Caledonian builds up

Current pics



Hi, i'm new on TW! Lost on a small Pacific Island I bought my 08 SR5 Tacoma V6 6 MT 3 years ago. After hours and hours on TW looking at your builds, i decided to build mine!
I worked on many cars, sold one of my "toy" to finally get enough money to buy my "dream".Not really easy to get what you need when you're far from everything. Fortunately i had great help from Mike @ Defined engineering to get all my parts. After 3 long months of waiting : I've all i need to build my taco!

Exterior mods:

Homemade Satoshi grill with HZJ 75 TOYOTA
Homemade exhaust
Rear diff breather mod
Glass work unlimited 4 corners
TC Long travel +2" 4WD kit
King Shocks
Rear Defined Engineering SUA kit
King shocks 14" 2.5
Pro comp rims 16x8
Pro comp mud tires 285 75 16

Engine:

K&N air filter in stock air box

Futur mods:

Homemade tube bumpers Ft and Rr
Homemade rock sliders
Led light bar
Headlights
Headers
and more, but enough for now!


When it was new:






And now:




Some off roading






Stuck!




Thanks to my friend with his HZJ 79 !!!

The "toy" i sold:



To buy this:



Some work on these:







For this:



This is what i had first but i didn't like it, so i gave it to a friend:





He gave me new shoes





Some glass work stuff:









And the work begins...







More pics to come.
For now, the front and rear suspension are done, front fenders need to be adjusted and bedsides need to be fitted.

 

Ohhhh boy like the direction this is headed

 

Thanks my friend i think the big parts of the job will be finished tomorrow

 

The continuation:



Any differences??





Gussets


Not really easy to weld!

Time to work on the rear with some help from my girlfriend's dog



Bed out!





Leaf pack on:



Cutting, grinding, welding drilling...



Hoops





Shocks

 

Pro comp wheels


Front


Bed back on




Useless parts!!


Time to adjust fenders, it wasn't too hard. Still need to prepare them for painting.
Fenders adjusted




Bed sides



Current pics



Wheel alignment done, it feels pretty good on road. No off road yet, only jumped some speed bump.