mrbeggins 04 Tacoma Build

Awesome thanks, Did you notice if your truck lowered down at all in the front with the winch and the bumper??

 

Yea I lost about an inch between the bumper and winch. The synthetic line was a savour though. It shaves a ton of weight.

 

Is that Viking line? Or what line did you go with?

 

It's Amsteel Blue line. Essentially masterpull...

 

Thanks! I was about to try that but I didn't know if you found other clips that you painted instead of the factory ones

 

MOAR pictures, also picked up a full size spare yesterday afternoon! I'm good to go now!!


image by Tanner Tucker, on Flickr

image by Tanner Tucker, on Flickr

image by Tanner Tucker, on Flickr

image by Tanner Tucker, on Flickr

 

A few more from a sunny afternoon


image by Tanner Tucker, on Flickr

image by Tanner Tucker, on Flickr

image by Tanner Tucker, on Flickr

 

I like your winch setup! I did the same application with mine

 

great looking truck, and you live or atleast ride around in an absolutely beautiful area!

 

what size tires did you have on before you cut the firewalls out and went to 35's

 

Thanks, it actually worked out well switching from the T-Max to the Warn. I had to cut the grill for the T max to fit on the left side, but that's where I ended up putting my tranny cooler. Now there's direct air flow to the cooler, which helps a lot. I took out the electric fan as it cooled believe it or not....to much. If anyone locally needs an electric fan from a CBR600 street bike I've got one for sale

Warn...the best. That's all I can say haha. That old warn I put in came out of my brothers XJ on 40's. Which might I add...the winch has sat in his shed for nearly 4 years not being used. It was used and abused in its lifetime. It's had some really hard pulls and still works like a champ. I'll never stray away from a Warn again....

 

I had 285/75/16's before the 35's. Cute little guys

 

haha, with wheel spacers or what? i only have 31's on my truck now, did you have any rubbing issues?

 

I cut up my grille for the winch to fit but I think it looks good! The winch fits in the grille like a puzzle piece. I like how the "Warn" is right below the Toyota emblem. Makes it stand out more.

 

Yes I've always ran 1 1/4" spydertrax wheel spacers on all 4 corners. I rubbed a but when I had the 33's but it wasn't to the point where I needed to do anything about it. I think most people just beat the pinch weld into submission in order to clear 33's. I cut mine back....

 

Yea if I were to do it over again, I would have only cut out enough space for the warn, but I acquired it at a later date. Who knows...i might still buy another eom grill and craft it in perfectly for the warn.

 

I feel like it would look really cool to cut it out in a satoshi grille. That's what I wanted to do at first, but then j decided it would be too much work...haha

 

Went wheelin again today instead of sitting around the house. I wanted to see how bad (icy) are local trails were after all the snow. Well...there nasty hahaha. I only made it about half way then decided to turn around after winching up a small set of ledges. It was last Halloween all over again haha


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There was about 8" of fresh snow, and I had the only truck tracks up the trail

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This is where shit got nasty...I gave this set of ledges a good ~10 try's then decided to hook up the winch and save the tires and digging through 2" of ice lol

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A look back at the long journey

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This ledge is about the same height as a 35" tire. That's 2" of ice built up on the left side of it....

image by Tanner Tucker, on Flickr

This is where I called it quits and turned around. Not before taking a few pictures that is...

image by Tanner Tucker, on Flickr

image by Tanner Tucker, on Flickr

Quite possibly one of the funnest 3 hrs of wheeling I've had in a long time. I love winter wheeling

Here's a quick video of todays fun! Excuse the amateur editing skillzz...
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...top_uri=/watch?v=e8OjunoDfRk&feature=youtu.be

 

Winter wheeling FTW! Great truck you have there!

 

Thanks! I heard the Edmonton area got hammered! How much snow do you guys up there!?