Building the "BEAST"

Here are some magazines the truck made it into. I won't show the entire article. That would be unfair to the magazine. Most of these you an get on back order.
I will show the cover first then the first page of the article.

This is the first issue of 4wd Toyota owner magazine.



This is part two of the build up of the truck.



This was the Four Wheeler magazine article that had a small blip of t from the Off Road Expo.

 

Sickkkkkkkkk

 

After the show we then took the bed off to start our tube bed set up and to get the bed over to Glassworks so they can use it to make rear glass fenders for it.

 

your enjoying teasing us with this slow, tantilizing, visual metamorphosis ain't ya?.....lol

now where was I....................oh yeah>>>>

 

just got a scrip to the mag also, thanks for the link.

 

I'm updating some more tonight so stay tuned. You'll like this next segment.

 

haven't seen any I don't like yet....lol


still have plenty>>>

 

Holy Crap!!!!

Where has this build been? I can't believe I've missed this amazing build. I'm glad I'm now subscribed.
Great job on EVERYTHING! I love where you're taking this. Rep given....

 

After we got the bed off, it was time to get the correct springs and mount them. We used custom Deaver 63" long springs for this truck and they wouldn't fit in the stock postition so we needed to make some new rear spring hangers. These works of art are all Jason DeMello, and they work perfect.



The bar you see going across the top is there until we get the rear boxed in to make sure nothing moves on us. The dimped died piece you see will be the new rear cross bracket.

Now that the spring hangers are done it was time to finish boxing the rear of the frame. We kept some of the stock frame and just boxed it in and some of the frame is entirely DeMello built.


Here you can see the tire mount, thats the three tubes comin into one, the dual battery box mount which is the tray you see there and the rest of the boxed frame.




Here is a close up of the detailed work of one of our talented welders, Jordan. Nope, it wasn't me. I wish I could lay down a set of beads like that.


Here you can see the tube work taking shape while we were pre-testing some of it's flex.


It was now time to redo the exaust. We had to do this because when we changed the cross members, it was now in the way of the exsaust and we wanted the exaust tucked up in the frame anyway.




Here the exaust is finished and is nowhere to be seen. It's al tucked up inside the frame wells and now it's out f harms way. Even the crossover pipe is up and out of the way.

Stay tuned for more fun

 

Thanks guys. Thanks alot.

 

I'm not sure its even a Tacoma anymore.....but I love it!!!!!!!!

 

Yeah, what he said.....

 

I just want to be able to help others realize and achieve their full potential..... Was that good BS or what?!?!?

No really, this guys truck was going to be just a regular old sas until Jason and I showed him that he could ave a much better truck with just a minimal amont of investment over a regular sas.


I'll be doing a build thread on this one also.

 

man I love your truck...subscription

 

Thank you very much.

 

wow! freakin sweet!!

 

price / parts breakdown?