My Turtle Pace L/t build

I also have new (used) tail lights and floormats coming in this week from members on tw (the current mats were beat when I bought the truck). I think i'll like the stance of the truck a lot better with the new springs, I'll need new tires around summer time, would love 35s.

Heres a list of what I need to do so I can keep track:

- Change Oil and revalve coilovers
- Swap springs on coilovers
- Swap mounting plates
- Swap lower uniball bolts
- misc paint (bedside supports, axle, etc)
- Bash in the firewall and clearance the front fenders a little bit
- Swap tail lights
- Paint bedsides some day
- Wire up the led bar
- Get locking nuts for the led bar, had the local pd tell me there have been 12-13 cases of stolen light bars on campus lately

- Paint interior trim pieces
- Vinyl some interior parts

- Definitely on the lookout for new headlights too, bhlm preferred

 

I did get some new mats from a member on here, looks way cleaner:




and I removed the light bar...starting to look a little ricer for me and just not huge on where it is mounted. I think ill be happier with a single row led bar mounted flat on the bumper which is probably what I will be doing... something like this:http://www.ebay.com/itm/181534751675

I think it looks way cleaner without the led bar, also going to plastidip the skidplate black and see if I like the way it looks before painting it.

 

What tire size are you running?
I might of missed it in here I'm on my phone.

 

Post up a review on the bar after you get it. I'm looking toward a couple for my truck.

 

285/75/16s. Basically 33's, I want 35's though.

Yeah, will do. Im curious on the light output myself

 

Anyone wanna buy my light bar?? lol

 

Did you upgrade yet ?

 

Not yet, Im hoping to sell my 42inch first but im about to say screw it and just order it. I think the single rows look way cleaner and double rows led bars are on every diesel on mud terrains out here, sick of seeing them.

 

Price on the light bar?

 

None of your business

 

$200

 

Some updates, believe it or not I finally got a weekend with no rain to take care of the bedsides. They look like crap but way better than white. I sanded down and repainted some stuff that was exposed to rain and had some light surfacer rust, mostly the bedside mounting tubes. The truck looks much better! Im going to strip the front bumper of its paint and clear coat it so it just looks like brushed aluminum. I also plastidipped the silver rings on the method wheels black to see if I like it, and it looks way better. I will run them silver when I get bigger tires.

Running no bedsides and my bumper is beat to shit, so no bumper anymore:



Some of the repainted stuff, It was hot as hell and I was drenched in sweat so I didnt take many pics:






My helper enjoying the sun:



and the final product:

 

I still desperately need a revalve but its hard to do since I dont have another vehicle to get me to class and what not. I want to spend a lot of time cleaning up the truck because honestly it looks a little janky. That, window tint, and the single row led will probably be all for a while.

To be honest losing a little motivation just because I dont know where I'll be moving the next few months. Hopefully California, but if not it may not be practical to keep the truck

 

Ive been a slack ass with posting up here but I sold the tt bedsides and hit up Roadrunner for some flat top bedsides, they did a great job of getting me the bedsides right on time and just as promised (5 days from when I ordered), and these fit worlds better than the fiberwerx bedsides did for me.

Also installed the new tail lights I have had laying in the garage for 6 months now...I think these two changes cleaned up the truck quite a bit, take a look:



Here are the fender mounting bolts I picked up from kartek, I used the metal brackets that came with the fender mounts and drilled those to the composite bed and then drilled a bolt into the top of the bedsides. I still have them mounted at the bottom corners in the same locations that they were on my old bedsides. But these are much sturdier and the hardware looks trick. I used rubber bushings for two of the bottom corners where there will be more vibrations but the rest are aluminum:

 

Also stripped the plastidip off the rings on the wheels so they are back to an aluminum finish, getting my 600#coils powdercoated as well as the lower arms pretty soon, then revalve, the truck will be getting repainted completely either charcoal grey or black

 

Lookin good!

 

Havent updated in a while, so here it goes....

Alternator started going bad so I swapped it out...



A little while later (about a week ago), my belt started squeeking, I was keeping an eye on it but sure enough it snapped on my way back from the beach. I was two miles from O'reilly and lucky enough they had the belt in stock, couple minutes in the parking lot and we were ready to go...no pics though..

Heres what inspired me to finally do my revalve/respring, does it look like I may have bottomed out at some point?





and finally I revalved the coilovers and swapped on some 600lb springs, what a difference these changes made, whole new truck...







The coilovers after revalve, springs, and finally replacing the mounting plates as recommended on page 1 of this thread



Some shots of the rear end..

 

Other than some little things, im pretty happy with the truck and its cleaning up pretty nicely, I would be really happy with how clean it is if I could repowdercoat the lower arms but I dont plan on stripping the truck down, so I'll deal with it.

Plans for the near future:

-New tires (315-75-16): probably this week
-Complete repaint: possibly this week
-Hit the rear end and front bumper with paint: next weekend
-New headlights: ??
-New rear bumper: ???
-Revalve and tune bypasses: at some point, I also want to go from a piggyback reservoir to a remote reservoir...the bedcage interferes with the nitrogen valve on the bypasses so it makes it a pain in the ass to remove and reinstall the bypasses

Other than that Im going to spend my time camping and having fun with the truck finally but if anyone is interested, I may be selling it for a different truck or an older LT yota so I have money leftover for a different daily driver

 

New 295/75/16 nitto all terrains were put on, finished up painting the bumper, got new headlights I need to mount.

Left to do: New rear bumper, bolt up skid plate, repaint truck.

I need to update with pics

 

Trucks officially up for sale, $21,000 obo