Dick's Dank Yank Wank Tank

he added rust. he likes the brownish colour....

 

New. Others have reported similar.





















All my clip liners were trashed too, so I contacted ARB customer service and they sent new replacements free

 

Woe.

That is really crazy. Mine seem to be in nice.condition. I haven't seriously inspected them yet though. Just walked them back with all the might i had into the man cave for now.

I wonder if it would be worth it for me.to split them now and paint em. There is already some grease between the top few leafs

 

Is the greas just on the tips at the isolation pucks? You're notice they have a central hole through which you could inject more grease on occasion. It's really easy to take them apart. Just C clamp near the center pin, loosen the nut, then loosen the C clamp. They won't explode. Even if they look good, you might want to spray a bunch of moly lube between leafs. That's the gray-green stuff in the green can I applied.

Also, look up @OZ-T 's Squeaky Dakar thread. 2nd gens have issues near the front hanger. Various approaches have been tried.

 

Thanks man. I like what you had done. Especially if it works. I can see where things could get scraped around on ground and damaged.











Like this one ^^^

 

Well yours look pretty good at first blush. I think mine may have been sitting around in a coastal warehouse for a while LOL. Yeah, no way you can protect these during shipping without building an expensive wooden crate for them. UPS must hate this shit.

 

Seriously!! I wasn't expecting the weight when I first picked one up.

They are going to rust in time anyways I know. I would like to have them coated though.

 

post birthday Dick wave. Wonder if any of his parts moved off the shelves.

 

Sooooooo

Um


"build"


I did however finish my annoyingly complex shorts bin conversion of a steel-framed plan holder that I got from work. Once I got into it, it became more complex than I foresaw. Would have been easier to just start from scratch from all wood. But once I was balls deep...well. Fuck.

But I did get VW parts off the shelf! (1) The long-delayed wife's Jetta center console broken lid repair and the "simple" task of (2) replacing her cabin air filter.

The console replacement hinge was awesomely easy.
part: http://www.fixmyvw.com/lifetime-warranty-armrest-lid-hinges-black-only/
install: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC7sZ8TAVHo


But the cabin air filter.

O
M
G

Fuck VW on so many levels.

First, is it very hard, and literally painful, to access.

Second, and insulation liner beneath the backside of the dash above it had come loose with age and was blocking 75% of the airflow. There was no apparent fastening method to the structure above. Not even any sign of failed adhesive. But it had to be unfucked, so I cleaned what I could (not easy) and applied double-sided 3M ultra fuck you tape upside down and by mainly feel, pushed the liner up, and then followed with another layer of 3M aluminum duct tape on the outside for good fuck you to hell you POS fuck VW fuckers measure.

These pictures were taken by sticking one end of my phone upside down into the gap. My forearms are scarred for life.




Finally, ready to simply replace the filter, which was clogged to the top of the pleats with sycamore jizz from the last decade. The filter was alarmingly heavy with debris.

It is unbelievably difficult to extract the stupid fucking plastic framework that holds the filter in. Let alone the filter.

My wife came out to the detached garage because she was alarmed at my vocal rage.

But these are done, and my wife and son can now have adequate, clean, and cool air when it is over 100...

And there are fewer parts on shelves in my way.

 

Good Job Scott and demonstrating the manly value of taking care of the family needs first, no matter how much cursing it took! It just had to get done.

 

OK, back to emptying the parts shelf.
Carhartts. Final install on the rear last night. 40 side looks a little loose because access to the LATCH system points is more important to me than bouncing a quarter off the covers. They could have done a better job on access to those. And the buckle pockets on the uprights. But that feature will unaviodably cause slack in the covers. More to come. At some point.

 

They look good, did you get the front also?

 

Quit being so productive!

 

Yes, absolutely. They just require time to get the fit dialed in, and the fronts have straps that are a little more fiddly underneath the seat bottom. I will try to knock out one a night now that they've had their bath salts and a wash.

 

This is the first seeing these on the Tacoma. They look good and not the same as most of the other choices out there. Should hold up well! Definitely Unique.

 

Do yourself a favor and unbolt the front seats when you do the install. You can just lean them back and it gives you plenty of room to route and tighten the straps. Otherwise the straps are a pain in the ass sticking to the carpet and anywhere else you don't want them.