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I did a little research quick and didn’t see anything Ontario based. toyotafiberglass is out West and is very popular, but that’s more first gen 79-95.5 pickups and Runners and they have a Tacoma bed I think
This is a device a friend built to press backing plates off rear axle shafts. Worked pretty well until I busted one of the angle iron pieces off. The backing plate was pretty seized on there. I had to weld it all back together. You know youre wrenching session isn’t going well when you have to start welding your tools back together.
Stupid rusty toyotas. Side note: Its awesome having friends with Toyotas because can all share tools like this and spare parts.
Get pics of the sliders and winch! What did you end up getting?
There was a set of Tacoma sliders on kijiji for a bit there, I was going to cut and mod them to fit my first Gen.
I’ve been hearing that a lot more lately, friends are ready to start building trucks or getting trailers, but they’re always limited by space. For us of the younger generation (25 years old) owning a house anytime soon is far fetched
Best part of this trip: on the way up we were all in a convoy with 6 trucks, some on trailers and some driving and we past a group of a few jeeps heading up. So I ripped past them, covered them in black smoke on the highway. And he saw this written on my tail gate LOL. Then they all gave us the finger.This is basically up to date now, here’s a to do list:
- IFS rear axle with new seals
- castor shims
- ujoints all around
- brakes all around
- new seals in the front axle
- the blower fan resistor
- manual temp gauge or fix the SR5 cluster
- clutch isn’t engaging all the way, figure that out, hopefully its just adjustment in the pedal
- rear window doesn’t work
- all brake lines
- hook up ebrake
- New pitman arm and tie rod end
- install steering stabilizer
- coolant was leaking from the front of the motor somewhere, after I got it running I noticed, but then I put it away for the year. Really hoping it’s just the water pump
- install window trim and badges
- build rear bumper and tire carrier
I should be able to bang a lot of that out in one day with some help.
After all that I can start looking at a pop up trailer to lift! Also here’s what I’m thinking about doing for a rear bumper. I’m open To suggestions for sure, I just don’t have a way of bending tube right now so I’d prefer mostly square. I did have these rear quarter panel armour bent up from DOM by a friend though.
This was the inspiration for paint
Yeah true, thanks for your thoughts. I never really considered going back to the same camp site, we usually do set up all of our tents and cooking stuff in one spot and then leave it. It would be a pain for me taking down and resetting up everytime. And because we are more into crawling I don’t think I’d like having that up on my roof for certain trails.
I’m going to get a small pop up camper in the spring I think. I want to lift it and try to fit a set of 31s that I have hanging around. I think it will fit down most of the trails we go to. It’s not like your wheeling around the trail with it on for fun. My thought is that I will just leave it loaded up with all our gear, and when we want to go we just hook it up, toss our food and beer in and go.
True, it’s s good idea. I would think it’s a lot nicer to wheel with a flatbed too. If you ever get close to rocks or trees you’re going to be way less concerned.
I love the idea of a RTT, I just can’t justify the cost.
Wow thanks guys! It’s definitely a 20 ft paint job that looks better in pictures.
Ontarios tight trails won’t be nice to the paint though so I’m happy with.
I should look into the PVC spray while it’s all still clean underneath. I did wire wheel the whole bottom of the body, and I Por-15’ed it. I wonder the if the PVC spray will work on top of it. I wouldn’t mind the sound deadening
Thanks Finn!!!! Ya looking back at pictures I should have painted the tailgate red, I’ll probably do that once I get everything else done.
Heres the motor going back in after the core support was painted
22re sitting pretty in its new home.
Hered how it sat before winter, no there’s two feet of snow on it! I pulled the rear axle out to put an IFS width axle in and do brakes and stuff like that. And I put the TG bumper on! And that brings it pretty well up to date.
