ARB with Rago mount and hood struts.

Just wanted to give anybody looking to add an ARB with the rago mount to their Tacoma that has added hood struts. There’s not enough room for the hood struts between the ARB compressor to close so you have to drill out new holes about an inch over to the hood struts can close. I wish I would’ve took a picture of the plate when I drilled it but I didn’t. I’ll attach the photo of it before I realized it was too tight and had to redo it.

 

I am about to do this next week. So you ended up moving the Rago mounting holes? Or did you just drill a hole in it for clearance? I haven't installed anything yet.

 

I drilled where red dots are in the picture worked perfectly. Good luck let me know if you have questions!

 

Doh, not sure how I didn't get it before. But now I Do. Basically, shifted the compressor to the left on the plate to make room.

Thanks! Will be diving in this week.

 

Finally got this done. Thanks OP for the heads up. It was a pain to get the lower bolt in and I would have been bummed to realize at the end that it didn’t fit. Here is a pic for future installers of the holes drilled.

Also for those with the wifey block mount, you will need to remote mount one of your air filters on the Arb because when shifted to this new location, the driver side filter will now hit the wifey block mount. I am going to get a swivel 90 fitting and put the filter on that way.

 

Nice! Ya that bolt drove me crazy!

 

Another thing I did was I bolted the bottom drop down bracket thing in and then left the bolts out of where it connects to the platform part and used tie wire so that I could easily cut it and lift the platform of to access the fuse box if needed…