2010 Crew Max SR5 progression thread

Fill panels in. Looks great. Love when I can see the LEDs in the vehicle in front of me!

 

I ordered a Ranch Hand bumper and there was a delay so I cancelled and ordered this:

ARB 3415010 Toyota Tundra 2007-2013 Deluxe Front Bumper Winch Ready with Grille Guard, Black Powder Coat Finish

https://www.bumperonly.com/collecti...nt-bumpers/products/arb-3415010-toyota-tundra

 

BUMPERS!!!!
ARB does not fit in the bed under the tonneau. lol Dropped it at the mechanic, it goes in next week.


The ARB was Incredibly well packaged, it was on two double pallets, lag bolted in with 4 bolts attached to the main frame mounts.




Ranch Hand! (Im'a 'gon dew it meself!)

 

How did you do this?

 

With this:

 

Looks good. Was hoping you bought a new piece of leather and fitted it. Mine has a slight cut in it and idk where to get a new cover at.

 

My cover was damaged by an exuberant 90lb Staffordshire that used it as a stepping stone out the driver door. I got a "new" used cover on ebay for about 40.00

 

Disposing of the packing materials was a workout!

 

My ARE tonneau Was loose, tightened it and learned it was missing it's lower fastener on one of the four corners. I tried to call ARE, and got a redirect to "the closest dealer" As it was 7am PT & I refuse to deal with Tom's Camperworld I hung up & sent them an email asking to buy the fastener and the 4 bumpers the cover sits on.

They literally refused to assist me.

I got it with the truck when I bought the truck used but will never buy any ARE items.

 

post sales service with those shells guys are usually pretty bad...

 

Seems like & that is why I won't deal with Tom's, when I first got the truck I contacted them and all they wanted to do was sell me another tonneau. (the lock mechanism was misbehaving)

I figured it out and fixed it myself but I'll never buy from them and they have the whole metro Phoenix area pretty well locked up (3 locations)

Now that I know it loosens I'll keep an eye on it. It has 7 out of 8 fasteners.

 

I buy my tonneau/shell parts on ebay. I'm sure you can find that extra fastener

 

Thanks, I know what the bolt looks like but have no clue what the part it is compressing is. I also need all 4 bumper locating parts, where the bumpers screw into that keep the cover at the right hight/from buncing around. They are freaking plastic and totally misshapen due to 10 years of compression.

 

Ranch Hand in.

License plate lights were a pita. Not a fan of incandescent or single conductor ground through the mount.

I ran out of time for the backup lights & I think I want to be able to switch them manually.

 

This came today, ARB & it go in Thursday.

 

Looking good

 

Truck at shop for ARB/winch install.

 

Shop called ginormous bolts needed to attach the bumper are missing. He called ARB, they are next daying them but this means I can't have it back until Saturday because he closes at 3 Friday and I can't leave work until 5.


grrrrr

 

Had to go get my access card & keys for work so got these:

 

thats the same winch i got but earlier model it is a beast but the cable kinks easily i am thinking of going synthetic...

 

Shop called, ARB won't accept the winch. Hopefully HF will take it back.

 

ARB is on, pick up the truck in the morning. Fog lights did not fit either.

 

was it the mount holes or is it to tall to fit?

 

The lever for the clutch is in the way.

 

Picked up the truck, I ordered these last night:
https://www.stedi.com.au/arb-summit-bullbar-led-fog-light-replacement-kit.html

Anyone know if I need the ARB fog mounting kit? I have mounts but it says they were for the oem fogs which are gone.

 

Looking good... I have same color Tundra but hood is fading. I’m in market for new stereo or speakers .... heck my 99 4Runner has better stereo

 

Did a bunch of searching, found and ordered this Smitty Bilt that fits:

https://thmotorsports.com/8049821-smittybilt-97512-x2o-12k-gen2-winch

Also, fogs from Stedi on the way.

 

Forgot to post the winch came Thursday.

Got the ARB shrouds yesterday, they don't 100 (or 75%) fit but I mostly got them in only to find STEDI sent me two driver side fogs.




This was yesterday, I just threw it in to see how it looked.


Hopefully, they will send me the other side so I can lose the cyclops look.

Yes, I will be making the shrouds flush, I just didn't want to hack them up until I
gave it alot of thought seeing as they are 130 bucks & take a week+ to get.

 

I bought a contactor to replace the solenoids that the winch came with. I want to mount it under the hood. I looked for cables and the 7 feet I need were 20 bucks each. I figured for 80 bucks seeing as I have most of a 100' roll of 4AWG I used for the amp install so I went to Home Depot, got 3/8th lugs and a 30.00 Milwaukee crimping plier (they had a 40.00 Klein, I decided no way the Klein is 10 bucks better for a tool I'll use 12 times in my life if that).

So I made the 4 cables I needed.



I also got a wireless controller.

 

It's tomorrow in Australia and they are sending the missing fog.


Stand up company!