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

I’ll go with number 7. So which one is ours?

 

Hey I live a couple hours from your cousin! Lol if you ever come up to visit I’ll buy you a beer.

 

The “pass” test cap that’s hidden in my drawer

 

Sweet! I visited them two Septembers ago. Was the only time I've been to WA. They want me to move up there. Part of me wants to, but I don't think I could move that far away from my immediate family. At least not until my parents pass. I'd like to stick around to make sure they are ok for a few more years.

 

Oh cool man! It’s beautiful here but I would never move here if I lived elsewhere, my folks and sister are the only thing keeping me in this state as well.

 

Well, last time I was here, I had posted about someone giving me a free steering rack from their 06 Sequoia. I did the teardown tonight, and I found out why he was giving it away, or so I think.
A Little backstory: The guy posted on our local Toyota Trucks Facebook group (Toyota Trucks of Arkansas, feel free to join, you don't have to be from Arkansas!) he replaced his rack due to a "leaking steering pinion seal, nothing else wrong with it"

During the teardown tonight, I found a few things that pointed to prior neglect or someone accidentally dropping the rack and damaging one of the lines. I think one of the lines got kinked, fluid wasn't properly flowing, which caused debris and junk to get collected in the area, which eventually completely stopped fluid flow, causing a pressure backup in the rotary valve, which eventually blew the seal and caused the fluid leak he was talking about.





Outside of the weird buildup and damaged steering line, it looks like everything is in okay condition to proceed with a reseal. I'm going to give everything a dip in the ultrasonic cleaner and/or parts washer at work while I wait for the reseal kit to come in. I'm also going to try and evaluate the condition of the bearings and whatnot after I clean them, to see if they can be reused.

 

They pay me $12 to inspect my vehicle. Made an autistic kid cream his jeans.

 

Mine is a Limited but it has the chrome on the side mirrors.

Could be a previous owner stuck "Limited" badges on the truck......anything is possible when you are the 7th owner!

 

You're the autistic kid, right?

 

they admitted my windshield wipers were great.

 

I hate not having emission or safety inspections. Some dipshit with bald brakes or tires is gonna put me in prison.

 

Speaking of brakes, as you know the 06 14wa's are perfection.
The 03 I suspect may have been in a front end collision at some point, because both sides rotors were perfectly square, yet both dragged the brake pads at a certain point. It looked like the rotors were warped, but they weren't. All I could think was either the machining job on the calipers were slightly off, the spindles were bent, or maybe the bearings are bad.
What do you think?
Both trucks stop great, but after driving the 06 the last few days, then taking the 03 to work tonight, I feel like it isn't braking as good as it could be.

 

I used to drive a 1975 Pontiac Bonneville.......let me tell you about "brake effectiveness."

There have been a few times, usually pulling the 2-axle trailer loaded with two zero turn mowers, where I should have left myself a little bit more room.......but as it was, still able to stop. Also, need to hook up a brake controller.....

 

Do you turn off overdrive and/or manually down shift? Gotta love the amount of control we can take over the 5 spd.

 

What is this "overdrive" you speak of? LOL

Whenever we are pulling a trailer, I push the button at the end of the shifter and turn overdrive OFF.

I downshift to Shift L when going down or up a very steep hill but I only do that for one yard, which is arguably, the hardest-to-reach yard we go to. It's off by itself, near the bottom of a very steep and curvy road.

We really should cut clients like that off and replace them with someone easier-to-mow and higher paying but the truth is, I get attached to them (always older people on a very limited income) and I wonder "who else are they gonna get?"

 

Have run 275/70/R18 (33.2") tires on 9” wide XD778 Monster wheels with 4.53 backspacing / -12 offset and both 2.5" and 3" front lift. Trimmed the front fender plastic a little like you anticpate.

 

I halfway wanna take Donut in for emissions testing. I don't think the obd II port works with the Haltech running the show. If they did a tail pipe sniff it'd fail immediately.

 

I’m really interested to see if that EDELMANN 8946 seal kit from RockAuto has everything you need and the seals fit as good as the originals.

Good job, BTW, finding the original cause to the leak.

 

I had a set of those back in the 80s and the air deflectors for more down force!
Hahaha, such garbage.

 

Why emissions? Not seeing the reason for emissions when there are oil refineries all over Texas.

 

Any excuse to get other peoples shitboxes off the road.

 

I'll always be pro-emissions testing for commercial vehicles and daily drivers. You can see the smog towards the big cities here in the evening time, I can only imagine how much worse it was for my Pops growing up. They had "Smog Days" for school where they weren't allowed outside.

The air is better these days but still not perfect; there are more people and cars on the road, so something must be working.

 

When I initially got my '06 AC Limited, I was actually considering "upgrading" to chrome and looked into buying chrome caps for the mirrors. I dunno, some people just like chrome. I'm one of them, I can't lie. I like silver, shiny stuff on cars. I grew up a hot rod kid, and the more chrome, the better.

BUT BUT BUT .... MAH FREEDOMS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVERYONE ELSES ENVIRONMENT OMFG. I'M TIRED OF ALL THIS TREE HUGGER BS!

This is why I loathe the "personal freedom" argument. You give people unfettered personal freedoms, and there's always that one guy or group of people who'll use it to screw over everyone else, and not give two shits.

Emissions testing should be mandatory in high-density areas. Feel free to nix it in low-density areas. Maintain it statewide for shipping/freighting/commercial. Then you get the best of both worlds: If you don't want emissions testing, use your personal freedom to move to a less-dense area, where it's nortmandatory, and you can openly exercise your personal freedom to run as dirty as you want.

 

Couldn't agree more. It's hilarious they keep charging for an "Inspection Replacement Fee" but not actually doing the fucking inspection!

• "All vehicle registrations and title transfers require proof of insurance. As of January 1, 2025, vehicle safety inspections for non-commercial vehicles are no longer required; however, the State's $7.50 Inspection Replacement Fee will continue to be charged by the State in your annual vehicle registration cost."

Especially since we have all these new drivers not so concerned about roadworthiness (from other countries, you know the ones, I think they're college guys doing work-studies in our labor-intensive industries, probably all for credit towards their Masters degrees in cultural and economic anthropology if I had to guess?), I am really tired of seeing 1GTs with bald 2012 date code tires, one headlight, and tail light lens replaced with red flagging tape doing 85 on our highways. Also, probably coincidentally, my underinsured/uninsured motorist coverage has also increased lately, even though you have to show insurance coverage for just that day when getting your registration renewed? Truly a head-scratcher.

 

That's how Texas does it.

 

and PA.

 

GA* does as well. When I first moved to ATL, I was always jealous of two of my other gearhead friends who kept a permanent residence in Albany GA, and could get away with all kinds of shit because their cars were registered in Dougherty county.