Ontario BS Thread

Little snow day painting.



Hope everyone doesn’t have too much travelling to do this family day weekend.

 

Spent all day in the shop on this.

Just a few small things needed to finish.

Looks so damn amazing

 

Nice. I like it. Nothing fancy cardboard and paint brush.

That bed looks sweet.

 

Looks awesome! Can’t wait to see the fenders and stuff go on. That’s a busy day you had for sure.
Throw back to when I first through mine on.

 

Do you have 9" or 13" sides?

Ya it was a busy day for @TjAeCeOpMAmiah and me.

 

They are 9 3/4”
Just went to measure them in the garage

 

I went with the 13"

The headache rack came with the pivot arm latch thing drilled and mounted at the 9" height. So there were things that slowed us down for sure.


Did you use 1" gas line to relocate your fill neck?

My driver side fender won't fit without relocating the fill neck.

 

Did some unscientific testing of the 33" Duratrac RT tires:

 

oh nice. Hard to even tell the difference from the pictures. The extra height will go far. I know there have been some times where I wanted taller side gates.

yeah, had to relocated the filler. I ended up cutting the stock piece that holds the gas cap and just used the larger hose to extend. Not mine but this is how I’ll be finishing mine up. Can see how the stock filler piece is cut and the hoses extended.

try and make it as smooth and unkinked as possible as you’ll get the pump kicking off every half litre. Ask me how I know.

edit
Adding on @llamasmurf

so the “new setup” I did which required me to cut the filler neck and that gas cover ended up not working. So it’s been zipped tied as shown in the first picture lol.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...rked-for-repairs.202916/page-33#post-21122655

 

I can't even begin to number the situations that that I come across where I need your set up. In time. and then there were two, flatbed tacoma's in Southern Ontario. nice

 

@tacoma16 @llamasmurf I don't know where this person got this cover but it nice.

 

You got to manual t-case before me, I beat you on the UTE bed side

 

love it

 

Makes distinguished gentlemen like ourselves rethink the "flatbed" as it were, to a more refined bougiee glam cover for our wares.

 

I think there is someone building axles that I know of….im waiting on that too lol.

interesting. Has to be a home made deal. Simple bed rack and then the sewing for the canopy would be the hard part. Assuming a boat awning place could whip that up

 

Little size comparison from stock to UTE

 

all the snow clearing has put a damper on my build.

Note to Mother Nature:

Hello... Hello... Mother nature I live in Toronto not Barrie or Buffalo, please send the snow where it belongs
either north of us or south of us.
Oh and yes my snow bear plow is not just light duty it's "sight duty"
come-on man, I mean lady, were Torontoneians were not ready for igloos. snow snow shoes and the sort ok @Canadian Joe is but the rest of us aren't ready. That ground hog.... oh that rodent don't listen to him listen to us were the squeeky wheel hear, love to talk more but I have some shovelling to do outside

 

Fun fact, a 315/70/17 on a 11.5” rim plus the bed fits on the flat bed lol

I shovelled the last two days, fixed my dad’s snow blower and had to help my in-laws get their tractor unstuck. I’m tired. Will say the suburban is making a great winter vehicle, just needs a lift, winch, some bigger tires…..wait no no no. Can’t ruin the wife’s daily.

 

^At least you don't have to LS swap it.