Tacokid09's Build

Haha that's awesome Brian! Glad you're recovering. Shitty thing to tear.

 

hahaha taking advantage while i can

yeah man, its a great feeling again.

Yeah definitely dont do that. It suckkks

 

TACOKID... Your truck is sick....I'm looking to something similar to yours...Love your taste... How are the fenders when you drive on the freeway? Any issues? Noise? Vibration?
Thanks

 

^I hope you are ready to drop some serious coin then. Unless you are just going for a poser look.

 

thanks man. The fenders arent bad at all. didnt notice much of anything besides the bedsides shaking since i didnt attach them at the lower wheel wells. now that thats fixed, only issue is the paint doesnt hold up to rock chips at all.

 

That's not a problem.... I'm ready...

 

my truck was looking sad so my friends and i gave it a facelift.

 

I wana fo the conversion since i need new headlights but u need a new hood dont you? Who did you get the parts thru?

edit** and can yah get some pics of the tube job i wana see how yah did it, did you get rid of the inner fender well too?

 

^ X2 wanna do that too

 

Looks good B

 

thanks man!

headlights, hood and grille is what you need.

this is the only picture i got before we painted it, to busy working haha.



and now painted









if you want more, feel free to ask!

The radiator and ac are both removable and will come off together. my fenders are dzus tabbed in for easy removal and kept the stock air box. oh yeah, no more zip ties holding the front together.

 

cant wait to see this thing in glamis again! Just got done with my sua with a fuel cell

 

yeah dude should be a killer time again

 

Thanks gabe

 

so you have to get rid of the rad support and build a new one? also were did you placed you battery, those hood pins look good

 

Nice dude! That looks really clean. Austins beard is getting burley! Haha.

 

well if i get your approval, i know its good then thanks jason.

yeah im going to try to explain this as best i can since we didnt take much pictures.. What we did was took the rad/ac cooler out and set it up as if were stock on the ground (spaced apart and everything), then we made square frame out of 1in tubing that went on the outside of that. then we attached the rad/ac cooler off of tabs so now we have a tubed frame around the outside and makes it all one piece. Next we just put the 1.75 tubing as pretty much the main supports that we welded everything off of. we then tabbed the rad/ac to the 1.75 so its still removable without taking the rad/ac cooler separately. after that we set up the headlights and grill. getting that to line up perfectly was a bitttcchhhh but we got it all figured out after a little bit,

also none of the fiberglass is attached to the cab, only solid mounts of the frame. Its attached on the top of the fender near the top of the headlight, were the lower part of the headlight attaches to, in the middle of the fender (under the hood though) then the last one is tabbed off the lower body mount support. ill get better pictures once im off work..

if anything, just shoot me some pms if you need help/detailed pictures.

thanks! Beards are nice when its 50 degrees in his shop at night

 

Not good enough unless you can still use the stock hood prop stick

Its crazy looking at the truck after all the body lines match up...the core support sucked!