I want a truck that Toyota never made

Next I am putting in one black compression screw tab at the lower rear of the front wheel well (pictured in the first picture). Next notice the square opening at the bottom of the front fender on the under side… I am also putting in another one black compression screw tabs. Model number for these tabs are 90189-06236. The 4th picture shows a close-up of these tabs. In the last picture which is on the under side of the rear of the cab.. I am putting in a weird square like compression tab. Model number 76923-04010. One is required per side.

 

These are the 7 rubber covers that in mentioned earlier that need to be removed and where the red compression tabs go into. These holes help to line up where the moulding mounts go. In the last picture you may notice 2 compressed rivet nuts with some red sharpie marks around them already in the bottom of the rocker panel. These line up with the silver spacers that are in the moulding mounts that we marked earlier. I will show more about these later on.

 

Next is to mount 3 metal brackets to the underside of the rocker panel. These holes are already drilled and threaded via the factory. When I bought this truck it had a set of factory accessory nerf bars or step bars installed. These are the exact mounting locations that we are using for these 3 metal brackets that mount to the under side of the truck and the bottom of the rocker ground effects through the aluminum strips that we riveted on earlier. In the 3rd picture you will see that I laid them out as they go on the truck. The longer one goes in the front location and the shorter ones go in the middle location and the rear location. Model number for the longer metal bracket in the front location is 76931-04010 (one needed per side). Model number for the shorter metal brackets in the middle and rear locations is 76931-04020 (2 needed per side).

 

Mounting the moulding mount to the rocker panel, I used a screw (90159-60603) to go into the black plastic grommet (90189-06236) that was inserted earlier… the first picture. The second picture, I did the same thing inside the back of the front wheel well. I also used the same type of screw to hold in the back moulding mount into the weird square like compression tab (model number 76923-04010) not shown in these pictures.

 

The only cutting or modification I had to do to get these ground effects on was to drill the 4 holes per side that we marked earlier. In the first picture you will see the M6 Zinc plated carbon steel rivet nuts and the

$9 M6-1.0 M6 Black Acorn Cap Nuts, Stainless Steel 304 (18-8) Black Coating Acorn Nuts, 20Pcs-Pack

M6-1.0 x 16mm flange bolts that I used. In the second picture you will see a red mark on the rivet nut. I used this as a reference because I had to grind down the rivet nuts by about a 1/4 inch to fit in the holes I drilled in the under side rocker panel because they were too long. The third pictures show a rivet nut cut down to size next to one that is going to be cut down to size. The fourth picture shows the Doyle 10 inch Professional Rivet Nut Setter that I used to compress these rivet nuts into the under side of the rocker. The fifth picture is a closeup of the silver space that we used to mark the under side of the rocker panel and where the M6 flange bolt is going to go though to thread up with the rivet nut to hold this moulding mount into place firmly.

 

A few pictures of the moulding mounts and metal brackets completely in place and tightened down… ready to hold the side rocker ground effect in place.

 

At this point, I screwed a screw (90159-60603) into the white grommet that is on the front of the moulding mount in the front wheel well around (pictured in the last picture). Next I aligned the rocker ground effect with the pink and yellow compression tabs on the side of the moulding mounts and firmly press them together one at a time working my way to the back of the truck. Next I used three

$9 M6-1.0 M6 Black Acorn Cap Nuts, Stainless Steel 304 (18-8) Black Coating Acorn Nuts, 20Pcs-Pack

M6-1.0 x 16mm flange bolts and matching nuts to go in though the bottom of the rocker ground effect into the metal brackets that were hanging down.. that we installed earlier.

 

Power antenna goes with the theme.

 

Wish I saw this when did my double cab . Got those clip for bottom but didnt know were it went . Bolted mine to pinch weld . Hopefully the double cab drain holes on mine line up . Nice documentation throughout your whole build . Excellent job

 

WOW this is one of the nicest builds I have ever seen, im sure you have such a good feeling now that your done. I hope to have my taco this pristine one day! EXCELLENT JOB

 

Thank you very much. It is nice to hear the positive feedback with all the work put into this truck. I don't think I will ever be done but it is very nice to be done with this phase. The first phase of doing the rolling chassis swap took about a year and a half. This second phase doing the panels swaps and ground effects took around a year. I love playing around with my vehicles and have tons of things I want to do but time and money hold me back.

 

I went back and pulled off the rear bumper spats and added the factory rubber surround that was removed by the body shop before painting.

 

Her first official wash, since she got her X-Runner panels and ground effects put on. A lot more work cleaning a truck with the ground effects... something I never thought about but I am loving the look of the new X-PreRunner.

 

The attention to detail is incredible, excellent job!

 

Cool

 

Looks great! Fantastic work

 

Interior shots?

 

Everything you've done @sshadow69 has been top notch. Based on everything you've done, I certainly trust your "design" and judgement over my own. I agree with your thought of larger rims and I've seen first hand where 20" rims are just too darn big on the wrong car/truck. I also agree with everything yo said in your above post. Don't mean to add pressure but I'm thinking the wheel offset decision may be the most difficult one you've had to make. I'm thinking it's going to be huge!

Good Luck! Very much looking forward to see what you decide to do

 

I am going to fastback a little bit and show some projects that I did to the interior when I first bought the truck. I am going to first start with the speakers that I installed... Infinity Reference REF-9630CX (6x9 separates) front and rear.