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

It may seem a little.....unorthodox, BUT if you want to save some dough and you have some extra clear silicone laying around.....go ahead and hit the inside surrounding edge of the unit. It'll seal up where the seal failed.

I did this on my cheap-o garbage CARID set that I bought a few months ago.

 

Also wanted to mention that you have to drop the spare tire to gain access to bleed the LSPV. Others may have done it without dropping the spare tire, but this was not the case for me.

 

I’ve not had any problems bleeding mine in a 2000 AC with the spare in place.

 

Location as viewed from the passenger side in front of the rear axle looking towards driver rear (old picture)

 

Went to drive the truck today after a couple days of on-and-off rain. Looking like I have the cowl leak going on. Water pooling up in the passenger side floor board only, doesn't appear to be coming from anywhere overhead or A pillar, windshield, etc. and more likely coming around the the blower motor area above the footwell.

Referred to the sticky already https://www.tundras.com/threads/definitive-2000-2006-cab-area-rain-water-leak-thread.70464/. I'll have to go ahead and order the parts referenced in there and get this taken care of.

 

They were $56 a piece

 

Did my valve cover gaskets over the weekend (and redid the passenger side last night). Learned a lot and hopefully all is good now. No more oil leak this morning driving to work, but I do need to go to LAP and clear my check engine light and drop off old oil. I did a long write up with pics on my build thread: https://www.tundras.com/threads/2004-dc-4-7-4wd-build-log.128950/

 

Yeah I probably should have went that route but I was tired of it, I already drilled a hole in it a while back, which also broke off the drill bit inside the light. May just wait for another Toyota parts sale and order up some OEM units and be done with it.

 

Smart. You don't want to wait too long like I did and have to buy a new blower motor.