SHE'S Ripping apart!!!!!!! (Click bait, I knew it was coming)

$68 to buy an aftermarket one

https://www.carparts.com/details/To...aWV3aERps_JoeuPheMUaAumiEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

Yea I’ve looked at it but that’s just a bandaid for the real issue. I’m looking for a solution

 

yea i get it. Could maybe be useful for making a jig or something?

 

Could! I’m waiting for this https://jdfabrication.com/collections/05-15-6-lug/products/tacoma-inner-fender-replacements from JD fab

 

My wife's gonna be done with this truck if mine starts cracking....

 

Don't look where they crack or better yet dont wheel

 

This is what I did to mine and my core support wasn’t even cracking at all yet… lol

 

nice job

 

That's some really nice work. Good job!

 

Yeah it turned a 6 week project of installing new +3.5 lt into a 3 month project.

 

Looks sick! I wish I had the patience and the skills for this level of fab work.

 

thanks, yeah it went from slightly modifying the wheel wells to full on real quick once I started working on it… spent about three weeks just trying to get it how I wanted it… and now I gotta cycle it with 35’s and hopefully don’t have to modify anything further…

 

I guess FJs have a similar issue too

https://www.fjcruiserforums.com/threads/fender-bulge-no-problem.411506/

 

Any car manufacture makes a vehicle designed for a specified weight with a small amount of margin (maybe 10%). So even if you said the stock battery weighed 50 lbs that would only equate to 5 lbs over stock to handle. When you stick a wench, dual battery, relays, BMS, etc. on the platform it simply isn't designed to hold. You will at this point hold your breath and wait until the fender cracks.

 

Or just offroad and flex the frame to extremes they weren't expect to.

 

I'm surprised that Toyota never addressed this. The radiator support and inner fenders are part of the crumple zone.

 

Because we are doing things to them they were never designed and like you said crumple zone so it's designed to absorb the impact and displace the energy so the occupants don't get the energy of the impact.

 

So the cracking never happens on a street driven truck?
I was just wondering if, in an accident, the driver gets hurt, insurance does an inspection and sees that the crumple zone was compromised.

 

No street trucks or stock ones it doesn't happen. Sure in a truck that has a cracked core support it's not gonna work as designed. But that truck also more than likely has steel skids , bumpers, etc. so it being in an accident it won't react in its intended design. So for a modified, wheeled, torn core support truck it's a mute point and not the fault of yota. That's the reason AEV spends millions with their conversions and the bison on getting crash tested and building products that still allow the crash zones to work as intended.

 

Added weight is irrelevant. It happened on my passenger side too, where I have added zero weight under the hood.

So Toyota doesn’t expect trucks that say “Off Road” on the side to leave pavement?