What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

One bite at a time is how you eat an elephant! Nice work!

 

lol yea starting to lose my mind on items I’ve ordered vs what I already have lol. Thats what we get for redoing everything on the truck but the diffs lol

 

I tried out all the recent All-Top gear I got from Amazon- I bought the compressor, but got the Y splitter (4 tires at a time) and the deflators as part of a review. The quick deflator took my tires from 38psi to 20psi no problem in a few seconds. I was able to fill the tire up from 20-35psi in under a minute hooked up directly. That's all I got done in the test due to it being hot and dinner time.

compressor https://amzn.to/3V6DIyA
deflators https://amzn.to/41DOeRK
4 tire hose https://amzn.to/4mgSG0g

 

I love mine. Did you run the separate wire for DRL?

 

Did you order your grille and hood bulge from Toyota or aftermarket? I ordered the same setup from the Toyota dealership beginning of August and they still don’t have an ETA for me yet…

 

Saturday I installed a Sony XAV-9500ES from Trail Grid Pro. Having the Maestro already flashed, and everything pre-wired made installation a breeze.

My only complaint is with their microphone mount. Based on their installation video it looks like they re-designed it. It was too tight to fit the microphone, and ended up breaking when I tried to push the microphone in. I ended up just putting the microphone on the top of the steering column.

 

Absolutely, wish I could have retained the amber DRL.

It was aftermarket, its not perfect but its "good enough". Its an 11 year old truck, not a show car.

 

Yeah that little mic holder is a 3d printed piece of shit. I said the same thing in my review on their page . But they took it down . (They gay like that) The wiring and harness are ok but a dude on you tube has it down to a science, his harness setup for this radio is way cleaner and they should really learn how to use tesa tape. All in all, a good unit prewired, from them but yeah the mic piece is garbage.

 

Looks pretty damn good to me for being an 11 year old truck! Thanks for sharing

 

How bad of
A job to swap these out i need to
Do mine but never did it before

 

I know you’re not asking me, and not to step on @BR73 toes, but it’s pretty simple. I’ve replaced several broken ones before, and last year replaced all of mine for longer ones as well.
Just hammer out the old ones, and pull the new ones through with one of these guys (linked below), or just a bunch of washers.

$25 Lisle 22800 Wheel Stud Installer

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000ETUD22

 

I have this same compressor under my hood. Works great, super fast.

 

Literally hammer out the old ones and pull new ones in no tricks to it, do t have to line up the groves on the new studs or anything?

 

Yes literally hammer out the old ones. That’s the easy part.
No tricks. Stage the new one in the backing plate, no need to line up the grooves on the new stud’s collars with anything, they are just for friction… to keep them in the backing plate. Just eye it to make sure it’s going in straight, then screw the lug nut on it (with the tool I linked or a bunch of heavy duty washers…and w/o the tire on of course lol) and start cranking to pull the stud through the plate until it’s fully seated. Ju can doo iiit

 

I use an air hammer to drive them out and an air hammer to drive them in. Easy peasy.

 

I ran an old Toyota lug nut on the stud I was removing first then a couple of wacks with the ole ball peen hammer . Make sure when you use the stud tool to have the flat against the hub before you crank on it with a 1/2 drive impact.The conical shape should be facing out.I destroyed mine. Also make sure to pull the new stud through until it touches the hub

 

Jump on in that's what this forum is all about besides I bought and destroyed the same install tool

 

I’m with you, I’ve been a Maiden fan for a long time. I saw them several times live back in the 80’s, great shows!

 

Hey that’s George’s line

 

That totally crossed my mind when I posted it.

 

lol I went through three of them before I was done

 

That looks really nice. I have wanted an updated head unit for a while. Could I ask a few questions about yours?

1) I have a column shifter as well, so how does the floating screen work with it? Any issues?

2) which steering wheel controls did you lose if any?

3) did you lose anything in the center dash screen, like music, tire pressure, etc?