The Frankenstein Build! LT/Expo/Trail rig..and BS

Its about time... What about the glass, did it survive? I didn't see it in the pic.

 

Thanks guys! And yes..lots in the works.

So other then working on the door a bit more I didn't do a ton tonight for obvious reasons

Got these for my pop's birthday. Everyone wish him a good one! Thanks for all the help Dad and the knowledge you have helped me gain to do this project. Enjoy your Elite Offroad bumper brackets



Here is my new rear window very nicely packed. Again, THANK YOU TIM!!! He gave this window to me for free from his previous 1st gen that he also sadly rolled. I'll be proud to get to have more then one piece of his truck on mine



Pre stickered I'm going to add lots lots more haha



My dad came over and helped get it in. Thanks dad again! Looks pretty good



And here's the bumpers again I'm going to Walmart again tobuy them out of rust oleum bed liner again



These things are practically works of art. Amazing job tim. Very happy with them both.



And here are the skyjacker leaf packs out of Tims old truck as well. The plan into take these and the over load leaf, AAL, and the bottom leaf from my wheeler packs and add them to these skyjacker leafs. This will give me way to much lift unloaded. Probably5" or more. BUT...I'm adding a 120lbs on the bumper.lplust hanging a 70+lb tire off it, bed rack is 100 lbsor more and RTT is 112lbs. That's what I'll be driving around with almost all the time. About 400lbs all the time. I know I know, Allpro expedition leaf packs were MADE just for my truck..other then being to long for it but I figure with these homemade packs..I should retain plenty of lift with the truck loaded up and it'll still flex very well. Hopefully..





So..still lots to do. Big thing tomorrow is getting the truck running and driving get the doors on then line up the front fenders. Prep the rear bumper for paint and finish the front bumper to get them on ASAP as well as do the windshield before my dad leaves for work...oh..and then bed rack.lthen lights..then.,..well lots to do

Moving forward tho!


Shit is buffing out

 

Was completely unscathed! Tim wrapped soooooo much bubble wraparound it and plastic wrap then cardboard it was snug as a bug. I just took it off the pallet when we loaded it intothetruck as it kinda got half dropped in lol

 

PENIS

 

Bled the brakes and the clutch master cylinder this morning. Also filled it with coolant finally after waiting on my heater core hose. Threw the battery in to try starting it. All the lights worked great..then tried to start it..dead battery..I mean DEAD lol no lights worked all. Volt meter showed .003 amps in it Hahahahah so went down to the store and ordered a red top optimum battery that will be here tomorrow so now I'll have two red tops, tho hopefully this new ones battery terminals will line up with my stock wires. The second one I bought a while ago will be me second aux battery.

Windshield should be swapped tomorrow maybe. Or Sunday. Doors hopefully going on soon too and Painting rear bumper very soon to get it mounted oer the weekend.

 

Rustoleum Bed liner is awesome! Did my bumpers, Headache rack and the bottom portion of my truck (rocker pannels). Is the front bumper in the pic already bedlinered??

 

Yep well it's it's new coat. I first did it last year and it held up fine but there was a big chunk missing after hitting a ledge in Moab and few of the light hoop from the roll so I just reprinted the whole thing while it was off the truck. Sprayed two full cans on it. It's good stuff. I love the look and feel of it. Does seem to chip easier then I thought. My slider need re sprayed too.

 

Hey, I really like the new thread name. How did ya manage that?

The new name implies almost a mythical presence in the truck...born again...like a Phoenix bird rising from the ashes.

 

x2
& he probably pm'd a mod for thread name change

 

Hahahahahahaha oh man Mike. I cant wait for our August adventure haha but ya it's funny. I like it going to redo the OP sometime to match it lol

But yes as this fellow below said, I just PMed Chris to change it for me. Not the first time I have asked him to lol

 

why the hell did you have to add "growth" onto the title? Life death and erection were fine...but growth just sounds like you got some weird cosmetic deformity...

 

Cause it had a great life, then died, rebirthed, and now is continuing its life by growing into the truck it was going to be

 

It's alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

BAM got it running today!!

had to do alot tho.

New Red Top Optima battery, 800 CCA that'll be nice...then i had to go get a new ground terminal from mine being so corroded. Im hoping to redo all the main power cables and grounds with a new alternator and a second red top i already have for dual batteries.




then...i fired it up.

This is literally the first time i tried starting it i was scared haha



SO STOKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Right on man!!

Yeah, I hear you there, I would've been scared too that first try..... but then again it's a Toyota, could you have expected any worse??

 

A piston could have blown out of the block hahah just kidding but i bet it felt good when it started huh?

 

Very true

 

Well I was fully confident in the internals. I was just worried I had just missed that one all important plug that slipped by me haha but nope got em all? Not even so much as a check engine light

Oh man yes! I can't wait to have my lovely V6 back. And I missed my exhaust too..and just being in my tall truck. I'm actually still getting over how tall it is..I don't remember it being so tall lol

Ya well that was due to what had just happened. It was cool tho