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

ADDCO: https://www.tundras.com/threads/2000-limited-trd-refresh-repair-story.116395/page-9#post-3287939

I was looking at them. I was thinking long and hard about it. Hell, I'm pretty sure that's what I almost bought (pretty sure I texted that one to you, found it on fleaBay down in the Tampa area several months ago). Never followed through. May still do it. Or wait ... maybe it was that other company. One is drill-to-add, the other is not (major brand, Hotchkis or similar IIRC. EDIT: HELLWIG! The other, which I think is no-drill, is Hellwig)

 

I'm sure it looks like I'm a stalker, but that's only because I was searching for myself https://www.tundras.com/threads/2000-limited-trd-refresh-repair-story.116395/page-9#post-3356570

 

The ADDCO one. It's 19mm in diameter compared to the 27mm? diameter of others. It's definitely a bit lower quality than the Hellwig one but I wouldn't want it to be any stiffer.

Having a rear sway bar that matches or exceeds the stiffness of the front can make it twitchy or prone to oversteer. I drove a friend's miata that had an aftermarket rear bar. It was easy to get the rear to step out on hard braking, and I think that would be a bad combo on a truck with what, 70% of it's weight in the front?

 

I've never figured out how to copy a link to a specific post in a thread. What's the trick?

 

Scroll over the post number, right click copy link and then paste

 

Adding pics.

Two options:

1. Click this post number, then copy/paste from the pop-up window
2. Right-click (or long-hold on mobile, I think) and "copy link", then paste

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@Riverdale21 has a nice write up on it https://www.tundras.com/threads/inexpensive-but-capable-rear-sway-bar.82902/

 

…given all of this talk about front sway bar deletion...

 

I don't have experience with the Hellwig bar but after having mine I'm not sure why it would be better aside from manufacturing quality. Both are made in USA though.

Doesn't the hellwig also mount under the axle housing, and face rearwards? I feel like it would be easy to smack and bend when driving over like, anything.

 

if you have any other goals, you're wrong.
https://youtube.com/shorts/LhCvsSE4H5c?si=AKpqjsMcvlCW1hCQ

 

superleggera.

 

What have i done to my brothers l5p douschemax today?

full inspection, greased hood springs, doors, tailgate, and replaced fuel and oil filters. Oil change. Found out he's 30k past the trans & t-case schedule, so polo & i are holding down the fort while he goes to get fluids & a filter. Topped off his TRE's and while checking pressure in his spare found out that someone has been stuffing trash into his spare tire cavity.

he's ready to roadtrip to peniscola. Vouldnt talk him into replacing the seal between his airbox & hoodscoop. Not my circus.

 

Welcome to the club, officially now lol.

 

This tool @Mr.bee recco'd has been very helpful for me. I used to to pop off the tie rod ends from the LBJs

$19 JINGTAO88 Ball Joint Separator - Adjustable Ball Joint Removal Tool with an Opening Range from 1-1/8" to 2-1/8" Compatible with Most Cars and Light Trucks

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I'm burning downed branches today, after the storm.

 

Facts.

 

Looks like @NUDRAT’s back yard. #chickeninvasion

 

Mod meet!

 

Hell yeah. Someone needs to bring a 20T press please

 

Keep the Taco!

 

you mean a 12lb sledge?

 

That's just the 3 old gals.
There's 13 teenagers hiding from view haha

 

Oooh for what exactly? Bearings?

 

Yeah. Bearings.

Not sure I could keep the bearings centered well enough to use a 12lb sledge. Plus, that's a lotta wacks. But I am a fan of using a press, and giving love taps with a 3lb sledge to take some of the strain off the press for more stubborn jobs.

 

Which bearings?
I need to do my rear axle bearings some day

 

Fronts, both sides.

 

Ugh, I still waiting on the shop d
To tell me mine are done (& spindle gussets), so I can reinstall my spindles and get this truck back on its own weight

 

Good luck. Read another thread on here where someone had theirs done at a shop and they failed soon after.

 

I'm not at all concerned about the OEM parts or the Toyota off-road shop screwing up the job .
I'm just concerned that today the rest of the family comes home from being out of the country for the last 2.5 weeks. Meanwhile, my truck is on jackstands, sideways, taking up the whole garage. I dropped off the spindles two weeks ago, tomorrow. Thursday is the big Lone Star Toyota Jamboree. I'm not going this year, but I know the shop is crazy busy, because of the big push to get rigs ready for Jambo.

 

It's happened more than once, but I do remember a case within the last several weeks where it happened to someone again, not long after they had them done (like a year or something?)

Speaking of facts, fun fact: Did you know the two species of bluebonnet making up the the majority of the species globally are only found in Texas? Maybe that's worded awkwardly. Bluebonnets aren't naturally found much of anywhere in the world but Texas (TS)

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