Sasquatch3153's backyard mechanic build

Finally doing a build thread before I get too far into the truck that it's pointless lol

So my truck is a 2010 ACLB OR that I purchased back in June of 2015 with around 65k miles I think. I originally wanted to build a broverlanding rig and then I went wheeling and I went from doing an overland rig to a wheeling/camping rig that I want to stupid shit in. So here's a day of purchase pic and a current pic. And please bear with me I'm doing this on a tablet. I seriously need to build a new PC



As of 8/21/22




and here is a couple of pics of my uncle's 05. main reason I wanted a Tacoma was seeing the punishment he put his through just from hunting

 

So here's my list of current and past mods

Armor

• SOS Concepts full skid plates
• Mobtown Off-road gas tank skid plate
• SOS Concepts sliders
• Mobtown Off-road HC rear bumper w/ swing out
• BAMF front bumper

Suspension

• OME Nitrocharger sport shocks with 886 coils
• ICON UCAs (hanging on the wall of shame)
• Total Chaos UCAs
• Total Chaos Race Series LCAs - completely rebuilt and and repowdercoated
• All-Pro Expo HD Leaf Pack
• U-bolt flip kit with timbren bump stops
• TC gusseted spindles
• Taco tabs from Poly performance

Miscellaneous

• Tech Deck from Birddawg industries
• Front seat risers from Desertdoesit (love them)
• Leer topper with Thule roof rack and Yakima basket - sold
• Softopper
• Mobtown Off-road tailgate reinforcement plate and cap
• Mirror riser from Birddawg industries
• Bed corner tie downs from At the Helm Fab
• Total Chaos bed stiffeners
• Aluminum bedside cap from KB Voodoo
• HomerTaco grill
• SDHQ ABS guards

Lighting

• 2 Baja Designs Squadron SAE fog lights, currently acting as temporary ditch lights
• 30 inch Rigid light bar, white
• 2 Diode Dynamics SS3 Pro fog lights in the bumper

Tires/wheels

• Oem OR wheels with 265/75r16 Cooper AT3s - sold the tires and have the wheels collecting dust in my garage
• FJ Cruiser alloys with 285/70r17 Cooper ST Maxx's - removed, Coopers sold
• Method Race Wheels wrapped in 35x10.50R17 Toyo ATs

Recovery

• Smittybilt 10k pound winch
• Smittybilt recovery bag with snatch block, snatch strap, tree saver, 4 D-Rings, 1 chain, pair of gloves

Drivetrain

• Tom Woods single piece driveshaft - dented up the oem driveshaft (whoops)

I'll keep this post and the first post updated with pics and mods

 

Reserved

 

Ok now that I got the desktop hooked back up I can do a cleaner post

Now my first mod was a Leer topper because I was gonna do a sleeping platform because I was originally going to do a broverlanding rig but that changed when I met @G.T. @mcharfauros @VangaSTL @HIYota and @Tacomania I decided to gear the truck more towards wheeling with some overlanding involved (eventually). Took the platform out after the 2nd Shamrock Shakedown down at Windrock Park in Oliver Springs, Tennessee


My Second mod was a set of Sliders from SOS Concepts. I really need to repaint them

 

Excellent!

 

Need to hook my pc back up so I can clean this mess up

 

Next I went on my First wheeling/camping trip with G.T., VangaSTL, mcharfauros and his brother, and Tacomania. and this is where I met @HomerTaco

This is just just a wheeling photodump
oh I rode along on the first day because my truck was still stock and the only protection I had were my sliders and oem skids

 

Pssht, riding along just because your truck is stock....

 

about a month or 2 after that @Thtguyrandy was getting long travel so I bought his OME shocks and Icon UCAs I started to look for new wheels and tires
I realized the uniballs on the icons were shot to hell so I'd go ahead and replace them. Well......that didn't work out too well because a snap ring was fused to one of the UCAs rendering one of them completely useless so I decided to get the TC UCAs and had to drive my Slowbaru for a couple of weeks
after all that I got a set of FJ wheels and then ordered Cooper ST Maxx tires in 285/70/17

ATR was about a month or so away I didn't have skids still until @mcharfauros gave me a discount code for a full set of SOS Concepts skids no pics of them but we all now what skids look like so after that I was as ready as I could be for ATR and couldn't wait to hit some harder trails and really put the Taco to the test. Also picked up a couple of battle scars (whoops lol)

 

I didn't have my skids yet

 

So the last night at ATR was the raffle and I won the $2500 gift card from @Mobtown Offroad so I ordered my HC rear bumper w/ the swingout, the gas tank skid, and the tailgate reinforcement plate and cap. got the bumper a couple of months later and was super giddy. So with the weight of the bumper I decided to sell the Leer topper so I didn't have all of that weight on the rear and got a Softopper

 

During this past winter I noticed my truck was vibrating and it was gradually getting worse so I went to my garage and jacked up the rear of the truck and let it run and I looked underneath and my driveshaft wobbling pretty damn bad so I dropped it. I knew I had a dent on it but I didn't realize how bad it was until I took the driveshaft out

So after realizing that the shaft was pretty much done for a started to shop around for either a new factory shaft or get this one beefed up. After hearing nothing but good things about Tom Woods' driveshafts I decided to give them a call. Their shafts were about $50 more give or take then a a new factory shaft and decided to order a single piece and so far I have no complaints. I'm actually planning on ordering another one so I have a spare

And then the 3rd annual Shamrock Shakedown was coming up and the truck was pretty much ready to go and didn't need to buy any last minute items/parts and the truck did amazing

 

And now we're all caught up. I decided to take the Softopper off for now due to all of the hauling I've been doing lately so here is the most current pic

 

good looking build!

 

thank you next major upgrades are gonna be LCAs and a front bumper after I sell the slowbaru

Edit: gonna add your build thread to my watch list

 

good write up and pics !

 

Thanks! It was actually a mess earlier. I pulled my desktop out so I can clean it up better. I really need to get a laptop