nimrod712's '08 Build Thread

Yeah, they turned out nice! Thanks to Vin!

 

Looking good!

Love what you did with the All Pro! dreaming of welding mine

 

You're welcome, but I feel like a fan watching you do this build. It's all coming together now and my jaw just dropped with I saw this Stealth Beast. Definitely do a proper photo shoot and we'll get your truck on our website!

 

Looks fantastic! The 305's look just as big as the 315's. Very nice work on the flares too

Since I seem to keep asking you to measure things, when you get a chance, measure the height from the pavement to your tranny cross member? I'd like to see the real world difference from the 305 to the 315.....

 

Subbed..

 

Yep, did the flares pretty much just like yours except I only went 2.5". I wanted to glue the bottom half back on and still might, but this way was just too freaking easy lol

I will measure it this afternoon. Gotta do a little work on the truck anyway.

 

well shit, yesterday i literally just started to look into the stealth 6s and then i find this build! damn they look good with a black taco! nice job man

 

nice cut!

so 2.5" off and covered with some sort of seal? any problems with it staying on yet?

i don't think i'll end up cutting, but when shit turns out looking that good, it's hard not to want it cut haha


what was your tool of choice on the cut?

 

Thanks, guys!

I'll take some pictures of what I did this afternoon for ya, but it is very similar to the way MadToy and MrGrimm did theirs. I ended up leaving some tabs that fold back into the fender well for flare and fender liner mounting purposes. The seal is just "edge trim". I've used it before for various things, and it works fine as long as it is very clean whenever you put it on. As for the tool, I did major cuts with a grinder and did the round sections with a dremel and cutoff wheel. I thought about buying a body saw, but the dremel did a pretty fair job I think.

 

These wheels are the only reason I may think about running 17's next...

Matt

 

Took a couple pics of how I did my fenders/flares. I just left a section of fender right where each of the stock screws were for the flares. Then I bent those pieces back into the fender well. The plan is to drill holes in those and either make the stock fender liners fit or use some plastic sheet of some sort. Then I am going to epoxy some tabs onto the flares and screw them into the tabs on the fenders. This should give the flares plenty of stability, as they move around a bit while driving down the road right now.

 

I was going to get some measurements for you today, but I decided that my front is lifted too much, so I will measure after I drop it down and get another alignment. I swear, if I could balance tires and alignments, I would never go back to a shop again.

 

14.75" to the center of the trans x-member. That is with approximately 2.5" of lift.
Speaking of which, I'm worried that I might have too much preload

 

Wow. I'm at 14.5" - although that's to the corner before it angles up to the frame. And I'm right at 3" lift.

 

Hmmm, maybe I measured wrong. I'll check again this evening.

 

I see where the center of the support is higher than the outside ends, so you may have done it right. I can't get to the center on mine with the skid plate there.

I would say to measure from the ground to the fender opening - but that won't work too well for either of us!

 

I'm just barely over 14" on the outside end of the cross member. Like maybe 14 & 1/8".

 

Found some pics of where I installed the SMS double shear UCA gussets. I was doing this just because, but when I pulled the UCAs this last time, both bolts were bent. So that made me feel better about the purchase.

 

fancy

 

Oh, and I had forgotten but when I pulled the driver side front hub off the spindle, you could see where the bearings were wearing bad. Very dusty. Toyota replaced that side under warranty about 30k ago. On further inspection I found where they had not installed the seal between the bearing and hub. They also left out the O-ring, which I'm not sure what that thing does anyway. Then when I pressed/cut the bearing off the hub, I found where they had apparently tried to pry the old bearing off the hub- lots of screwdriver gouges. I should have taken pics of this, but oh well. I did take a pic of the "tool" that I rigged up to assist in pressing the old bearing off. Just used some 1/4" plate welded on top of some angle iron. It worked, but I need to weld the angle to a base plate as I was somewhat scared that they were gonna shoot out of there while I was cranking the press down. Not one of my smarter moments.
Anyway here's my tool