Long travel fender flares

Looking to possibly put some of those fiberglass fender flares that they throw on long travel trucks. Wonder if anyone has them on a second gen taco with advise. I have an 07 with a homemade Baja bumper and running 33’s. I’ll attach pictures.

Thinking about getting the front for not and then the rear later. Let me know what y’all think and where you got them from as well as $$$ if you don’t mind.

 

McNeil racing makes a good product. They have a 2" flare that works well with wider tires or with trucks running spacers. I'm way over the tire stick out phase of life. These flares keep the mud and crap off the truck nicely. Be aware though that you will have to build your own inner wheel well liners. I made mine from heat formed ABS sheet and EPDM pond liner. Mine are much better than stock. These fenders are sold as "bolt on", but doing the installation properly is more involved than that, I assure you. Doing it right is a project. The end result is very good though.

 

Appreciate it man. Truck sounds awesome. Do you have any photos of the truck?

 

Believe it or not, I don't have any pics since the fenders. I'm running 33s on stock wheels with 1" spacers to clear chains. The truck has Fox suspension with extensive chassis work. I have air lockers both ends, an FJ twin stick, 4:56 gears, bumpers, skids, Gaia navigation, OBA, 15 gallon aux fuel tank, Corbeau seats, cowl intake, advanced cam gears, and a lot more all wrapped in gray and black Raptor liner. I guess I should take a picture of it . Mostly I just drive it.

 

OK,
I walked out to the shop and took a pic for you. It's not great because I couldn't get back far enough to get a nice shot, but you can see how the McNeil fenders look. I think they compliment the Tacoma lines well.

 

that looks sharp big dawg

 

What kind of side mirrors do you have? Those are new to me.

 

On the drivers side I use an old style Ford mirror. On the passenger side I use a large convex bus mirror mounted on a Ford mirror arm. Both are heated. I found the Toyota mirrors completely inadequate for my use. I can see everything now, including my right rear tire. When inches count, I know exactly where I'm going in reverse, and I have no dead zones. This is a combination that I've been using for about 35 years.

 

That is very cool. I've never seen anything like it before. Is this usually a LT/desert racing specific mod?

 

No, for me it was just a way to see better offroad, and especially in tight situations where I had no spotter. I came up with this combination around 35 years ago as the best solution. For all the great tech we have now, mirrors basically suck for offroad use. My stock mirrors were fine for road use, but not for technical trails. I bought heater elements, and converted them to heated for winter use. They do work well!

 

Do you have any other pictures you can share? Preferably as a link to some other thread so I stop cluttering this one up with irrelevant posts.

 

Agreed. Just PM me. Most of the work on my truck has never been documented here. I'm happy to help you out.

 

Did u use a ford antenna bezel or which did u go with trying to search for what be best currently running 4inch mcneils

 

Slickkkkkkk imma try and build by tube bumper asap!

 

When I built the bumper, I let the sides of it come out a little wider with plans of putting the fenders on. It honestly couldn’t line up better with the fenders. I definitely got lucky with the angles

 

Here is what I used:

$17 Rubber Antenna AM/FM for Car, RVs, Boat - 14" with 72" Cable, 180-degree Swivel Base

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V5P6N3W/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8 You can set the angle of the antenna, so it is easy to adapt to any application. As far as I an tell it works as well as the factory unit.

 

Very nice execution of both the bumper and the fender!

 

The alignment looks good. A bumper will really finish off the front end