Spoonman’s Little Tacoma

Not one bit.

I drove my old pickup with mud terrains, Tacoma with Kelly safaris, MTRs, Dodge with Falkens and Dodge with Toyo MTs. Never had a problem, got into an accident or went into the ditch. And I drive a truck with steer tires like this.


It has a lot more to do with the driver.

 

Hit the bush with the boys today. Quick morning run.

These bald summer tires actually work half good.

Got me to this point and the rest of the way up




Saturday’s are for the boys.
https://youtu.be/SBDGUoVXpZU

Single stacked rock and I’m up without even scraping
https://youtu.be/zWc52TDolrU

Came home and got new bulbs and horns for the truck, also might’ve got tundra brakes.

 

So why use mud tires off road?












But I digress. So you drive a truck of some kind? Tractor trailer or smaller? I drive firetruck. If the going gets bad we have chains.

 

Proof above that they’re not always required.

Mud terrains have always served me well in winter. Why have two sets of tires when you only need one?

 

Point. I'm running one set. Duratracs. But plan to switch. Just not sure what. Want the same offroad capability, quiet on road, and decent in snow. But an MT isn't my first choice. Our mountain road are treacherous with inappropriate tires

 

Stanchions dowwwwwwnnnnn

 

You know how it is

Tundra brakes on. Only took about an hour including drilling out the banjo bolts and bleeding.

Had to file down the rough casting on the new calipers to accept the copper washer instead of the double flare style fitting.

Here’s the banjo bolt drilled to clear the double flare protrusion in the caliper. (Before cleaning it up)

Fitted



And yes they fit under the stock 5 spoke wheels! With lots of room. Also cut off the backing plates since they didn’t fit around the rotor at all. Always a pain in the ass anyway.

 

Looks good

And those 5 spokes come on tundras as well. They definitely fit. I was worried about my wheels (pro comps) fitting. Mounted them up to my dad's 04 Tundy that has the 13wl calipers. They work too

 

Made a little bracket to mount my arb

 

Well. Got wheels. Got stems. Flares came off.


No rust!


Put them on and made a few lines.

Got Tanner over and he volunteered to do the cutting. His cuts are much better than mine. His cuts turned out very nice. Now to add trim to the fenders so clean finish them off (yeah we cut the fenders today).


Fenders are done for now, bumper and pinch weld trimmed enough to drive around.




Big things happening this weekend.

 

What size tires are those?

 

35s

 

Nice! Skip the little tire bullshit.

 

I'll watch this.

 

tubbing this thing?

stoked to see the outcome of this bish!

 

Oh yeah man tubbing for sure I can barely turn. Ordered a bunch of tube for this thing today too.

 

tube you say.......you have my attention...

 

Fuckin toobs

 

Nothing major in the last couple days. Just been accumulating goodies for the truck

Here’s a better pic of how it’s sitting now