05 Taco "restoring"

My painter said i can pick my truck up Saturday morning, ill be working on that all day that day and Sunday hopefully.

On with the updates from a while back progress.

Various brackets (fuel filler and evap canister thingy) i painted with por15.


I couldnt get that bolt off so i just painted it like that.


I couldnt get the bolts off holding this bracket either.


More hardware


brackets and hardware installed






In case your wondering, the threads in some of these pictures you can see of bolts and studs may look rusty but its actually anti seize.

I had to make my own rear brake lines. I used nickle copper lines.
Here are my old brake lines.



New lines installed





After i installed those brake lines i thought to myself i probably should had sprayed plastidip but oh well, it wont rust and corrode with out it, for a long time anyways. As long as i keep my truck routinely clean, should be fine.

Picture of my rear bumper support i order from ebay. Reason why i got this cause my original one had four very important bolts snapped off and i could not get them out, even tried welding them out.


Working on this bitch of a hitch was not fun, was about to give up and order one cause nobody local was selling one. The dam hitch receiver was pretty much corroded, rusted, and packed with sand, dirt and crap. Pretty much was almost permanently on in there. spent weeks occasionally working on getting it out and finally decided ill devote a whole day to it. I read up and decided to try the acetone atf mix for penetrating fluid. Didnt really work on its own so i torched the receiver and hitch and sprayed the fluid in and around it, let it bubble up and work its way in what ever cracks there were. After heating it up for a long period of time while spraying fluid, i took it to my 20ton press and it still would not budge out. so i kept heating it up spraying fluid and back to the press. After a few hours it finally gave and started to get pushed out from the press. By the end of it i must of lost like 5lbs from sweating so much and man handling it.

Pictures of it after i removed the hitch receiver.





This is after i sandblasted the bad areas and then wire wheeled the rest of the hitch.





The hitch all painted with por15 and top coated with por15 spray paint.





The hardware for the hitch, no pics of it installed, ill take some with i get my truck back Saturday.


Thats all i have for now, more updates this weekend.

 

*****Only updating this because I do not want to clutter up my for sell listing*****

Also would like to finish this uncompleted adventure for everyone to view

Ill try my best to pick up where the last post left off, I just hope Photobucket can keep up

Hitch installed.




Got the Truck back from the Painter. Pics of the bumpers and flares.




New Plastic clips and rubber stripping for the flares.






The Truck back from the painter.





Door handles color matched and put back on.









Installing the fenders.





Antenna for the radio, new of course.




Various parts to be installed back on the truck.


Front bumper on.





Installing the filler cap.








Putting on the TRD offroad decal





Truck finished being put back together






Honeycomb grille




rocker panel sticker protector (forgot the name of these)





bedside lower protectors.










More pictures of the truck









VLED for DRL's (my favorite item)










I installed new front brembo rotors, front new factory toyota brake pads and rear drum pads, rear drum. Unfortunately I do not have pictures of all that.
I had a rear axle leak, so had to change that out. While at it I went ahead and changed out all the wheel bearings, studs, and hubs. No pictures of everything installed on the truck but you get the idea.

















I also replaced the master and slave cylinder clutch with factoy toyota parts, no pics of that.

So all of what has been posted above in this post was before 2016, during the 3 or so years I have owned the truck.

Just recently had the truck taken in for the rear leaf spring recall and toyota replaced the rear leafs with all the associated hardware for free.







here is how the truck sits now. Had the Snugtop Super Sport topper installed awhile back. Had bought a rubber toyota mat and Bedrug carpet mat.























If I see any more pictures, ill add them.

For Sell Thread:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2005-trd-offroad-manual-must-see.442419/

Thanks for looking!!