209 TACOS - B/S and shenanigans

Hahaha, wife and I were walking in the park and the niehborhood. We dropped my oldest boy and his girlfriend off at the museum downtown.

 

Weird

 

Wanted some input on this winch. I have a chance to pickup a used in good condition Smittybuilt X20 10k Synthetic rope winch for $300.

Worth it or pass?

 

@foxrcing07 would be who I'd ask

 

Smittybilt makes decent winches, with great warranties
but I would not put one on my truck
If you get stuck and your own somewhere you don't want to wish you had bought a better winch
I've herd too many stories of people wishing they had spent the extra few $ on a warn
Both of my trucks have warn winches and I can go buy any part I need to rebuild them

 

Dang... was hoping for something positive Why are these winches so expensive. It’s like a I rather have and not need then need and not have situation.

 

and I would buy US Warn not their Chinese line

 

my 1st gen I have a XD9000 w/synthetic line (non name brand) and I got it used for right around $300 my brother has the same that he got for $275 used
we just got them took them apart cleaned them new grease replaced a few gaskets and they are great winches

 

Which one is their US line?

 

the VR series are the Chinese ones

 

Ok... I'm just going to post this in all kinds of threads cause I'm super pumped about it.

Shit just got real up in here. 4x conversion is almost ready to commence!

 

Nice. Looking forward to this.

Did you think about doing a manual transmission while planning the 4x4 conversion?

 

No... That's too many sticks and pedals for me to keep track of off road.

 

Hey all.

This will be the last week for monetary donations for our TW brother who lost his home in Camp fire.
If you’d still like to contribute, please do so by end of day, Friday, December 14th.

Info here:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/fire-assistance.576913/#post-19106895

 

Ok... All these bad ass pictures of the Death Valley trip are kicking me in the ass to do some things on the truck.

I'm hoping to call a mod day (or mod days) and I'm putting out feelers on when people may be available.

I have a freaking laundry list of shit waiting to do on the truck. I have the parts, here, to do the following...

-Rebuild CVs
-Replace seals and mounting bushings on front diff
-Press new bearings/hubs/upper ball joint races in spindles
-Paint spindles
-Install spindles, CVs, front diff

-Replace valve cover gaskets, plenum gaskets, spark plug well gaskets, cam plugs, clean throttle body, PCV and grommet (I'll be ordering new plugs, wires, fuel filter and throttle body gaskets as well)

I'm also ordering new transmission filter, shift kit, carrier bearing and Ujoints (that will be the rest of what I need to install Transmission and Tcase)

I also have brackets for ditch lights, and a 42 inch curved roof mount led... And I just received a set of 100W halogen Hella Rallye lights that I need a bumper to mount them on.

 

Photos like these.......?

 

You're not helping Dave

 

Just let know when and i will see what i can do

 

I may be able to lend an unskilled hand or two with your laundry list of shit there depending on the dates.

Whenever my skids are done at bamf i gotta slap those on (was gunna change some fluids up front before i put them on)

 

We're going to Oklahoma for Brennen's Basic Training Graduation this weekend (be back the 19th), then it's basically Christmas. I'm hoping to dive in to some of this after Christmas.