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Build Thread: 2006 Toyota Tundra Double Cab

Discussion in '1st Gen Tundras (2000-2006)' started by Bought2Pull, Mar 18, 2025.

  1. May 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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    whodatschrome

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    lots of dents
    That’s exactly how i drive as well. Not only better fuel economy, but it also makes for a less stressful drive. I also don’t have to worry about slowing down for traffic on the highway, because when driving 55mph, i am the heavy traffic on the highway!
     
  2. May 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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    Well brother, you should have read the reaction I got on another forum when I suggested a guy complaining about his fuel mileage (actual "heavy truck," like F450 or something). He wanted to do a rear end gearing change but I suggested "driving slower." H O L Y C O W

    Some other dude with literally 12 posts over a period of 10 years of forum membership got all hot and bothered. Got called "absolutely garbage" to which, of course, I replied with a Youtube link to Van Halen's "I Can't Drive 55." :rofl:

    I saw a 25% (check my math please) mileage increase back in 2006. At 70 to 75 mph got 38 mpg in my (then) 2003 Honda Civic. Tried 55 mph and got a whopping 50 mpg! I kept doing it.

    Easier to slow and stop for disabled motorists, less stressful drive, wrote an editorial advocating the practice, which was printed. My friends all make fun of me, I don't care.

    ****

    Today: used 4WD again to back up the trailer at that "crackhead central" jobsite. Also a friend driving my Tundra as I ran the zero turn used 4WD Hi to pull me out of the mud: the field looked dry and I sunk that big mower up to the deck! :annoyed:

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    Got a new keychain for the Tundra. Wife likes it better than the repo "Toyota" one I got her previously.

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    Tundra goes into 4WD Hi easily enough but light blinks when trying to come out. I ended up just pulling out and heard a "thunk" and the light stopped blinking. I had all that stuff greased and serviced at the stealership plus that new Duralast CV axles put in.

    Is this because 4WD just hasn't been used? I doubt the previous owners ever used it.
     
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  3. May 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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    Everyone knows that diesel trucks get better fuel economy and tow better with a 6” lift and 42” MTR’s! Stock height truck with little tires are useless when hauling an excavator on a lowboy trailer.

    ^^^And still some guys actually buy into that malarkey. Nowadays it’s totally out of the norm for any truck to still have a stock sized tire. So much so, that a truck like that is actually unique when driving down the road. So i’m more apt to look at a truck like that, than say a lifted truck with 35”+ tires.
     
  4. May 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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    I call them "redneck tires" or "redneck wheels." Really a thing around here! GIGANTIC tires sticking half a foot outside of the wheel wells......I think those things look idiotic. SMH.

    I prefer stock height on well, everything. When my Tundra's tires wear down, those are getting replaced with 16's which I think are correct. I think it has 17 inchers now.

    I topped a long 5% grade hill today, 35 mph! Pulling the loaded 18 footer.....roughly 4K pound load being towed. I ran my 4-way flashers, stayed in the slow lane unless passing an even more heavily laden tractor trailer (which happened twice I think). I should have gotten a better run at that hill!
     
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  5. May 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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    You should search out for a pair of 4.10 or 4.30 3rd members with loads like that!
     
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  6. May 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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    4.30 or even 4.56.


    Budget, get 4.10's from a seqouia (or 04 dc).
     
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  7. May 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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    You guys talking gear ratios?

    Was there a choice in gear ratio for a 2006 Tundra?

    I wonder what mine is.....
     
  8. May 12, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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    shifty` In South Dakota Trouble ain't hard to find

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