Jerneyman's Taco Build w/ Chevy 63 Swap and Welding Thread

I had the locker engaged so it wasn’t all too bad. The mud was awful yesterday though.

 

Little upgrade to the tool box situation for the bed of the truck. I love these Ridgid tool boxes. Definitely be getting additional boxes to stack on there in the future.

 

Little bit of fun from this weekend’s bachelor party/trip for an old coworker and college friend. Here’s a photo dump. If you have to ask what’s going on, remember, this was a bachelor party and things got weird. Enjoy.

 

More pictures from the Hawk Pride bachelor party courtesy of a buddy of mine with more than just a camera on his phone.


Got a bit hung up in the mud... only took two samurais linked together to have enough inertia to pull me out. Was definitely a sight to see.

 

that pathfinder is screaming “SAS me”

 

Oh absolutely. He's wanting to do that in the future. For now he's lifting it with old XJ springs and putting 33s on it.

 

Fixed my skids and ultra reinforced them. Next time skids will be built using 1/4” plate.

 

Finally time for a new front bumper. Decided to ditch the aluminum constructed CBI Moab 2.0 for my own custom built hybrid bumper made from American made steel. I started with a simple design for the winch cradle then basically built from there. My biggest concern was strength followed by proper drainage. Then came style, I really liked the idea of a full hoop all the way around the front of the truck and then an extra tall grille hoop, but not quite a stinger.

 

Bumpers all finished with winch and lights all installed. I definitely enjoyed having this engine hoist for the install, made my life much easier. Really like how it looks all loaded up.

 

First post here in a while. Stuff has changed quite a lot for me over the last year. Moved houses and ended up downgrading in the size of my attached garage so stuff had to come to a bit of a hault for a while until we got settled. Well, we got settled and was able to get my dream shop built right next to our house.

It’s a 30x30 w/ 13 foot ceilings just asking to have a lift installed. So far, I’m very happy with all the extra space and plan on building some cool stuff in here for myself and hopefully others.

Ignore the ugly construction garbage on the front....


Here’s the inside complete with a good size workbench, a cabinet for all my spray cans and chemicals, and all the electrical plugs you could ever imagine.



More truck mods to come, I promise.

 

Long time, no post. Recently installed the cab mount relocation kit from DRT Fabrication. Definitely worth the money to get rid of the stock cab mounts. Install wasn’t too bad aside from getting the frame completely clean of factory welds. Whole job took about 5 hours start to finish.

 

Also, unrelated to the Tacoma but related to fab work and what I’ve been dumping my money in to lately, here’s some photos of my rock crawler.