What have you done to your 2.5 gen Tundra today?

Those are some really small centimeters.

 

Maybe it was millimeters

 

It’s getting cold out.

 

TWSS

 

My truck turned 7 yesterday! Pretty sure I’ve now owned it twice as long as any other vehicle I’ve ever had.

 

In December it will be 10 years I've had my 2014. Only 10 more years to match how long we had the 2000 Tundra.

 

The wife and I pulled the Jeep to Greenbrier County, WV over the weekend. When the truck dropped into a lower gear to make it up some of the hills, she asked if that is why I want a supercharger.... yes, dear... yes it is. Now hopefully I can make that happen!

 

Guess whose truck made an appearance in Tinkerer's Adventure's video.

 

Installed my storage box...

I wanted to wait to mount the box until after I lined the bed, but will get to that later:




Perfect fit and helps keep the tire snug in the back.

 

Throw a stall mat down under the box, and it will protect the bed....

 

There are 2 small bars of 2"X.5" stock underneath it to keep it off the bed.

 

Drop brackets off etrack mounted to the canister would be quick and easy (minus fabbing up the drop brackets). Modular too

 

This is primitive camping in forest lakes / mogollon rim near black canyon lake & woods canyon lake just North of payson AZ

 

Beautiful country up there Alpine is my go-to/fav area.

 

Wife wanted to add overlay onto the emblems! Pretty much ditched all the chrome on the outside now.

She also wants to paint the bumper caps white since the black plasti-dip I did 2 years ago are finally going.

Anyone on here plasti dipped their bumper caps white instead of going with the bumper shells?

 

Nice! When we head north it's usually to Cottonwood or further up to Williams. We have yet to try the Payson area, might have to look into it.

 

I would go with the bumpershellz. Buy once, cry once. And you’ll be maintenance free after installation.

 

I did the plasti dip, lasted for a short time. Scrapped it off and painted ( with cheap paint), that didn't last long. Just stripped to bare metal and hoping to paint this or next weekend. Got professionaly color matched paint in a spray can from a local paint shop. I'll clear coat and hopefully won't have to re do it.

 

Same dilemma here. Prior owner did a sh*t job on the bumper caps. Didn't know about the BumperShellz until you and diebs96 mentioned it. I kind of like the idea of maintenance free after buy once, cry once.

Also looking for running boards. Like yours. What running boards are those?
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Thanks! Yeah, bumpershellz are an option, but I figure I’ll eventually replace the bumper soon and won’t want to dish out money for those shells.

They are actually rock sliders made by White Knuckle Off Road.

 

So I did plasti-dip followed by some bedliner in a can. @BlueRibbon4x4 has done a similar method that he then sanded and painted (his hood bulge). Depending if you are wanting the caps smooth or are willing to have some texture, you might not even need to sand the bedliner before painting white. My end caps have done well in the 1.5 since painting and I don't have any rock chips. Geno has been running the plasti-dip with bedliner for longer and he takes his truck out to off road and hasn't had issues.

Its easy to apply and pretty cost effective (probably about $40 to do the front end caps. 1 cap plasti dip per corner, getting 4-5 layers, and I just used Rustoleum aerosol bedliner)

 

Man, as I read this, I think this is exactly what the prior owner did to my grill surround and bulge. Those pieces on my truck have quite a few chips all over them and I've been trying to figure out what the heck he used to paint it. The top coat is definitely a bedliner material (black and rough), but it comes off like there is something else between the bedliner material and the truck's original white paint. I didn't realize this was a common "thing" to do. Learned something new today.

Understand about the BumperShellz. Same thought process here, but figure if I replace the bumper I'll just list the Shellz here. Oh, and thank you for the heads up on the White Knuckle sliders ... did a little research, and that's what I've been looking for.
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Painted my calipers with high temp caliper paint and put ceramic on my rims while I had them off. Been putting this project off for awhile until we had some low humidity. I’m happy with how they turned out.

 

The Morimoto headlights really makes a difference!

 

Warmed it up for the 1,100 mile trip home. On the way up I managed 13.87 mpg with cruise set at 85 and no A/C running for part of the time. That was hand calculated. The computer was about spot on at 13.9 average.

 

@Rangergillikin calipers look great! Nicely done. Did you shoot them on the truck or remove, degrease, paint and reinstall? Obviously the pads were removed. What paint did you use? I’d be interested in knowing how they hold up. Thanks.

 

I painted mine on my 2013. They looked awesome until they got dirty so I passed on doing it to my 2020.

 

The ones on my car are powder-coated and they still look great after 8 yrs. I imagine the paint wouldn't nearly age as well. Thanks Tundra234

 

Finally got around to installing the Wheeler’s Off-road superbumps, add a leaf, and u-bolts. Also added a carrier bearing spacer from Toytec. It came up about 1.5” from before, before with the Eibachs it was .5” higher in the rear. Now it’s pretty close to 2” in the rear. Hopefully it’s just right to help out when towing and hauling.

 

rewired my switch pro and added the fogs to a switch pro button.