The Wanderer - My Build and (mis)Adventures.

I used the Rustoleum rattle can. It was pretty humid and took a long time to cure. I used self etching primer as well.

 

What hood struts are those? They look like the sokietech no drill ones which are the ones I have been considering since I really don't want to do any unnecessary drilling.

 

Sokietech. That's why I went with them. Not a fan of drilling holes if I don't have to.

 

Thank you! I have used the duplicolor bed armor before, pretty similar it seems

 

Sweet that's what I thought. I think I am going to order me a set and try them out. Thanks for the information.

 

Headliner noise reduction with Noico products. Added the 80 ml black and the "red" foam insulation for a little more noise reduction. Thought about pulling the liner altogether to do this until I saw all the wiring glued to it. Hardest part was getting the visor hangers and coat hooks out. I broke both of the visor clips and had to order new ones. They are not installed yet as I will have to go back in to run some wires for the planned upfitter switches.

 

Not truck related, but we went down to National Mall with an out of town friend. Beautiful day. Saw the cherry blossoms near peak bloom and swung by the Marine Corp Memorial the way home.

 

Busy couple of days. My "blemished," unfinished bed rack came in last Friday. Spent the weekend with a wire brush attached to the grinder, some degreaser, and several rattle cans of self etching and rust penetrating primers. Letting it all dry for the work week and paint will start this weekend. Hope to install in two weeks.

 

Taco Garage DMM installed a few weeks ago. Waited for the radio mount from @supralee before I posted. I'm probably going to rearrange this.

 

Here are some from today! Thanks for lunch

 

Thanks for the help!

 

Another busy couple of days. Last week I was able to change the grill (bye bye cheese grater!), move the TSS with the AJT TSS relocation bracket, and then pulled the bull bar yesterday.

 

Started the next phase in preparation for the bumper and winch. Putting Ford upfitter switches in the overhead console. The idea came from another TW member who did this and posted his how to. I'll link it later.

Later: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...verhead-console-retrofit-for-3rd-gens.682225/

 

Your fogs should work by just plugging into your main fog light harness and running off the stalk. What winch are you using?

 

The main fogs will. Ditch lights, Rigid fogs, scene lights etc will go up there. Seeing some better reviews on Harbor Frieght winches, so thinking about their 10k. Undecided at the moment.

 

Fellow inferno, nice!

 

I've heard good things about the badland winches too. I really like my smittybuilt. Dont thinknyou can go wrong with either as long as you maintain them

 

Fabrats on YouTube runs them and has said he's never had an issue. And he does some offroad recovery.

 

I dont know who that is.

 

https://www.youtube.com/c/FabRats/featured

He works for a telecom company in Utah, and has a garage for car repairs and offroad projects. He does a lot of fabrication, hence the name, and his family is involved. He's also friends with Matt from Matt's Offroad Recovery.