Weldertaco's attempt at a rockcrawler

Sup? The taco isn't my daily and is finally a trailer queen so I'll get to start taking my time and building her right.

She's basic as fuck. All function and no form lol.

2011 2.7l 4wd.

Ome coilovers. Wheelers super bumps. Camburg uca's
Add a leaf and bilsteins out back.
4.88 gears. Open front. Welded rear.


https://instagram.com/p/BT2c_xbFo1W/

 

Saving this for some dumb reason

 

What rockcrawling does to a rig. When I first got her to how she looks now lo

 

Need some 37s!!

 

She won't get 37s till she's solid axle. I've found a real good setup that works perfectly for how I wheel so I'm not gonna mess it up.

First thing is exo cage happening this month along with a 63 swap to finish up the rear.


After that's done, we will start talking solid axle !

 

Looking over the truck from Jambo weekend finally. Got a tie rod with slack for miles in it lol, a cracked up fender and somehow managed to put a hole in my ujoint.


Time for a solid axle swap !

 

Got some free 63s this weekend thanks to smkytxn(didn't tag him cause don't wanna bug him). They came off a 3/4 ton but I can just take apart the leaf pack anyway and use 2-3 leafs. Will figure how many I need once it's all together and I can flex test it. And ruff stuff is having a 20% off sale so I went ahead and ordered the kit. So far I'm $200 in this 63 swap. Cutting begins once the kit arrives

 

Motivation to get started on this = staring at truck and swap kit for an hour.

Blah lol

 

In

 

Won't be needing this anymore

 

Gotta move the front hanger forward tomorrow to center the wheels a little bit better but it's pretty much spot on. Moving them forward will help the rear angle.

 

Doneee. I gotta cut the bed to fit 37s at full stuff so I just notched it now for the flex test. But it's gonna work. Angles and everything all work well.

 

Those doors are sweet. Never thought non stock doors would look good. Bravo

 

@weldertaco - when we takin that thing back out so you can test out the changes?

 

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When I get some money in the bank lol

 

Get on that! Also - am I ever gonna get to ride passenger with you? Just realizing that in 3 years of wheeling with you - I've never been in your taco! (unless I was too drunk and just don't remember) haha

 

Nah not many people have rode in the taco. Everybody is tall or big and the cab is stupid small so not a lot of people want a ride lol.

 

Did you just "nah" me? We are like the same height - pretty sure I can fit.