What have you done to your 1st gen Tundra today?

I fucking knew this would look sick

 

I didn't think iridium were necessary unless you had forced induction or VVTI.
I use iridium on my 06 and copper in my 03.

 

What's that little artsy thingy on the back?
License plate holder?

 

Artsy

It is a plate holder. I cut the file I had from when I built the front plate holder, although I think I assembled it upside down from how the front is setup? I dunno. Im sure that particular shape served some purpose then. Just a temporary Jonnie until I decide where its lives.

I did cut the harness today and ditch the oem plate lights. RIP. Threw together this quickie single led setup, complete with Bed liner blackout and zip ties instead of finding the tap I needed.

 

Do you know how to that?
I know it was as simple as pulling a relay and making a jumper from a few inches of wire and two crimp blades, on the first gen tacos.
I'd love to have power to the outlets to charge stuff when camping, even though the truck is off.

I figure there ought to be a similar way to do the fog lights anytime mod.

 

IIRC the two power outlets on my 2000 have a relay under the hood and you can jump that for continuous power. The cig lighter does not have a relay only a fuse under the dash.

 

I need to figure out which slots to jump then.

 

So I ugh ummmm bought a thing........ Who's gonna be helping cause I'm not gonna lie I ain't never put one of these in. But I'm willing to learn

 

I'm also down to learn. I bet Casey knows how.

 

Probably would have been better off buying a completely built out unit from ECGS if you don't know what you're doing, or do not have an installer. But that's just my opinion.

 

I'll bet you Lee knows..... And I bet we all know by the bottom of a 30 rack

 

That’s the spirit. You don’t know till you know. I’ve never messed with rear gears either, but I’d definitely study up and get someone to help me and take a whack at it.

 

I know two guys in his area that could install it, but ones retired from wrenching on other people's stuff and just does tunes now (Triple C Chop Shop). The other is 4Lo Fab. I wheel with both those guys. Good dudes.

 

I plan to learn to rebuild my original diff eventually just to learn, and so I have a spare with matching ratios, but I'm happy with Zuk's attention to detail on my built locker. With my use case, I would have hated to break down in the middle of the desert due to me screwing the initial gear setup.

Plus Zuk documents every diff he builds, so his documentation will helpful when I do try to work through it.

 

Not many people have a blue printed diff

 

Rain put the rust work on hold so I completed the 2wd conversion.

 

Thank you! I figured either I was reading their diagram wrong or they just put the wrong picture for the bolt. I appreciate you confirming.

 

My 2001 crossed the equator today.

 

Mounted my ScanGauge II to the A-Piller as the mounting solution I had before turned into goo on the window. To that end I ordered a custom window shade to help with the heat inside the cab. A touch expensive, but fits really well:

$50 Custom Windshield Sunshade for Toyota Tundra (Double Cab), 2004-2006, Made in USA

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0045NZP5I?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

 

Pulled the bed and replaced full pump assembly and checked out the underside for any rust while bed was off
He's a picture of the old one. Super easy, bed removal is the most work.

 

Frame looks wayyyy better than mine

 

Do you need a/the spare tire crank assembly?

 

That’s about how many miles old mine was when I bought it 19 years ago. Lots of good miles to come

 

Decided to take a different route with wheels. US Wheel, rally wheels for that old Chevy look, showing my age.

 

Gotta ball out on the chrome now. Need to repaint the truck red too.

 

I guess I only got my truck 5 years ago but I can’t math either, with like 140k? And now I’m at 172ish, it will be a while before I break 200k unless I up my trip report status

 

Nice work. Finally a side shot of that infernal sender. Did you notice any corroded spots in the sender? Bet if you hookup a DMM set to measure impepdance, you'll see dead spots as you raise/lower the float arm.

Everything working as expected with the new assembly installed?

 

Clunk... DeepCreeped the leaf packs before and it seemed to subside, for a while. Still feels like it's up front though.
So it was either disconnecting my sway bar end links, or this lipstick treatment. Got it in there, Nice and deep like. And sprayed the shit out of the rest of it with DeepCreep.
If this only works for a while I may entertain installing the tip wear pads, but I think Ill have to brake the packs apart to do that... and another $60-80? for U-Bolts.
Hit the rear shock top/bolts just for S&G... their gonna have to be cut off. Greased the entire driveline again, slip yoke takes more than I like and I get what seems like maybe 1/4in of push back.
While I was under there noticed the V-Band clamp (I put on in Oct-22 with new exhaust) was completely gone! wtf?
Trip to NAPA, installed new clamp in the parking lot.
No clunks turning corners, or backing into drive like usual. Further testing before I draw any conclusions.

 

Dude. Just replace the spacers that should be in there, and you won't have to grease it, and it shouldn't make noise anymore. Out of all the leaf-ends, I only see one that clearly has the shim intact. And it's not this end, where both are missing. It's the one with the wood handle implement shoved into it in your 2nd pic.