Pear's adventure Taco build (2013 DCSB)

Hey everyone, I figured Id finally start up a build thread since I have at least a few substantial mods completed.












The idea of this truck is to have an everyday drivable overland vehicle. It’s a work in progress so I don’t plan on being finished for a while.

The day i bought her:

Here’s the rundown:

2013 Tacoma DCSB, Super White, 6Spd

Engine:
- 4.0L V6
- Bone stock

Body:
- ARE CX camper shell
- BAMF CB antenna mount
-Front Runner Slimline II Rack
- Plastidipped emblems/debadged

Armor:
- ARB Bull Bar W/ Indicator lights and fogs
- Armor Tech Offroad Rear HC Bumper W/ all the goodies
- SOS Concepts Bolt on sliders W/ kickout

Suspension:
- OME 886 coils & struts
- OME Dakar packs
- SPC Light Racing UCA’s
- Sway bar deleted

Wheels/Tires/Brakes:
- BFGoodrich 255/85/R16 KM2
- TRD Fake Beadlocks
- SS Extended brake lines (From TW group buy)

Recovery:
- Warn M8000S
- OKOFFROAD offset hawse fairlead (Needed for ARB)
- ARB tree saver
- A few ¾” shackles
- Warn Premium 24000lb snatch block
- 48” HiLift
- DieHard jumper cables
- Scepter Fuel Cans


Electrical:
- Home brew fuse panel (For “automatically on” switched accessories)
-Scangauge II
- DieHard Platinum Marine group 31M
- Pelfrybilt battery cage
- Cobra 75WXST CB
- Firestik II W/Fire-ring cable
- Garmin GPS

Interior:
- Weathertech mats
- Blendmount (For Scangauge)
- Panavise Indash mount (For CB)
- ARB Fridge/Freezer
-ARB Fridge Slide
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Some random pictures:












Completed trails:
Imogene Pass
Black Bear Pass
Ophir Pass
North Supply Creek Trail
Engineer Pass
Cinnamon Pass

Notable Places:
Grand Canyon NP
Rocky Mountian NP
Carlsbad Caverns NP
Yellowstone NP

Most current shot!

More to come when I get all these damn pictures uploaded.

 

So i got back from my deployment and had already spend most of my money



ARB, lift, tires and winch all waiting for me!







Phase one complete:





Gotta test out my lame flex!

 

That's a pretty sweet rundown and some sick pictures.

 

Gracias sir, most of them are taken in your state.

So i wanted to have all my switched accessories (CB, GPS) come on with the ignition and look clean, so i whipped this up:



Started with some 16 gauge (i think) and had it bend and put some holes in it:



Then i added a Blue Seas fuse block and circuit breaker, along with a high current relay:



Relay energizes from the ignition circuit, which is tapped into:


Around the same time i also added a Diehard 31M. This battery is ridiculous. I put a dent in my fender just trying to lift it into place i shit you not.

 

Next I threw in a ScangaugeII and got my Cobra 75WXST hooked up. The CB is mounted to a Panavise dash mount which is really sturdy for what it is.





More to come..

 

Sick truck dude. Great pictures. So awesome having a truck where you can go wherever you want and adventure!

 

Nice truck! Some nice mods up front. Lift and tires have nice stance with bumper.

 

Thanks. Total adventure freedom will be achieved once i have a RTT of my own.

I like the stance now, but i wanna widen it a bit with some SCS f-5 wheels eventually!

 

RTT is one of the best things I've ever spent my money on! Just did a 3200 mile trip with my wife for 2 weeks through the Midwest and it was heaven man! Getting to camp and your setup is so easy. So worth the money!

 

I bet that was an awesome trip man. Getting off the ground while camping is gonna be the best part by far.

 

Yeah man can't even explain what a fun adventure it was. Pics on my build page. The wife was super happy about being off the ground away from critters and stuff haha. That's probably the main reason she decided we could drop the money on the RTT.

 

like it so far! glad to see some people still drive MANuals

 

Haha its the only way

 

Next I ordered some sick ass sliders from Eddy at SOS Concepts.

Six weeks later here are the bolt on's with kickout:



Rattle canned and mounted up:



Me likey

Shortly after i started getting creeped on:

 

ATO rear bumper time! I went with ATO because i feel they give the best clearance of any bumper I've seen, and i dig the simplicity of it. I felt really bad for the FedEx guy since i wasn't home and he had to drag 200 pounds of steel up to my porch.








Time to make a mess of things:



I just rattle canned this bad boy with some Rustolem. It came out pretty decently. Excuse the poor quality cellphone pictures, Ill get some good ones posted soon.

 

Sorry for no updates in forever! More to come!

 

Great looking rig, liking the build so far.

 

Nice!

 

Here's a few shots from my latest trip to southwestern CO. We camped south of Silverton, and spend the last two nights of our trip at The Camel's Garden in Telluride.

 

Of course we had to hit Black Bear Pass







I didn't get many pictures of the switchbacks, since i was too busy driving...