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

Well, it appears I have made my first DIY goof up. Did my Valve Cover gaskets over the weekend, Passenger on Saturday, Driver yesterday. I've got a decent oil leak on the passenger side, but driver looks good. The leak appears to be coming from the bottom rearmost bolt on the cover - at least that area. It happens for a short period of time after running, but stops after 30 min or an hour. That bolt is the only one I couldn't get the torque wrench onto due to a dipstick in the way (Transfer case??) , so I hand tightened it with a ratcheting wrench. I did my best to do the X pattern when tightening the 9 bolts, but maybe it just had uneven pressure. I already went and tightened the bolt down a little more with no success stopping the leak.

What should I do next? Loosen it all back up and retighten? Take it off, clean up the FIPG, new gasket and FIPG and try again?

 

Did you reseal the halfmoons at the same time?

 

That dipstick is the transmission. I’m guessing that means that’s never been checked.

 

I did pull them and reseal them with toyota fipg. And I resealed the spots up toward the front as well. Cleaning off the old FIPG was a pain, and I'm wondering if maybe i didn't clean off all the old stuff perfectly enough? I was trying to keep from knocking it into the engine.

Haha. You got me. To be fair I've only put 20k or 25k on it. But I know. shame shame.

 

Cyclone head

 

Needs a functioning light bulb inside so it looks like a lantern.

 

Do you fill it with fireflies you catch while camping? Looks cool.

 

I love how we both had similar thoughts right away.

 

I will be painting the catch can

 

Do the light idea still, then paint it black except for small stars.

 

Nooooo!!!! A glowing red light that dims and brightens with MAF voltage readings is the way!!

 

Put a Jackolantern over that come spooky season

 

Jokes aside, what is the purpose of that?

 

Prefilter

 

Wanna see a one month supply of dirt particles report

 

I can tell you that the ram head was dusty inside when I took it off. Air filter is still clean

 

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