Let's see your first gen - photo thread

Yeah, that's a bear. I think, if I remember what @Hi06silver said, and apparently the instructions they provide, it's the rear of the crossmember that gets cut. So it may not be obvious from the front. It may be that the RCD cuts the front, and the Tuff Country cuts the rear. I really don't recall. Too many things to remember about these trucks!

 

So on my lunch break I looked at my truck and it is the rear cross member that has been cut. But since I’m replacing the subframe, not deleting the lift, it still looks like I should be able to just unbolt everything and remount everything to the new subframe piece. Definitely going to cross my I’s and dot my T’s before I start the actual work. My JBA UCA’s did arrive today so I got that going for me. Thanks for all the advice and assistance @shifty`

 

If you go selling those wheels, post em here first. My bro in law has those on his 4 runner and they look awesome. Love the old rally wheel look. Just looked it up and those have a +15mm offset, which is surprising - no wonder you're rubbing without a spacer. I'd have figured they would have made those closer to zero.

 

Yea I like them too, I was toying with painting them black, I got 5 of them for $250 when I started the project. But I do think I’m going to have to go with new wheels, just because I would like to get rid of the spacers (personal preference). I will post em here first when I get around to that. I have the hub caps but one of the retention rings broke and I think running with 1 missing looks worse than running with none.

 

Damn what the heck happened to it originally, that's a fun mess haha

 

I am fairly certain that the ball joint went caput and the kid took a ride into a ditch with a couple trees. I bought it from the guy who bought it off the kid. So I am not 100% certain

 

What a great rescue job. One man would see junk, but now look at it!

 

Thanks!

Now its junk with a better paint job or so my wife thinks haha Thanks I appreciate it!

 

Here is my '06 as I recently got it.

 

Awesome, great score, nice looking truck! As a new owner, you may find our community info thread here a huge help to get an idea of the big DOS and DONT’S, and make sure maintenance is up to snuff, since there are quite a few things that can kill your new Tundra in no time flat. That thread is here: https://www.tundras.com/threads/so-you-wanna-buy-just-bought-a-1st-gen-tundra-eh.115928/

Welcome to the community!

 

Very cool! Pretty rare color from what I've seen.

 

Dig the blue, also love the 4runner wheels. Had those on my last truck, they polish up great

 

Thanks for the likes! I'm looking forward to working on this truck and the information on this forum will definitely help.

 

Very nice! Congratulations!

 

Thems some sweet running boards. If you hate them, I'll take them off your hands

 

Nice truck! Who makes the wheels? I've never seen a TRD pro replica with rock rings added

 

I’m not sure, they came with the truck when I purchased from the previous owner. It almost looks like they are beadlocks with TRD stickers stuck on them lol! Either that or it’s a different hubcap

 

I might consider it, I have a problem with them being so close to the cab so I can’t utilize them very much more for just esthetic at this point

 

With a name like hog hauler, you wouldn’t happen to be located in Arkansas would you….

 

He just likes big gals

 

No, he's in AR (Arizona)

 

Is she isn’t 280 she’s not a lady

 

@HogHauler

I’m hoping SD is South Dakota

 

It is

 

sweet. I’ll be up there next year late spring after the thaw for some mountain bike riding and hiking. If you’re done with them then I’ll grab them boards from you

 

Nah, SD is San Diego.