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

Discussion in '1st Gen Tundras (2000-2006)' started by T-Rex266, Sep 7, 2015.

  1. Aug 27, 2025 at 6:42 AM
    455h0le_dachshund

    455h0le_dachshund Death machine & man in love gogogogo

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    Where I disagree is for me :laugh:
    But seriously, I live a county away from Houston and in a town of 27k. Why the fuck does brazoria county have to do emissions? Oh yeah... Because the chemical plants. We get penalized for the corporate pollution. It's total utter BS. If nothing else the state could lower the emissions inspection exception threshold from 25+ years to 20 years.

    It's all BS when Texas doesn't even require diesels and motorcycles to do emissions.
    So many brodozers here with all the DEF shit deleted, rolling coal, but that's totally fine here.... Totally bullshit.
     
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  2. Aug 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
    Jack McCarthy

    Jack McCarthy My work anxiety is my morning alarm clock

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    I’ve heard there are two cars for every person living in Cali. I’m not sure if that’s true but it’s what I heard. Seems to imply people don’t like public transit.

    Here you can get around living in Boston without a car since the subway and commuter train rails are so extensive.
     
  3. Aug 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
    Jack McCarthy

    Jack McCarthy My work anxiety is my morning alarm clock

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    That doesn’t exactly work so well sitting in traffic outside a major city when the guy in front of you from the sticks is rolling coal.
     
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  4. Aug 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
    des2mtn

    des2mtn Down to seeds and stems again, too

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    Public transportation in California is another beast. I don't think "don't like" is the right term, the option to just walk to a bus stop isn't there for a lot of people, and if it is, the bus routes/ schedules are limited.

    I wish there was a train that went up the 15 from San Diego through Riverside/IE to Vegas, because I'd ride that.
     
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  5. Aug 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
    JasonC.

    JasonC. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    But seriously, I love visiting cities with good mass transit. I LOVE having my own vehicle but, man, if I lived in/around London? No way I'd have a car.
     
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  6. Aug 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
    Jack McCarthy

    Jack McCarthy My work anxiety is my morning alarm clock

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    That sort of thing you only find (around here) to happen first thing in morning (5-6 am) and late at night before closing (12-1 pm). All other times we have transit police to escort them off.
     
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  7. Aug 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
    BroHon

    BroHon What day is it?

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    :rofl:
     
  8. Aug 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
    Dakillacore

    Dakillacore Brake now, you Mickey Mouse-piece of shit!

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    I agree. It's generally a pretty cheap alternative, too. I've been on the trains in NY and Chicago($2) and it was very convenient. Atlanta's public transit systems are a joke compared to most other places.
     
  9. Aug 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
    Upshot Knothole

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    Depends on where you live in California. I went a decade in SF with only bicycles and motorcycles. Even when I owned a car, not a chance in hell I was going to drive it downtown to go to work. My office was by the ball park and on a game day parking was like $40 for the day. I knew a lot of people that didn't have cars there. I also lived in LA back before Uber or Lyft and you were screwed without a car. Everything was a 45 minute drive away. The rest of the state is the same as anywhere else. Towns are spread apart and the bus system is usually designed more to get the low income workers to and from their jobs than anything else.
     
  10. Aug 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
    JasonC.

    JasonC. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Exactly the same situation in Texas, fortunately/unfortunately, and why mass transit has always been and foreseeably will be dead here. Just not the density required for it to work. A lot of folks blame it on political resistance to mass transit, which simply isn't true--it just doesn't work with how spread out and relatively unpopulated we are here.
     
  11. Aug 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
    Upshot Knothole

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    California native here, been dealing with CA getting it's own special versions of vehicles my whole life. I have mixed feelings about the regional testing of vehicles, because like you said you have friends with addresses in smog free counties. Hell, I've never smogged my truck because it was residing in a smog free county when I got it, even though I live in a metro area that requires smog. I also remember what LA and the bay area where like back when smog was bad, lived in LA in the 90s and remember flying into LAX where you would pass through this orange layer as you came in to land and you could even smell the smog inside the plane. Couldn't see the mountains in the summer, etc. Strict emissions work.
    I also like tuning and have a bad habit of buying parts that say "race use only." I also feel sorry for my friends in CA that want to properly tune their car but CA makes it hard if not impossible to do some stuff. I'm a firm believer that states should offer a tuner tax for people that actually want to do performance mods. You want to do a turbo and custom map? Sure, you might be paying an extra $500-1K every couple of years and still need to be tested to make sure you're running reasonably well. About the same price as I know people are paying down there to get a non smog legal vehicle to pass emissions now. Make it so that the people that actually know what they're doing and want to keep their occasional track day car street legal can, but not easy enough that people can pay like $200 and do a cat delete and drive around with a CEL thinking they just made their car run better because it's louder. Also I really hate sitting on a motorcycle behind someone running race gas with a cat delete, that shit burns your eyes. You come from the LS swap world, you know how much power those engines can put out with high flow cats, cat deletes just seem lazy to me with modern fuel injection tuning.

