Spacecraft Build

this build has just started so bare with me as it will go slow and i am sorry but i do not take a bunch of pictures but i will try to improve that to make the build thread better

anyways on with it i had a standard cab for about a year

good truck got me on the site and stoked on having a tacoma but decided to sell it after a couple trips to the dunes/mountains and 4x4 taking a dump on me. wanted something with more room for when i go camping or have to take people.
i got lucky got this on craigslist for a good deal so figured it would be a good base to start on.

it had 33x12.50x15 cooper discoveries on it with a 2inch body lift

first thing i did was looked into how i wanted to do a suspension lift. I'm eventually going to go with the bilstiens and eibachs but for now just to get started i got some coil spacer and rebuild my leafs with chevy 63 so i could get the hoaky body lift off. got the 63 from a new found buddy with a nice taco, good guy to bounce ideas off of.

his truck looking pretty clean! funny how i met him, sold him the wheels and tires off my old taco as you can see now i talk with him daily about whats next for the spacecraft build


this is with the body lift and spacers installed so at about 5 inch of lift, makes those 33 look so small


lucky for me my neighbor has a shop at his house with a band saw made cutting springs a little cleaner then using cut off wheel because i used the longest ones out the the 63 so they needed to be trimmed down a little wanna sway it was around 11inches on both sides

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=229704&stc=1&d=1377099082
took the body lift off to find out it was home made..... probably why i got loud thumps in the cab every time i made a turn from cab shifting

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=229705&stc=1&d=1377099278
got a new bed because of old one being smashed on driver side

now i am just waiting on a part for my rack and pinion because after taking body lift off i need a shorter mount so that should be in today hopefully get truck out on some dirt roads tonight

 

i got the part and it ended up being the wrong part so i just cut 2 inches out of the middle of my mount and welded it. also ordered some bilstein 5100 with eibach 620lbs coils off toytec lifts today hopefully get them and have them installed with pics by the end of the week