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Jade Where's Waldo Build

Discussion in '1st Gen. Tacomas (1995-2004)' started by waldeeeeen, Feb 10, 2018.

  1. Feb 10, 2018 at 10:15 PM
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    waldeeeeen

    waldeeeeen [OP] Well-Known Member

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    Bought Jade in June of 2015 with 145k and am about to hit 200k, she's a DD but I do go camping on fire roads, have been out to SVRA parks like Hollister Hills, and frequently go to Tahoe and Big Sur. Plan is to keep her as a functional DD, but have an off-road capable mid travel expedition set up for spur of the moment surf, ski, fish, camp, shoot, wheel, Where's Waldo adventures.

    As she sits currently 06/2021

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    SPECS

    2001 Toyota Tacoma Ext. Cab
    3.4L V6
    5 Speed
    4x4 w/ E-Locker and J-shift
    TRD/SR5


    LINKS

    None yet

    WRITE UPS

    Brake Shoe Write Up Here

    MODS


    SUSPENSION

    OE 2.5 King front, ext travel, 650 lb spring
    10" 2.5 King remote resi comp adj rear
    OME Dakar leaf pack w/ AAL
    OME greaseable shackle (stock height)
    Trailgear frame reinforcement
    Rear shock relocation
    Wheeler super bumps front and rear
    (Front 1/4" extension/Rear 3" extension)
    Toytec ubolt flip (modified to fit trail gear axle relation bracket)
    Trailgear relocation bracket set 1" back
    Total chaos steering bushing
    555 LBJ
    Total Chaos LCA gusset tabs


    KYB junk

    WHEELS AND TIRES


    SCS Ray 10
    .75" BORA spacer
    315/75/16

    Goodyear MTR 285/75/16
    Stock rims with 265/70/16 KO1
    Stock rims with 265/70/16 Wild Cat


    ARMOR


    All Pro Apex with Hoops
    All Pro skids - engine and transmission
    All Pro sliders
    All Pro tube bumper with custom dual swingout


    EXTERIOR


    Homertaco Mesh M1 Link - Tacomarotto Write up
    Camper shell

    INTERIOR

    Custom Medical Kit (small but has tourniquet, shears, and some other basics)
    Goodyear floor mats from costco
    Fabric dash cover

    COMMS


    HAM - Baofeng UV-5R

    MISC ELECTRICAL


    ARB 12ckma
    Grey wire
    DRL Delete Link - LuminoZ from yotatech Writeup

    LIGHTING


    Morimoto H1 7.0, 4500k bulb, H4 harness, Gatling Gun 1.0, 100mm switchback halo
    -Halos are tied into the side marker lights for white and blinkers for amber
    Rustoleum tinted tail and markers

    BRAKES


    231mm 13WL 2006 Tundra Calipers (NAPA Reman) - Bigfishallday Write up
    OE 2006 Tundra Rotors and Pads
    SS Lines front and rear

    MOTOR / TRANNY / EXHAUST / AXLE


    ECGS 4.88 Nitro
    ARB RD-90 front locker
    E-Locker rear
    4.5" Deckplate
    Drop-in K&N Air filter
    Yotamasters Front Diff Plugs
    Marlin Crawler HD Clutch kit and Flywheel
    Dr. Coffee Reverse Retainer (axle retainer for updated seal)
    - Seal replacement writeup Bigfishallday
    - Retainer Flip Dr Coffee
    Flowmaster 40D

    Recovery

    Smitty xrc9500
    Factor 55 flatlink

    OTHER

    Wiper fluid reservoir relocation
    Marlin Crawler tranny / tcase bushings
    Clutch Spring mod
    Diamond Bed liner (Previous Owner)


    FUTURE MODS


    Have and will install soon


    Nothin right now

    SOME DAY

    Dual cases

    Redo rear lower shock tabs

    Seat covers

    Switch plate and:

    4" LED Pods for (amber fog in the bumper, flood for ditch, and flood for rear bumper
    Rocklights ?
    8" Hidden sub, new deck, new speakers
    Interior winch control



    When I got her 07/2015 @ 145k

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    At 152k

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    Heres a series of photos from the past of off road

    HHills
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    When I blew my starter at HHills (thankfully not my motor)
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    Then I did this in Citrus Heights, went for a puddle, ended up being a bit deep. Ripped both skids off, ripped the threaded plate out of the frame on the driver side and tweaked the passenger, ripped the bumper, flipped my license upside down. Again lucky it didn't get in the engine.
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    After a different Big Sur trip I noticed my axle seals were leaking and went ahead and tried out the Dr. Coffee mod, so far, give or take 20k miles, no problems what so ever
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    Then there was this one, smh
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    After this I threw on the All Pro Apex bumper
    - After having the bumper for over a year, the gusset plates on the bottom of the bumper were very weak, I went in and re welded them because the welds were failing. All Pro has mixed reviews, but when I made my order they forgot the hitch, I contacted them and was shipped the missing piece (no shipping expense on my end) and am so far happy for the most part with the front bumper. The sliders do not line up "out of the box" and will require some handling to weld them on.

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    Went to do a full fluid swap and found that my transmission drain plug was spidered from the previous owner due to it being over torques and the case broke. So one new to me tranny and a new clutch kit from Marlin Crawler and I was back on my way. Did it with the help of a friend, put it all back together and it wasn't working. Took it all apart on my own, put it all back together after finding nothing wrong and it was just the fact that the clutch line needed to be bled. Not super hard, just a pain in the arse.

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    Little trip with some friends to High Lakes just north of Chico, we all took some damage, bumpers, wheels, door panels, drive shafts. But the worst was we made it in, spent two days there and when we went to leave, the starter on the chevy failed. So the most capable and familiar jeep on 37's made the voyage back to town and back to camp to fix him up.