    All of this is also why I stick to tuning motorcycles. The odds of someone pulling me over and seeing these on one of my bikes and knowing just how illegal they are on the road are slim to none.
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    Yoshimura TMR41 carbs. :hearteyes:
     
  12. Aug 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
    snivilous

    snivilous snivspeedshop.com

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    Clicked this thread expecting ITBs on a 2UZ. Disappointed.
     
  13. Aug 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
    PNW15

    PNW15 New Member

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    Got that 24mm swaybar on to my DC.

    I took off the 27 because it was too stiff IMO and didn't let the 6112s do their thing.

    With stock coils I never would have ran without it. Too much body roll... Hell, more body roll with stock coils and 27mm bar than there is with 6112s and no bar.

    Anyways, no bar and 6112s is good, especially if you are conscious of the lack of the bar. But letting my partner drive in deer and elk country is less ideal.

    Then I added a Four Wheel Camper. I've done hundreds of miles without the bar, but not with anyone else driving and it can be a little tedious.

    24mm with the camper is perfect as far as a combination of tightening up the roll and ease of driving as well as remaining fairly soft on forest roads.

    I suspect the 24 will also be more livable without the camper on but haven't done that yet.

    Truck has Firestone bags, stock leafs, E rated 32s.
     
  14. Aug 27, 2025 at 11:27 AM
    The Black Mamba

    The Black Mamba A pure specimen of TX Black Snek

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    Imma keep it stock
  15. Aug 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
    shifty`

    shifty` NOT A NU JACK! NU JACK, NU JACK!

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    At least rolling coal is illegal, so if you were seen doing it, you'd risk a hefty ticket. Knowing some of the backwoods folk here (my GC included) who have their trucks setup for it, they wouldn't risk doing some shit like that inside the city unless the payoff was monstrous.

    I forget what the little metro service shuttles were called in the mid-late '80s in Poway, but we used to ride the shit out of them to get into all kinds of trouble around town. Just sucked because none of them (that I recall) stopped at Webb Park, which was one of our favorite skate spots.
     
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  16. Aug 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
    shifty`

    shifty` NOT A NU JACK! NU JACK, NU JACK!

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    Now you need to go find a large body of shallow water to drive thru. It needs to be up to the rocker panels, or it doesn't count!

    Love the idea of a Tuner Tax, but suspect the bigger issue would be getting people to vote for it, and the even bigger issue would be "how the fuck do we enforce this without randomly stopping everyone to check?"
     
  17. Aug 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
    The Black Mamba

    The Black Mamba A pure specimen of TX Black Snek

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    Imma keep it stock
    Possible Flash flooding in the near future
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  18. Aug 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
    shifty`

    shifty` NOT A NU JACK! NU JACK, NU JACK!

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    WOOOHOOOO! :rofl:

     
  19. Aug 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
    Dakillacore

    Dakillacore Brake now, you Mickey Mouse-piece of shit!

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    We've had a few dry and cool days which have been very welcomed over the hot, humid, monsoon style waters that we have been used to the past 2 months.
     
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  20. Aug 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
    shifty`

    shifty` NOT A NU JACK! NU JACK, NU JACK!

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    Man, I'm so grateful yesterday wasn't a sauna. I could've lived w/o the stupid mosquitos, but one shot of DEET lotion on the legs, and it may as well have been deep in the fall.
     
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  21. Aug 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
    Dakillacore

    Dakillacore Brake now, you Mickey Mouse-piece of shit!

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    Me too. It was such a nice day.

    Nothing irritates me more than sweating while standing still.
     
  22. Aug 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
    Sirfive

    Sirfive Socially feral

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    We got about 10 drops of rain earlier, now it feels like i’m right on the gulf.
     
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  23. Aug 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
    The Black Mamba

    The Black Mamba A pure specimen of TX Black Snek

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  24. Aug 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
    Rich L.

    Rich L. this too shall pass

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    Oil and filter change today, reset the maint light, 64,977 miles!
     
  25. Aug 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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    Ordered Suspension Maxxx sway bar links and a new driver's seat cushion, a little mushy and seems like I'm leaning towards the door.
     
  26. Aug 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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    I figured I share a cheap purchase that has already been useful twice. This bag of an assortment of plastic screw inserts had the correct inserts for the license mounting screws that were not included with a new rear bumper. It also had the correct inserts for the fog lights aim adjustment screws when installing foxbeam mount with diode dynamics.

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    455h0le_dachshund

    455h0le_dachshund Death machine & man in love gogogogo

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    Where'd you order the cushion from?
     
  28. Aug 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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    bmf4069

    bmf4069 Captain wtf

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    And what'd you do to the tundra?
     
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