New here, old to Taco's

your truck is orgasmic

 

seeeeeeeee im not the only one

 

welcome to tw!!! badass wheeler you got there man!!!

 

Down right awesome truck!! Welcome to TW. Hope you stick around.

 

My truck?

 

I'ts alot. We stopped counting when we hit $25,000 with ot labor costs and we weren't done yet. There has been an icredible amount of work done to this truck, I forget just how much was done to it sometimes.

I just took the Crawler Box and transfer case out so that I could get lower gears put into the crawler box and I'm going to replace the axle's soon. So you see, it's a never ending project.

Marlin Crawler "Taco Box" for the 4.0 automatic Taco's and FJ Cruisers.


Taco Box seperated from the '05 Taco transfer case.

 

wow dude, don't know what to say but awesome job. Ever considered getting out of the new members forum and kickin it up a little? hummm..Like a build thread or somethinglol

 

Yeah, I was thinking about that last night. I'l start one tomorrow.

 

Thank you!

 

Thanks!

 

Thank you. Yeah, I'll stick around. I'm gona do a build up thread here.

 

that is awsum!!....lol

 

Welcome to TW Wyatt. I see you like my brothers photos from the Cleghorn run . When are you going to drop in the V8?

 

impressive ride

 

Nice rig!

I'm assuming that the bed you have on the 05 is what they call "bobbing the bed"? What is the purpose of that? Just clearing obstacles better?

 

Hey, whats up. yeah, your brother took some nice pics. I still need to tell him which one's I need in high res.

It may be awhile before I drop in the 4.7. There are a bunch of other things I need to do to it first.

 

Thank you very much.

 

Thank you. As tigerfan00 said, a bob is when you shorten the existing bed for clearence. What we did was to take the entire bed off, created a tube bed to strenghthen the rear frame area, and then made some fender frames so the fiberglass fenders could be taken off when we hit tough or tight trails.

Here you can see the fender and the frame sitting on the ground next to the truck.


Flexing is another reason for taking the rear fenders off.



But the biggest reason is for tight trails. This truck dosen't turn as sharp as a smaller truck and hence the rear will catch rocks, trees, etc, as it goes around tight corners, so I just take the fenders off and no body damage.