utroda's Tacoma (LT, Lckd, 35s) & FJ40 Build (In Progress)

Have to do a reroute. A guy in Everett did it for $60 but I'm sure there's a place closer to you, unless your on the west side anyway sometime

Dakota also has the 4x innovations skids

 

Yeah already took a look at it yesterday, trying to keep the todo list going. Should have a local guy that can knock that out pretty easy.

 

Ah! thanks for the reminder I have to schedule a reroute as well. Maybe we score a deal like Brian and Cam when they went together.

 

I'm on the east side tho

 

We didn't really score a deal I don't think, maybe $5 off

 

East side of what? I thought Issaquah was considered 'East side'? I haven't lived in WA long enough to know the lingo... geographically I'd say I lived on the West side. But... what do I know, I'm just another CA refugee.

 

I live in Ellensburg, so your like 1.5 hours away

 

Ah! gotcha, for some reason I thought you were just north of me. But yeah, as Brian said, not really much of a group deal anyway.

 

Dave did mine for like $40 or something lol

 

Well, its been a busy morning, ordered front bumper, rear bumper, front skid, and sliders. Now its the waiting game, lead times very but around 1 - 8 weeks for everything. Now time to start looking to OBA solutions.

 

Which skids and sliders did you go with? ARB dual compressor ftw

 

I went with 4x Innovations for the skids, sliders I decided to go with marshall fabrication, he's a local guy.

For the compressor, I'm thinking of going single with 2.5 viair tank, I think that would be more than enough.

 

Nice!
I thought about going with a tank but then decided its more than I need.. I don't mind the compressor running the whole time when filling up tires, and really doesn't come on often with lockers. But thats just how I like it, different for everyone

 

Yeah, I talked with JT's about it, they said ARB re-designed their single compressors and have better performance out of them now. If you pair a single with a tank you'll be fine, they said. Might not be able to run air tools tho... but thats what batteries are for.

 

Took the truck for a test run yesterday, and super impressed the suspension just swallows things up. The MTRs were impressive to say the least and they are super quite on pavement.





Need to trim the rear about 2 inches to clear the back tires. The front cleared good, but want to take just a bit more out of the cab mount to be safe. The 4x skids showed up on friday, and our cbi front should be here this week. I'm getting to antsy just want to make it trail worthy and start going places

 

Something exciting showed up at lunch

 

Damn this build is getting better and better by each post!!

 

Thanks

 

Got the bumper and winch done yesterday. Had to move the resi mounts on top of the frame due to the bracket for the bumper. Also had to build a bracket to mount the solenoid box in the bumper, was able to just squeeze to the left of the winch in the triangle. Super easy to get to and plug in. Also got the 4x skids done later when we finished up the wiring.