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

But I'm sure you can still put the transmission in L

 

That’s just first gear though.

 

I see 4lo.


I dont see any 2wd.

 

4 lo and 4h by lever and 2wd was when 4wd button isn’t depressed.

 

So I think it’s 4wd (AWD) when 4wd button is depressed and you can still select 4hi/4lo in the AWD mode then you can lock the center diff and go 4hi/lo like a traditional 4wd instead of the weird part time AWD?….I hope everyone is just as confused as I am now

 

But AWD (center diff button) won’t engage in 4-lo. Although I’d be tempted to click off the AWD button while shifting into 4-lo and see which mode takes precedence.

 

Sheeeeeit we bout to find out in the near future…..for science!

 

Hell, room for a hot tub in there plus 'stuff'.

 

What else do you need? Reverse should match first but in reverse

 

It's just 2wd or AWD or 4hi or 4lo, what's not to get?

 

Either Hi or N with the 4wd button off should be 2wd I would think. Probably N

 

4wd lo in first gear (L) is a lower gear ratio than 4wd hi in first gear (L). Better control.

 

Reverse is geared between 1st & 2nd, but spins backwards.

 

Preaching to the choir, but you're talking about AWD, which is probably not even on par with 4hi

Plus ya still have 4lo so just use it lol

There is a 2lo mod for some Toyotas though... And a grey wire mod that lets OEM elockers work in any situation, instead of only 4lo (obviously factory elocked prerunners don't follow any of that stuff)

 

I need that carport

 

AC in recirc is bad, mmmkay?

 

why? Grandpa never turned his ac off, and always left it on recirc. 20 years straight.

 

Yep, I almost always have recirc on too.

 

It's great if you're stuck in traffic and want to cut down on outside emissions permeating your cab (since we have no filter), or if you need to cool down the cabin faster, but leaving it in recirc is also a good way to get all kinds of fun, nasty stuff growing in your car unless you cut it off towards the end of your trip and let some outside air circulate in. There's a lot of other gibberish I've heard or read over the years about it raising CO2 levels in the cab and trapping humidity/moisture, and generating more slime molds, but I've never been able to decipher if that's just noise or what.

I know in our last three cars, in our high-heat-high-humidity environment, if you leave recirc on all the time, you end up with sour smells in the cabin FAST. I dunno what bacteria/mold/mildew/whatever grows in there from keeping it in recirc all the time, but it happens without fail over here if you run recirc constantly. YMMV.

 

Gotcha. Getting the cab cooler is the main reason I use it, especially being in high heat. My truck is in an insulated garage and I park with the windows cracked at least. No matter what, my A/C and stuff pretty much always smells like dust from the terrain I drive in.

I use the windshield vents often to cool that down a little, which uses fresh air instead of recirced air. If I put a hand up to a face vent, I can feel there's a small amount of air still going towards those vents.

I'd actually like to modify my vents at the center console to block air going to the rear of the cabin. No one rides back there, and water jugs block the open air under the seats where the foot vents blow.

 

You know I’ve never thought of that, probably why the tundra has them pirates of the carribean vibes hahaha but at least once a day I’m stuck in bumper to bumper on the 95, usually southbound at about 3-4 in the afternoon need to get my butt back to riding the train

 

Just did this little mod to my center console, because why not?

 

Got backup cam installed. Finally. I bought the damn thing, along with the subs I haven't installed yet, in December 2019, a couple months before lockdown started. I think it's the Boyo 707VT17LTJ, bought it at Crutchfield.

@daveeasa's DIR harness made this a snap because it came with a waterproof tee fed off the reverse lights with ground/power leads to turn on the camera when reverse lights are on. Genius idea, didn't need to drill the frame for a ground or Positap the reverse light power! The DIR harness also disables the tag lights when reverse is engaged so you don't get extra glare from the nearby tag lights.

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Essentially, with my Boyo camera, this was my configuration, with the blue stars being my only crimp points - there was no need to find any special wires or crap, this camera comes with a reverse trigger, and by teeing power/gnd off the reverse lights, simply throwing the vehicle in reverse powers up the camera with the lights, and the camera's reverse trigger tells my head unit to come on + display camera feed:

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I ended up using my Valorbe files (thinking about you, @Professional Hand Model) to notch my license plate frame so I can run this down thru the hole directly behind the plate, along with the tag light harness.

