1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

wish i could be of assistance. but all I've got is tinnitus

 

smaller car? IS350 (NOT THE 250) or if you want to go fast, any of the F models, IS f RC f or GS F

 

I swore it was the IS350 but couldn't recall. She wasn't sure whether to get the IS300 or 350 and I told her the IS350 then couldn't find the advice to back it up.

I also reco'd the Avalon, but when she drove one she felt it was too big. She feels like the VW CC is maybe a little too big for her too. She liked the pickup the Avalon had.

Woman is in her 70s but prefers cars with pep. She wants a nice kick off the line, but isn't willing to swallow the price tag the F Sport carries.

Any specific oddities or warnings on year/trims and/or advice on finding at a fair price? She's usually a religious Carmax shopper for no-hassle and ultra-low APR finance.

 

is350 biggest issue is potential timing cover leaks.. but it isnt all the time or is it ever really a big leak.. more of a seep. past that i dont know of many major issues

 

@Shifty Tendonitis from fapping? Wow, I didn’t know that was a thing. lol

Right there with you. Been a tinnitus sufferer since 2007.

 

due to issues out of my control. (aka being present as a child to a semi tanker exploding,) i've been a member since 1999

 

tinnitus sucks….either too many firecrackers in my youth or more than likely the equipment room humming and constant hum of radar. Have extra pleasure of vertigo !

 

Maybe you need to up your fap game.

Unfortunately, fellow tinnitus sufferer here. Just started in the last couple years. Coincidentally, around the time I started using earbuds more often. Fapping doesn't seem to help that or the tendonitis.

 

I have a SIL who is a Dr of physical therapy. I'll give her a call and see if she can provide some exercises and stretches.
For now, I'm going to work on rest, heat, and activation (to promote blood flow) with a rubber band stretching exercise.

 

I have the tennis elbow and it's super painful when it acts up. There is no definitive "cure" that I'm aware of. This brace is my only relief and it works fairly well:

$22 Simien Tennis Elbow Brace (2-Count), Tennis & Golfer's Elbow Pain Relief with Compression Pad, Wrist Sweatband and E-Book

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00QY0EFJM?ie=UTF8

 

I've lived with tinnitus in my right ear since 1978 from gunfire. Honestly, I'm lucky to have any hearing in that ear, it was completely gone for about 6wks after the incident. SUCKS! ...but I learned to live with it.

 

I had it in my right arm years ago when I was a much younger man due to the type of work I was doing. It was very painful. Company sent me to the company doc and she gave me a steroid shot in the affected elbow (which was the most bizarre feeling I've ever experienced. Think balloon inflating between your bones and cartilage and forcing them apart) and six or seven sessions of PT. Now, I as a much younger man had it in my head that it wasn't going to work, but, as shifty states, the exercises with the PT did work and I stuck it out and performed them at home as was recommended. Never had it again. Give it a try, it may work wonders for you.

 

Yup. That's the one my doc reco'd and the same 2-pack I bought. Was good, kept one at home and one in my toolbag at the job. Adjusted both at the same time so they'd function the same.

You nailed it here. If you're reading this, believe me when I tell you, I've had so many musculoskeletal injuries and surgeries in my lifetime from sports- and work-related injuries I couldn't count them across my remaining fingers and toes.

That said, hands-down, the single most important part of all of it was doing the PT. When I was younger, I scoffed at PT. I thought it was BS, I couldn't me bothered with it, especially when I had repeat tendonitis in my shoulders caused by spurs. Working out, losing 60-90 minutes per visit to the PT'ist seemed lame, waste of time. "I could do it at home". I had so much more success doing it with someone else (PT'ist) pushing me than alone at home. But YMMV, I was a re-re back then.

I have a toe with 50% less range of motion than the others because I blew off the PT work. I ended up nearly having shoulder surgery twice because I blew off the PT work and only showed up to maybe half my appointments. I haven't had another flare-up in my shoulders for 10+ years once I completed a round of PT, after no less than 5 flare-up events, probably the same event I was never able to correct because ... yup, I didn't do the PT.

While the cortisone shots - most docs will only do up to 2 in 6-12 months - definitely helped to get swelling and discomfort down, it's a temporary fix to prime you for completing the PT, which is the actual long-term no-surgery fix for every surgery or injury I've had. I mean, RICE method at injury and hot/cold helped. PT fixed.

Long-winded post, tl;dr - isolate the cause, stop that movement, wear the band and do the PT.

 

PS

This won't apply to tendon stuff, but when I was in my late teens working a job, I had to carry a bunch of heavy, awkward items one-by-one in a lopsided way for hundreds of yards and up a couple flights of stairs. I was supposed to have two other ppl working the job with me, both no-call/no-show. So I carried it all myself.

I ended that 16 hour day with fire between my shoulder blade and spine. I was below-poverty-level poor back then and no time to see a doc. Thought PT was BS. I know now what I did: Torn rhomboid. I never went to a doc.

