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

10-15 deg all weekend (truck sits outside), 3deg this morning, and besides the slightly slower crank she fired right up like the champ she is. Going to pretend what I did fixed it... until it didn't.

 

Friday your last day?

 

Doing day 10 right now, so no. Monday 3-3-25, I'll have a REAL case of the Monday's I promise...

 

That's exactly when they will be fake. Amazon receives product from multiple vendors and puts them in one big box, some vendors have real product and some have fake, they're all in the same box to be grabbed from. That's what I've always heard anyway.

 

I've personally seen a case of a counterfeit hood on a Camry that a customer had replaced at another body shop.

It was....strange. The hood structural support foam was missing under the insulation panel, the underside stamped design was slightly off and the "Toyota" logo stamp was not in the right location or orientation.

We had a training video on this issue not too long ago. OEM parts sold from anything other than an authorized dealer are to be scrutinized. "OPT-OEM" are supposed to be discounted "OEM" parts, BUT they can be counterfeit, stolen or any other scandalous term.

 

Me likey, post a link

 

Any idea if they make one for the 5VZ-FE V6 thats in my FGT?

Im in So Cal too and not far away from them. Id definitely be interested in this as an upgrade down the road!

 

What he said. But …

@MooreKen when was the last time you saw someone try to sue scAmazon over fakes? There is literally no reason for them to bother with validating their inventory, it’s not good for business and there’s no repercussion for failure to do so. And we have had some consumer protection legislation put in place very recently, but that’s likely to get repealed/killed/nerfed in the next year or two, because consumer protections are bad for business.

But yes. Any time you buy from scAmazon or fleaBay, you are at risk. May as well be Alibaba or Temu. I wrote a long reply on why this is. If you search for “fulfilled by” against my name here, you’ll find it. It explains in greater detail why it is. Short story is, “shared inventory bins at warehouses” and “no attempt to validate authenticity on arrival of inventory shipments”. They make vendors pay extra to keep their merch separate. That and wrong stuff can get returned to wrong bin.

 

Probably a customer bought genuine ones, then returned cheap fake ones in the packaging, employees didn't notice and just put them back up for sale. Or an employee did it themselves.

 

This is a pretty common thing people do. My brother at a sporting goods/gun store recently had somebody order a $600 range finder online, then return a $60 one in the box. The employee receiving the return (usually young college students) failed to verify it was actually the right range finder in the box, and the dude got refunded and got away with it. And now I have it Happens a lot with optics. Cheap Chinese airsoft clones of acogs and eotechs etc.

 

Inside job me thinks. None of their AirPods had the cellophane wrap on them

 

Here it is: https://www.tundras.com/threads/cooling-system.95513/page-2#post-2426214

 

Anybody have info on this hose? Mine has developed a small leak at the metal fitting circled in yellow.

 

Isn't that part of the AC system?

 

The Master Tailgaters handle is installed. Clips have been upgraded and the moving parts have been lubricated.

I did run into a small problem where the new lock cylinder u-clamp was too big and caused my lock cylinder to pop out each time I put my key in to test it. I swapped it out for the existing one and all is good in the Kingdom again. Praise be.

 

That's what I wondered, but it connects to the power steering air control valve

 

Mounted a Shovel to my bed. Before everyone goes overland nuts lol, it’s for work, if I go into a fire zone I have to have a shovel and a 10lb fire extinguisher.

I ordered a Power Tank fire extinguisher mount but it hasn’t arrived yet. The fire extinguisher will be mounted under the tail of the shovel. Both will hardly protrude into the bed.

Lined up the brackets and used 1/4-20 RivNuts. So if I want to remove this it won’t even be noticeable.


Brackets are from Builtright Industries. Insanely high quality SS with all hardware include as well as the Quick Fists. Like $39 for everything.


On the rear mount I drilled a 1/4” hole in the shovel and used a 1/4-20 x 2 1/2 bolt in the mount to keep the shovel from spinning. This should prevent the head from rubbing the bed of the truck over time.


Came out pretty clean and doesn’t impact any bed space. I might add an Axe or a McCloud below the shovel.

 

McCloud for sure

 

Top tier tool. I use mine more than any other shovel/rake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLeod_(tool)

 

TITS, MITS, CLITS and SLITS this morning.

 

Over this shit

 

https://www.championradiators.com/Toyota-Tundra-Radiator-2000-2006

It says it’s for a V8 and I don’t recall seeing the option for a 6 cylinder. I’m guessing they’re not compatible? Could call and ask or someone on here will certainly know. I have no idea.

 

The part numbers for V6/V8 are off by one. It looks like the upper and lower hoses are on opposite sides.

 

So you found a part number for the V6? I didnt see one on there unless I was just blind, lol

 

Perspective. Out here, how enjoyable the summer is can be very dependent on how good the winter was. Not enough snow and warms temps over the winter means summer fires, smoke, forest closures (or at least bans on campfires), low streamflow which = not good floating, bad for fish, people fighting over water. Between that and the fact that I enjoy getting out in the snow, I try really hard not to complain about snowy, cold winters.

Sometimes I have to catch myself, though...

 

That's the exact radiator I'm going with when I replace mine, they have a great reputation.

 

The hand man would be proud. Supervisor in action mid bubble purge Definitely suggest doing the radiator burp when it’s warmer out, took a while for the tstat to open and burp the air all hosed down and cleaned off I got at least 2.5gallons of old coolant out; I wasn’t planning on doing the block drain because I was scared of stories like Bill, I sprayed the drain cock the night before with kroil, it popped open without a fuss; I would have only gotten 2 gals of fluid if I didn’t open the block drain; it was slow but steady for a good 30 minutes, I even used the blower portion of a vacuum to blow as much out as possible. I’ll let it circulate for a week before I tackle the timing belt job and put new fluid in.

 

Was the Pepsi box to block wind?

That's some tastely looking Kool-aid.

 

Yeah try and help it heat up faster, I made sure to tell the boy the dangers of the koolaid, he asked lots of questions