aturk's mid-travel, double-locked, pavement princess

I can get pics of the mirror. Image quality you can’t photograph well. It’s great during the day, a little grainy as expected at night. But completely usable at night unlike the factory rear view with a cap/shell. I’m super OCD and it is far superior to a rear view mirror.

 

Pics for you...

 

Installed a RM Engineering PCV solution. I had a JLT catch can on the truck before and that was probably sufficient, but I like new parts.

https://rmengineeringoffroad.com/products/16-23-tacoma-pcv-reroute-kit

Gave the engine bay a detail as well.

 

My SDHQ Switch Pros bracket was slowly eating through my main engine harness loom over time. SDHQ has a few solutions for this but at the end of the day the only one that would work for my truck was cutting about an inch off of the bracket (bracket was designed for multiple models of the switch pro controllers).

Luckily I caught this before it got into any wires, just ate away at some of the plastic loom. Quick job with a cut off wheel and then hit it with a flap wheel to deburr. Now I have a good half inch plus of clearance everywhere.

Went wheeling yesterday, one last time on my current setup. New bumper will be here next week.

 

DRT Rear Bumper and swing out showed up! One of the first out there in the wild so hopefully I can get it on quickly. Powdercoat unfortunately is going to take 2 weeks so we will see.

@drtfabrication has the NICEST parts on the planet. I'll include a few raw pics so you can see the welds, the brackets, the bracing, it's all top notch.

 

Time to bump this thread. I still have a pile of parts to get on, but my Tacoma is my daily probably til the end of the year. Going to wait to see what the election holds, what car prices do, and what happens with interest rates.

So with that said, I don't have the ability to have the truck down for a week or two, but did manage to get the @drtfabrication bumper on last week. Once it cools off I will be back on the trails.

 

Killllller

 

Whoa, never heard of this PCV solution til now. Thanks for posting that up. Truck is lookin good

 

Bump with a little update. Still wheelin.

 

Figured I'd bump with new parts pictures, before some more goodies come in from Black Friday deals.

Rebuilt my OEM axles with CVJ boots and some OEM Toyota outers. Quality on these CVJ boots is pretty wild, so soft and pliable compared to typical CV boots.

Built up a spare set of UCA's with Whiteline bushings, added grease zerks, and sourced some OEM 3rd Gen BJ's from Japan via Ebay. Sandblasted and painted with Eastwood rust preventer and chassis black so hopefully they look nice for a while.

 

Flex test at the local watering hole... Owner is a Toyota guy. Had a little local meetup.

 

That perspective makes the red and blue trucks look like Kei cars.

 

Back to the Wolfbox, do you have a link for the mount you used? Hardwired with fuse taps for the install?

I'm going to order the same for Black Friday.

 

Not the OP but I’m using the Dongar adapter that I stuffed under the headliner. Mount is from Wolfbox: https://wolfbox.com/products/wolfbo...0s-g840h?_pos=1&_psq=oem+bracket&_ss=e&_v=1.0

 

Thanks, I might go that route. My fuse panel is already full of taps for the arb twin and auxbeam panel.

 

There are always double taps: Gebildet 2pcs 12V 24V Mini...

$8 Gebildet 2pcs 12V 24V Mini Dual-port Add-a-Circuit Fuse Tap, Mini Piggy Back Blade Fuse Holder with Dual Wire Harness, 4pcs Mini Fuse (5A/10A) and Fuse Puller

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C2HPT45Z?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

 

Sorry to butcher this build thread, lol...

Do you know if the G900 will work with the dongar pro?

https://dongar.tech/products/dongar-pro

Or only this one?

https://dongar.tech/products/12pin-tacoma

 

I had the Dongar but ended up just hard wiring my Wolfbox into the fuse box with add a fuses. Wolf box does take two power sources.

I used some Alibaba mount, I would just get the Wolfbox mount as it wasn’t available when I got mine. Hard mounting it is definitely better than the straps.

 

Parts keep piling up for the truck, new car hasn’t shown up yet.

But I did include a picture of parts for the new car.