What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

Holy garage!

 

It's 2-3 plastic screw type connectors in those large round holes.

 

Link?

 

Thanks - the wife kept insisting I needed a shop when we built the new house. So I built a 1500sqft shop 30x50x15 - she was right !

 

Nice! I wish mine was like that. I could always use more room. What was your AFSC?

 

Generic for Toyota 4Runner 2010-2023/Tacoma 2016-2023/Tundra 2014-2021 Leather Steering Wheel Replacement Parts 1 Set (Without Heating Function)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CWWS9G4D

 

Appreciate it. What's your thoughts on it?

 

4N0X1- medic 22 years minus 4 years for BMTI duty 1985-1989

 

2 cents, you can buy the Revesol one for $25 more (yes, its not always in stock) but a lot of folks on the forum have had them for many years and they hold up well and are good quality.

 

Nice. I was a jet engine mechanic. I was in from 1991-2015. I still remember my TI. Some things you never forget lol.

 

Thank you for your service - and yes you are correct - ha lol

 

That I did in the garage, and the Pro is high enough that I can get under it without jacking it up. My Ridgid 18v fan fits under the truck at the transmission/driveshaft location, so it honestly wasn't terrible. Now when I went to finish the wiring at the ass end of the truck, which was out in the 100F sun, that was toasty.

I took a break in the middle of the job when the HVAC guy showed up to replace a blown capacitor in the heat pump. Pisses me off, that thing is just 2.5 years old, and the previous heat pump lasted 20+ years.

 

If yall weren't aware, this thread covers the two makers of steering wheel upgrades. I keep pinging the guys who bought an Amazon model for a 6 month follow up on quality and "long term" reviews.

https://www.tundras.com/threads/we-...evesol-all-black-steering-wheel.112984/page-8

 

Pretty good, I was worried about the top stripe being straight but it's perfect. My only complaint could be that they didn't account for the thickness of the leather, which pushes the steering wheel controls in, which makes it tight to fit the airbag in. So the airbag rubs the control panels when you hit the horn. Not a big deal to me, since I usually flash my high beams and wave my fist out the window when someone mildly inconveniences me

 

Transmission flush and coolant flush today.

i have 44K miles.

i didn’t put on a trans cooler on my 2019 until about 20K miles.

The fluid told the story . It was very dark and almost brown.

I have done transmission fluid changes on 5th gen 4 runners with more miles and the fluid looked brand new.

the cooler works.

 

Put in new brake pads. Got a bit over 40k miles on the original oem pads that came on the truck when I got it new, only took me 7 years lol.
Also rotated the 37s, little shimmy I was feeling seems to be gone now.

 

Replaced my center dash speaker on my JBL. There was a weird static noice coming from it so I guess the OEM speaker went out. Very easy swap and sounds great. Looks nicer too. Bolts right in. It was cheaper a while back when I bought it.

https://www.amazon.com/JBL-GTO329-Premium-3-5-Inch-Co-Axial/dp/B00881CRS6?af=eyJ2ZWhpY2xlTmFtZSI6IjIwMTQgVG95b3RhIFR1bmRyYSIsInZlaGljbGUiOiIyMDE0LTc2LTEwMzMtLS0tLS0tLS0tLS0ifQ%3D%3D&crid=5FDEWMUTZ5QP&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.D8lqyWbIuhlrkTVzW69tWxkBP4blWq3hqCC0FScUwaw8IgJtQ8PeueOBoAChZssHkhHM0XkQ3kzUvjGyALj9lztiwNqDkDPEj77cZ1iWBUbnJE_RpEGfncH5x9EiA46xlhhOcEIfUejp7bDrr82FCjVk5TzqTgGLeCHFMcvIp0PXaczL8vnOiraKfNi1DM8dJ-IZKjZOAIl7jN-oEFb6-w.0p3l-aM-ggxl-3OZ9kfe99TGnYnFfmDUVXKy8oJlfxc&dib_tag=se&keywords=2014+tundra+jbl+tweeter&qid=1720318417&sprefix=2014+tundra+jbl+tweeter%2Caps%2C136&sr=8-7&vehicle=2014-76-1033------------&vehicleName=2014+Toyota+Tundra

 

I received my front kings today and ordered the rear. Will I get away with stock uca? I was thinking no problem since I am not going to lift it much, but I was not considering the resi hoses.

 

My personal favorite UCA's Are:
Camburg (recently acquired with massive price increase)
Bilstein-no ball joint cap
OME- dust cap blocks zerk
JBA- Easiest service of the bunch.

 

You only need aftermarket UCAs if you ordered extended travel (ET) Kings. Whoever you bought them from should have informed you of the UCA requirement if you ordered them ET.

 

Drove it to the movies and back. Spd exhaust is awesome. It got rained on.

 

New meats...Firestone Destination MT2s (295 70 18)

 

Ceramic tint - and I think it's time to work on debadging a little

 

Went out for some testing and it’s unreal the difference in performance. My fast pace before over my whoop section I test and tune on was about 55-65.

I ripped through the same section at 70+ and it felt like I was not even trying. The 3.0 custom valving is unreal. I didn’t even touch the bypass tubes at all.

The additional spare in the rear also made a difference on how the rear acted. Now time to redo the rear shocks and see how far we can push a leaf spring setup. I had a sxs try and race me over another whoop section and I looked down as I was pulling away and saw 80. Overall blown away.

 

New shifter came in.

 

Took off the EBC Yellowstuff pads. After 16.5k miles the fronts were done, down shy of 4mm and getting close, the rears looked fine, but I was ready to move on to my Akebono ACT1303 / ACT1304A set front and rear and enjoy the quiet, dust-free life. I can tell I lost a little initial bite in the braking power though, which isn't a huge deal, I'm not racing anyone over here.

 

Just uploaded some startup images and display off images in my Tundra.
The max I could upload to each was 3 images in each.
Here are the 3 in Startup Images


Here are the 3 in Display Off Images


I have a file of 25 images total that I can use. So, I can swap them out when I want.

 

Tore a hamstring (pulled with blood bruise) so 90 days rest, that's what I got when pushing it on a sprint. Was warmed up too but noticed quads and hams were still 'good' sore and not fully recovered from a leg weight work-out 3 days prior, during warm-up mile run. Lesson learned.

https://www.tundras.com/threads/wha...5-gen-tundra-today.713/page-3019#post-3507247

So you didn't panic sell yet ? Rear diff still holding up ?

 

You lucky you can do that. They locked that out for us '21 owners.

I'm not an audio file, but am seriously leaning towards an after market head unit.

I can't tell good sound from crap sound, but I can't here a great improvement in sound in this JBL unit vs my factory noise unit in my '08.