PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

Did someone fart in front of the Duchess of Cambridge?

 

October 10th, 2017:

Carmel-By-The-Sea, California

Parked on the same street as Hillary's PreRunner...

 

October 11th, 2017:

Pacific Grove, California

 

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October 11th, 2017:

Pacific Grove, California

 

October 11th, 2017:

Pacific Grove, California

@HomerTaco , this is a Speedway Blue, correct?

 

Don’t like sports

OR or PRO or go home

No hillary no care

 

October 12th, 2017:

Somewhere between Monterey and Morgan Hill...

Same color and configuration as mine, and I'm diggin' that rear bumper guard!

 

October 12th, 2017:

Morgan Hill, California

 

@PROseur

October 12th, 2017:

I think this was in Gilroy, California...

 

That is a real nice truck with very low miles. what a find

 

I wanted to let folks know, I just had the frame undercoat "application" done and it is a joke. Applied on 17 Oct 2017, and today is two days later (19 Oct 2017).

The application is still wet, not tacky, _wet_ to the point of dripping on the driveway. I called the Assistant Service Manager of Koons Toyota who did the work. He advised me that it will stay wet for some time and to avoid car washes with undercarriage sprays as it will wash off.

Is this a joke? I have never had undercarriage spray, but I have seen it and it dries to a hard shell in hours.

(IMHO) The settlement as it is being executed by Toyota is non-effective and provides no additional protection.

If anyone has a better result, I would like to hear and maybe be able to push for a working solution.

 

I wanted to let folks know, I just had the frame undercoat "application" done and it is a joke. Applied on 17 Oct 2017, and today is two days later (19 Oct 2017).

The application is still wet, not tacky, _wet_ to the point of dripping on the driveway. I called the Assistant Service Manager of Koons Toyota who did the work. He advised me that it will stay wet for some time and to avoid car washes with undercarriage sprays as it will wash off.

Is this a joke? I have never had undercarriage spray, but I have seen it and it dries to a hard shell in hours.

(IMHO) The settlement as it is being executed by Toyota is non-effective and provides no additional protection.

If anyone has a better result, I would like to hear and maybe be able to push for a working solution.

 

Sounds more like your truck sat there ignored for 2 days and they slapped the undercoating on real quick right before you picked it up.

 

I’ve read past threads with complaints about the crappy undercoating and how it stays wet for days/weeks after treatment. Planned on turning it down if offered. Fortunately I’m not in the rust belt.

It’s not a fix. It’s a “We’re doing something!”.

 

My frame was solid prior to the coating, and my truck passed PA safety inspection. Should I still be worried?

 

Great write-up. I have the 2006 DCLB 4x4 and changed to the Blaupunkt stereo with nav and then a little later added a tonneau cover and pop and lock tailgate latch so I could secure whatever. It was then that I realized that the pop and lock would accept a camera.. anyway got me thinking I would add one later since I seem to have most of the needed parts now. Always something new to do with this truck! Don't you love it?

 

Yup!!!

Though I actually like having the backup camera just above the license plate instead of in the tailgate handle. I drove my uncle's 2012 Tundra access cab SR5 2WD short bed, and I didn't like the backup camera location too much. Also, the Tundra had the screen in the rearview mirror.

Also, the Sony turned out to be a lemon, and I decided I wanted GPS, so I called up Crutchfield and was able to exchange it for THIS.

 

@HomerTaco
@Plain Jane Taco
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@Salty_Dog
@98tacoma27

So, today at work (technically yesterday since it's after midnight in PA), I killed a brand new automatic juicer!

As long as I've been at the bar where I work, our only method of converting lemons, limes, and oranges into juice for various drinks has been a manual juicer similar to the one pictured below. Our juicer is nowhere near as nice as the $204 example seen below, but it looks a lot like it and it sure does work good. I have no idea if it's been there since my friend's bar first opened in 2005-2006, or if it was purchased in later years (my boss, the present general manager, came in 2011; It may have been purchased after the beginning of her "era"). "Old Reliable" is a bit beat up and has plenty of flaws. The most notable problem that the "piston" gets stuck, especially after it's been sitting for a while; This is easily fixable by rubbing citrus juice (lemon, lime, or orange will do) on the piston/shaft. After today's little debacle, though, this cantankerous old beast will forever be welcome in my bar's prep kitchen...

 

@HomerTaco
@Plain Jane Taco
@PROseur
@Salty_Dog
@98tacoma27

Pictured below is a juicer virtually identical to the one that seized up on me after 2 small bottles of lemon juice and just short of 4 large bottles of lime juice...


So, here's how it went down...

More than halfway through the process of juicing lemons, I noticed that the impeller thing would become sluggish and have to be coaxed to move by gently pushing it. I was worried I'd burnt out the motor by pushing too hard, but it was still working, so I pressed on and completed those two bottles of lemon juice...




I had other stuff to do, most notably driving to the grocery store to pick up some stuff, and making it back in time for my bi-weekly FaceTime appointment with my therapist...


So the juicer sat dormant for about two hours...

When I cleaned it up about two hours later and started juicing limes, it was working fine. However, about two bottles in, it started acting sluggish again, and on the second or third bottle, I detected a faint smell of burning plastic...
At one point I stuck my head close to the juicer and sniffed, but all I could smell was lime and nothing alarming. I thought it was something else in the kitchen and pressed on...



I was almost done with the fourth bottle of lime juice when it happened...



All of a sudden there was a popping noise and a bright flash or spark from within the juicer, and it just totally died, then smoke started coming out of it. I took hastily took off my apron, unplugged the juicer, ran out of the prep kitchen with the juicer held in front of me like it was this inherently dangerous thing, and said to my boss "I think the juicer's on fire!"



She was talking to a couple of customers, and less than happy that I'd interrupted her conversation and mentioned such a thing in front of a customer...



However, she cheerfully commented to the customers that the juicer was brand new, and she'd been procrastinating on putting it into service because she "knew it would be broken within a week."



Go figure, the juicer had only been in use for a week!

My final verdict is that this was inevitable. Using a residential department store juicer with lots of plastic parts for weekly juicing duty at popular bar/restaurant is not a good idea. It never gave the first barback who used it any trouble as far as I know, but if it hadn't died while I was using it, it would have quit on me or one of the other barbacks in the near future...

Here's my theory as to how it died:

It started to overheat while I was juicing lemons, but I stopped before it had the chance to get REALLY hot. Letting it sit for two hours allowed it to cool down, and as such it was functioning normally when I started using it again. However, this round of juicing did it in. I have no idea what specifically caused the spark or made the popping noise, but from what I can tell the motor has totally seized up. So, I'm guessing the parts overheated, fused together, and burnt out the electric motor...

So yeah, that's how I killed the juicer!

My boss is not mad at me, but I'm going to have to make do with the manual juicer for the foreseeable future...