Yota Lovers 2011 DCLB Build

Thanks! Are those DC 33's giving you any rub w/ 3" of lift?

 

Thanks for the offer, but I'm not going much over 32" until I go long travel or SAS... And that's years down the road.

If you do pick up the AP Apex it'll eliminate a lot of issues on the front side of the fenders. Sick approach on that bumper.

 

Apex was my best option off the shelf, and I got in on the group buy so I had to pull the trigger.

 

id get the rock defense front:
http://www.trail-gear.com/tacoma-front-bumpers

and the rock defense rear, with built in hitch:
http://www.trail-gear.com/tacoma-rear-bumpers

 

I'd love to see you pull the trigger on those. A matching pair would definitely look trick on your rig and have you well protected.

 

I know right? All I'd have to do is convince the wife...

 

Sick truck man. How the terra grapplers holding up? Thinking about making them my next tire.

 

Thanks! Certainly an expensive work in progress

I got the P rated tires knowing that these first couple of years I would be mostly on pavement while I built up the truck. They've done well in the snow, and they are wearing evenly and as expected running at 36psi. I got rid of the spare, and rotating all 5 every 10k. I expect I'll get 50k+ out of them.

 

BAMF IFS skids came in and I decided to Linex them. Linex guys forgot to get them done over the weekend so they coated them free of charge

Shoutout to JLee at BAMF. Check them out for the newest hotness!
http://www.bayareametalfab.com/

Here they are raw:

 

Hey Chris, i did the same unplanned mod,also looking for a gas tank skid.
What spacers did you use with the 886's,i need to lift the front a bit,the bumper,skid and winch dropped it down again.

 

BAMF rules, that was a sick group buy. Afraid I'll have to install the turd straps to do the tank skid.

I got a set of used 13mm (1/2") spacers, and they got my 1" of lift back. The numbers are posted earlier in this thread. So worth doing.

 

I had the spacers and sold them when i sold my 885's
I need to buy the TURD straps too,found some on Amazon (or should i say Rob found some) for half the price of the Toyota ones.

$53 Spectra Premium ST323 Fuel Tank Strap

http://www.amazon.com/Spectra-Premi...&newCar=1&s=automotive&vehicleType=automotive

 

Lemme guess, the only difference are those effin studs.

 

yup

 

Ghey

 

Another TW member sold his 2011 DCLB, and was selling a set of All-Pro sliders ( ) that needed paint. The price was right so I figured I would put in the elbow grease and rehab them, and resell to help fund my build.

Using a 30-gallon compressor and a Crafstman media blaster loaded with Black Beauty (http://www.blackbeautyabrasives.com/products/) I set about taking them back down to bare steel. I was working the compressor hard, but wanted to keep operating at 100psi to ensure I was really knocking off all of the rust.



I checked all the welds and they looked solid. The blasting media left a nice roughened patina on the sliders that I was happy to see, because I knew it would make a great surface for the self-etching primer.



Once the primer cured I got to work spraying the first coat of black Rustoleum enamel.



You can see it was going on really well. I let that coat cure for a couple days before I sprayed the second coat.



Change: Humidity got trapped under the primer and I wasn't happy with the durability of the rustoleum, so I'm reblasting them and sending them out for linex.

Skids have been sold.

 

http://www.russellperformance.com/mc/speed/truck.shtml

Ordering these now.

 

So I finally got them linexed.





The only bit of prep work you need to do for this install is to widen an existing hole in the LCA to accommodate the 3/8" carriage bolt. Seen below:



Hold the skid up, slide the bolts through, and tighten them up!