The EXPO TRON Build

Can't wait to see this at Overland Expo. You are going again this year right?

Would love to camp with you and the crew this year.

 

This can definitely be arraged! Actually hardly noticed anything, but it wasn't necessarily bad to begin with..

The end goal is to give myself more caster, bringing the tire forward away from the cab so I rub less in full lock reverse. To achieve that goal, camber only gets worse as we increase caster, so I have to correct camber first. While setting the alignment we lifted the front end by just pushing up on the bumper slightly and it magically corrected camber. With that said I'm hoping this little increase in lift will get me back to the specs we saw during alignment, then finally we can increase caster.

Hell yea man ill be there! Yes we need to make sure that happens this time haha

 

Awesome. Looking forward to getting some good camping in. I won't be getting there until Saturday though

 

Valley Spring Service - Operation: Bring Back the RAKE!

So as some of you may have noticed my rear leafs have been screaming for help for quite some time! The stock leaf packs are just not suited for my expedition ready, "go fast" style of driving. Stock tundra springs have 4 leafs and mine were completely negative arch under no load. On top of hating the bro lean and wanting more weight capacity, I also needed the extra clearance coming out/off an obstacle. The rear bumper has seen better days and I was able to display some of my zip-tying skills learned from Rinzler, on Tron. Moving forward, @XPOTRPR highly recommended that I call Valley Spring Service and see what they could do since they did so well with his Tacoma. After calling them, Phil preferred that I load my bed with all my camping gear to get the most accurate height desired while loaded.

Face down, ASS UP!



Thanks to @PLC721 for picking me up and driving me around while Tron was in surgery. The best part about Valley Spring is that they're local, and finished within a day! Not to mention, I would have paid double the price to purchase any other custom set of leaf packs. Needless to say I was so damn happy when we picked up my truck! @PLC721 @SuperiorDetail and I grabbed some lunch after but here a good comparison to their stock height, while I have ~600lbs loaded in the bed


It's almost perfectly level with weight in the bed but alittle more in the rear, which I love!



$564 out the door That's including install, labor, new ubolts, re-arching the stock leafs, adding 3 more leafs, and painting them in less than a day. I cant say enough about how happy I am with that deal!


Unloaded



Comparison to my original lift before the leafs took a shit (has +3 coachbuilder lift shackles in both)

 

Looks great man! That was smart having it loaded up to figure it out. A lot of the rear set up on the 4runners is guessing and checking. I thought the current springs I have would be fine, but they can't support the new bumper. Just got some new ones I'm hoping fit the bill.

 

Box Canyon St. Patty's Weekend - March 18th, 2017

Huge thanks to @PLC721 for throwing this run together! The group started off alittle smaller but we had a couple more people jump in for this awesome run through Box Canyon in Florence. Although it may not seem like much, a whole year of expeditions and modifications have been logged in Tron since we started our offroad adventures in Box Canyon last year With big meets to come and my new rear leaf packs installed, you could say this was yet another shake down run much like last year. Since I have a pretty big mixture of pics from myself and the others, Picture cred goes to @SuperiorDetail our buddy Ryan. Hopefully we'll see some videos from this trip too!






Your photographers and videographers




Stopped in the canyon to play around






@PLC721 and TRON - Superwhite Tundras FTW!












My tires look tiny...










@JerryTaco Had to strike a pose as well!




Jake @Kyouto42 the open diff 2wd guy decided he was gunna give the boulder a run too haha...and stuck!


@JerryTaco broke out with his winch




OB#1235






Out of the canyon and on our way to Red Hill to play around some more




This hill was no match for TRON in 4LO!


Beastly.


@JTS2014TACO on his way up! Cant wait for all the drone footage




Skipped over the whole waterfall obstacle but I have a video for that! Stay tuned. Otherwise this was an awesome trip with some great friends!


Burnout time!...

 

Both trips were awesome. I need new leaf springs

 

Need more camping ASAP

 

This last weekend was literally perfect weather and I wasted it away on the border

 

Here's the waterfall obstacle. I can't figure out how to download it but thanks to our buddy Ryan for the video

https://lwthgw-bn1305.files.1drv.co...ji6LuuX-pS0ULLSGYxDxoM6clwKOneLc/IMG_2569.MOV

 

Box Canyon St. Patty's Weekend - Continued

Took some screenshots from the waterfall obstacle. Easy peasy

 

Soooooooooooooooo hawt​

 

April Fools Mod Day - April 1st, 2017

After a couple hours shooting all morning, @JTS2014TACO @PLC721 @T-rev @SuperiorDetail & I headed back to my house for my wife's famous Tacos! My buddy Ryan needed to install his leveling kit, and I was convinced that my Hella Supertones needed to be installed...

 

Was that @cmack old Tacoma in the 1st photo dump?

 

Which one?

 

@cmack

 

Yep. We went camping in feb with the Pelfrey's

 

Nice

 

BAJA DESIGNS OFFICIAL - April 8th, 2017

TRON has been granted with 55,750 lumens! Thanks to @SDHQ OFFROAD the SDHQ Inferno Pro's @Baja Designs lighting shall live on through TRON I can't thank @JerryTaco enough for all the help and the cleanest wiring I have ever seen. It's awesome to have such talented individuals in the Toyota community, and Jerry really showed off his skills under the hood! I made sure to purchase a Switch-Pro from SDHQ as well, making installation a breeze and keeping the entire setup super clean!

-Baja Designs OnX6 Arc Dual Function 50" Driving-Combo Amber/White Light Bar
-Baja Designs XL-80 Amber A-Pillar Lights




SDHQ A-Pillar Mounts


XL-80's mounted and Jerry tucked away the wiring so nicely!




Wiring in the Switch-Pro




All excess/future wiring neatly tucked away and all the Baja Designs wired into the appropriate switches




Switch-Pro face mounted inside the truck. Need to adjust these stickers since I'm OCD and just noticing they're off center haha but I also threw on my future switch locations


The OnX6 bar was definitely the final touch TRON needed to bring the front end together, afterall, the bumper was basically designed around this light bar


Obligatory Poser shots! @JerryTaco and TRON look good together