Gear Head's Silver 2000 TRD Build

Ha yeah I saw you had one and didn't seem to have any complaints so for $20 I said fuck it, why not? Even if it only lasts a few years I can just go buy another one and still be only half the cost of a Dewalt

 

when do you do your creepers?

my time table got bumped up

the bed comes off and suspension crap gets cut off thursday night, than Friday....the fab begins!

 

No clue when I'll get them on but I got an email saying that they have shipped I have to make my frame mount so I figured I'd go ahead and order them so I can get it made.

 

I'll let you know how sweet they are haha

 

Oh please do!! Make sure to take lots of pics

 

Finished up my shackles this morning when I got home from work.

 

Good stuff, paint and install time.

 

Thanks man. Sleep is next haha, work 3rd so I've been up since midnight. I may hold out on the install till my ballistic joints get here in a day or too. Still have to make the mounts for those but don't have any good way of cutting a curve in square stock. Do you think a jigsaw would work? Or I guess I could cut a V then round it out with a grinder

 

You can do it with a cut off wheel. Just have to make lots of slices and break them off. Them go back with a flap wheel and clean it up.

 

I'll do my best

Yum!

 

Put on my EBC green stuff pads today. Damn what a difference over the wearever golds from advance auto parts. I think it's safe to say I know what pads I'll run on this truck from now on!



Oh, and while putting the pads in I found the source of my "wandering" at highways speeds. The inner tie rod on the passenger side is TOAST, like 1/4" of play toast. Watched a Low Range Offroad vid and it looks super easy I just have to track down some big ass wrenches. Or I could just use a crescent wrench and adjustable pliers or a pipe wrench like the guy in the vid. Moog inner tie rod is $65 from Advance Auto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVQHgcXEhpE

 

On a different note, a member on here is selling his 82 pickup and I have been really thinking about buying it since it's a dream truck of mine but here's my conundrum. My plan was to turn my taco into the weekend wheeler/project vehicle and pick up another car to drive but if I buy the pickup obviously it would be the primary wheeler but I would still want to build the tacoma which seems kind of wasteful to have 2 trucks that do the same thing (except the 82 is solid axle). Selling the tacoma is not really an option, I love this thing way too much and have to much attachment to it. So should I take the ~$4k and buy the pickup or take that money and get bumper, sliders, 35's, and 4.88's with arb's for the tacoma? Here's the link to the pickup:

http://charlotte.craigslist.org/cto/4421676372.html

 

Didn't waste any time with the tie rod. Already picked up a MOOG and put it on. It was stupid easy. Took it for a quick drive through the neighborhood and can already tell a difference, much tighter and my steering wheel is perfectly straight now!

I know, it's dirty and my cv's are slinging grease.




Also snapped a pic of the rock lights since I finally got them wired back up.
There are no lights on in the garage, just my rock lights, ditch lights, and halos

 

Rock lights look good. I wanna do something similar

 

Thanks man. Mine cost $50 I've got 18 pods under there with each pod having 3 led's a piece. Took for fucking ever to wire them all together though

 

If it were me I take and build the Tacoma, but on the other hand I love first gen trucks. I'd flip a coin it's the only fair and logical way to spend 4 Grand.

 

Haha you see the issue? I can keep building the tacoma but in the end I still have an ifs truck but the same money can get me a pretty built 1st gen that's extremely capable and sexy.

Are you still building that runner? I haven't checked your thread in a while.

 

Got my ballistic joints today. Still have to make a mount for them, might work on that in a bit.

 

Well, I bought the other truck this evening from a fellow tw member, 82 pickup. Not in perfect condition but better than most this year. I'll get better pics and a mod list tomorrow.

 

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.