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

Truck officially hit 20 years old this year, so I decided to gift it a professional interior detail. They did a great job!

 

Puhcahn.

 

Peckin' trees. I reckon.

 

pee-sahn

 

Here how I mounted my brake controller. Really easy. Take out the ash tray, use it as a template to drill holes in a piece of plastic (or whatever you have) then put a sheet of good Velcro on the bottom of the plastic and top of the brake controller. I’ve never had it fall. Once in a while I have to kinda push it up a little but no big deal. Fits perfect.

immediately after installing I did realize I need to trim back the plastic a bit to hide the white, and paint it black…..but it’s been 3 years and you know how that goes

 

It look like they missed some dust on top of the parkingbrake pedal.

 

Courtesy light

 

Refracting off all that dust

 

Haha, not bothered by it. Nope, not at all...

...so I took an impromptu break at work and rushed outside, you're all wrong.

The paint is just a bit warn there. Nice try you CSI Miami wannabes!

 

There's a looooootta dirt on that steel!

 

Ok, I'm gonna try and clean it off later today. If it doesn't work I think I'll just sell it. Can't have a truck with a dirty pedal

 

Paddle sanding wheel, scotchbrite, & green polishing compound. Show the haters who's boss.

 

I'll give you two-fitty.

 

Very nice! Where did you mount the, uh, unit?

 

A little Windex and some elbow grease, and it's looking better!

It's now worth about tree fiddy

 

Oops meant that as a reply to this build....

Build thread?!

 

How hard is it to replace the entire antenna? I have the full kit as well as a new boot and ornament but but the nut won’t thread on because corrosion. Gotta take the fender off or can feed through without? Anyone who has done this know how big a job it is?

 

Just remove the fender liner. The antenna has a bolt on the inside and then the wire feeds through the firewall.

 

One hour? More?

 

I had mine off in like 10 minutes. never put it back on due to snorkel

 

You don’t care about FM? That’s one way to go I guess.

 

I was curious about the seal at the firewall and accessibility. I figure I have to cut to use the old one as a feeder, hence I’m committed once I start.

 

you still listen to the radio? I only use the radio for AM during football season while I'm traveling on the odd mon/thurs/sun and even then that's a last ditch effort

 

Not true. I mounted a new RV/Marine antenna to by brush guard

 

https://y.yarn.co/1a08ca25-0efc-48f2-87ad-11e7f5d066b0.mp4

 

I do. Partly because family Spotify shared with the house and the palm desert house means I often get my stream interrupted at specific times. Also because my ‘05 Tacoma doesn’t have phone connection (Oem radio needs mic to connect and the two CarPlay pioneer head units have gone to my dad’s older Toyota’s.)

I do a lot of podcasts and audible but mix in radio sometimes. Commute is short distance wise so sometimes nice to hear local news.

 

After a little searching I found a post on Reddit with instructions. Unfortunately looks like the photo links are broken.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanics/s/XCTIASTH1j

Not sure how helpful it'll be for you

 

It's not hard. You do have to remove the inner fender liner, and the fender flare if you have one. On the inside you'll need to remove the passenger side kick plate, door sill, glove box, and radio. No need to cut the old line to use as a feeder, you'll see the line coming in from the area behind the kick plate.

The new antenna assembly comes with a new boot and nut. If yours is stuck you might have luck taping off around your fender and putting some vise grips on it. That's how I got mine off. Previous owner of my truck apparently tried in the past by using a screw driver and tapping it to turn the nut, didn't work out for him as there was a scratch on the fender from where I think he attempted to do that.

 

Nothing good on the radio in TX anyways.

 

I only used to listen to AM for Coast To Coast