Chux's 2013 Beach Buggy Build

Most of trail 20 footage was video so I put an edit together..

https://youtu.be/Du8_fIKejIc

 

serious 3 wheel action

 

Fireball? I didn’t realize you were a basic college girl.






Jk I love fireball and mix it with hard cider. Delicious.

 

Umm.. I actually brought tequila cuz my spirit animal is an avacado. My basic college girl tendencies include Naturdays.. The fireball was @chad_chinchilla ’s but he left early cuz he had to pick up work to pay off the mod credit card, those TacomaBeast bills get spensive. It would be wrong to let a bottle go to waste. And I do enjoy my ciders in the fall. I don’t mix the fireball in, I just buy a pint for the garage and nip on it.

 

I definitely recommend mixing the two. Any ratio is good. Tastes like a spicy cinnamon cider (obviously) and is nice.

 

Oh I’ve done that.. Just prefer to shoot the fíre straight and sip on the cider

 

Fireball mixed into a Natty or a Busch (Burning Busch) is a pretty decent drink. All the cider I consume is too proper to be ruined with Fireball.

 

Lmao at the Nick puking picture to make the trip report.

 

That’s how the trip started...

At least I didn’t post the pics of him getting stuck at the trail head


Oh here they are

 

Lol I was looking at the crawlers not the trail in front of me I swear

 

Definitely gonna steal this as it also helps secure those windows from someone bashing them In and grabbing gear. But gives me more useable roof space.

What did you line the inside of your shell with? I was thinking something similar with a lighter grey. A. because I hate the white fiberglass look. B. to help with heat/ moisture.

 

It’s actually some rattle can off the shelf. Probs rustoleum matte black.
Covered that stuff on everything back then..

 

ahhh ok thanks.

 

Hey Jay, where did ya order your driveshaft? How much did it run ya?

Not that I don't trust the guy that retubbed mine, but if price is right maybe it might make sense to keep one as a spare...


No, eh?

Crap, over $800 from a dealer and wholesale imports is not a cost effective option....

 

My buddy ordered it for me. He works at a junk yard and looked through the system for OEM shafts.. found a few options for me and I picked one located in Vermont with 30k miles on it. Cost me $375. Definitely retubing my original for spare.

I went to his house to pick it up and we bolted it right in..




It came beach buggy color matched already

 

Thanks for info bud that's definitely a fair price.
You're taking about Matt, right? I thought about him when I fucked up mine, but I just had it retubbed locally (in a shop that my company has an account with). But I was also thinking of a spare.



BTW, color matching - priceless!

 

Been a while..

Recently redid my under hood light with an All4offroad rock light
I went with the rock light mainly for the outer holes I could keep it in place with rivets as well as double stick tape. To start the rock lights ($20 a pair) took about a month to receive. The tracking number was never sent so I reached out to All4offroad by email to see if I could get an ETA.. No answer. Lights showed up and first noticed they were missing the 3M adhesive tape they are advertised with. Also noticed as advertised there is 10 LED squares and the ones I received only had 6. I reached back out to them via IG message Monday... No answer. My last issue with the lights are that the tail wires are like twenty something gauge wire and are super fragile to solder. Posted below is a picture of the wire size vs solder itself. After making everything super clean drilling holes under the hood and running the wires inside the hood cavity and cleaning up the pressure switch it worked great, got a few pics and some video for local chat and then nada. The light just went out. It cost me two days of scratching my head and ripping everything apart to redo it again to find a broken hot wire at the hood hinge. I’ve had several lights under the hood in the past but nothing staying to long except the harness, harness had signs of corrosion so it was prob hanging on by a couple strands..

 

Also tearing the winch apart to see why it’s not working..

Swapped solenoid and still not working

 

Dig the AntiDark sticker photo bomb. I've though about redoing my hood lighting. I have one of their original kits that I bought for my last Tacoma and transferred over to this one. Aside form the coating yellowing like a crack head's teeth, the strip is still chugging along so I'm leaving it for now. Shame about the lights. One thing that can make or break a good deal is lousy customer service.

 

Wireless and wired? When mine recently stopped working, it was because a single pin where the remote plugs into snapped off.