Airdog's 2012 Prerunner Access Cab (slow) Build

Badd ass Tom !

 

Love your truck build!
How well does your 2wd do? I have a prerunner myself! Love my truck

 

Tom you going to be able to make it out Sunday,December 11th to do some shooting with some of us other TW members!?Would be great if you can make it!Hope all is good with you!

 

Actually heading out on Dec 10 on another trip to Laughlin along the Mojave trail. May swing by and hit you guys up on the way back though. Itaro supposed to drop a pin on your location for me.

 

Ok great!Enjoy the journey and we'll possibly get to see you!

 

Made a few mods in the last couple of weeks. Got a couple of items from Mob Armor. One to hold my ipad and the other to hold my phone.



Here is a link to the phone mount mod
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/mod-a-pillar-ram-mount-gps-phone-holder.372250/

 

I wanna get a phone mount from them as well...not sure which one tho

 

I've had a Mob Armor phone mount in my personal and work truck for years now. Unbeatable. Well worth the price.

 

I like that phone mount!Acceptance to the new law now as well from what i've heard.

 

Picked up a brand new ARB dual compressor for a smokin deal from a fellow TW member.



Stripped the access cab interior



I made a stainless steel backing plate as I did not trust the plastic interior panel to be able to hold this pump by itself



Bolted it up



Put the interior panel back in with the compressor mounted to it. I used the air hose from my old compressor to test it out. I have a new air chuck with gauge and air hose on order.



I ran out of available spots to put switches to the left of the steering wheel. So I broke out the dremel and made the switch fit into the only slot available below the AC controls. Came out good enough for me.
The wiring for the compressor runs behind the back wall interior panel then along the drivers side door sill. The ARB wiring harness is not long enough to reach the battery. So I cut off the the 2 inline fuses on the ARB harness and put them right next to the battery and ran 2 10 gauge power wires and 1 10 gauge ground wire thru the firewall and connected it back up to the ARB harness.



Best part about this whole mod...is the speed of this pump. 1 minute 20 seconds to go from 18 psi to 35 psi on a 35 inch tire. Gotta love that!!

 

Got the ARB tire inflation hose kit and tire inflator today. Now done with a very expensive tire airing up setup...but well worth it considering how quickly in inflates my 35 inch tires. Because we all know when its the trip is over we just want to get the fuck on the road and get home!

 

to that!

Install looks great!

 

65k miles on the truck and found out that the inner tie rods have seen better days...lots of play in and out and loose as hell. Decided to swap out the outer tie rods as both of them had ripped boots but other than that they still were decent but might as well go all new while i'm in there.
Of course its never a complete job until you have to go to the auto parts store twice. Bought the inners from Vatozone and the outers from Napa as vatozone did not have any in stock. Got home and test fitted the outers to the inners and they were loose as hell. Turns out the inners had threads that were m15x1.5 and the outers were m16x1.5...wtf why!!! So back to auto zone to return the inners and back to Napa to purchase their inners and all was well and just added about an hour to the days work. Job was a piece of cake took about 1 1/2 hours to get it completely done. I didn't need any special tools as I was able to get the inners off with the tools I had. Steering feels much much more solid and some random noises I had been hearing in the front suspension is gone.

left and right sides



Some videos of how sloppy the inners were. The new ones were almost impossible to move by hand so you can get the idea how loose these were.

https://youtu.be/ATTZy__003o

https://youtu.be/2i2GgbgrMQE

 

what mob armor mount, would work for an iPhone 6s plus?
I'm thinking the large?

and how does it mount to the window ? or does it mount to the pillar on that side?

 

Yup get the large. its mounted to the pillar bolt...see this thread for more info. https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/mod-a-pillar-ram-mount-gps-phone-holder.372250/

 

Blue boots = napa? Lol

 

did you use, the ram mount on yours?

 

Ram mount ball and arm with the mob armor holder.

 

They woulda been black had vato zone made normal parts.

 

After 4+ years of whining that @tcBob hated me. He finally gave in to the fact that he loves me. The ever elusive tacomaworld.com sticker finally shows up!!!