What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

Wow
That’s a lot of prep
They’ll get sandblasted with the rain and snow sand on the roads out here…I just cleaned mine up and hit them with a couple coats of rattle can red and called it good! They’ll need repainted in a year or two anyway.

 

Looks like youve got an extra set of wheels there... where bouts are you located Willis?

 

Red is definitely the best color for tow hooks, this is known. Here's how I did mine. Pulled them off, wiped them off with a rag, and then blasted them with red paint because they're just tow hooks.

 

No pics but finally got my NSV light bar wired up. I am in love with the night rider effect. Sure, I could have went with the Baja designs light bar instead for more lighting but I already have several other bright lights elsewhere and this novelty of a light puts a smile on my face.

 

Interesting video, but I wish he’d go into more depth and discuss physics/forces on the cage. I don’t run a drop, but I have a hard time believing that the cage isn’t slightly more compromised at extreme angles compared to the cv being flat. But what do I know

 

ATX. Listing for those is in the wheels marketplace

 

It’s been, something…

 

Well it only took me 3 weeks to install and still not done, but hey it's 11:30pm somewhere SMH. Have a great weekend fellas. Hopefully everything will be Button up by next week.

 

This was above my Tundra tonight!

 

You could see them all the way down here in Ohio!

 

Looks good!

 

Upgraded...

Readylift 4" front w/ control arms and 2" rear with Bilstein 5100s.
Toyo Open Country R/T 35x12.5x20 tires
Spidertrax 1.25" spacers

Front bumper moved 1/2" forward and mud flaps removed.

 

Looking damn good!

 

Truck looks badass! What wheels are you running with this setup? Do you happen to know offset? Been trying to figure out my minimum lift for some 35x12.5x20 stock platinum wheels

 

everything looks great except those chrome side mirrors!

Do you think those tires clear with a 2" lift?

 

Keep in mind that he also has the wheel spacers installed with them.

 

Yea, im mainly trying to get 35x12.5 on stock wheels because i refuse to pay the astronomical price for the TRD wheels from toyota and dont really want after market wheels. Im ok with a small spacer if i get the clearance. I have a 2" front spacer, saving up some money for a 2.5" front 1" rear setup. I figure if i can fit 35x12.5x20 on it with the 2" front, ill do tires and spacers while i wait for the money to do my suspension how i want.

 

Sooo. Jan 22 I rolled thru a tornado. Flying debris took paint off down to primer in spots.

got the paint fixed middle of last year.

last night in San Marcos, night before sons graduation, hail storm

we were in a restaurant when it happened. The meatloaf was fantastic.

I only got dents on the hood, others were not so lucky

 

That storm was wild. I watched it from the top of the parking garage at St David expecting South Austin to get slammed but it veered south once it hit the Austin force field. Sorry yall got hit like that

 

You got lucky. Seen the pictures of 6” hail down that way. Crazy stuff.

 

Ultraclash wheels: https://www.sparksparts.com/p-20-ultra-clash-wheel-4134612

I do not know the offset but they are most likely the same as other Toyota stock wheels. They were new with the truck and were an upgrade option at the time.

So to answer your question, my upgrade baseline is the 4/2" Readylift. Honestly, I had less clearance issues with no Spidertrax spacers; the shop only had to remove the mud flaps for the very slightest of rubbing. After the Spidertrax spacers, the washers behind the front bumper were required to move the front bumper forward. If I didn't do this, the tire would slightly tap an inner-well screw when making turns.

I no longer get any rubbing on the front inner-well screw but while moving in reverse and turning my steering wheel fully counter-clockwise, I do get a slight rub against a piece of body metal. This will easily be solved when I get someone to shim the slight body metal protrusion down by about 3 mm.

Overall, I wanted to keep these stock wheels. I like many aftermarket ones but didn't want a dated or overused wheel look several years from now.

 

What would you suggest, color-code the mirrors? If so, body color or black?

Seems like if I did the body color, I would need to do the door handles as well (either black or body color).

2" lift... I'm not sure. My 4" kit came with new upper control arms so I don't know if your 2" lift has stock UCA's or not. Those may rub against a 35" tire.

 

Are you trying to say I’m an overachiever and perfectionist!?
My main goal for the overkill prep is that since I “ruined” the factory coating that they’ll still be able to withstand the salt and snow here in Oregon.

 

Color matched, and you dont need to do the door handles.

Ill try and get you a pic of mine later.. I have to go to an open house at 11am but Ill be back later

 

agreed

we were sitting in a place called the root cellar, so I figured we were in the right spot

it sounded bad, tornado bad

but I was not about to leave the meatloaf

priorities

 

I'll do you one better. I did not pull them off, did not wipe them with a rag and did not blast them with red paint. Because, they're just tow hooks.

Don't really care about the whole color match, black out, chrome remove, tow hook color thing. But that's the beauty of it all. TEHO

 

The way I read it is, you do proper paint prep and everyone else was lazy and didn’t lol I’m apart of the lazy crowd. Kudos to you tho, painting sucks haha

 

That looks great. Do you have a picture from the side?

 

Here you go...

 

Swapped out the last housing I got from Evil. Turns out they sent me one for a friggin Tacoma so yeah wanted a fuller sized version - they sent me one for a Raptor. Definitely wider than the Tacoma version. If anyone has a Taco, I'll sell you this almost new one. Also selling the original one I bought that has 2 cutouts (instead of the 3 for a camera) - fits 2nd & 2.5 gen Tundras. No Baja lights, just the housing that also includes the cargo and brake lights.


Comparison

Tacoma housing minus S2 lights

Raptor housing installed