What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

looks like an older All Pro rear bumper?

 

What's up with the hinges on the feet of the rack?

 

Rubber down, then remove the rubber boots.

1. You want the shaft down so no water can collect on top of the seal end of the shock body and get into the seals.

2. The rubber boots hold moisture and cause the shafts to rust. I have run all my shocks rubber less ( ) with no issues.

Every time in the past I have used the rubber boots, I end up taking them off to reveal rust, mud, water, etc...gunked up inside the boot.

 

Ya I think so. Not sure nothing to identity it. But that's what it most closely resembles.

Edit: just googled it, and it is an older all pro rear

 

maybe use some exrust by kano labs or similar product instead of or in addition to wire brush?

 

I was thinking flap disc with my angle grinder to take the rust off, self etching primer, and canned bed liner.

 

VVV this

 

Unfortunately the sliders are for a regular cab. But he didn't want to sell the Bumper separate. So I'll either have to just sell them, or have them added to. Sliders were basically, $90, so I may even just get them added on to. Cut off front bend, sleeve inner and outer rails, add to the rails, bend new front piece, and add another leg + frame plates and gussets

 

Im sure another local TW member with a Reg Cab would be happy to take them off your hands.

 

id rather take my chances with the moisture causing rust then let mud and rocks hit the shaft and stick on the shaft and then have the shaft try to move up into the body of the shock....

 

sand blasting would be the shit if you have access to one.

 

thats why the shock has wiper on the shaft before the inner oil seal. Nothing will be able to stick the shaft and be pulled up into the seal.

Upside-down motocross bike forks have been like this for decades now without any protection other than a front facing plastic guard with good success.

 

well..shocks have seals and such to help keep that stuff out..

its bound to happen either way so..

 

You could easily lengthen them by cutting them apart in a straight section then adding in tube and sleeve the joints to keep its strength. Also add another leg or two.

 

or cut the legs completely off and make new ones.

 

undertsood, but look how many miles a motorcross has on it vs a truck man. apples and oranges imo

 

I was talking about the length from front to back, not how far they stick out from the cab. It looks like they would need new legs anyway.

 

Yeah it's apples and oranges. But a truck will still do most of its time on a nice clean highway, with only dust to threaten the shocks. Whereas a motocross bike has to drudge through rocks, mud, sand, clay, water, etc its entire life.

 

Ya they would, our sleeve them too. But it would probably be easier just getting new ones made.

For some reason I didn't even think of sleeving in the middle. I was thinking of chopping the front off and extending it/making a new front. Sleeving in the middle is much simpler.....

I'm derping all over today...

 

If you don't want them I will take them off your hands for a nominal fee will pay shipping too.