Krull...... the Louisiana Coullion Build

Yea im in Youngsville/Lafayette area.

 

Saw you drive by yesterday, I need to catch up on the mods...

 

kickass build!

 

Dude do we live in the same neighborhood?

 

Thanks man! It's coming along.

 

Yeah, the side of my house is on your street. I had a silver Tacoma, traded it in for a mag grey 4runner

 

Yea i notice you switched it up dude... what gives?

 

with the new brute force hybrid I have 30 inches of room to work with in the grill hoop. I am debating on putting two big rounds or four 6" rounds. Ive only ever has 6" rounds. I like the Hella 4000s.... Not sure yet.

 

do some fine brush work with the red like you want in some automotive touchup paint with a nice paint brush. Then spray clear coat rustoleum over the whole thing in a satin or matt finish. Or just leave the color out and just clear coat to protect from rust.

 

I've had four different trucks with shells.. love them. I doubt you'll regret it. Nice rig btw.

 

Wanted to upgrade to a 4x4, hated the Tacoma drivers seat, always ended up having to pile all my stuff in the back seat because it rains so much, drove a 4th gen 4runner before the Tacoma, test drove the new 2015's and absolutely fell in love with them. Made so much more sense for a $36k+ vehicle than the Tacoma did.

 

Ill think of something.... thanks for the suggestion!

I want one really bad. They are hard to come by used for the long bed though. I will just keep an eye out and hopefully one drops in my lap. Went price a new one the other day and........ wow! Not paying 1500-2000 for a shell. To much. So until then i will just rock the rack.

The tacoma's driver seat does leave something to be desired but.... i can live with it. You didnt make a bad choice with the 4 runner though. I was torn between them myself. At the end of the day i went with the tacoma for 3 reasons..... 1) at the time i had a big, dumb, filthy, happy German shepherd who single handily destroyed the interior of my previous SUV so.... tacoma. 2) The 4runners were a bit more than i was ready to pay. My truck off the lot ended up being 26k or so.... couldnt get a 4 runner close to that. 3) Manual transmission.... enough said.

I really like your 4 runner though dude. And that color you got is sweet. Im always wrenching in my garage (aka hiding from husband chores ) By all means if you see me in the garage with my music on come on over and i will more than likely put a beer in your hand and put you to work! See you around

 

I appreciate it man, in fact just got some new shocks in for my lift so I will hopefully be tinkering with mine soon. If I didn't drive as much as I do for work, meaning 3 plus hours at a time, I would have probably stayed with a Tacoma and gotten a softopper or something for the rear. A simple elevation adjustment would save the Tacoma for me.

BTW, SOS makes a bedrack that will fit over a soft top on your bed if you want to keep the rack.

 

Cool thanks for the heads up. Let me know when you are doing your lift i can give you a hand. I have jacks/jackstands, impact, tools, etc. Just let me know.

 

Sweet, because I don't. I was going to work my way up to getting everything. I still need to decide on rear springs, then buy the front and rear springs. Not sure If I am going up to a 285 tire or not. I need to eventually buy all the tools, but nice to know I can get some help and won't need them all before I can install it. Do you have a spring compressor?

 

I do not unfortunately. I think they are pretty cheap though. What are they used for? I didnt need them for mine.

 

To disassemble or assemble the front coilover. They aren't expensive, just not an often used tool. Still much cheaper than paying for the assembly.

 

i dk if you bought them but if you order from certain companies they will pre-assemble them. I ordered from wheeler's offroad and they sent them to me already assembled.