‘Dad Shred build thread’ double locked & 5:29’s SOLD, now 2014 tundra cm TRD OR

havent been in this thread in a long time! hows the truck been man?

 

Better than ever. Back on 35’s, great new front suspension, & trying to prioritize camping and wheeling adventures with my boys now 3 & 6 years old. Need to drop $400 on a new BOSS Apple CarPlay deck w backup camera. My 2009 kenwood deck makes me very sad

 

thats good man! its always nice to get out of the house and go camping! i didnt know you were on anything else then 35s tbh? is that headunit that much better?

 

Working on a bench that will match an entry way console / entry table I’ve made previously. Nothing but scruffy, ugly 2x6 and 2.4’s. I am doing this bench with dowel joinery and glue instead of screws. Should be finishing up today! Takes a lot of finesse to make scruffy 2x’s look nice and clean especially after making panels out of them, but I’m figuring out some tricks to get it done. LOTS of planing and sanding. Oh and I often have to remake panels because they warp while sitting in the garage or even In the house. Depends on how much moisture is in the wood when I buy it. The building is done but I have a few hours of sanding ahead of me still *sigh

 

Finished my bench today & wife decorated it. All dowel joinery & glue, no screws. 2x6 & 2x4 only about $45 in supplies. It’s very sturdy & will be a useful piece of furniture for us.

 

Took out my superbump spacers & finished up the hi beam wiring on my DS new retrofit. Also loading up for camping/wheeling all weekend this weekend. Very stoked to break in the 8112’s. EVEN MY TRASHAROO IS HIGH AND TIGHT

 

Sierra Anchas / coffee pot canyon / coffee pot cabin absolutely thrashed us. Rode hard and put away wet trying to camp and wheel all weekend. Everyone stayed safe despite a torrential thunderstorm at the peak Saturday night and crazy flooding at one spot at least. Crazy adventure and memories but it was a little too wild & epic for me especially with my son with me. GAIA maps let us down big time and 2 trucks almost ran out of fuel because of it. Trails were garbage and overgrown and pretty dang chunky. Didn’t get to camp either night until after dark. Everything got drenched. Spirits stayed high and good people made it all bearable. My truck didn’t skip a beat though I def scored both front rotors from debris getting stuck in the calipers / dust shields. The 5:29 gears are just incredible to put in 1st or 2nd while descending and just let the gears do the work.

 

Great pics! How were the new 8112s relative to the old setup over the course of the weekend?

 

The 8112’s are beyond wonderful. Especially in the context of me being used to 5100’s for the last 5 years. The 8112’s are buttery smoooth and they keep seeming to push me to want to go faster because they do so well at eating up so much chunky stuff. Particularly medium sized rocks that I’d typically avoid, slightly larger than a headlight for an example. I found that running straight over those was a joy and you didn’t even really know it happened. Also they never seem to hit their limit of bump or extension travel. There would always be this jarring full bump feeling or full extension feeling with the 5100’s that is annoying and clunky but you never feel like you’re at the end of the travel with the 8112’s they just work so well.

 

thats good man! ive been wondering how they have been holding up for ya!

 

Truck acting very odd and threw a Po705 code on my ultra gauge. VERY confident it’s time to replace my PNSS (neutral safety switch) that bolts to the side of the trans and corresponds to shift lights on the dash, gear shifting signals and prevents the truck from starting “in gear”. Truck is still drivable but shifting into D or R is a little rough and I have to manually depress the shift lock button. Turn signals stopped working as well as AC button. No shift select lights on the dash and CEL showed up too. Also I had a very slow leak of air from passenger front tire. Truck is on jack stands in the garage till my new oem neutral safety switch arrives any day now. Got a new tire and a full sized spare $ need to do some minor surgery on the leaky tire. Piece of metal debris in the shoulder lug. Should be an easy fix.
Spare is a “bronze” Ray10 vs my current 4 “brushed bronze” RAY10’s. Close enough. Truck trans wasn’t happy but still shifted between all gears smooth, still got me from A to B.

MY THEORY on this mechanical issue is that my 2008 trucks NSS (neutral safety switch) is corroded and has failed from age, and dirt/water/mud ingress. It’s not common for these modules to fail at this age and mine was likely exacerbated by recent very dusty, messy, watery wheeling trips. TRip before last, my aftermarket backup camera stopped working (which is tied into reverse gear). I believe this was an early sign of the failing corrosion at the NSS which ultimately completely failed after my last very muddy, wet and dusty trip.

 

Replaced corresponding blown fuse & PNSS module. Truck is fixed!

 

odd thing to fail but things happen! how bad did it look? was it how you expected and it was corroded pretty bad?

 

Plot twist after 70 miles the CEL, code & identical issues re presented themselves meaning it was not the NSS after all. I have since removed my aftermarket backup camera which has been on the fritz, corresponding it’s malfunction with the other issues & the camera is tapped into the reverse lights which all send signals via transmission “stuff” modules etc. IM ALSO replacing my tail lamps because moisture in those can also cause the issues I’m having. If the issue comes back after replacing tail lamp assemblies and pulling the BU camera I’m starting to run out of ideas to fix it.

ironically the issues FIRST STARTED after aggressively spraying pressure washer up into the tail light area from underneath because the truck was so muddy. So it’s possible my issue all along was the tail lights. The NSS looked crummy but it’s hard to tell if it was actually corroded.

 

well damn thats annoying! hopefully you get it fixed man!

 

Probably shift lock solenoid which is inside your gear shifter assembly. My 07 is sometimes getting hard to shift out of park. Mash the brake pedal and it’ll do. Brake lights still work so it’s not the brake light switch

 

Interesting. I had to depress the shift lock button to get out of P and my turn signals & AC didn’t work and lights on dash that show shift position were out also. All corresponding to IG1 10a fuse under the dash but what caused the blown fuse is what I keep searching for. I have reasonable suspicion it was the reverse camera or tail lamps for a handfull of reasons.

 

My boys helped me replace my tail lights in an effort to fix my recurring po705 code. I cut out my aftermarket backup camera which I believe could have triggered the po705 code & I thought for $60 might as well replace the tail lamps since moisture in there can also trigger the code. Anyway since removing the backup camera the code has not come back but we swapped tail lamps to eliminate another possible cause. I aggressively power washed my tail lights from underneath right before the code first presented itself.

 

hopefully that fixes it for you man!

 

I seemed to have fixed my po705 code by removing the backup camera and replacing tail lamps! Yay! Finally tensioned my synthetic winch line the other day too w my boys help and my buddy Nates help