Redeemed: rngr's Trail Taco w/side of T4R

I’m going to cut the shifter off so it’s not tall enough to touch my leg.

 

Ahh good plan!

 

Not sure how I made it 28 years without knowing what I rivnut is, but dang they’re handy.

 

Indeed they are. Were you able to source them locally or online?

 

Had to drive an hour to harbor freight, but it was well worth it. $21 for the tool and 40 rivnuts of assorted sizes.

 

So you live 0.75 miles away from HF if you took truck or 40 miles away by car?

 

Precisely. Haha

 

Far from a fabricator, but I feel like I’m getting better at making things do things they weren’t meant to do, in places they shouldn’t be.

Going to seal under and around it with the 3M stuff and go over the top with sound deadener.

 

5 steps to installing a Crawlbox

1. Do thing.
2. Put everything together to check said thing.
3. See where you messed up on thing.
4. Take everything back apart to fix your mistake.
5. Repeat at step one.

 

From what I recall @slander saying, this is pretty much spot on.

But seriously, you’ve done a great job getting it done. I’ll be using your posts to help me get mine done one of these days...

 

Thanks. Be glad to pass on any knowledge, errr... I’m mean tell you about all the mistakes I made. Haha.

It’s been fun, but very very time consuming.

 

How did you end up getting the front drive shaft in? Wasn’t that fighting you for a minute?

 

Haven’t. It’s simply too long. Going to have to shortened a tad. No way around it.

I recommend providing your driveshaft guy a flange to flange measurement, along with the length of the flange studs. This way he’ll know it has to be XYZ long but must be able to compress to ABC to fit over the studs.

I was an idiot and trying to get ahead of the game by measuring the crawler and going off that. Directly against the advise of a couple people here. Don’t be like me.

 

What kind of sound deadner did you use?

 

Haha. Got it.

I’m hoping I can source shafts from a local Toyota yard here that I can have modified while the truck is still driveable. If I’m going to get mine done soon at all it’s probably going to be right in the middle of prime wheeling and camping season so I want to limit the down time as much as possible. I can get my original rear DS modified after the install as a spare too, which would be cool.

 

Haven’t bought anything yet. The silver stuff you see in the floor is HVAC duct insulation. Lol.

 

Does it work?

 

Ummm. Maybe...

There is a whole thread on here of people raving about how awesome it is. I’m sure it does cut noise some, and I’d say it helps with heat coming trough the floor a little, but I didn’t notice a big difference.

I already had my cab apart installing the vinyl after flooding my cab, so it wasn’t too bad. Did everything except the roof. Even did the doors.

 

That stuff if it's anything like most FatMat etc it's more of a "mass loader" rather than a sound deadener. Sound deadener usually takes up a lot more space and is more fluffy/poofy so this stuff does a good job of just reducing the "tin can" effect of reverberation throughout the cab. So it's more of a perceived sound deadening rather than actually covering up the noise. It's good for running subs because it helps the panels absorb more energy and not be so noisy

 

Yep, I have that set but I'm out of rivnuts. No hardware store that I've been to had them, they've never heard of them.