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

Well this happened. Thinking it might be time to upgrade the front bumper. Was looking at the 80percentoffroad model, which seems to be the only one that is clean and available.

https://80percentoffroad.com/products/1st-gen-tundra-bolt-on-hybrid-front-winch-bumper

Hoping they might have a sale this week...would get it powder coated to match my sliders.

 

Hit 79k this morning

Literally ran a hose over it, needs a good cleaning...
Need to hit the mirror arms with a little flat black, it's on the list.

 

Decided to put my skid plate full of rust/holes back on in the event of snow tomorrow. Still waiting on that new skid plate…

 

Your good..... maybe even, too good.

 

To each their own, but man I hate it

Did you see this part?
"Center section will come fully welded. Wing tubes come bent and notched will need to be welded to the sides of the center section. Center section need to be welded to the mounting plates."

Not sure what your welding/fab skills are like, but this will be added cost if you plan on having someone else do that part.

 

the first gen support is definitely lacking in options, but I also think the stock frame horns are a terrible mounting point for a front bumper. I specifically looked for a weld in cross member type to get rid of that weak point. (Old tits)

 

Really for a good mounting solution there is no other way. There's always going to be some welding/fab with this sort of thing, but shipping a bumper in pieces seems a little silly when the end user has to figure out who and how to assemble. Paying for shipping is easier than finding a competent weldor.

SOON

 

Hey would you send me a PM about this. I like what you did here.

 

Finally drained and filled my transmission.
Back story:
222K miles, truck is on it’s 3rd radiator and as you guys know, the trans lines run through the radiator and I wasn’t sure how much trans oil I actually lost per radiator swap as well as I’ve never checked the trans fluid so I wanted the piece of mind knowing it was at the proper level.
Drained the old stuff out and it didn’t seem too bad actually which made me happy. Was cold out but I let the fluid warm up to about 70F before draining.

Only drained about 1800ml (946ml in a quart), so 2 quarts which concerned me a bit thinking I heat most people draining 3-3.5 quarts. Filled back up with 4 quarts to make sure I had overfilled it. Then couldn’t get the pan temp above 80F sitting there and going through the gears.
Went for a drive around the block in L and 2nd gear but still only got the temp to about 100F. Parked and opened the checkport and it drained about a quart out.

Put new crush washers on the drain and checkport but didn’t get the black o ring for the fill plug. Figured I’m ok since it’s way high anyways and it looked good to use again since it’s really not holding any liquid back.
Here’s hoping all is all. Overall it appears I was about a quart low though.

 

My rear bumper was first and a diy kit, I was ocd putting it together, and had a competent welder fully weld it(Im lucky enough to have met some decent welders, that have turned into great trade out situations) it’s awesome to be a tradie(down under lingo I think…..)
The front was from addicted and my best option

 

Tacundra

 

Dude will they let you cancel the order? If they will, Lemme figure out a way to get you this spare I got from our fellow member Baraynavab.

 

They already reordered it and it’s in shipment to them to send to me at the moment. If it drags on, I’ll cancel it and let you know. Hopefully after the holiday they’ll get it and ship it with a tracking number to me.

 

PS -

 

Think they might make the front discs though. Planning to turn my drums a smidge soon.

 

If they bred, that's what I picture too

 

It was last weekend but I put the stock front springs back on after trying out the OME 2884 since September. The combo of OME 2884 and Access Cab V8 2WD leads to a slightly nose-up attitude, which my dad and I were not huge fans of. Since this is his truck (now that I have 2007 GX470 to play with), I returned it back to factory ride height.

With 2884s installed:


Harvesting the original springs:


Swapped over and installed:

 

Thats cool. Wish i could swap my stock stuff back on for a weekend, now that i'm used to the new stuff. Just to find out what the difference is in more detail.

 

I was surprised at how easy it was to remove. I gave myself more than enough time to do the swap on Sunday morning lol. I think my GX was a little more complicated since it does have 4WD and the suspension design is slightly different.

 

Well, pretty much very first DIY maintenance/repair on the truck.. Always dropped it off to my mechanic. He is very nice guy, always tells me he has more work than he can really handle. Anyways, Got squeeling noise when backing up slowly, he diagnosed it as Ujoint going bad - he was right, the rear one was shot. He asked me whether I want to do it. He said it isn't too bad. I only worked on my Honda Ody so far. Anyways, tackling it now, dropped the shaft, took out 2, got 1 new one in. I thought putting it in would be easy, but I found that it is more difficult to put it in than take it out.

At least carriage bearing is tight and nice and smooth so I don't have to do that one.

One Q, how "freely moving" the joint has to be? new one moves smoothly, but it does take a bit of force to move. The new one is identical one to the OEM one that was on the shaft (Spicer 1330x - has same markings as the one I took out).
I was told to bang on the yoke to "seat" the joint, but it did get a bit lose, but it isn't like freely moving or anything. Should I be concerned? Thanks.

 

Drive hard for 20 miles, then jack the rear axle off the ground. The diff will have some slop, but the driveshaft shouldnt audibly click or clunk. If 2wd ac's have a carrier bearing it should have play, but not be loose, if its a slip yoke, grease it if you can.

 

Correct. Front pads kit (pads shims etc), front rotors. Rear wheel cylinder.

Now I’m wondering who makes Toyotas rear drums for our trucks. Surely it’s a common manufacturer. No way they make them in-house. Or maybe Advics did, but they’re NLA? The mystery continues…

 

If you get shitty drums, could you lap em by burning through a set of rear shoes? Does the e-brake spring ruin the 'machining'?

 

Just take them to parts store and have them re-turn them, is probably your best bet. Not sure if chain stores will do it though.

 

Why couldn't you?

 

Once you get the u-joint seated and clipped in, give the yoke a couple of smacks with your hammer, and that will release the binding so that it moves freely

 

That is what I said I did but it did not make it much looser.

 

Smack it again...with enthusiasm! If that doesn't release it then you may have munged up one of the needle bearings while assembling the joint. You'll have to pull it apart to check

 

It looks like the coastal offroad front bumpers are on sale for 15% off. Does anyone have experience with them? I've got a good welder and powder coat shop here. I think I've seen some good examples of those installed from some guys here. It would be about $650 shipped to me. Which isn't so bad.