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

Good on ya brother

 

Randy Jackson, the fucking guy we were just talking about?!

 

As someone who's yoyo'd 100lbs+ on three separate occasions in the last 18 years, point about losing weight too fast and loose skin still stands. It's not the drugs fault is my point. It's pretty normal.
Most people that lose a ton of weight end up with extra skin and lots of people tend to say they look sickly.

When I lost 100lbs in high school through jogging every day, people started rumors that I was sick and/or on drugs.

 

Humans are a disease buddy. Fuckem all

 

$20 JINDITAI Special Wrench Shock Absorber Oval Pins

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C1V61SH?ie=UTF8

 

Make it ratchet and you got a winner

 

About the weight loss topic, i started intermittent fasting a couple years ago which has really helped me manage my weight. Basically eating during an 8 hour window and then not eating for 16. Its actually quite easy once you get used to it.

Not only did it help me lose weight but it really makes you much more comfortable with being a little hungry and you realize often hunger is just a sign you are thirsty and drinking some water satisfies that hunger craving.

Also, it made me stop all the snacking that we do, watching a movie or whatever and made me just stick to 2 meals a day. Been doing this for a couple years and its easy as hell now and I feel good! Just throwing that out there in case you guys havent tried it!

 

I'll 2nd this one... I've never been a huge fan of all the fad diets, and while this one could also be considered 'fad' this type of diet really does more than help you lose weight. One of the reasons (other than genetics) that diabetes and other food based diseases grab ahold of you is when your liver and bloodstream are constantly (24hrs a day) fighting to rid itself of fat and toxins. Eating like this gives your body a chance to finally purge the gunk out of the bloodstream (and do it on a daily basis) which makes you less likely to develop diabetes; makes your body more accustomed to using stored fuel sources (burning fat, etc.); and helps your digestive and colon health as well. I find when running my meals like this, I'm generally much less bloated and I don't watch calories so much (gotta still keep it reasonable)...

Speaking of liver and toxins... There's a reason why eliminating alcohol is a must do when really trying to lose weight (regardless of what program you are following), and it's more than just 'empty calories'... The liver perceives alcohol as a poison or toxin, and therefore it prioritizes getting rid of it before eliminating other things in your system. IE>>> The liver will work to eliminate alcohol long before it processes fat and carbs. This is one of the reasons hard core alcoholics end up w/liver issues. It's also the reason why you can eat a fairly clean diet, but if you're drinking 'a lot' you'll still end up w/a fatty liver (high triglycerides and have your LDL and HDL out of whack)....

You should still eat reasonably 'clean' when you can, but as I started getting older into my late 30s, 40s and early 50s I found that what I did in the past simply wasn't working (regardless of the amount of energy output I had)... I'm usually running something similar to this, and it's made 'staying in shape' a bit easier in my later years

 

Very well said @Tripleconpanna

 

I have so much to say on this it's not really even worth getting started, but...

Weight isn't an issue for me, which is both good and bad. Gaining weight is a good feedback mechanism. Those of us who don't gain weight aren't necessarily healthier, we just don't have the weight gain to show something's off. It'll show up in lab results, brain function, disease.

Two things.

1. There's no 'one size fits all'. Intermittent fasting, carb restriction, different diets. What works for one person could wreck another. Need to experiment.
2. It's all connected. Everything in the body is connected. Hormones determine whether your body decides to pack the calories you eat into fat stores, or burn it as energy. Hormones are affected by food, stress, exercise etc. An undiagnosed food intolerance can show up as an autoimmune disease. Then docs will treat it with drugs when really you just need to change your diet.

It's ridiculously complicated but worthwhile to dig in and experiment. Something is changing, maybe with our genetics, maybe the food supply, probably both, but food intolerances and autoimmune disease is way more common than it used to be. Many of us are having our health chipped away at, without knowing, by eating things that mess us up. Mildly mess us up, but it's the death by a thousand cuts.

