Iowa Tacomas (Idiots.Out.Wandering.Around)

I feel like you’re in my predicament. “To busy” to do anything.

 

It's a true story. First year at this gig so PTO time is a bit scarce. It will be better after June, but still. Also, the kid is starting to get into stuff, she's 7, and that is taking "personal" time away as well. I'm not complaining about that, just a fact of life. The time is there, I just have to "find" it. Which makes it harder to just "do" things. All has to be planned out and you have to hope something doesn't come up to then have those plan's fall through.

Adulting is dumb.

 

is DSM 1st gen Tacoma friendly? been looking for a body shop that knows a thing or two because they've seen a thing or two

my aimless search around the Omaha area last year literally wore me out, nobody seemed to know much anything about the 'frame rot' issue, I tried at least 7 or 8 places before giving up

the endless searching on TW is not proving fruitful to the 'unique' situation at hand
the company i have been using to source supplies for this does not know much about the Tacoma situation either

 

The people I know only came back with hot-rod style shops that do good bodywork. The problem is, they do good work so they are constantly booked with work they WANT to do. So you would be hard pressed to get a good shop to WANT to do something like fighting rust on a older Toyota pickup. Your best bet is going to be hitting up 4x4 guys or even 4x4 shops in the DSM area and ask them for advice.

 

take it to Toyota of Iowa City. they did mine.

cost Toyota $12-14,000 according to the invoices.

 

maybe he should slam it and a strap on a supercharger. then its a show truck and everyone will wanna fix it.

 

Is he talking about straight replacing the frame or repairing whats left? Two totally different stories and I'm not sure why you would want to approach a body/frame shop about that kind of work and not just go to a reputable Toyota dealer.

 

PS. - A good body shop would cost you well north of that in just about every instance... Unless there is VERY little work to be done.

 

i am doing this myself but i just feel that i am going to be doing something or other bad to it.. because i am clueless in a rush to get this done

the hunt for kosher and real advice is ridiculous for the condition i have kept my truck in for almost 23 years

 

no one knows lol the only thing we know is no one knows anything

 

there is a lot of work to be done, all garbage paint removed and replaced with higher quality chip and chemical resistant stuff

the last shop locally in Omaha i went to quoted me $10,000 to do this with some brand of paint they use i forget which

 

just pull everything off and recoat the frame. my buddy is doing that to his chevelle, it can't be that hard... the project is going on 10 years but thats not the point.

 

i have not yet found any problems that would justify a whole new frame, which is good!

 

Yeah. I don’t care about PTO. I’ll be out early this year and it won’t reset till September. Oh well.
I have 4 kids to contend with. Super hard to find time to leave everyone to go do stuff. I have 2/3 big things piled on my plate I have to get done and I’m totally slacking on them

 

and you are going to Alaska for 4 weeks

 

When am I doing that?

 

July

 

2020?

 

yes