1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

Good to know. Thanks!

 

race car is useless without a 1GT to pull it. j/k

 

Link to these at HF?

 

I don’t have the HF ones lol.

I’m team Baja designs

 

Can someone please explain the mentality of assholes who speed up to get in front of you when you’re side-by-side at a light only to slow to a 30 mph speed limit when everyone else does 35-40 mph?

What’s worse is he was driving a jacked up 2015 RAM with the name SYBIL on the plate.

Logic would tell you the person who gets in front stays ahead and does 35 mph minimum. If I didn’t have someone cross in front of me I felt I would be racing him to get out in front.

 

Airy Body High

 

It’s usually middle aged soccer moms that do it to me. I drive defensively and offensively…….


But at work, I’ve definitely waited for a stop sign to turn green……..

 

With the personalized license plate SYBIL, I don’t know what to think. Wasn’t that some crazy lady movie from the 70s?

 

found the problem

 

Worth a watch. Fast forward to 28 minutes if you don't want to hear about his injuries. That's when he described what failed.


https://youtu.be/NrIR_4IPIbk?si=pUaw3i_-8EupJGjI

 

Sybil is suffering from multiple personality disorder
Sybil was played by Sally Field.

 

Okay that sounds familiar. I don’t think I ever saw it though.

 

Pretty interesting. Just another reason not to trust Chinese products when it comes to safety. As a medical professional I found so many things wrong with what he said that gave me chuckles but not judging or anything. He definitely got lucky.
Also this all could have been avoided if he wasn’t driving a ford…

 

Anyone ever try this method?
https://youtube.com/shorts/yVfaS7Vy0TU?si=OuTyeDCZE31K4qK4

 

I asked about prior, but there are boot stretching tools out there you can use. if I recall, the gist was, “Toyota boots are too dense/meaty” for the tool.

 

I just called a different 4x4 shop to ask about an alignment. They won't even do an alignment since I replaced the tie rods myself instead of having them do it. I understand not installing custom supplied parts but this seems dumb.

 

Yeah, I was kind of thinking well.... it's a good way to test the stretch/strength of the boot material...
Riiiip!

 

That is pretty weirdddddd

 

Dumb AF. Go back when someone else is working the front and don't tell them you replaced them. Sure can't be hungry for work, wtf?

 

Fuck em. I'll just use someone else. Strange business model. I wonder what a Hunter alignment system costs. Probably $50k? You'd think they would want some ROI.

 

Wow, 50k!
Today's commute showed my wheel off center and a light pull to the left... not ideal. You'd think the geometry wouldn't change with just the LBJs. When I did the first set with LCAs I never set the toe... she was fine. I did do camber n caster though. Looks like the string is coming out tonight for some redneck driveway science.

 

https://www.tundras.com/threads/how-to-do-an-alignment-at-home.136/

 

This
Yep

 

I noticed my camber seems off which doesn't make sense to me if I didn't mess with the LCA's.

I called a different shop and the guy knew that our trucks should be around 3 for Caster. I was impressed! I feel good about this one. Taking it in Friday.

 

https://www.racingjunk.com/toyota/184032090/2003-toyota-tundra-street-legal-monster-truck.html#5

 

That’s super lame, I bet they’d claim something about ‘liability’.
Reminds me of a time we got a flat (not in the Tundra), I put the spare on and found it was a bit low, there was a tire shop nearby so I thought ‘great, they’ll have air’, I went in and they wouldn’t fill it or even let me fill the tire ‘because of liability issues’. I won’t be buying tires there ever.

 

toe in can look like camber problem. Happened to my son’s Mustang. We put new struts and LCAs in and drove it a week before the alignment. It looked like camber was way off. Turns out it was toe and it ate the insides off the tires in 1 week

 

Yikes. I better not drive it much then. I wonder if I could adjust it myself a little before the alignment. Never messed with the toe myself before.

 

Toe is the easiest. Set the steering wheel straight and secure it. Then use the 2x4 or string method to get you close. Helps to take the weight off the tires mostly to allow for easy adjustment of the outer tie rods.

 

Most shops won't work with customers if they did the work themselves with OEM parts or not. The reason is because most shops have to warranty any work that they do and can't warranty something that the customer installed themselves. That's the liability issues that most shops don't want to involve themselves in. Most of those policies are put into place because corporate said so or because the shop was burnt by a bad customer over something like that.

Some shops can't waive a warranty so they would just rather not complete the work than to deal with the possible headache down the road.