And yeah, alcohol and weight. It's amazing how fast some people will drop 10 pounds with just minor changes to their drinking. Like still drinking nearly every night, but just not going to the brewery on the way home from work anymore. 2-3 less beers each night, even if they still drink some beer that night.

Doesn't matter what anyone says: alcohol is a poison. I drink, but I don't fool myself that "well one or two is actually healthy". I see the social aspect of having a community, social support, good times with friends as a balance to the damage alcohol does. It's not required that you drink in order to have community, but for a lot of people, their social group centers around drinking. People who are isolated socially die younger. Remember...it's all connected. I think having a couple drinks with good friends is overall healthier than not drinking at all but socially isolating yourself.

 

Recently I heard or read that the reason it's called intoxicated is because it's a toxin. Can't believe I made it this far in life without making that connection.

 

What you said here... is 100% FACTS!!!!

 

I knew someone here had something like that.

 

Ugh. Definitely a need to replace. No warning signs though.

 

Doo it

 

Lisle makes a tool that can take a socket or ratcheting wrench.
https://www.oreillyauto.com/detail/...77292132/lisle-shock-absorber-tool/lis0/20400

 

I must have been lucky in that vice grips worked for me, no problem. But I have very, very little rust.

 

Welp, another annual(ish) visit from my old friend P0328, knock sensor circuit "high" for bank 1, with a quick fun foray into limp mode. Once again, it hit me within 2 miles of a cold start, in the morning, and yet again this popped exactly when I jumped on the gas to accelerate. Was really fun trying to get up to speed on the interstate when the truck won't go over 2,000 RPM and/or shift into higher gears. I had to get the kid to camp, so I couldn't pull off to clear the code. Managed to plug in my OBDLink MX+ to connect and confirm while driving down the interstate, pull the code, then exit, clear it, andthe truck drove totally normal as usual. Put on a solid 60 miles after, no more code. Engine is NOT knocking, so I know it's something related to the sensor or a harness.

1st time it happened 3/4 mile from the house, accelerating from a stop sign back in 2022.
2nd time it happened 3 blocks from the house, turning onto the main road and accelerating because a stream of traffic was coming.
Today it happened 1.5 miles from the house, accelerating from a traffic flow stop light for an interstate on-ramp.​

I see a pattern forming here ... and suspect this is entirely wiring and/or sensor failure related, maybe the piezo in the sensor is fucked, since I don't think there's a way coolant can be squirting over that way.

That said, I guess I need to charge up the snake came and feed it under the intake and see if there's any obvious wiring issue. Maybe harness is damaged and periodically shorting, or it acquired mice with the previous owner, or at the dealership? No way in hell mice are nesting up in it now.

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Don't need it to ratchet because its job is only to keep the shaft from spinning. I use a ratcheting box wrench to tighten the nut, and this tool to hold it hold the shaft in place.

 

Touching on these to comment, since it strikes at home a bit, with what we're going through with our oldest right now. Not to say "You're wrong", only to suggest "You have to be careful on those statements, for a couple of reasons."

There's a bit of a general misconception on "burning fat", "using fat stores". Our bodies don't magically say, "Oh shit, I'm hungry and need calories, let's go burn this fat over here!", at least that's not how it happens to many people, espeically if done chronically. It also varies wildly on age, what your protein/carb ratio is, whether you're hitting your maintenance calories (bare minimum calories you need for your body and brain to function daily) or not.

When you don't hit your maintenance calorie numbers, many people's bodies will actually attack muscle mass, i.e. remove the one thing in your body that passively uses calories. Muscle mass itself is critical to latent calorie burning, and the fastest way to burn more calories while doing jackshit is to increase your muscle mass. It's almost like making an investment that has residual returns; a guy that weighs 250lb where 100lb of that mass is fat, they may burn 200 calories at rest per day. 250lb where 100lb of that is muscle mass, they may burn 1,000. These numbers are purely fictitious, only used to illustrate the point: If you want to burn calories passively, increase your muscle mass.

