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It only fell off the truck twice, good thing I borrowed it from a friend. Minded trails got pretty gnarly with all the rain that year.
We’re thinking about going to Algonquin for the spring brook trout opener. Will definitely need a better canoe if we do that.
Rear main seal came in today, got it installed, and I cleaned up my flywheel, and I picked up the side armor and tacked that in place. Pictures:
Haha thanks Finn, don’t be fooled I’m not working much right now because we haven’t had any snow so I’m not at work everyday like you guys are. But this build is very much so a budget build.
My wife and I don’t work full time, and we try to live a pretty simple life, we volunteer a couple days a week and we like to travel, we don’t have kids, we rent the basement at my parents house. Luckily my dad is cool with my taking over the garage and he likes to see that im building something cool instead of sitting around.
But the budget on this truck is small. Almost all the cool parts on this truck I wheeled and dealed and got used. Saved alerts on kijiji are a wonderful thing, but when parts come up you like you have to drive to go get them. I paid 700 for the whole blue truck and tried to use everything that I could from my Orange one before I scrapped it.
This tire carrier is built out of scrap steel that I snagged from one of my clients lol. I always like to tell people that you can have something cool you just have to BUILD it yourself. And you don’t have to buy top shelf, full price parts from 4 wheel parts.
A good friend of mine just refinished his Tacoma rims. Here’s the paint he used, I really like the colour.
Thanks, really appreciate the commendation! I haven’t done too much welding, and I’m only Using a 110 machine with flux core. Here’s where I left off this morning. I also have a badass old metal gas can to mount too, beside the tire. And my hi-lift
Rear trim on the tailgate was close I had to make a cut out, gotta finish that up.
I tacked and welded it flat on the concrete floor and it came out dead straight! I saw that coffee meet, we’ve had so many plans lately so I won’t be able to make it this time around.
I’m going to get up early and finish it off tomorrow but here’s where I left off.
Sleeve welded up
Corners 45’ed and guesseted
Cut up an 85 axle axle shaft for the hub, and I drilled a hole in the end and welded a nut to the bumper. Here’s the handle to tighten the swing out
