Trigo's V8 Long Travel Caged Prerunner

I picked up my new 6" glass last week. I think I might need to trim for 33s, lol.

 

@Trigo Long time bro! Truck is looking spiffy!









oh yeah,






















































and fuck you.

 

Should be picking her up tomorrow . Already made plans to drop it off for more work next month . The build never ends . Well as long as I have a job the build never ends lol

 

I remember you ! OG AMERICA BS THREAD

 

Got it back today. Still need some hardware to align it and a lot of other shit to do on it before it's road worthy. Was thinking of putting it in storage for a few months then once I save up a decent amount I can start address all its issues. I wanna get the whole truck re wired, motor rebuilt and properly tuned, and figure out all the issues that I've been ignoring for the last few months.

 

I know how you feel.

 

I'm really excited to get it back but then not so excited because now I gotta deal with it again lol I just need to make a game plan or something to start some progress and feel like I'm actually getting closer to some seat time to

 

Eventually you have to say ok time to drive it in between all that work. Work on it too much and you'll get burnt out.

 

An update while I sit in class waiting for it to start


Head gasket failed so the motor came out for that and the heads went off to the machine shop to be resurfaced. Sucked but after replacing most of everything on the top end i now have more confidence in the truck after seeing how bad it was before lol


Decided to paint the truck because that's what you do when you have a non running truck



And once we paint it this weekend it goes back to JTA aka @jeffzorz for some fab'd spindles and other misc work

 

Do you know what hub adapter you have on there?
And also what size pods on your roof

 

dude... did we just become best friends? haha i just painted my 4runner instead of setting up its propane conversion hahah

 

I do not actually. Kind of the curse when you buy something already built I guess you don't know exactly what was used haha

Yea not the best use of time or money but at least it'll look good sitting there lol

 

lol i thought the same thing lol change it up a little, what color are you going with

 

Long time no see buddy. Didn't know you had a build thread on this thing. Sub'd

 

For the sake of cheap probably black. Wanted to do a less used color to be a little different but the cost started adding up lol also all of my brothers new service trucks are gonna be black including a semi and 53' trailer so having the truck be the same color with matching side decals would be rad.

Yea it's been a minute man! How's the new truck treating you? I've been hesitant to mod my17' but lifted one some nice wheels and tires just so good lol

 

Also a few truck updates.

Finally got the motor back together and it looks like we did a decent job at it lol still needs a tune and I need to figure out which wire go to what gauge since I currently have no gauges at all (temps or pressures)




Then dropped the truck off st JTA for some fabbed spindles to finish off the front kit. Also gonna be bumping off the upper with the new spindles


Picked up some double bypasses at the off-road swap meet over the weekend. Gonna have Jeff mount then and cycle the rear end since I currently have 18"s that are too long to begin and they're smoothies

 

I love my 16 it's perfect anyone who complains about it has never owned a Tacoma before and when you lift it you will love it even more

 

I complain about it and I've owned 2 Tacomas. *drops mic*

 

Jamie's had like 4 tacomas now and 2 tundras

 

I don't know I'm still not sold on my 17 yet I kinda miss my 2nd gen sometimes, if it wasn't so impractical to buy a used 15 compared to the price of the 17 I would've done that. My main thing is the damn tranny that never stops shifting lol gets frustrating at times. Shoulda bought the manual lol

I've had 5 first gens (2 of which I still have), 1 2nd gen, and the 3rd gen so far. I'm done with trucks tho after these I wanna switch over to cars for a bit. Seems more practical for what I've been doing the last few months