Blackhawke88's Build/Photo Thread

Mine was mostly welded with the cage dropped, but Nick cut the cab to fully 360 weld the top of the back of the cage.

 

Thanks Aaron.

I've also considered just taking the plasma cutter and cutting the entire roof off for the cage build, then welding it back on. But that's a lot of committment lol.

 

wow that is, haha, but ive seen some over builds like that. Are you caging your truck soon?

 

When I get back from Afghanistan the first two weeks of leave I am pretty much dedicating to relaxing at the house and working on the truck. I have two-three days worth of repairs/upkeep to do and another five days to LT the rear end and do a lot of other small projects.

A few weeks after that I will take another two weeks of leave and plan to drive through Kansas and Colorado to get to Utah, and spend some time at Moab.

Considering starting the cage at that point. Still trying to figure out a way that I can get the main tube work in, drive the truck to work, but still be able to drop it down to 360 weld and then mount to the frame.

The truck will definitely get caged, it's just a matter of when. Anytime I see a 2nd gen get caged I study all of the pictures and learn as much as I can from it.

 

Hey buddy do you have any hookups on bedsides?

 

Been following along for a while, definitely a sick Tacoma. The cage looks great. Great work.

 

rebuilt my 930 CVs today with Chromoly inner races. One of the dirtiest jobs on the truck ever.

 

i hate messing with CV grease

 

finally finished my led interior lights. Major PITA:

 

looking good man

 

How the skid plate now from after Glamis.

 

Selling the three KC Rally lights I had on before if anyone is interested. It's these lights:
http://www.kchilites.com/lights/rally800/rally-800-130w-long-range-black

retrofitted with 50w 3000K (middle) and 6000K (sides) HID kits:


$100 each including ballasts and bulbs.

 

Those interior lights looks awesome, the matching blue Beards look good too.

SHots of the interior lights off/mounted?

 

Can't complain that the dome light isn't bright enough now.

More like,"Don't stare at the dome light. You'll go blind."

 

Thanks! I'll get a pic tomorrow during the day. still gotta trim the zip ties. Im always too lazy

I know! I was showing some people my cage tonight and we couldnt see the cage because it was too dark so I turned the dome lights on and it was too bright lol

 

just some of the problems you have to live with when you're truck is bad ass

 

Had a great meet tonight with a bunch of dezert trucks from TW, DR and Facebook:

 

http://youtu.be/BRGwuu_BOrA