1st Gen. Lunch Table - General Discussion

Yeah I was thinking of bringing that up. He pulled that thing apart piece by piece the day after if I remember right so the water didn't have much time to cause major issues or corrosion.

 

I haven’t seen an old Lincoln/Ford like that in a long time. Continental I assume? Been a while since I remembered seeing one.

Edit: Nope. Thunderbird.

 

As far as I know, it’s got the stock brakes. It might have the bigger calipers. His rears are probably adjusted to perfection, since he’s using the parking brake all the time.

I’d be he relies pretty heavily on the trailer brakes.

 

If I'm booking it in the left lane they usually move. People also slow down around me so it's kind of annoying.

That's at the next exit northbound on 27. We can stop by there next Merustober.

 

i didn’t expect to see that…like whatsoever

 

Right. Trailer brakes.

 

Yeah one of these days I want to see all the art installations around Amarillo.

 

Are you on 285/75r17?

 

Man that's awful Cluttered mess.

 

285/70/17 I think

 

Damn why does it look like you got way more caster than I got.

Also, I've never hit the washer fluid reservoir fully stuffed so you should be Gucci.

 

Disregard caster comment. I'm having a moment. lol

 

Camburg, but I forgot your LCA's give you more caster too.

 

What size tires are you on again?
These are 295/75r16
I've got my SPCs set to one shy of being as far forward as possible. I might adjust em soon.

Before and after Solo LCA comparison






Before and after


The Solo might have lifted the truck some. Maybe it just needs more time to settle.

 

Which UCAs you on?

 

So did you solve your shifter issue or order a short throw?

Edit: URD is running a sale.
https://urdusa.com/urd-short-throw-shifter-3-4-liter-5vz-fe-trucks/

 

You can tow pretty much as much weight as you want with any vehicle…as long as you have enough likes and subscriptions. No one is going to purposely watch youtoob videos just to see boring content. If videoing myself making stupid choices when towing could have made me money, over the course of my life i would have been a multimillionaire…possibly even a billionaire. One of the more dumb things was the time i hitched up a tow dolly on the back of my 2006 scion xB…then drove my second 2006 scion xB onto the dolly. I VERY narrowly made it out of my steep gravel driveway without crashing and totaling both of them. Then the only way back home was an 8 mile loop on steep windy back roads. It was a very high pucker factor the whole short trip. It would have made excellent video footage though. Point being, just because someone else is somehow getting away with it, it doesn’t mean it works well. I do admit that the picture with that car and trailer hitched up to his truck is entertaining to look at. I can’t imagine that his clutch will last that long.

 

I wonder if anyone here has ever done this upgrade to their 05+ 2uz.
76mm throttle to 84mm. Hmm. Too bad the Lexus RCF throttle body is a bit cost prohibitive. But seems like a potentially cool mod, for anyone with a supercharger, or long tubes and some other goodies. I wonder how much difference it makes, NA or FI?

https://urdusa.com/urd-throttle-body-adapter-76-rcf-2uz-fe-4-7l-v8/


I wonder if I swapped the 05+ intake manifold to the 03 with this mod and did the coolant bypass, if it would be worth it. Maybe I should just stay the course and save for the Bullet SC kit.
Still could be a later mod for the 06 though, if the price of the RCF TB comes down or I get lucky at a junk yard.

 

With stock valves and cams a larger throttlebody is a waste of money.

 

I'm still running the factory TB in Donut, for now.

 

i’m thinking abt getting these tires, super cheap and this is the only defect, will this not hold air? or what would be the biggest flaw with these

 

whats the build date?

 

I've temporarily run trailer tires with similar bead damage, but the stakes are pretty low with that. On my truck? Hell to the naw.

You ever blow a steer tire at 65/70? It gets rowdy in a hurry.

 

Check the manufacture date for sure.

Personally I wouldn't run those, even on the back. If that bead breaks apart while driving that could be bad news. I ran over a piece of metal in the road on the interstate in my moms old minivan, it took out a rear tire. Was scary quickly.

 

Y'all remember the Firestone incident from the early 2ks, right?

 

Hate to initiate the whole "kick in the nuts of old age" thing, but I wasn't alive in the early 2000s.

 

yea my stock tires are melted, just got new fuel rims and 33s, lift is on the way, just tryna find super cheap tires to hold me over for two weeks or so. any of yall know websites to order cheap crap wheels that are decently safe?

 

I bought a tire with the same problem a month ago as a spare. It's more than twice as bad as the one you pictured. It was the only used tire in 265/75R16 they had so I bought it. It has held air so far but it's just a spare. You might want to doctor it up with rubber cement first, but I didn't on mine.

 

Keep trolling FB marketplace. I could get a decent set of wheels / tires around me for less than $500. When your done running them, resell them.