What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

Nice, I went to school up that way. Thanks on the retirement.

 

Color matched mirrors installed.

 

So gorgeous! Daaaaang!! Nice work!!

 

Thanks!

 

Ain't that purdy! Nice job!

 

Thank you!

 

Oof. Just remember, your one fowled up thread away from your entire night going to hell. Picked up a new set of rear shocks at Toytec’s customer appreciation day last Saturday as I had a blown 5100 on the right rear.
Figured I’d throw them on while the oil drained out of the truck. Passenger rear went fine, 5 minutes in and out. Went to change the filter and then came back to do the left rear.
Thanks to Colorado switching from mag chloride to road salt, the top nut decided to volunteer as tribute to save the shock from removal. An hour and a half of heating, PB Blaster, that TikTok crayon trick, cursing and regretting my existence and I finally got the old shock off. New one was on in 5 minutes and truck feels much better.

 

Ole sawzall to the rod will make that dude give up quick

 

I always seem to use the sawzall trick, myself...it always comes down to: are you going to use this again or is anyone else going to buy it? 99% of the time, it's trash afterwards...so the sawzall is a great facilitator of that mindset! Ha!

 

I wish. In my infinite wisdom I decided to tackle all this after work. I didn't get home until 7pm and the neighbor already hates me.

 

So i convinced my godfather to buy vled footwell lights for his new to him 2017 tundra sr and id put em in for him, he has no footwell light socket to plug the vled kit into! Anyone know which wire i can tap into that has power when the footwell light would normally be powered, (opening doors , unlocking them) any help would be great

 

There’s only one on the driver’s side. If there is no socket, I bet the wiring is still there.

 

Are you sure? Just above the parking brake pedal and very small

 

Installed the JXB Performance driveshaft carrier bearing bushing kit.

 

Never heard of it, is it more of a supercharger application or is there any benefit to a N/A offroad rig? Looks good!

 

Good benefits on offroad rigs as well. The factory one has a ton of play

 

Mine’s N/A with headers and full exhaust. Still makes a great improvement over stock

 

Why? Can you help me understand why this upgrade makes sense.

 

Because race car.

 

So is this one of the bilt ons ppl recommend when adding a SC?

 

this is a bolt on for that, offroading, or if you simply want a better unit than the oem piece

 

My carrier bearing was 9 years old with 155K miles on it. Had a very slight clunk going from drive to reverse, etc. This upgrade firmed up the driveshaft and smoothed out power delivery, without introducing any weird vibrations at all.

 

How long did this upgrade take? Seems pretty straightforward...

 

But does it come in blue?

Ask the serious questions

 

You know that was a question I looked into!

 

Ill admit i checked quickly when he was talking about ordering the kit and there is no light in the dash panel where it is supposed to be, im familiar with it because i added the kit to my limited , i didnt pull the panel down yet and see if the wiring is back there but i recall a post where that guy roman mentioned something about the st jot having the light so i was trying to figure out the wires to tap into before his kit gets here and i go to install it and worst case the socket or wiring for it is not present and i have to figure something else out … just trying to get prepared for worst case scenario

 

That must be one of those silly trim deals, you said it was an SR? I would say the wiring is there somwhere. I had an 07 sr5 double cab that had the door pannel lights when you open the door but my 2018 SR5 I have now doesn't not have the light option in the door panels but the wiring is there behind the pannel attached to the door. Wish I could be more help and good luck. I don't know if that light runs off its own fuse or not but you may be able to get a fuse tap and find another accessory that's functions similarly and go that route so your not cutting any actual wires maybe

 

30 minutes? That included finding the tools and sawzall

 

I'll give myself 2 hours, than!

 

Got to work today and had a small family reunion!