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

I still have the mud flaps and probably will sell them.

Idk..A LOT haha much as possible since future long travel, when ever that happens, will have a ton of up travel. took 1.75'' out of the rear.

 

Thanks!

Yea i took measurements for before and after..just gotta wait till they are all done.

 

Haha it looks like you cut the mount for the mud flaps up though...

 

yea..i did. Since it helps prop the bed sides.


but the plastic is all good.

besides my passenger side bracket met a rock this last summer and is well...destroyed..haha

 

so did you end up just cutting it or folding back the flaps?

my only goal is for mine to look better since you doubted me when i described my plan for the tabs

 

cut. Trust me i thought about bending them and looked at it for a second or two..but if you do it it just warps the crap out of the bedside and creates pinch points. I wouldn't do it. it'll look bad. Just a bit of door trim is needed. and the way i grinded mine there aren't that sharp..would still cut a tire though.

but go for it man haha

 

That looks bad ass!

 

Thanks man! some more photos in my build of the process if any are curious.

 

well fuck youre probably right. i liked how silas's turned out, but he said the same thing that it just cracked the paint around the crease. i was going to use a heat gun but we know how patient i am with that sort of crap

 

yea it'll rip the paint apart for sure. Only way i can see getting it super smooth that way too is with a ballpeen hammer and that will just make the paint flake off worse haha

its easier to just cut it and not a big deal really..

 

Pretty sure I saw some vids from the ricer community and they used a heat gun to prevent the paint from cracking.

Edit- they call it fender rolling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcA8Ingg_8A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZEgi-Fa6Hw

 

well bring out the grinder! it and i are good pals by now

 

yea works great to use on like stuff for rolling the fenders for wheels and such...not sure it would work with the sheet metal getting pounded 180º onto itself..haha

good your gonna need it...


now if only you were friends with the welder...

 

yup, the heat gun and fender pound/roll with a baseball bat was sort of where i got the idea from. my buddies have all done it to their fenders

i have of course considered the difference, but i figure i will give it a try on a few tabs, get them really hot and see if i cant bent the piece back without creasing it or destroying the paint.

 

i know right?! hopefully i will cheat on my sucky welder and go somewhere with one more...experienced (a real shop, not garage fab central),

 

Looks good monte!

 

Finished yesterday, tied the roll cage through the firewall into an engine cage, the whole upper section bolts in

 

5100's all around, Eibach springs in front and Dakars out back. And I did it all myself

 

Looks great! What size tires?

 

I'm sensing a pattern here.