Howdy! Come watch me polish a turd.

Hey man, if it works, it works!

 

Finally ran the missing ground, cleaned up the battery mount and put on new terminals. Fair amount of surface rust under the battery tray so I hit that with a wire brush and some rustolium. Still missing my hold down, but my 4th of July shipment from Serra finally shipped yesterday so it’s just a matter of days.
Also swapped back in the busted ass seat that came with the truck, I started getting an airbag light and didn’t want to eff with swapping seat belts and wiring harnesses.

Not bad for an hour of work.

 

You can take the positive loom loose at the clip under the battery tray (10mm) and slide the clip further down the loom to get more cable and turn that positive terminal 90 degrees to match the negative, if you so choose.

 

Still have high oil pressure and idle but the gas gauge dropped another 1/8th of a tank which seems more accurate based on how much I’ve driven it.

Speedo is still effed tho. I’m sitting still in this picture.

Also saw a member has a truck named crackie so I’m thinking about naming her “Methanie”

 

You’re a beautiful man.

 

Tweek, like the character from South Park.

 

I like it. @Tundra2 will be proud

 

High? The hell? Are you high?

For the '05-'06 all gauges (temp, oil, battery) should be at half-mast. Don't confuse it with the '00-'04 which use a totally different cluster. Your gauges are right where I'd want to see them.

 

oh thank you. I was kind of worried about that because I had a bunch of junk in my oil and I thought I had a blocked pick up tube or something. I thought all the first gins had low oil pressure relatively

 

IMO, if your pickup tube was truly blocked, I'd actually expect for you to both hear knocking when you step on the gas (knocking sounds like deisel engine "clonking" when you shut a diesel down, if you're unfamiliar), and your knock sensors (one per bank, between the starter and SAI pump) to be throwing knock codes. And I personally believe it would be highly unusual for it to just be a single knock sensor on one bank but not the other, knocking only on one hemisphere would be wierd, I know it can happen, but it would take unique scenarios to get there.

But yeah. I think it's covered in the owner's manual, but in case it's not, on the newer Tundra gauge cluster that started in '05 and continued thru '06, all needles (except gas) should be roughly at middle, and that's normal range (+/- ~5%). Toyota fixed this in 2005. I think the gauges on '00-'04 were a serious mistake, and I find them virtually unreadable and illogical.