MMyota's 01 Dcab Build

what was wrong with the old ones?

 

Yeah welding sheet metal sucks! LOL... other than that its pretty straight forward. I didnt mount and unmount my tire a gazillion times to see if it was good i just made my lines with a marker and went to cutting. On the bottom of the fender there are 2 nuts i ran my line right between the 2 of them. Thatll give you a idea of how far back i went. I kept the flares and just unbolted them and trimmed to fender on the inside.If that makes sense.

Nothing wrong with them. I already had these from my last tacoma. i figured since i was going with all the black stuff id put on black taillights as well.

 

looking to sell just the lenses?

 

Finally got around to hooking up the 4wd light on the gauge cluster. The transformation is complete

 

this is a very nice 1st gen build.
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So the Prerunner's have the 4wd light in the dash? How did you go about hooking it up?

 

Yep its in there no bulb but you can use another bulb( washer resevoir)

 

winch installed not wired yet though im exhausted and didnt feel like doing it tonight.

 

Nice! Did you fabricate the mounting yourself?

I like the subtle look.

 

yep fabbed it up a couple months ago finally got around to ordering the winch though.

 

nice truck ,, now i wich i still had my 2001

 

Well pretty eventful weekend started out friday installing a 3in toytec lift on my buddies taco after work only took 3 hrs. Then attempted to wire my winch only to discover it didnt work( would go in and made a horrible grinding on out, engo is setting it straight though no worries). Went wheeling at the great american park satuday to break in my buddies new lift. Sunday welded up some nerf bars for a coworker and helped another coworker change some lower balljoints on his kids truck. Well enough talking ill let yall see some pics of all the action.

 

Sliders just showed up only problem is there is supposed to be 8 mounting legs. Damn more waiting...

 

your truck is sweet, its gonna be cool to see where you go with this pick up. mind if i ask what the cost ran you to put in the manual trans? i have always wondered how much it is. i want mine to be a 5 speed

 

Well actually the 5 speed and tcase and front diff where all free. They came off of a 2000 tacoma that i flipped back in 08. But with that being said i was able to source a 5speed tranny and tcase with driveshafts for $400 after my cousin blew his up in his 04 tacoma 2.7.

 

sweet deal. do you have any idea what it usually would cost if you didnt get those parts from the other tacomas?

 

damn got three sick ass rides. my friend has that same dually with a 12ich lift and only 35's... gas milage -3

 

subbd

 

Did you ever do this?

 

Just gonna start off with saying YOU ARE THE MAN for doing the 4x4 swap all the posts I've read everyone says to trade it but you did it! I have the same truck a 04 v6 TRD Prerunner, auto trans on 265/85/18 dick cepek black and silver. I wanna do the same thing to mine and have been reading and compiling info so I will probably get on here and pick your brain once in a while if you don't mind, the yota looks great btw! thanks for your service as well