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

thanks!

 

Dawn Dish Soap or the like.

Or, Formula 505.

 

Might as well do the inside of the storage wells like I did. Another place you can get fancy are the back of the plastic door panels since your looking to use up all your product. You could even remove the footwell panels up front and line the back of those. Peel back the floor carpet when you have the footwell panels removed and load up your schmancy sound stickies thingies over the wheel wells. That will kill mucho road noise from front tires and engine bays.

Guess you’ll order another box for little honeys Rav4?

 

Got my Y pipe and Cat put on today. Im getting that plastic smell at the moment though. Google says it is just oil from
the gaskets and the welding so fingers crossed!



Lol you can see my uncles rust 2001 through my truck

 

Test drove it without the sway bar and no alignment (waiting on control arms and ball joints). Drives pretty good. Well other than the body sway. 10x nicer driving than factory

after drive, passenger side sits level with rear. Driver side is 1” lower. Hopefully that’s fixed with the new arms and the rest of the body shops work in the coming weeks

 

Posted an observed rust on the rim of my gas collar filler neck a few months ago (top pic). Cleaned it up (middle pic) and have been watching it since during each fuel up. Here is what it looks like today (bottom pic).

New OEM fuel cap installed about 6 months ago. Bottom drain hole free and clear. Cap installed properly every time. I may take the collar frame off and clean it the mating surface to the actual body. I’m wondering if some cack has built up where a naturally designed drain channel is blocked on the upper frame?

 

Uh. I ended up doing

 

Now that it has the billies there’s a part
Of me that wishes I had just said duck it and went with the icons. Because I love them on my taco.

 

After getting the frame holes widened out, things are coming together much faster and easier; if only I had more hands and auto dimming eye lids

 

Don't ride in anything with Kings then....

 

My friends truck has kings. I love em too. The icons just rode a little more like I like.


In all reality you can go wrong with icon/kings or ads from my experience.

I won’t touch fox after having them on my cousins ford


The icons also seemed to hold up better to our winters.

 

Kit or homemade? I’m still thinking a plate bumper will be happening eventually on this tundra... I mean the rear bumper was free and the front was 60 bucks. So it won’t hurt me to sell them off

 

God, I completely agree with this statement. Junk.

 

Kit from coastal Offroad. A lot more clearance and not much weight gain either. If your frame was tweaked, it might take some extra work to line everything up. But if you can grind down welds enough, it could look perfect

 

Frames getting fixed soon. I’ll be gusseting the area that was an issue and weld on sliders should help keep it all straight

 

Thats looking really nice! How'd did you cut the metal? did you have someone waterjet or laser the pieces?

 

I’ve got really sharp teeth!
I think it’s cut with a lazer beam.
https://www.coastaloffroad.com/product-page/1st-gen-tundra-high-clearance-rear-bumper-kit

it’s pretty well thought out and once you get the frame/base set up perfect, the rest falls into place pretty well. I will definitely look at gusseting the wings as much as possible

 

I had to post before I read further

 

I just received and approved my front bumper (changed the cutouts slightly) and can't wait to get it started!

The rear is looking great. Was planning to have my fabricator do something custom but curious to see how yours finishes and any plans for the license plate? Does it require lighting?

 

Sweet! I kinda wanted to do a front, but I might chop the fogs off and do a tube type bar or something.
Your rear should go together easier than mine, I think cut files were made off of earlier single/access cabs not later double cabs. So there are holes made, covering the hitch hole(if you had a plate mounted there). Mine is a daily, and I leave for work when it’s dark in the winter, so yes on lights.

$8 CZC AUTO 2PCS License Plate Light, License Tag Screw Bolt Lamp, 12V White LED Bulb, Waterproof/Rainproof, Black Aluminium Light Holder, Legal for Car Motorcycle Truck RV ATV Bike

https://www.amazon.com/CZC-AUTO-Waterproof-Rainproof-Motorcycle/dp/B077Z6WQ6Q
I went with these. I plan to use the lower tailgate hinge bolt; on the tail gate itself, and make a bracket that spans/wedges into the hole to the right of that(driver side) and make it wedge in that hole secure, then bolt down with that tailgate hinge/pivot bracket bolt. The plate will basically move in unison with the tail gate when it opens, lights shining up from the mounts/ lights

 

i was going to suggest those

 

Have you used them before? I was unsure, but it seemed like the best option I had come across

 

Used them for a trailer. No issues to report

 

I’m hoping I don’t say the same thing with my eibachs. Will report back after this weekend.

 

What's wrong with them?

 

I guess it just depends what fox shocks you are talking about. Hard to argue with the performance of the raptors or with countless number of race teams using them. I've had good luck with king, fox, and sway away. They all do some things differently and some things arguably better. I was impressed with how the fox coilovers last through our winters compared to Kings I've had or seen. Sway away have a bad reputation for corrosion, but my prerunners coilovers have held up great. Although the kings on the rear of it were only 10 or so years old and still looked pretty good.

 

Just bought some Eibach UCA’s (SPC copies) for a great price off Amazon. Couldn’t pass them up as my upper ball joints are toast and eventually getting some extended length coilovers. Love to have univalve but pricey and didn’t want the potential headache of squeaking.

 

nothing that I know of, I’m just hoping I don’t regret not going with the 6112s.

 

I measured my 14” springs, and they’re 14”.

so same as stock roughly.

niw the question is, what setting do I set them at? I can’t find much for good info on these, and the instructions are very generic.

edit: never mind, I’m a dits.