Ugly Gold 4 door Hoor SAS-LS

Been taking a little break waiting on parts but got my new glasses today!

UPDATE - BEST $300 I EVER SPENT ON THIS PROJECT. THANKS @Kwikvette

 

Bought wheels and tires today. Not a very nice purchase. Kinda scared about not liking the wheels in person. Wanted Trail Ready but have been searching for 2 months and its all the same 12 week wait. So, went with good ole method and I haven't seen anyone with them so at least its different. 8 lug but almost same bore as the buggy hub and 40" cooper stt pros. Gonna be a few weeks til delivery.

 

Oooh they look good

 

The wheels are amazing! Im more worried about the ridiculous gold truck matching to them. I have never had such a hard time picking a wheel in my life. I usually know from the second I see a car what wheel I want. Not here. Wish the truck was black or jade!

 

Rattle can it, you're gonna trash the exterior anyway

 

You're right, its gonna be all cabbage patched in a year.

 

Bed liner that bad boy!

 

I had a bad experience with bedliner. lol

 

Hell, I've wanted to do that to the Tacoma, then the 4Runner. Now I want to do the LC.

Would love to do it in cement grey

 

My 3rd gen was cement. Love that color.

 

Got a little done on front axle after work. Kind of a pain in the ass but prob 1 hr in and she is about 50% stripped. Prob an hour of flap discoing smooth. Cutting the housing back 2” is gonna take 2 hours just cause it has to be done slow. My plasma needs tips or I would have used it. But I like the pain obviously.

 

Got the rear brakes too. Power stops. Kinda nice looking.

 

Did the final silicone and locktite job on my cases, put trans all back together. Siliconed the extension housing on and got this as a surprise. Damn 2wd trans doesn’t have a 3rd hole for ext housing which I haven’t heard one person mention yet regarding the swap. So took it apart, cleaned silicone, tapped, re siliconed and realized I couldn’t put the coupler on after! Fml! Had to take off again.

Also, the trail gear coupler is so floppy dick on the trans input shaft that the only way I would feel comfortable installing it is with a tac or jb weld so it didn't warp outta round. If the marlin coupler doesn't fit on tight, its gettin som pakistani engineering.

BTW! I read that bellhousing bolts are

$13 m12x1.25 mm self-locking nylon insert hex lock nuts, pack of 6

m12x1.25 which are the same as these ext housing bolts on here and only the 17mm ones are m12x1.25. The 14mm bolts are smaller. I used a m9x1.00 tap I believe. I started drilling w a 3/8 and had to stop and go down 2 bit sizes.




Got my shocks at least. Just need the springs. These are 14” 2.0 fox emulsions. Part (980-02-011) They are big! Good for me since I don’t do any high speed stuff. If that changes gonna have to go w something w a res and bigger bore. Btw, thanks to @malburg114 for the referral on the shock spot that sent me shocks that were 30 days out to my house in 5 days!

 

I started at 9am and worked till almost 12 and still not done with the axle. Turning out to be harder than I thought. 1 more hour and im done but it will be a 4-5 hour project just to get the brackets off. That is not even cleaning it up. Prob 2 hours in that and then I have to extend the driver side so I actually have a tube to weld to. I shoulda went with an older leaf spring ford axle. I hope this choice is not gonna be a regret.

Ordered all the front suspension shit that was in stock today. They are backordered on the enduro joints for the lowers but got almost everything else. Got the 4 link brackets and gonna just use one on the driver side and save the other for my next pass drop project. Gotta modify the upper link housing mount and hope I can actually use it. Looking like all the barnes 4wd stuff will end up being in the 1100-1200 range and all i need to source is local dom tubing which is cheap as shit here. Prob gonna save me like 3k over the 4wu kit. Wish I had the 4wu upper link/lower link frame mount but I can't get so whatever.

Went with the 20 degree offset coil mount/lower link combo. Im kind of happy cause they look like they will be perfect for this application. Got a few other things that didn't fit in the pic. High steer kit on backorder too. which sucks! FUCK! I just realized I ordered the steering kit 2x! damn! Another 30 min of phone shit down the tubes! FML

 

Didn’t feel like grinding so I did myself a favor for when I change the color of truck. Cleaned and primed. Just gotta hit it w black tomorrow.

 

From personal experience I'd only use a 2 part coating on the engine bay - brake fluid and other stuff will make any 1k stuff go right back to the factory color like it wasn't ever there.

 

I primed with self etching primer but no paint yet. What do you suggest? I heard that eastwood stuff was decent.

 

The only 2k I know of that is easy to guarantee would just be to automotive clear the base coat like as if you were doing the body - I haven't looked into any more paint after having a former student cut his teeth on painting my body panels the same color as a wrap I'm going to use for a safety net in case the wrap peels and the paint is showing through until I can replace the wrap - as long as people say brake fluid isn't going to remove it, then I'd consider that product.

 

I cant base clear it cause I don't have a sprayer and have never mixed paint. Ill ask a paint guy I know. Maybe he will have some suggestions or will come spray it. haha.