To this day, almost 30 years later, I still have pain in my rhomboid. I'll be doing something in the yard and HOT FIRE, like a hot poker between spine and blade. SUUUUCKS. Happened recently helping a friend wire up his brewery, all I did was reach up to the ceiling while standing on a brew tank. No strain. Just a motion caused it.

Nothing I can do about it now other than surgery to remove scar tissue and/or correct the damage, then ... you guess it! PT.

Hindsight is 20/20. I was blind af back then. Stupidity of youth at its finest.

 

Heat before you’re gonna strain it, cold after you strain it.

 

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences.
I know from herniating some discs that PT is legit. I was able to recover from that without surgery, albeit taking forever due to an initial misdiagnosis...followed by me stubbornly refusing to get a second opinion. (I suffered for 4 months before my physical where my GP just about lost his cool with me and sent me to the orthopedic surgeon to make sure I hadn't permanently damaged myself.)

 

@chrisb
I'm also part of the club of injury and have suffered quite a few due to over-use/overtraining. One thing about tendons is that if they are fully inactive, you can get scar tissue that will build up and can cause a weak spot that will be more prone to injury later, or there might be lingering pain/stiffness after recovery. I'm not saying don't rest it, but once inflammation is down, ask your SIL about eccentric movements and massage the area to get blood flow to the area and prevent any scar tissue from building up.

 

Alternating application of hot/cold can also help stimulate bloodflow after swelling subsides. I was trained to do 15 hot/15 cold and repeat up to two cycles, or three cycles of 10/10. YMMV, @chrisb your SIL may also have some pointers to share.

 

Cold reduces swelling and heat relaxes muscles. Correct?

 

@shifty` first off good 2 see ya back in here. It’s gonna be slim Pickens on windshields. I called all the local glass places and was told at least a 3 to 4 week back order at the earliest. Freaking safelite can get me in Wednesday or so there automated appointment thing says. My wife’s sequoia uses the little black piece to cover the Wire and it blends in well. Worth the $10. But I do like the idea of a blackout strip. Maybe a tint shop could do something if the glass place can’t.

I’ll keep that harness in mind, appreciate the heads up , hoping this a plug and play deal since the plug was tucked up behind the overhead console. If it’s not I’ll be looking for a harness.

 

Thanks, I tend to float in and out. Life sucks me in here and there and pulls me away from what I'd rather be doing. If you ever need to holler at me or anyone is looking, feel free to go to the top-right corner and 'Inbox' me. I've got email notifications turned off for everything except that.

That plastic cord concealer piece is key, wiring looks like crap without it. However, my beef is this. A lot of our Truck platforms have this semi-transparent polka-dot screen around the mirror you see below - pictured is a 3rd gen of someone here on Tundras.com. Our 1st gen is similar stock - a trapezoid of polka-dots. Not sure about yours, but my plastic cord concealer is open towards the windshielld (U- shaped plastic tunnel), so you can still technically see the power cable if you look hard from outside the windshield, through the polkadots, into that plastic channel cover. My wife's Highlander on the other hand, has a skinny all-black vertical strip with polka dots around it. The blackout area on hers is what the plastic cover sits over - it's apparently there to hide the wire tucked inside the cord cover. I wish our truck windshields had this option. Blackout tint strip could effectively work, but if you've ever tried to tint over those polka dots, it looks like crap from the outside I know some shops that won't do it.

 

@shifty`
Yupp I’ve got the polka-dots currently. Damn I’m gonna have to call safe lite now and see if I got any options. I bet that cover I ordered is open in the back too. Limo tint sun visor might be the ticket here

 

I'm too lazy to walk outside right now but I'm about 80% sure my Safelite windshield on the Tundra has a gray tint across the top

 

Pics for you guys, factory glass 04 Sequoia

 

A few months back I ordered up Nankang tires for one of my beetles. About $70 each for fronts and $80 each for rears. Now I can't get Nankangs at all, they're totally unavailable.

Had to order Firestone instead at $95 each for fronts and $105 each for rears. Really wishing I had followed my gut and bought 2 sets of Nankangs last time.

 

I should clarify @shifty` @Cummins3500
It's Toyota glass, unsure if it's original or not.

 

What are your thoughts on this?


https://youtu.be/jzB1Vc1h-Tc

 

I just checked my wife’s 07 sequoia and she has the polka dot deal forgot to check if it’s oem glass or not . I’d settle for that 04 sequoia setup @NWPirate has ,I think that could be tinted around pretty easy.

@Festerw no worries man, how long you had that safe lite windshield? I was worried about being a cheaper glass

 

I watched that before. I'm not quite sure what the advantage in having a manual tranny that doesn't synchronize gears.

 

More fun to double clutch like a semi, or floating gears like a semi? Full disclosure, I didn't make it all the way through the video. Got kinda busy.