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

Flavor savor.

 

I always look at the hardware in the engine bay pics of trucks with no frame pics. Rusty hardware, rusty undercarriage. It's my cheat code.

 

I always look at the manifolds. Seems you can tell a salt belt vehicle if the metal of the manifolds looks weird.

 

i look at the manifolds to see how close they lived to the beach - salt air. Same but different.

 

Yeah that too.

 

I miss when it was brand new and clean as a whistle.

 

Just gonna leave this here

 

I can grow one, but after the 10th day it starts driving me insane. Plus it makes break out like a high school kid.

 

That's why I only let it grow for a month tops, then shave and start over. I used to shave everyday, but fuck that haha. Once or twice a month is good. Every five or so facial shaves, I also shave my head.

 

Sure bout that?

maybe a gender neutral facility, to be on the safe side

 

Found a pic of my comanche. It was legal in the mid 90's.

 

I think you still can, with the stipulation that your back is against the cab and you're 18+.

 

In South Carolina it is unlawful to transport a person under fifteen years of age in the open bed or open cargo area of a pickup truck or trailer.

 

Beard oil is a real thing

 

For the first time in my ownership (maybe even in the life of my truck since I have every service record) the CEL popped on. Found a vacuum line that either came loose or that I forgot to reconnect in the first place. This was one of the lines that I did not replace based on condition, but I may end up doing that today just to be safe.

 

I mean, manifolds gonna rust either way. In addition to what @NUDRAT does, you can often just look at the condition of the alloy parts inside the bay. If they look like the anodizing is flaking off or totally gone, usually rust belt.

Man, that must've sounded like someone playing drums with plungers.

 

It sounded like a manifold leak, but it could only be heard at idle with the hood open.

 

I bought some and tried it. It worked for a few hours then drove me crazy again. I'm just not designed for a beard. Plus, I like being the only foreman with out a beard. I'm also the only one who drives a Tundra work truck. I'm a special snowflake.

 

Used to rock the goatee, now a full slim trimmed beard, and NEVER long. If it gets 1/4" its driving me nuts. 1/8 clipper guide FTW. A click above having 5 o'clock shadow.
I can grow it like a MF though, and for fuck sake why are my ear hairs, nose hairs growing 3x as fast.
A couple of my uncles were like monkeys, I am still scarred from seeing one of their backs, like a sasquatch sighting

 

I can rock the 5 o'clock shadow, but it still makes me break out. Doesn't drive me crazy. It's that 10th day when it starts.

 

Fired crackie up today for a town run. That V8 is STILL large and IN CHARGE on these City streets boiiiiii

You can take the boy out the country.... (HAHA V8 GO VROOM)

 

That’s happened to me (same vacuum line, same place) several times and I’ve never thrown a code for it. However, you can hear the engine pulsate on idle and that usually clues me into pulling over and reattaching it with some electrical tape.

 

Got my MC bench bled. Didn't have a vise at home so I had to do it at the shop.

 

I think we are saying the same thing. I'm not talking about rust. I'm talking about the alloy intake manifolds looking weird like a white chalky corrosion.

 

In CA, when I was a kid, it was legal to ride in truck beds. Before I made it to high school, it had become illegal. From then on the law is that you may have passengers in the bed IF you have bolted down automotive seats w/ seatbelts. Technically, you could put 3 bench seats in the bed carrying an additional 9 people. However, if theyre caught without seatbelts, adults be ticketed, minors' tickets goes to the driver

 

Machined some DIY seat lifters. We took a trip from northern NM to east Texas for the eclipse. Came home with some serious lower back pain. I learned from @912 build thread about seat jackers. The website claimed relief of lower back pain? Hmmmm.? Had some time and equipment, so thought id save a few bucks.
Machined from 6061 bar stock i had collected some years ago. Spent a few hours cutting a template out of plywood on my laser engraver to get the dimensions and angles right (lots of minute angles to consider). I used the laser cut template to layout the lines and mostly just machined to the lines (something i was told in Vo-Tech school that machinists NEVER do! HaHa, come and get me!)
Took about 8 hours of design and machining. Took it for a 6hour drive yesterday. Its definitely a different feel, something to get used to. Hoping to relieve the pain on the next big drive.

 

Washed it. Wheels came out good, rest of the truck meh it is what it is that paint is terrible haha like washing a non-skid deck.

 

Needs a good paint correction and buff job. Then a good waxing or ceramic coating.