Wisconsin Tacomas and bad financial advice

Looks good enough for me! Nothing a True Value run can’t fix.

 

Tell you the truth, I didn't think the coating job was all that great when I first got them.

 

That’s why it’s not worth me paying an additional $140 for new ones.

 

Same. Got mine on sale and have used touch up paint twice.

That being said, they're well designed and do their job.

 

@bro_beans where are you located?

 

@Thatbassguy Fond du Lac

 

26 days PTO
10 holidays

I’m pretty fortunate.

 

Niceeeeeeeee. Love Bill.

 

That would be fun!

 

Bill was hilarious! Absolutely great show!

Joe Bartnick (?) opened and was great as well!

 

Made some progress on planning out the sleeping platform in the 80 today:



BUT, I encountered two anti-tamper bolts securing the back seat brackets when attempting to remove the seats, annoyingly. Outside of an angle grinder, any tips on getting them out?

 

I would say bolt biter sockets

 

If you know someone with a welder I'd have them weld a nut on it so you can reuse it.

 

This.

 

Oooohhhh didn't think of that

 

I'm curious to see what you come up with.

+1 to this ^^^^

Or, use a dremel to make it into a regular slotted screw.

 

The Dremel trick works well. Or you could just drill out the bolt head. Looks like it already has a pretty good center point, start small and work up in drill bit size. You only need to drill down a little past the head of the bolt. From the photo it looks to be around an M8 so ending up with a 5/16 drill should work.
I wouldn't even bother with anything to try to re-use the bolt. Hardware is cheap.

https://youtu.be/eC4dyHchnM0

 

Agreed. Once it's out, I'd just take it to a hardware store to match the threads if I wanted to anchor something there.