the simple way of removing them from rear leaf springs is to heat the spring with a torch until the rubber starts to melt and catch on fire. Stand off to the side when doing this because most of the time the bushing will shoot itself out of the spring like a cannonball. I’ve had them sell propel themselves out across the driveway 20~30’.

 

But its something to have a press for? Some of us might be able to run it in with a hammer, but not everyone?

 

Oil: Changed
Crossmember: Oiled

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I do also, I could never. Also I’m incredibly lucky that the PO scraped up the front fender and did some trimming so it’s all good now! I can do what I want and if it drive me crazy I will buy a new fender

dang that a nice clean engine mamba

oh no shifty!! My truck wants to be like yours when it grows up. How do I keep from falling below 13??

you don’t have a diff drop on yours? What are your thoughts on it?

 

Oh, it's seen plenty of hauling dirt, mulch, and gravel. I do all of our landscape, hardscape, and garden beds. There's probably a couple hundred pitchfork stab holes in it. Likely won't see anymore as long as the cap is on it though, I'll be relying on bags vs backhoe scoops.

But the picture is deceiving, 303 is just that fucking incredible. Have you never used the stuff before? I sprayed it on some mountainbike tires that were greyed out on a bike I'm selling next week. Brushed it in with a tire brush. Left it overnight, the tires look like new.

 

We did this on my friends vintage BMW. I can't remember which model it was, M30 or something. Anyway, fair warning: Anything the melty rubber gets on, it's not coming back off. That includes concrete, tools, everything.

 

Might as well start the bed cage now

 

It IS the magic juice isn't it. Wish I would have found it sooner. One impressive application is on all my inside door weather stripping... soft a supple like new. Black plastic exterior trim too, seems to last a long time.

 

No diff drop. I don't have an opinion. I'd like to measure driveline angles on someone with the diff drop and similar lift as mine, and compare to mine. I was doing mental math on it and tinkering with my magnetic angle finder. I don't see how you could get more than maybe 2°-3° out of the diff drop I picked up from Toytec with my coilovers, and I just don't see how it's realistically going to help much. But I know plenty of folks are running diff drop with no issues, so ... I dunno. I may be the wrong person to ask, I'm skeptical of everything. And mechs I've asked at two different offroad shops familiar with our trucks had differing opinions: One swore it would help, one said it won't. And consensus around here is about the same, mixed reviews.

Keep from falling below 13mpg? Buy a 2WD and keep it stock?

Depends, do you drive mostly city all week and hwy on the weekends? If so, you'll never get there. Before I got laid off, I typically only did city driving during the week, and did hwy driving on weekends. I can clear 13mpg pretty easy if I get closer to 50/50 city/hwy. When that goes 70/30 mostly city, I was in the 12s. 90%+ city and I'm in the 11s. Ever since the lift, upsizing tires 1.6" to 275/70r17, I'm reading off by ~4-5% or something, so my fuel app is showing me dropping into the high 9s, but if I correct for how much I'm off, that's nearly 11mpg. The tires I chose are almost twice as heavy and I probably lost a full 1mpg because of that alone.

I'm trying to throw anything at it I can to help with those numbers. I know I had a lot of top-end filth, so I've been slowly working through it. But yeah. If you do mostly highway, even if you lift like I did, and oversized tires, you should still be able to pull 14-15mpg.

 

How about magnesium wheels over aluminum? Tire Rack claims 3 lb reduction in wheel weight improves MPGs by 5%. The starfish wheels are what? 20-25 lbs each?

Sounds like an interesting experiment if someone wants to try it.

 

I wonder if that's what the Konigs I want are made of. Doesn't specify metal, but they are like 21lbs and 17x8"

 

So CLEAN and nice! That's awesome shifty. And now I know what it's supposed to look like

How I got it. Alignment may have been off a smidge.


Flux core booger fix

 

Magnesium is more brittle & not what you want for an offroad wheel. Steel ftw.

 

Probably alloy then

 

Yup 303 is good stuff. Learned about it on the Porsche forum many years ago. After the pollen storm and a few thunderstorms my bed liner is a yucky yellow. Need to pressure wash that shit away no that it’s overs for the year.

 

I have the 13WL calipers on my 2004 AC...along with the 16” starfish wheels. No issues with caliper rub.

 

so true!

 

Aiming to do UCA double shear, spindle, and cam tab gussets in the next month or two. Need to sort out why this truck keeps pulling to the right (bent knuckle might be the culprit). Going to the do the front LT kit and then decide if I'm going to go 3 or 4 link vs SUA. Really just dependent if I can justify forking up the money for the solo XLT kit lol.

 

Took my truck for a good ride today to go play some golf with the wife. After the tires wheels and lift it ride really nice now but damn it has a shake/vibration in the steering wheel at exactly 65mph. Any guesses besides a tire out of balance? Just did steering rack bushings too.

 

Can't remember if I posted this or not