What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

I wish, we were a little tight on time so we just hit Schubarth Loop Trail, which has gotten way more washed out in the last year or so. But Hackett is on the list for later this summer for sure. You from the area?

 

Pretty happy with the final result.

 

Nice! I grew up in Conifer so very familiar with the area and most of the trails. We used to camp at the river crossing on Hackett gulch which can get pretty deep at times. I remember watching a guy on a three wheeler almost float away down the river! Brings back some memories of fun times. I know they closed the area for a good while after the Buffalo creek fire but heard I might have opened back up recently. Definitely one of my favorites and Red Cone Pass too!

 

Nice man! Yeah all the trails are open, but they stop at the Teller County line now so you can’t drive through the river, or you’re not supposed to at least. We ran Metberry last year and that was a blast, I’m itching to do everything else in that area in the near future

 

Love the way that looks.How much for the custom panel? I've been looking at doing one too

 

I like it!

 

Let me know when you do Hackett next, I've never done that one and I've been wanting to.

 

Unfortunately I have the JBL system.

 

Thanks!!

 

Someone will be along soon to ask what eloquent is, and what kind of wax you like best.

 

1960 here, so take a seat, kiddies...

 

Lots of good trails in that area, that’s great they have opened it all back open again. Never done Metberry before, Longwater is a fun one too!

 

Heck yeah will do man!

 

Was a light day today, but it’s not over.

Cleaned the throttle body and MAF sensor today since I’m at 100k miles.

MAF looked very clean, throttle body had some buildup, but wasn’t absolutely terrible.

Closer to sunset I plan on replacing guide/slide pins on the front calipers.

When I did the brakes the other day, the current pins have a slight bow to them and some buildup of grease and dirt I couldn’t remove.

So not much, but the journey to get this (new to me) baby right will make some progress today.

Tomorrow I’m picking up some like new 18” TRD wheels, I’m excited about that.

So now I have the following:
Larger BFG All Terrains 275/70r18
Like new TRD wheels
Eibach front leveling kit (rear already installed)

But need a lift to make it all happen…

Excited about the smoother ride in my future over these 20” Platinum wheels and tires.

 

1963 for me...

 

I’m also old… but not as old as a lot of you fogies.

 

Take a seat? Is that just because you can't get up out of yours? Or you don't remember where you put it...?

 

I’m not the ‘ol fucker you are (’77 here)…but hats off to you, ‘ol fucker

 

That’s great movie he gif’d btw

 

Do these add brake performance, or are they just because they’re better than the standard rubber lines?

 

Finally got my RCI rock sliders on! They look amazing and I now can get in and out of the truck with ease lol. Install was a pain in the ass, instructions from RCI are pretty bad and dont go that into detail. I ended up not doing the optional drilling into the bottom of the frame for the extra bolts for now. I plan on doing it later, but was dead after I installed them. For now they are plenty strong for what I will be putting them through. I am planning on going to Moab next year and for that I will definitely drill into the bottom of the frame though.

Here are some tips for the install if you are doing it yourself that helped me.
1: Make sure to have 2 3/8th ratchets. One will need a flex head in order to get to the bolts on the drivers side thats near the gas tank. This helped a lot. Didnt even need to move the gas tank or use a magnet like others did.
2. For the small bolts make sure to have 2 13mm wrenches, ratchet are harder to use in the tight box end of the frame. It will help severely if one of the wrenches is also a ratcheting wrench!
3. Get a buddy to help.... if you do it alone using jack stands it will make your life 10x harder than if you just get a buddy. Once you put in the first 2 bolts the frame will support the sliders and you dont need to hold it up anymore.

Here are final pictures

 

Thank you! I am extremely happy with it as well! My baby will appreciate it during roadside diaper changes too lo....

The most expensive part is the mountain hatch cover, I am working on finding a way to reduce the cost and offer customer solutions. If you have the cover already, dm me and we can talk through it.

 

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Meh, you are all rookies. Vintage 1950 here.

 

"Old Man Stink"? Naw....

 

Respect thy elders, without age, knowledge, and experience we would be lost in the world of redneck engineering, and the ways of good old just getting it done!
Cheers to you and many more years ahead of you!

 

haha, I am early 1951 here. I rewatched Grand Torino a couple weeks ago.

 

Finely got my tranny cooler mounted and did a drain / fill. Truck is ‘21 TRD with 49k. Fluid had a smell and looked dark, didn’t smell burnt, but did smell used. Used Jim’s kit, what a home run! Money well spent for this quality and comprehensive kit. Only real pita I came across was routing my rubber lines. Found 3/8 tranny hose for 2.99/ft. Bargain compared to the 6.99 and 7.99 prices per foot I got at 2 other places, crazy! Bought 15ft just to be certain. Had 2 pieces 7ft.+ tightly coiled up 3/8in. hose to deal with. Since I went cheap on the lines I bought a fiberglass / foil roll of insulated line. Room for both hoses and enough to slide up those 7ft. hose to as close to the thermostat as possible, since they separate at the thermo block.
Did the fluid swap. I used about 2-3 ft. Of insulation. It all went well, other than the rain for a little bit. Cooled down the nice hot asphalt driveway though. Surprisingly low of fluid volume I thought. Just about 3qts. came out on the drain. Did the fill procedure at what came out plus an additional qt. for the cooler and lines. Drained at 105 ‘ish until trickle. 1/2 qt. lost. Old fluid on top of pic, new Valvoline below.
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