Gear Head's Solid Axle Turbo Tacoma Build

I think the market for beatup swapped built tacomas are small, you are going to have to part that thing out.

 

Haha it would be much easier to explain if I could blame it on her

I'm really tired of living in a neighborhood. I'm thinking I sell the truck now, pay off the powerstroke, focus on saving my ass off, move in the next ~2 years, then build a sami buggy when I get settled.

 

I'll keep it before I part it out. It will sell, will just take time. It gets beat on but it's far from beat up! Was a cherry until I rolled it but I've got a new door and a new fender in the garage. I'll peel the dip and clean it up real good, paint everything and I'm sure that will help.

 

Yea im in the same boat, looking to move to the sticks.

 

Finally got my parts in. TG warrantied the input and replaced it with a 23 spline and I had to purchase the coupler. Quite a bit more meat to the 23 spline! Maybe that'll hold up to some boost

 

Snap ring pliers.. custom as fuck

 

Hahahaha still can't believe this worked. That was a monster of a snap ring. Should have taken a picture of the first set of pliers we tried this with lmao

 

Yea that snap ring can kiss my ass!!

 

Fuck that snap ring. I thought I broke my neighbors window when it popped off my pliers and took flight.

 

Haha we ripped the first set of pliers in half

 

My problem is my snap ring pliers (some crazy expensive ones from snap on, the biggest ones they have) don't open far enough when taking the ring off, so its an eye popping (literally) tap dance of blindness with the snap rings and screwdrivers to get it off!

I actually have a few extra snap rings, but reuse my original one because can at least get it on and off halfway easyish.

Getting the ring on i get it half way on the coupler, and smack it with a hammer and screwdrivers.

 

Yeah I was scared for my life haha. I held my hand over it while @Mothman and our buddy worked it on.

On a side note, you still want that shaft? I found it when I was cleaning up and realized I forgot... Again haha. Shoot me your zip and I'll get you a quote

 

Picked up a little something yesterday

 

Got all my tires dismounted today. Turns out dismounting is a really hard to do with just tire irons. A buddy gave me this tip and worked surprisingly well

 

I hope these things hook as good as they look





Compared to one of my iroks. The creepy is not mounted and the irok has 10-15psi in it

 

@Supra TT would know

 

Yeah he's not a fan. I picked these up cheap enough to take the risk. Plus we live in different areas so they may do better here than up where's he's at so we'll see.

 

What a chore this was... damn! Sidewalls on these are stout!

 

You have more patience than I do. I tried mounting one, quickly gave up and took them all to the tire shop.

 

Haha I messed with the first one for about 30 min and wasn't making any progress. I quit and was going to take them to the tire shop tomorrow but I went back out and messed with them some more and figured out the trick to them but it still took me 15-20 min a tire compared to about 1-2 min a tire when I did my iroks. I guess that's the difference between a used broken in tire and a new one with a much thicker sidewall