Topher's build

Moar early moar better for me. I'm an early riser.

Btw I think it is awesome that wheelers sends candy grams with their packages haha.

 

I feel it. Well whenever you get here ill be awake.

I was pretty surprised when i got it lol.

 

Right on. I'll probably leave around 7:00 from Morgan hill. Wanna PM your address?

 

sounds good.

pm'd

 

How'd the installation go?

 

Some of the fun:

 

Still in the process. Not sure it would have gone as well if John weren't here lol.. We got both BJ's out and one side is done and just needs to be torqued down ( we need a bigger socket.) other side we still need to press in the total chaos adapter into the spindle.

 

Well just finished like 30 mins ago. The second total chaos adapter that we pressed into the spindle went super smoothly (wish we did both of them like this).. we didn't even have to press it or anything. We put the adapter in my freezer for an hour or so then heated the spindle with a torch (where the BJ goes..) put a little lube on the adapter and two taps of a hammer boom its in.

Big thanks to john for all the help.
Doubt i woulda finished without ya buddy.


Ill get some more pics up later.

Oh ya also did breather relocation.

 

Yeah man, lesson learned on seating those joint thingies, I'll have to remember that in the future. Had a good time for sure, and glad we got your shiznit up and running.

 

Yea bro who knows maybe you will get to use the technique tmrw with your buddy lol. It was pretty awesome how that worked. I had a good time too. It feels so much better in the front now when going over bumps..

Thanks for stayin till we finished.

Edit(pictures):

Total chaos installed. (Hope I used enough anti seize.. Haha)


Didn't take many pics of the diff breather that I did.. Cost me like 12$ for johns & mine together.


I do a lot of things too fast sometimes and often have to redo them. The lock hit it when I had it in the other hole haha.

 

So much anti seize haha - your pics don't do it justice. Interesting that the ride feels better already, did you flex it out yet?

Good times yesterday for sure. Def helps to have an extra pair of hands.

 

Awesome it all worked out. truck looks good.

 

finally got my kings...


woot!

Someone almost stole my royal purple oil over the weekend lol..
luckily i have an awesome neighbor. He will be receiving a 6 pack of his favorite beer sometime this week/next week

 

I always make it work out haha. Thanks bro!

i know i used like half the tube of anti seize haha. I think the main reason it feels better is because the UCA isn't hitting the coils anymore. Raised my coil overs about 3" yesterday to match the rear. I think toytec sent them with the lowest adjustment setting. Looks a heluva lot better IMO.

BTW I'm going to put a little inline fuel filter thing on the breather tube so that my axle doesn't suck it any dust/dirt. I suggest you do the same. It is inside the gas door though and probably won't suck much in.. But I'm still gonna do it just in case.

Just got my truck back from the alignment shop. I drove to about 5x different places before i found the one that actually did it. Wow very impressed with how the truck handles now though. Brakes are better, cruising is better, finally can keep the steering wheel straight.

 

Ok couple updates.
Did an oil change, painted wipers and mirrors(I broke my driver side mirror and already ordered another mirror glass), ordered 02 seniors, got all the stuff to wire up my led dualies and bed lights.

 

Too bad you didn't make it out last weekend, was a blast. We even did a black diamond trail, no biggy!

 

Oh and some dude was able to get up the same trail in a stock non TRD ex cab... Took him a few tries but was pretty crazy to see.

 

Damn.. i wish i coulda made it.
unfortunately this entire month is looking pretty broke status for me. That shock relocation at BAMF is gonna hurt my pockets pretty bad. But I'm already scheduled and to reschedule would be a PITA.

got these wired up finally.

 

Got my bed lights wired up. Changed the o2 sensors. Getting excited for my BAMF shock relocation.

bed lights & switches:



Freshly washed:

 

Steller, nice lights.