Backwoodstothecoast’s 2007 Tacoma TRD Sport Build

By the way you're gonna really like the Dakars. They're great, especially with the weight of the RTT and camping gear in the back. I love mine

 

Awesome, How long did it take to install/ difficulty rating?

 

Honestly dude it wasn't too bad at all. Time probably a couple hours for the whole rear. And it was probably a 4/10 difficulty wise. The only thing that was really hard about it was how heavy the leaf packs were haha. Lugging those things around was annoying. But overall pretty straight forward.

This YouTube video helped me a little bit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=31ORzqSCKHQ

 

Thanks a lot man. Think I'll have to do this tmr. Ya those things are really heavy. Moved them into my garage and I was like holy sh*t.

 

Yeah no worries brotha. You're gonna love em! I had the Icon AAL's before and they sagged like nobody's business! Once I got these they held a bunch of weight in the back with ease! And rode really well while doing it! Haha when the UPS guy came to deliver them to me, he even asked me for a hand cuz they were so heavy hahaha

 

Ya I was in the hospital when they were delivered to my house so I don't know how the ups guy carried them. I had to get my wife to help me. Haha she tried to move one on her own and it didn't even budge.

 

Oh dang sorry you were in the hospital. The UPS guy must have been a part time body builder hahaa. Haha one pack probably weighed as much as your wife!

 

Ya I had a minor surgery done. Got them all installed today. Thanks for added elbow grease @adamv22. My bed sits so much higher now. Hopefully it settles some and levels back out. I got the Dakars with the AAL as well, had to account for the weight of a rear bumper haha, that and camping gear.

 

Well hopefully you're all good now. Gotta see pictures of the truck now with the leafs!!!

 

Ya Ill try to get some pics of it in the coming days.

 

Shweeet!!!

 

So Ive been planning on uploading some pictures for awhile now for some of the trips that I've done. So I'm starting off with a few pictures of my trip from NC to California.
Tennessee

Not much in Kansas

There wasn't much excitement until we got to Colorado. First stop Pikes Peak.

Almost at 14,000 feet

Cave of the winds


If you like breakfast make sure to stop at King Chef's Diner

Garden of the Gods

Kissing Camels

We planned on stopping at a few National Parks along the way and we stopped at Mesa Verde National Park First.

Sitting on Edge

The Rio Grande and San Juan

The pup was thirsty

UTAH

Natural Bridges National Monument


You can see the tacoma hiding behind the tree with my trailer.

Next stop MOAB / Arches National Park

Double Arch




Bryce Canyon National Park


Me trying to catch a crow

Another must stop for food





I snuck up behind some deer



Into Arizona






Just an elk

Finally made it to California



The whole trip took about 11 days and it was definitely worth it. We will never forget it thats for sure.

 

Awesome!!!!

 

Nice truck! Did you move to California from NC?

 

Sure did! Basically a free move/ trip as well. Thank you Military!

 

Here are some after photos of some of the most recent mods.
OME Dakar Leafs with AAL.

I ripped off my towing harness on the trail so I relocated it, as well as my valve stems for my air bags. Air bags are not installed but the hoses are still ran.

Also installed a CB radio a few weeks ago.

Antenna plus check out my fender flares. Bolted those suckers on.

 

Ok so I've had a lot of people asking me exactly how I mounted my All-Pro Pack Rack with my rolling tonneau cover. I didnt take many photos when I was doing the install as I just winged it and adapted as I went along. I purchased my Pack Rack used and it was the standard size and fully welded together. I wanted to shorten it by 5 inches so I pulled out my sawzall and trimmed each support tube. In order for me to keep the tonneau cover water proof I couldn't mount the pack rack to the inside rails, so I pulled out my angle grinder and cut off the L shaped piece and made it as flat as possible.

L shaped bracket scrap metal now.

Then I needed to figure out how I was going to mount it to the bed. I placed the pack rack on my bed and centered it. I wanted to bolt it to the strongest part of the fiber glass bed rails so I drilled a hole from the bottom up through the bed rail and bed liner and finally through the pack rack. Then I drilled a bigger hole to fit the bolt. I did one on each side and bolted them on so I could finish drilling the last 4 holes with out the pack rack moving around. The photo below shows one of the bolts mounted through the fiberglass bed rail. (keep in mind I don't have all that plastic inner fender garbage in my fender well)

I decided that 3 bolts on each side would hold perfectly. You can see in the next photo how I spaced them. I would have liked the last bolt further to the rear of the bed but I couldn't with the drill any further inside the fender. (long bed problems)

You can see that the Pack Rack sits on top of the tonneau cover rails as well as the bed liner. You can also see a better image of the L bracket that is no longer an L and is actually flat.

Here is the final project. Sorry it was getting dark (for a better photo look at my previous post).

Hope this helps some of you out.

 

Any more pics of the fenders? I've been looking at doing something similar for awhile and got the stuff to do it today and then found your thread today lol.

 

I don't, sorry. The pics on this thread is all i have. If you have questions i could try to answer them for you.

 

I ended up pulling the trigger and did my whole truck today lol. I've got them so I can pull the flares off in under a minuet a piece by unbolting the flares