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Test wired things outside the truck just to confirm stuff is working, make sure the picture was alright, before taking time to wire anything or button anything up. The cones pissed me off, it turns out that's an Alpine thing you can turn off in the menus, or adjust to fit the lined on the camera.

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Looked good enough for me, just needing some minor tweaks. So I pulled my sill plates and started looking for places to pop thru - and there are plenty. At least in the AC trucks, I found three different places to pop through. Gist is this, and I'll repost this in another thread for later: The floor on the drivers side has several 1.5" - 3" plastic and rubber caps in it. If the cap is plastic, it doesn't pass thru to the outside. If the cap is rubber, it has access to outside nearby underneath.

The three easiest pass-thru areas I found were:

Halfway between the driver's seat bolts, on the ridge the seat is mounted (this is where the OEM harness passes out), here:

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In the middle of the rear floorboard, here:

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And finally, there's one in the middle of the driver's floorboard which was my target, here (the two off to the left ... the large plug is plastic, a no-go, the smaller is rubber and takes a janky path outside):

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As you can see, and the main reason I chose this for my exit is because it literally drops you right on top of the framerail, whereas the others are slightly or heavily off-center of the framerails on my '06 AC:

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I wanted a more OEM+ appearance so I popped out the rubber plug, used a 1/2" punch to punch out the center of the plug, and ran my 1/2" loom through it, with it protruding at the end, and taped the end to keep it from pulling out. Here's some pics to shoe what I did, and how the end result looks. It lays down nicely on the carpet and you can't tell anything is there.

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The hardest part is making sure you're smart about pre-routing things from underneath and tying off to something to keep stuff from moving.

My camera has a breakaway on it, which means I can separate the camera and its 36" pigtail from the yellow RCA/red reverse trigger lead for the video part, which is what I'm showing above. The yellow RCA goes to the back of the head unit, the red goes to the radio's reverse trigger wire (orange/white on my Alpine harness) - this is what tells the head unit "hey, dummy, the car's in reverse and I'm on, turn on!"

I followed OEM to electrical tape around the loom (w/wire inside) for about 10 feet before going any farther. Then pre-routed things, zip tied to the harness exiting under the driver's seat, and continued to trace and zip-tie to that back to the driver's corner. I then loomed the pigtail coming off the camera, and got both routed to the rear corner to finish the job.

This is what the end result looked like back there. Obviously, I had a little extra, but I couldn't crop anything because the trying to splice the tiny ass wires in this harness would've taken too long. So it's taped and zipped nearly up into the corner, and I tagged into Dave's power over there. Got sloppy with my taping on that, but I was getting eaten by mosquitos and ready to be done. This specific camera came with a green lead on the camera pigtail which is used to turn on its integrated LEDs (you can see those LEDs on the license plate pic above), and that got crimped in with the camera power, so the camera and LEDs come on at the same time.

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Turned off the bullshit cones, buttoned the dash back up, and admired my work. Not the best picture in the world with the sun blasting at it, but hell if it doesn't work. I'm hoping the camera lead is semi-universal, maybe I can upgrade to something better later.

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Mine is still in it's box in the basement. Bought mine June of 2020, so I've got 7 @shifty` months to install it.
But I finally cut the hedges. Oh - damn, just realized I forgot the little hedge that is starting to block my view as I enter the street. Dang.

 

Getting some stuff ready for the move today and straightened up the garage, which led me to finally installing my freshly repainted brush guard back on the tundra

really need to quit goofing off and get around to the grill mod for the truck otherwise I’ll be dragging another project across country

 

Put the tundra In Storage.. it’s time for a frame swap on my 98 Tacoma

 

body shop hasn't had the time for the Tundra yet - correct?

 

I finished my Bussmann auxiliary fuse panel this afternoon. Bought a sunglasses holder switch panel from B40Built on Instagram. I bought his tailgate bushings at the same time and both have very nice build quality.





I also snagged some 285/70/17 Falkens from a guy at work the other day. I mounted them on Saturday and they look tuff. They also ride and handle well for a big, heavy tire.