1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

What part of SoCal are you in?

 

Been heck of weekend.
If I ever have vehicle in shop again I’ll be marking things before, and really checking after.

Haven’t liked it because want to get ball joint on tundra, (just got bolts Friday) but Wife been driving it while waiting on what I thought was all parts I wanted to put on 4 Runner, (Radiator, hoses, and water pump) and last night heard a pop on front of tundra pulling into driveway so it’s parked until have time to change LBJ, and had to get 4 runner done.

Finished rounding up last of what i needed this morning for 4 runner.

Thought water pump, idler pulleys etc had already been replaced on 4Runner 1.5 years ago when I had it put in shop, and specified I wanted water pump replaced, and anything, everything that might need based on mileage.
Didn’t check, or even look after we got it back. Didn’t order idler pulleys based on assumption they were replaced, and it needed them bad!
Did order water pump just for good measure, glad I did because They never changed it.

Half the weekend driving rounding up enough idler pulleys, and a tensioner of decent brand.
Finally finished it up around 10pm.

 

Be sure to check tie rod ends and sway bar end links too

 

Road trip!!! Taking the FGT to OkC today for work. Haven’t had some quality windshield time with the ol girl in a while. I’m one of those sickos who likes to drive for hours. It’s chill time for me. Even better in this truck. Also running the Tundra express on this trip. Wheels incoming @bmf4069 !!

 

I hope i can teach both my boys, I've considered NOT forcing them to learn but because everything is the way that it is, I may have to force them.

 

Your truck is too clean.

 

some of the things I didn’t want to do, but was made to do by my parents are the life skills that have helped me the most. Kids don’t know what they need

 

Your koozie is too empty.

 

I think one of the problems with kids today is they are given everything.
My first car my grandpa found. He knew how much money I had saved and it was within the price.
It was a wrecked ford pinto. I could either buy it and he would help me fix it, or keep riding my bike for another year or 2 to get something else.

Having potential to have wheels motivated me. Even if it was a ford pinto.
We took the whole front clip off, hammered it out and bondo what needed.
Then when timing belt broke year later, and I burned out the clutch being stupid he supervised me replacing them. He helped, but I had to do most of the work.

He didn’t force me to learn. He motivated me with what he knew I needed, and wanted…wheels/a vehicle.

 

I had a coworker in Albuquerque who had one of these (non supercharged) that he lifted with 33's. Loved that truck. Then he got married and had a kid and had to sell it.

 

My parents FORCED me to play french horn & i’ve hated music ever since.

 

But the horn is so forlorn

 

Heheh... Horny Cajun

 

So now you prefer not to toot your own horn, eh?

 

It was an easy horn to play the french horn is mainly background noise, but as a 90lb kid in jr.high, lugging 30lbs of horn & case a few times a week on the schoolbus sucked something awful.

 

Oh, I'm sure it blew.

 

Dumb question, do these fans care which way they spin? Would be cool on a 3-way switch that would blow in or out.


I need to find somewhere to mount this, and i want it to run off a permanent stick-on solar panel. I’m still not keen on cutting a hole in my cap, so i might make a filler panel that’ll clip into one of the side windows.