I'm only bringing this up because we've been on a fucking rollercoaster with our oldest (13). After hitting puberty a little early, hormones changed, eating habits changed, impulses changed. She was working out 3x/week and moved more towards a Mediterranean diet to compensate for gaining the "Freshman 15" in middle school. Well, fast forward to some "internet research", and she finds people saying, "The only way to lose weight is reduce your calorie intake".

Naturally, she goes whole ham and under-calories herself, essentially starving, believing it'll make her thinner. Only, the fat she wanted gone stayed, she started losing muscle mass in her arms and legs instead, making the other fatty parts look larger. She'd need to work out more to compensate, but her body wasn't taking in the calories required to support that, so her body nerfed more muscle. The unfortunate thing is, as a growing kid, or even as a functional adult, you NEED a baseline calorie intake. For her, it's at least 1,500 calories. She was barely taking in 1,200 calories a day, often less. Sure, she was losing weight, but it was muscle mass the body was sacrificing to reduce latent calorie consumption.

You're right, and I keep saying this over and over again, but it's our food supply, or more specifically, what is being sprayed on it. What's killing off the bees (colony collapse disorder/CCD, due to decades of health decline) is killing us off too, death by a thousand cuts.

It's no secret, or it shouldn't be at least, but there's an "echo" on line graphs when you compare (a) pesticide usage increase in this country to (b) autoimmune, cognitive, allergies, defects and genetic anomalies in humans, and (c) the increase in CCD in bee colonies.

Europe has established this already and curbed usage of certain pesticides known to cause issues. Lobbyists and corporate superpowers have too much at stake in this fight, and have prevented us from curbing those here. At this point, we have plenty of other issues, microplastics in our testicles and in the flesh of all the animals we eat just the same, so many preservatives in our body that embalming is virtually unnecessary these days. We're dying a death by a thousand cuts, and need to get back to 100 years ago when industry wasn't allowed to do wtf-ever they want, with no regulation or control (and no real consequence in the event of an accident), back when we weren't coating everything with poison to make our vegetables look store-shelf-quality-perfect, etc.

But it won't happen. I guess Darwin will ultimately take course, and who ever is most genetically tolerant will carry the bloodlines, which is what's happening with insects who are always adapting to the pesticides. With humans, it likely won't be the lower/middle class, who don't have the luxury of being picky with foods. Hope everyone here is in the top 5%!

 

That's what I would do too, but It'd also be cool if you could just clamp the nut in place and ratchet the shaft.

 

Yes.

And yes, any definitive statement about health is inherently wrong, and possibly dangerous. Unless the statement is "it's complicated".

Food. I know. I hate how so many people think "organic" is some hippy thing. Everyone's grandparents ate organic. It wasn't until recently that all these chemicals ended up on & in our food. Our food system is screwed and you have to do more research than most people are willing to do in order to even attempt to eat "clean", and even then, the people who have done the research know they can only do so much, and avoid the worst of the worst.

This is why my budget tracking spreadsheet from last year shows groceries are 25% of my overall spending. Right on par with rent. I'm far from any top % of earners, but my expenses are generally modest enough that I can afford to buy high quality food.

 

I just realized I had some weird copy/paste shit happen with my sentiment above; fixed.

 

“That tie rod end isn’t toast, you can reuse it” - Old school neighbor who helped me throw everything back together and even got me a cheap sway bar end link to throw on in the meantime.



Went for a casual test drive and it all felt good, no weird noises to report back. Got a decent bit done which I’m happy about.

Truck desperately needs new tires, these ones date back to 2013..



Photo of how it sits, Bilstein 5100’s w/ OME 2884.

 

AKA, Don't smoke it to Alabama.

 

I will wholey suggest and recommend Kumo AT52s. No real road noise, good grip on wet pavement, and do really nicely in the fields. I got mine at Discount last year for 152 a pop. So like just under 700 for all 4

 

Nice two tone!

 

Good Job Mr. Snek