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Gear Head's Solid Axle Turbo Tacoma Build

Discussion in '1st Gen. Builds (1995-2004)' started by Gear Head, Jan 13, 2015.

  1. Jun 29, 2015 at 5:38 PM
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    Gear Head

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    Going to have to see if I can get someone on the phone so I can get my damn joints
     
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  2. Jun 30, 2015 at 6:08 PM
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    Picked up something today :spy:

     
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  3. Jun 30, 2015 at 6:10 PM
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    That right there is for a cage lol
     
  4. Jun 30, 2015 at 6:14 PM
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    Should be able to build a new bumper and tube the bed too. There's 207 ft of 1.75 dom and 22 ft of 1.5 dom
     
  5. Jul 1, 2015 at 2:09 PM
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    Ballistic joints ordered. For some reason that code didn't work Eric, the correct code is "JULY20"
     
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  6. Jul 1, 2015 at 3:06 PM
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    They're dumb, they just changed it today to 20%. Lol. Even better!
     
  7. Jul 1, 2015 at 4:40 PM
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    Too bad they called me after I ordered and said it's backordered.... they did say it would ship monday at the latest
     
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  8. Jul 3, 2015 at 5:56 PM
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    Went and wheeled by myself in the pouring rain lol.

     
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  9. Jul 3, 2015 at 6:01 PM
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    Had a chance to stretch the new spring setup out. Overall I'm very happy with it





     
  10. Jul 4, 2015 at 6:16 AM
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    Nice man, did you order the 3.0 ballistic joints?
     
  11. Jul 4, 2015 at 7:09 AM
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    Nah I ordered the 2.63's, same thing I used on my old 82.
     
  12. Jul 4, 2015 at 7:26 AM
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    Ok, I might order them too. My rear ones from tg 4 years ago are blown out.
     
  13. Jul 4, 2015 at 7:30 AM
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    Yeah I remember you saying a while back that they never really worked that well anyways
     
  14. Jul 4, 2015 at 7:36 AM
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    Here's the 2.63's on my 82

    [​IMG]
     
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  15. Jul 4, 2015 at 8:26 AM
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    Looks good!! So you had to call them to order? They suck at answering!
     
  16. Jul 4, 2015 at 10:51 AM
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    Nah I placed my order online because they took that note down then a few hours later they called me and said that they were backordered and would ship out Monday.
     
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  17. Jul 8, 2015 at 6:37 PM
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    Here's a little teaser of what's to come

    [​IMG]

    And I finally made some progress on this tube.

    Gotta get creative with my third hands lol
    [​IMG]

    This is before notching and leaning the top forward so it's still sitting a little tall.




    This is my first time bending tube and after scrapping the first hoop I'm starting to get the hang of it. This hoop isn't perfect but overall I'm pretty pumped with how it turned out and I even tackled some muti-plane bends already
     
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  18. Jul 8, 2015 at 6:54 PM
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    It looks so bad ass with those bedsides.. Tube work looks like it's comin out nice too bro. :thumbsup:
     
  19. Jul 8, 2015 at 6:57 PM
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    Omg I know.. I've had the bedsides in the garage since I got the truck just waiting to put them on! Tube bending has been a learning experience for sure. I scrapped the first hoop and started over but hopefully I'll be able to re-use some of the tube in the other hoop elsewhere
     
  20. Jul 11, 2015 at 9:37 AM
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    Chugging along slowly but surely

     

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