After years of beater 4Runners and Pickups, I finally got a 'nice' truck.
Well, my wife mostly gets to drive it, and I'm still in my '91 single cab, but at least it's in the family, and she's a a pretty good sport about letting me fix this truck up. Here's what I've done already.
1. Tossed the fuzzy steering wheel cover.
2. Bought Tundra 18's off CL with BFGs.
3. Trying to sell the sweet sweet chrome they came with here: https://forum.ih8mud.com/tires-wheels/723337-lc100-seattle-wheels-16-5x150-chrome-tires-100-a.html
4. Mr.Lou struts should arrive today.
5. Cabin air filters on the way today.
6. Got a good deal on third row seats off Mud. This place is great.
Questions:
1. Wood trim just comes off with a heat gun? Nothing more to it?
2. They can't balance my used tundra tires. They tried, I still get a steering wheel shimmy over 60mph. Is this because they no longer have the tire pressure sensors on the stems? Or is it really just bad tires and I need to buy new ones? I'm leaning toward LTX M/S2's as this truck won't see a ton of mud for a few years.
3. I went to fix my embarrassing exhaust rattle right at 1800 rpm and discovered a flowmaster catback. That explains the exhaust tone anyway... Any guesses on where the rattle is coming from? None of the heat shields I could get to easily seemed to be the right one. I'll get back under there with someone on the throttle this weekend.
4. The stereo. I have an alpine tape head, 6 disc changer in the back, that sweet equalizer from way back when, 3 functional speakers (passenger rear is out?) and no less than two amps where the factory sub would be. I'm not looking forward to seeing what they did, and how to undo it. My plan now is to get pioneer double din, try to reuse one of the alpine amps, but put it under passenger seat, and hope the speakers are ok. I figure I can replace them later anyway.
5. Can I really just crank the torsion bars to get level (or close to it?). No adverse affects on alignment, ride quality, etc? She's looking very low up front right now, and I can't quite swing the OME lift yet...
6. Does everyone else have 4 or 5 wire connectors not connected to anything beside the air intake box?
I've got tons more questions, most I'm sure have been answered around here already. I do search more than the above would indicate, but I wanted to introduce myself, and maybe get some clarity on some of these issues. Looking forward to building this rig up. Thanks for all the info I've already gotten off of this site.
Well, my wife mostly gets to drive it, and I'm still in my '91 single cab, but at least it's in the family, and she's a a pretty good sport about letting me fix this truck up. Here's what I've done already.
1. Tossed the fuzzy steering wheel cover.
2. Bought Tundra 18's off CL with BFGs.
3. Trying to sell the sweet sweet chrome they came with here: https://forum.ih8mud.com/tires-wheels/723337-lc100-seattle-wheels-16-5x150-chrome-tires-100-a.html
4. Mr.Lou struts should arrive today.
5. Cabin air filters on the way today.
6. Got a good deal on third row seats off Mud. This place is great.
Questions:
1. Wood trim just comes off with a heat gun? Nothing more to it?
2. They can't balance my used tundra tires. They tried, I still get a steering wheel shimmy over 60mph. Is this because they no longer have the tire pressure sensors on the stems? Or is it really just bad tires and I need to buy new ones? I'm leaning toward LTX M/S2's as this truck won't see a ton of mud for a few years.
3. I went to fix my embarrassing exhaust rattle right at 1800 rpm and discovered a flowmaster catback. That explains the exhaust tone anyway... Any guesses on where the rattle is coming from? None of the heat shields I could get to easily seemed to be the right one. I'll get back under there with someone on the throttle this weekend.
4. The stereo. I have an alpine tape head, 6 disc changer in the back, that sweet equalizer from way back when, 3 functional speakers (passenger rear is out?) and no less than two amps where the factory sub would be. I'm not looking forward to seeing what they did, and how to undo it. My plan now is to get pioneer double din, try to reuse one of the alpine amps, but put it under passenger seat, and hope the speakers are ok. I figure I can replace them later anyway.
5. Can I really just crank the torsion bars to get level (or close to it?). No adverse affects on alignment, ride quality, etc? She's looking very low up front right now, and I can't quite swing the OME lift yet...
6. Does everyone else have 4 or 5 wire connectors not connected to anything beside the air intake box?
I've got tons more questions, most I'm sure have been answered around here already. I do search more than the above would indicate, but I wanted to introduce myself, and maybe get some clarity on some of these issues. Looking forward to building this rig up. Thanks for all the info I've already gotten off of this site.
