Trey’s Semi Modified Started From as a Stocker in High School Build

Well 6.5 years in I might as well start a build thread...

How “el taco/the fish taco” sits now:

Mileage: ~54,000
Year: 2015
Model: DCSB Trd Off-road 4x4

Bumpers and Armor:

• ARB Deluxe Bull Bar
• Slee Off Road Front Slid Plate
• Slee Off Road Transmission Skid
• Slee Off Road Sliders
• Brute Force Fab Hi Clearance Bumper w/ Swingout

Lighting:

• Cheapo Nilight LED Light Bar from Amazon, surprisingly good!
• KC C Series RGB Rocklights
• Redline Tuning Spec D Headlights in Black with DRL Tube
• ARB Foglight Kit
• Runnin4Tacos “Raptor” Lights
• More to come...

Recovery:

• Max trax in Red
• More to come...

Suspension:

• Icon stage 2, remote reservoir in rear.
• Procomp UCAs
• OME Dakar HD Rear Leaf Pack

Wheels and Tires

• TRD Pro 4Runner wheels in black
• BFG Ko2 in 285/70/17, load range E

Misc + Camping:

• Caliraised Half Bed Rack
• Thule Tepui Autana RTT
• Interior Switches from Cruiserheads
• Pioneer Headunit with Car Play
• Yeti Coolers 35
• Stickers for days

Backstory —
My truck began life as the title implies as my high school graduation gift.
15 Miles on the clock!
What it replaced:

It stayed pretty close to stock for a while, save for the chrome bull bar and some steps.

Saved up between the summer, graduation gift money, and my job that I had working for my high school as a graphic designer to get my first lift in the fall of my first year of having the truck; just a block lift to clear bigger tires and some bilsteins up front.


Didn’t ride the best but man was I hooked into having a lifted truck!

The mods were still pretty slow at this point; got a real job and was trying to establish a nice savings account before really doing more. Invested in some UCAs to help with getting better alignment, nothing too much fancy. Also adopted got some vanity plates — “el taco”.

March 2019 marked the turning point for the truck. Having a “real job” for a while at this point and having received a really unexpected bonus I decided to pull the trigger on a real suspension and the arb bumper I had always wanted.


Setup was great! Finally decided to do some “real wheeling.”



Got some skid plates and rock sliders during that time.

Then COVID...
Well like many of us I rediscovered the great outdoors this year and had a great time wheeling my truck more than I had before. And that’s really where the mods began and what gets us to how we sit now. It’s truly a cause and effect scenario.

• Looking for something to occupy my time for a couple hours and it was on sale — trd pro grille and raptor lights.
  
• Damaged my bed side and wheels on a trail; got the trd wheels I had wanted for a while and called Billy within the week...
• Slept in my friend’s rtt for the night; started scouting Craigslist and found one within 2 weeks.
• Spent way too much time looking at Instagram; had to get the new headlights.
• Wanted to play amateur electrician and learn some wiring, ordered a light bar and some rock lights.
• Saw how the tent was sagging the leafs, new leaf pack for the back.

I’ve really enjoyed this truck and I’ll never sell it; it’s been on some great road trips this year and in years before. I feel like it’s pretty dialed in at this point other than lighting and some misc things, but I said that when it had a bull bar — so who knows anymore.

 

nice build!