2012 TRD sport budget black build.

plasti dip eyelids

 

If you had left the rear stock but kept the front billy's at 1.75 w/o the spacers, How do you think it would have sat? Nose High a little?

 

What did you MPG change to after the lift and tires?

 

updates. removed the plastidip eyelids and put on fiberglass ones. Added a black box logistics 30" S series LED bar with rigid industries mounts and carolina metal masters locks. plus got to finally get it a quick detail after the winter paint crushing conditions.







and to answer the questions.. at 1.75 without the lean spacer it would lean to the drivers side.. and the passenger side would be a little nose high. 1.75 with the 1/4in taco lean spacer on the drivers side and stock rear is 'close' to level but if you put anything in the bed it would be very nose high.

MPG went down maybe 1-2 after the lift and tires/wheels. a lot of that is the weight of the larger tires. the stealth customs wheels i have are the lightest i could find... and the duratrac's are much lighter then a mud tire.

 

SIck truck man, i love the wheels and soft top! Is the black paint metallic?

 

How do u like that truxedo cover? Thinking about getting that or the tonnopro one. Not sure tho. Thanks man.

 

Love your pickup, nice and clean. Keep it up!

 

i really really like the truxedo. it has been nothing but great. I like the truxport because you can still use the tie down cleats. If you dont care much about the tie down cleats i'd suggest the trudexo lopro. it looks better in my opinion.


Mujta- it's just normal black. no metallic (which im happy about). the earlier black ones were metallic though

tacoleap- thanks you

 

Thanks man. How much you pay for your cover? If u don't mind. Thanks. Btw I'm jealous of your wheel and color combo. Haha. I have the matte black stealths but wanted to go with gunmetal but wasn't sure how it would look like since my truck had the chrome grill and bumper. Still love em to death tho!

 

the stealths are great wheels... i dont think they make them in a bad color haha. i dont remember exactly what my cover cost. i picked it up right after i bought my truck nearly two years ago. i 'think' it was around 200.. perhaps a little over near 230? i do remember it being on the cheaper side of the tonneau's i was considering.

 

Looks awesome!

 

Nice build man just got the same but 2014 and really like the well chosen clean mods you did!

 

i retrofitted FX-R projectors with gatling gun shrouds.. the light output is extremely good. should've done this a looong time ago!

 

Hi
How did you cut the holes in your rear bumper to flush mount the LED reverse lights?

 

With a grinder with a cutoff wheel then a dremel to fine tune it

 

put in some LED back up lights in the factory housings (because the brown factory ones were really ugly with the new rigid's in the bumper). LED license plate lights and LED map/dome interior lights.

 

my taco as of today 9/24/14

 

Very nice truck man!! Very clean!

 

Looking good! Makes me wish I got black again

 

i added two tie downs on the center front of my bed as a place to strap down two motorcycles.

got some surplus D rings (the same as i put on my bed bolts for tie downs) for cheap online. Grabbed some 1/4 in steel plate i had laying around and cut it to size. I put one 1/4 in steel plate on top and one 1/4in steel plate on the bottom to help brace the bed and bolted through it with grade 8 hardware. should be pretty strong! Then the chunk of bed mat i cut around the 1/4in plate i trimmed and double side taped to the plate to A. add some grip and B. keep the D rings from rubbing the paint off the 1/4in plate.