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

It’s a little more complicated than that. 70% of the tree is on the neighbor’s property in back of me and the MA treehugger laws are a little confusing as to what I can do.

 

Send some up here - those ingredients are legal up here. - For science.

 

Also Au Bon Pain.

 

Better yet move here were even more things are legal lol, and your truck won't rust

 

@NUDRAT what was the demise of your tundra?

 

Catalytic converters. Needed a complete exhaust system.
Paint was coming off the hood in sheets.
Access Cab.

I'd'a put the effort into a Toyota Tundra Ridgeline 1G, but I was done putting money into an AC. Got sick of the front & back door tops tripping on each other & those silly low bedside walls.

It really wasn't a rust thing.

 

Funny - I'm trying to figure out where to live next. Looking hard at TX & TN & SD. SD land seems to be too expensive.

Realized today I haven't given thought to how I'll get my vehicles somewhere.
Guess I could sell the car & off-brand Tundra. Drive the RV towing the Tacoma, but dunno if I could add the Tacoma trailer hooked up behind the 1GTacoma. Don't think the RV has the chutzpah to pull a fullly loaded double bedded Tacoma plus the RV loaded with full water & fuel tanks. Could always sell the Tacoma & it's matchy-matchy trailer, but it seems like selling a clean 1GTacoma I got for $5k would be a mistake.
How much trouble do you get in if you put your truck inside the uhaul?

To stay on thread topic - I mowed around & noticed the off-brand 1st gen Tundra is dirty today.

 

Road train.

 

it is a pintle hitch, so maybe.

 

That's called a skytrack sir.

 

Tellahandler?

 

I second road train. I mean that's how most of y'all came into existence. Lmfao

 

Its a forking buggy if you ask me. Just gotta find one that'll lift 9klbs 10ft high.

 

TN is the way to go.

 

Well it was a good 24 year run...... Your standard "truck guy" aka cidiot with his trailer full of stone, his I'm a big boy pick up and no cover over the load..... Thanks c#nt

 

Insurance covered mine completely.

This slimy little communist shit twinkle-toed cocksucker was headed the opposite direction, and i undoubtedly impressed all the girls with my handbrake turn & chased him down. Come to find out he lives in my neighborhood. Insurance didnt even ask for proof.



You can see him dropping rocks in the pic.

no hate once it was fixed. Even helped the guy move lumber for the river park deck rebuild.

 

still better than mine

 

I may be missing how bad it is, but isn't that repairable?

 

I'm late to the convo, as always. But it's wonderful, that's what it's like.

I mean, I rarely go off road. But the road handling difference is really shocking. It's made the truck feel so much more comfortable, safer, and it drives a lot more like a modern truck. It feels just as stable on the highway as my LS430. And in the rain, it's a drift machine even with the open diff. Before it would smoke the inside rear accelerating from a stop, and it requires a lot more throttle to get them to spin now.

Once this semester is over I'd like to do flex tests with all the combos of dual sway bar, front sway bar, no sway bar, etc. The Tinkerers Garage youtube video was damn convincing that a rear sway bar is beneficial with IFS.

 

Which rear sway did you install?

 

ADDCO: https://www.tundras.com/threads/2000-limited-trd-refresh-repair-story.116395/page-9#post-3287939

I was looking at them. I was thinking long and hard about it. Hell, I'm pretty sure that's what I almost bought (pretty sure I texted that one to you, found it on fleaBay down in the Tampa area several months ago). Never followed through. May still do it. Or wait ... maybe it was that other company. One is drill-to-add, the other is not (major brand, Hotchkis or similar IIRC. EDIT: HELLWIG! The other, which I think is no-drill, is Hellwig)

 

I'm sure it looks like I'm a stalker, but that's only because I was searching for myself https://www.tundras.com/threads/2000-limited-trd-refresh-repair-story.116395/page-9#post-3356570

 

The ADDCO one. It's 19mm in diameter compared to the 27mm? diameter of others. It's definitely a bit lower quality than the Hellwig one but I wouldn't want it to be any stiffer.

Having a rear sway bar that matches or exceeds the stiffness of the front can make it twitchy or prone to oversteer. I drove a friend's miata that had an aftermarket rear bar. It was easy to get the rear to step out on hard braking, and I think that would be a bad combo on a truck with what, 70% of it's weight in the front?

 

I've never figured out how to copy a link to a specific post in a thread. What's the trick?

 

Scroll over the post number, right click copy link and then paste

 

Adding pics.

Two options:

1. Click this post number, then copy/paste from the pop-up window
2. Right-click (or long-hold on mobile, I think) and "copy link", then paste

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@Riverdale21 has a nice write up on it https://www.tundras.com/threads/inexpensive-but-capable-rear-sway-bar.82902/

 

…given all of this talk about front sway bar deletion...

 

I don't have experience with the Hellwig bar but after having mine I'm not sure why it would be better aside from manufacturing quality. Both are made in USA though.

Doesn't the hellwig also mount under the axle housing, and face rearwards? I feel like it would be easy to smack and bend when driving over like, anything.