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Sick truck!!

 

Thanks homie! There's so much more I wanna do but no monies right now. I have to resort to free/cheap mods to get my mod fix. Maybe painting my calipers on Saturday.

 

it doesn't always have to be expensive. It's just the urge to make it better then it is that keeps us going. good job reppin us long beds!

 

Long beds FTW!

 

So I haven't painted my calipers yet but I did adjust my coilovers. I was bottoming out going over speed bumps. I guess I basically had very little down travel. So I went with less preload on the drivers side and no preload on the passenger. It rides way better than before and no more bottoming out. Its sitting at 23 1/2" on both sides from center of hub to bottom of fender. A bit more "rakey" than I prefer but at some point I'm going to lose an overload leaf in the Dakars to level out. I'm just going to wait till I get the u-bolt flip kit before I take the rear apart so its a one time deal.

Live and you learn I guess. Don't mind my trial and error build.

 

how high are you sitting in the rear? I have to add spacers to my front to get me to 23.5 and then I think I have to remove a leaf as well. I'm super rakey right now as well. I'd prefer to have it look level to the eye but love the way the back looks right now. If only I could brin gthe front up to match it without worrying about my cv boots.

 

After driving it around for a bit I'm sitting at 23" up front and 25" in the rear. I'm definitely gonna take down the rear. Gonna lose a leaf and according to these measurements, (http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/suspension/173193-2nd-gen-ome-dakar-hub-fender-measurements.html), I should be around where I wanna be. I wouldn't mind an inch or less of rake but level would be ideal. Do you have dakars?

 

Yeah I have dakars. I think an inch would be perfect since we have long beds and any load would give bro lean if it were exactly level. I plan to pull jet skis again some day.

 

Yeah you're right about the bro lean. An inch would be perfect.

I like ride your skis!

In other news... I felt like slimming down my key chain and ended up taking apart my truck key.


I guess the 2013's have a microchip built in the key housing. I took apart the white plastic housing after I cut open the rubber housing. The plastic took some prying with the scissors. I finally got to the core and that's all I wanted. Cut the fat. I taped the microchip to inside of the FOB housing.


Can you tell I've been researching EDC (everyday carry) items?

 

Apparently having the chip in the FOB on the same key chain isn't close enough. The truck wouldn't start all the time. And if it did, it would die in a few seconds. I'm gonna some how adhere it to the key.

 

SOLID TRUCK!!!

Love the rims.... I got the same kine!!

EDC!! Gotta be Prepared!!!

 

. Check out the front page.

I'm ordering a set of sliders from them tomorrow. 20% off long bed sliders, free shipping, angled at 10 deg and adding top plates comes out to about $500 even. That's unheard of for any other brand!

 

W H A T ! ! !

 

Rylan...I was cruising HK bound last week and I saw you heading town bound on Kalanianiole. Bro...your shit looks damn good!... Hell...I didn't even know you had a build page till I saw the secret link...lol Sub'd!..

 

Mahalo for the compliment Rick! I don't know how I missed you. I'm always checking out on coming traffic for sick rides. Next time throw me an out the window shaka and I'll hit u back. Lol.

U got a bad ass truck! The color matched Pelfreybilt bumper is on point. I just read your build page and is this the year for a supercharger?! So j.

 

Had a little fun after work at Kualoa Ranch on taco Tuesday.

 

love this!! email to me? satin@pelfreybilt.com

 

I'll send it to you now Satin.

 

Did the differential breather mod today.

 

Welcome to the club...