Chris' 1794 Tundra

June 10th
I repositioned some rock lights and installed the last 2 I had sitting on the on the work bench. Up to 24 lights. Each side has a separate controller so i can do this

 

June 20th
Red, White, and Blue!


Added a 3rd controller for the lights and reconfigured the zones

 

A few months ago My wife had a photo of my truck turned into a blanket

 

September 28th
For the last 5 weeks I have been in San Diego due to our son coming 10 weeks early while on a 3 day vacstion. We have really enjoyed the weather and scenery and made several friend. Got to ride in a long travel tundra last week doing 40mph on roads my truck would maybe be doing 10mph.



While in San Diego, we did get out and see some sites.
The Unconditional Surrender statue


A sail ship


Even got to meet @Spvrtan and @eccracer104 one night ay a Socal Tundras meet.

 

September 22nd
Did some light offroading with @sdde4n@Sunnier & @nishibot north of San Diego

 

October 18th
Bought a new set of P&P Engineering rock sliders off of @4x4_angel to replace my chrome running boards. Was disappointed I could not do the one obstacle in California because I did not have sliders and did not want to rip the running boards off my truck. I had to remove and relocate the 6 rock lights I had on the bottom of the running boards. I gained over 2.5" of ground clearance with the sliders. I installed them by myself, about 4 hours total including the rock light relocation and removal of the old. Yes I installed the driver side at midnight one night, I was wired on coffee and it was not raining. Did the passenger side the next day in drizzle.

 

they look great on your truck Chris!

 

November 25th
Greased my drive shaft and UCA's since it had been way too long
Removed the front sway bar to see how the truck felt, 3 weeks later I am liking the ride. There is a little body roll when cornering quickly, but nothing crazy or concerning. There is less bounce in the front when hitting speed bumps from an angle at 20 mph, I assume the Icons are able to cycle a little more now to absorb the bumps

 

Finished up vinyl wrapping the piece around the shifter this evening. I did the cup holder a week or 2 ago. Need to paint the chrome accent arround the shifter still and eventually get the black TRD shifter handle

 

Almost 2 years ago i bought a set of 2017 headlights to retrofit. I held off on retrofitting, debating if i wanted 18+ lights or retrofit. A few months ago @1UPPER was selling his very custom retrofit lights that needed a little work. I picked them, and last weekend he gave me a hand with opening up both sets of lights so the guts of his lights could be transferred to the 17 lights i had. We learned the main reflector bowl is almost impossible to remove from the housing, so we were not able to transfer that. This weekend i finished up painting the main reflector and resprayed the turn signal reflector so i can reassemble the lights.

 

May 19th
Made some progress on the retrofits today. Got the passenger side projector mounted in and enlarged the holes for all the wires to run thru. Was not able to finish the driver side, as i scratched the painted reflector bowl and exposed some chrome. I would have repainted it today, but it felt like 100% humidity today. I am not going to close the lights up until i wire them up and test everything and check that the cut offs are level and are similar to the stick lights.

 

July 24th
Had some time finally to work on the headlights. Got the passanger side RGB lights fully working and tested the switchbacks.


Had to rebuild the connectors on the RGB and make a Y-cable for the switchbacks

I took over the kitchen while the wife is out

 

August 25th
Headlight build is done! That was a lot of work and time.
Started early this morning at 5:30, so i got to use the KC cyclone lights i have in the engine bay

Started off with confirming alignment from 25-30 feet away and testing the DRL switch backs, then moved on to testing the RGBs one more time before i pull the lights to seal them up.
DRL only

Projector and blinker

RGBs and blinker

Then began the process of sealing the lights up and installing. Sorry, no photos during the sealing, was focused on insuring the butal warmed up enough and the lens seated into the channel properly.
Here is the finished front end

 

August 26th
Few photos of the lights from this morning

 

September 24th
randomly I was playing with the headlights RGB lights last night. Truck has come a long was in the past 3 years and I still have more plans for it.

 

December 14th
Replaced the chrome mirror caps with black plastic ones. Down to the door handles to replace.


Also installed the NSV dash cam. Wired it to the sunroof motor for constant power and ability to record when the truck is off. The screen flips up and the unit is 98% hidden behind the mirror when driving

 

January 14th
Installed the Diode Dynamics SS3 Pro fog lights into my Magnum bumper


I thought I had the lights aimed well


But when I backed up from the wall, the Fogs were shining above the headlight cutoff line


I adjusted them down a little, but looking at the beam in the fog it may be a hair low now

 

Relocated the Baja Designs Sport lights to the ditch brackets and replaced the $20 Amazon lights.

 

Message me on where you got that!

 

Truck is dropped off for the install of 5.29 gears, Auburn LSD, and steering rack bushings.