Rusted Frame

Anything can be fixed with a good enough welder...just gotta find the right person to do it. @Wyoming09 fixes up frames and might have some advice on your situation

 

Only you know what you want to do replace or build a new frame or sell as is.

Where does the truck live??

Then what is the rest of the truck like kinda dumb if it needs a total rebuild suspension brakes etc Time for a timing Belt??

Put $10,000.00 into plus new paint and body work if you like paint

 

Western part of Virginia, close to Harrisonburg truck. It needs a lot of new things but my main worry is the frame

 

I bought the truck for 9k put another 2-3k into it I might as well get a new truck instead of investing another 10k

 

The $10,000.00 figure was pretty much rebuilding the bottom of the truck .

Then with these jobs you really don`t know what your getting into until the prep work starts and you find out just how bad things are

 

Wow

 

Yeah it’s not good

 

For whatever it's worth, the frame that Toyota put on my truck was made by Metalsa Structural Products of Owesboro Kentucky. Maybe you can buy direct from them.

 

Toyota’s recall coverage of frames has expired right? I’ll have to sell my truck as much as I like it if it’ll be that expensive

 

It was never a recall!! But a extended warranty for 15 years from day of registration in Northern States

 

It never was a recall. It was an extended warranty. It is expired for your truck. It's still available for some 2004 model year trucks (give or take). I have no idea how much it costs to buy the frame directly, or if that's even possible. I was just suggesting a possible alternative. It's totally up to you if it's worth the cost and labor. Sorry about your truck.

 

That's wrong, too. 15 years from date of first use. And it available to all US trucks, not just trucks in "North States", which Toyota calls Cold Weather States. The trucks in the cold weather states also have to have been inspected and treated by Toyota by a specific date in order for the warranty to remain valid. The trucks not in cold weather states don't have the inspection/coating requirement.

 

Ok. You know what I meant

 

Yeah, I’ll be without it for at least a week until the part comes in so I have to drive a Nissan car. I suppose I’ll update this thread when the part comes in.

 

FYI a double cab frame and a extended cab frame are very similar. you just need to cut off 2 bed mounts and 2 cab mounts. You can order new bed and cab mounts from a Toyota dealer.

 

You sell it for that I want half, and it will work you just need to weld new cab and bed mounts

 

I might end up having to get that reg cab frome u and move the mounts

 

That is just how the lack of information to the local Toyota dealers was.

Then things might have changed since it all started This is what I was told by my Local Dealers Service Manager after buying parts for like my 4th Tacoma Frame Repair

 

I thought the frames were made by Dana Corp. which is now defunct due to having paying out huge lawsuit money over these frames from Toyota? As I understood it, Toyota sued the crap out of them and used that money to pay for frame replacements and or buybacks.

 

I did not order one, toyota did for me, they actually just received it, im rushing to get my clutch done to get it down there. But I do think you can literally order a frame through camelback and it is around 4 grand.