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

The toyota symbol on the center cap pops out pretty easily. I painted the caps black and the toyota emblem red.

 

That's how my black FJ Trail Teams came.

 

My plan exactly…. This forum is great for those of us who have OCD and have other things we should be doing….

 

Begging for white letter tires

 

These looked like just one flat piece, but i could be wrong. I'll have to go back and take another look

 

This website is terrible and has made me spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on my truck. Turn back while you still have time!

 

You ain’t lying…I’m talking thousands….

 

Same, but since i was warned about the timing belt & lbj’s, i’m gonna call it even.

 

Got the bed lights installed this past weekend @KNABORES

Ran a wire from the battery all the way back to the bed for full time power (fused at the battery of course) and am just using the supplied switch to turn it on and off for now, may do the fancy strut switch in the future.

Plenty of light for anything going on at night and unlike my last light which was tied to the tail light circuit this one can be turned on whenever.

You've got a white truck, that'll buff out really nice. Ask @shifty`

 

Is @Bought2Pull 's truck white?

If so, and the paint is chalky, it'd be financially stupid to repaint vs. correct, you're talking a few hundred dollars versus a few thousand. White trucks came from the factory single-stage (assuming it wasn't repainted previously)

Mine is a classic example. This is about an 30mins of actual work on the passenger bedside, compare that to the front, then check a pics after I managed to finish the rest, probably about 6-8 hours of active work and I have no special training. @FirstGenVol also did his white truck, similar state/situation, and I think he has less experience than I do, but I'd argue he got similar-if-not-better results than me. More details on the process I used are here (short version) and here (long version) for the large panels and the smaller panels A/B/C pillars and tight areas used the hex-logic pads described here. Proof is in the pictures :

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PS - great job on the lights. I need to get off my ass and do this. And if I had a dollar for every time I said "get off my ass and [do something]" on this forum, I could probably buy enough lottery tickets to win it all.

 

I'm in for 5 figures at this point. I blame @shifty` for putting the car audio bug back in my noggin.

 

This is now "straight" after my tie rod/LBJ job. Hah!

Just dropped it off for the alignment now.

 

I accept responsibility for this! But you’re not getting a penny outta me because I’m probably equally fucked

 

Looks good, are those nilight leds? I'm probably doing the same thing this week/weekend. This angle makes the bed look long af, thought we were looking inside of a regular cab lol

 

You got the quality, I got the quantity!

 

I was putting it off for a while but there are a couple camping trips coming up so I figured this was the time to do it. It did take a little while to get everything sorted out but it seems like it will be well worth it.

Yes it's the same as @KNABORES did. LINK

I took the picture in my closed garage so it's a wide angle pic to get it to all fit in.

I would also say that you could probably get by with 2 of the led strips instead of 3 and have plenty of light but I had the whole kit so I used it.

I did forget to mention, I used adhesion promoter where I stuck the lights and put clear packing tape at the ends to hopefully keep everything stuck where I put it.

 

Awesome, great final result. Same thing for me on the camping part, have a couple trips in May and another in June that I'm trying to get the truck prepped for. Thats good to know because I actually have the 2 strip one instead of 3 and velcro one side to the carpeted ceiling.

When running the wire from the battery to the rear, did you just roughly follow the other conduit/wire loom and run it under the firewall and along the frame ultimately to the brake light?

 

For me, it's all about whether or not I need to bother with running the constant power wire. I know having the 7-pin factory tow harness, I already (I think?) have a fat-gauge (10-12awg IIRC) constant power to the rear of the truck.

There are a gaggle of various adapters you can buy that let you separate the round OEM 7-pin, and sandwich a harness in between to feed your camper shell. Leer (under their "TAG" / "Truck Auto Group" brand name) sells the adapter p/n 300100 (this one) and potentially other brands (I'd like to see something like this DD but for power-out not lights) you can use to tap off that power/ground but I haven't gotten the gumption up to dig deeper on either product. Anything I can do to re-use existing OEM wire in a no-splice way is a winner for me.

@daveeasa sent me an adapter harness to tee off the combo connector, but I've been so loaded up, it's been on the backburner. I have it stuck in my head it may be pulling off the rear driver tail light combo connector, and I'd prefer to have "more stout" power, like the wiring gauge the trailer uses, and drop a proper fuse/distro block under the rear bedrail.

 

Same, 2-strip Nilight kit, and planned to velcro to the ceiling carpet, which a previous owner installed.

I know it's not targeted at me, but ... If I don't end up using the trailer wire method I just mentioned, which may not be applicable if your 2002 doesn't have the OEM 7-pin connector, I was going to chase the existing OEM loom that dunks into the driver framerail below the brake MC, next to where the front differential (and trans/TC) breathers pop-up. If memory is working properly today.

 

I really gotta get off my ass and do this too haha. Truck desperately needs the bedsides clay barred, a proper touch up job after an atv crashed into it, then a full buff

Any paint brand recommedations oh wise knowledge of all 1st gen tundra wizard? Leaning towards giving duplicolor a test shot

 

Yeah I followed the driver side framerail down to the bed and then went up behind the tail light housing. Pretty much following the path of the wire that runs from fuse box to my 7 pin, but I think that's aftermarket.

From what I see, my 7 pin isn't OEM, it looks like it was added later. There is 2 wires that run from the main lug in the fuse box to the 7 pin but I don't have a plug on the back of my 7 pin, it's just wires going through the hole. One day I might need my 7 pin and brake controller (unlikely but possible) so I decided not to mess around with trying to splice into that wiring, it was tempting to though.

 

Mine doesn't have the round oem 7 pin. However i did notice it does have a trailer 4 pin harness at the hitch, and what looks like a y-splitter type harness hanging under the frame between the hitch and driver side tailight. I wonder if i could use that somehow instead of what i was going to do. I was planning on using a 4 pin trailer harness like this. Hoypeyfiy Trailer Light Wiring

$8 Hoypeyfiy Trailer Light Wiring Harness Kit,4 Wires 4-Way Plug 4 pin Flat Wire Extension Male & Female Connector 32" Inch Long

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QMXG3KV?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share . And using the switch from nilight, a strut hydraulic switch (to automatically turn on/off when opening the camper shell), and still need to wire my 3rd brake light. I'll have to take a picture of the harness today when I can

 

I think the 7-pin adapters only require that you unscrew the existing round bulkhead from the metal plate, plug your adapter into it, then screw the adapter to said plate. It's a sandwich of sorts. Here's an install video, the 1st vid (jump to 20m50s if it doesn't auto-jump) and a breakdown of the adapter in the 2nd video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiKvZWJRORM#t=20m48s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNxjVSmHHWU​

 

You can get touch up pens from the dealer parts department.

For actual paint, we use water based from Axalta.

 

Got the touch up pen already, looking for some rattle can options. I'll check out Axalta, thanks!

 

What color is your truck?

 

I’ve used paint from Automotive Touchup on multiple different vehicles and they’ve been great every time. Tons of details in my refresh thread linked in my signature.

In certain light it matches so good that it’s hard to see that it’s been spot painted.

 

My tailgate has been shaking and making a lot of noise lately so I finally went online to try to find an oem bushing kit for the hinges. Of course they don’t sell one. So, I found one on b40built. Has anyone used the kit from them for this yet? How did it work out?

 

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