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  2. Feb 10, 2018 at 10:20 PM
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    waldeeeeen

    waldeeeeen [OP] Well-Known Member

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    Tinted the rear tail lights, still plan on removing the back badges and swapping the silver trd sticker for a black one
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  3. Feb 10, 2018 at 10:32 PM
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    waldeeeeen

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    Homertaco Mesh and TheRetrofitSource.com Morimoto H1 7.0

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  4. Feb 12, 2018 at 8:13 PM
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    Photo from last week at the welding shop, never really thought my truck was that small...then I saw this valley dozer and felt like I was next to Sasquatch.

    But between coats drying on the grille I threw in some little mig welds on the apex gussets to try and strengthen them a bit. I used my truck about a year ago to push a dumpster with several tons of roofing and construction material in it and the welds started to fail and the bumper was tweaked. So a bit more constructive tweaking by strapping the bumper to a tree with a recovery strap and slow reverse 4Lo pulled it back and now I welded it finally with my little Lincoln 140hd and some 0.030 and 75/25 argon/co2 mix. My only welding experience is a fence at work I used flux for and some scrap metal in my garage, but they seemed to turn out okay-ish. Don't think I cleaned the weld surface well enough because it didn't want to hold the arc in some areas and others it worked just fine.

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  5. Feb 18, 2018 at 2:01 PM
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    waldeeeeen

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    Headed down from Rancho Cordova to Lake Nacimiento and Big Sur with my lady for our her birthday, my birthday, our anniversary, and valentines weekend. Set up camp in Naci and again in Pfieffer state park. Tried fishing for the first time since Folsom stole my rod from my kayak and second cast lost my Rapalla, lame. Apparently the rains last year blew out Andrew Molera campground and the locals closed off old coast road, but due to the slides in Gorda there was almost no traffic, campsites were nearly empty and we got to have a good time. Also hit the 200k club and at like 200,004 the P0420 code popped up and stayed on most of the trip but then went away.... no idea what happened there.

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  6. Feb 21, 2018 at 8:24 PM
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    One corner done, only took 3 days. Upper ball joint was seized and lca bushings were a pain to replace. Busted my outer tie rod ball joint trying to get the Lbj out, so I'll have to go back in and replace that too. But sanded and painted while I was in there, so far so good.

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  7. Mar 14, 2018 at 11:21 PM
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    waldeeeeen

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    Ordered the 33" mtr/k, I have 3 black SCS ray 10, waiting on 2 more, so hopefully that comes soon! Mocked them up and they look good.

    Old shocks were sagging front and rear 2" so this "2.25 inch lift" came out to almost 5" and after the mtrs it'll be almost 6.5"
     
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  8. Mar 22, 2018 at 7:09 PM
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    waldeeeeen

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    Finally got the allpro sliders, SCS ray 10s, 285 75 16 mtr, and axle relocation figured out and installed. Just gotta figure out the rear bumps, skids and rear bumper and swingout!

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  9. Apr 1, 2018 at 9:14 AM
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    Struggled to install the rear bump stops. Ground out the original welds, got some tubing to fit in the hole after some grinding, made 3" extensions, drilled a new hole in the bottom to match the relocation plate and ubolt flip plate, tested and it didn't like up with the strike bracket still even though the bump was lined with the leaf and axle. So i took it apart again and took out the srrike plate, used a grinder to cut out a spare piece of metal to box in the strike plate and moved it bavk 3/4". Seems to line up so far
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  10. Apr 1, 2018 at 9:15 AM
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    waldeeeeen

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    Also got the allpro skids on finally
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  11. Apr 8, 2018 at 12:04 PM
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    Looks good man! :thumbsup:
     
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  12. Apr 8, 2018 at 9:00 PM
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    Wadar

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    Nice work, looks good. The rear suspension gives me some ideas.
     
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  13. Sep 13, 2018 at 6:35 PM
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    Been a while since an update! Few months ago took an allpro rear tube bumper and added some trail gear spindles and latch, headed to the local metal mart and made this thing as my 2nd welding project. So far it has held up to pismo and wheeling in lassen along with over 2000 miles on the street without a problem

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  14. Sep 13, 2018 at 6:41 PM
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    Pismo trip with @K_Sandhu , I'm super late on posting and still working on a video. Program crashed and I hadn't saved it so I had to start over :frusty:

    Truck rocked though! Tried to hit a long travel sized whoop section at 40 and that was a bad idea, but the kings handled everything else and the bumpstops kept my truck from breaking ...although my horn no longer works for some reason

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    Did a trip to Lassen OHV, 1 jku on 3" suspension lift and 35s, a ford ranger on 32", and the jade taco. Interesting trip to say the least. Ranger just had the brakes done and lost a caliper bolt so it was jamming the wheel and causing it to lock up any time the brakes activated. We got lucky and found a bolt from the jk bumper that was the same size and pitch bit too long and make a ghetto rig to get to town. I went night wheeling with two other guys but just my truck and went down a suprisingly challenging trail, just got more narrow and more rocky with no turn around. Ended up hitting my driver side lower control arm on a rock and it blew out the alignment tabs. Crippled my way through an Austin powers 24 point turn and made it back up the trail hitting two rocks and a tree that if I had no armor would have destroyed my passenger side. The next morning loosened the lca and did an impressively decent eyeball alignment and made it home

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    TC alignment tab install

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    Fascinating........Thanks for posting.
     
  18. Sep 14, 2018 at 8:47 AM
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    You ready to go back to Pismo bro? We might be planning a trip in Oct.
     
  19. Sep 15, 2018 at 12:27 PM
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    Lol, that one pic kinda insinuates you’ve got brass balls or titanium, lmfao, nice truck!, the kings look purdy with the paint.
     
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