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    Tacoma Frame Rust Repair... The right way?

    Yea I raised it 2". Basically did a home made version of eimkeiths kit. If you wheel your truck I highly recommend it while you have it out. I should have done this like 10yrs ago.
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    Tacoma Frame Rust Repair... The right way?

    Here's how I did mine, bear in mind I'm not exactly Morgan Clarke, but my tank hasn't fallen off yet so that's a win in my book! I welded a tab to that round tube sticking out of the square one, and used the stock pin and strap for the tank.
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    Tacoma Frame Rust Repair... The right way?

    Fyi you can order the OEM bed mounts from Toyotapartsdeal.com, specifically that "mid" mount. I know one can make one out of square tube and a drill press, but if you want to save some time and just have something to burn right on its worth it.
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    Slanders TuRD

    Haven't updated this in a bit. Well new front driveshaft is dented all to fuck and getting replaced with a square one this week in preparation for a wheeling trip at the end of the month. I finally got my airbumps installed, fixed my driver rear leaf that I welded in the wrong spot on accident...
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    Tacoma Frame Rust Repair... The right way?

    I don't know what your overall plan is, but I had the most rust and bending/cracking issues with the stock frame down by the spring hangar. Basically hacked all that out and went a bit forward of the body mount. The gas tank cross member was a sleeper pain in the ass, holy hell that took forever.
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    Hood louvers?

    Not true on the moving more air part.
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    Hood louvers?

    Weird. Is your radiator packed full of mud and shit? Old pic, but not much has changed. I have so much crap Infront of my radiator, the bottom is totally blocked off with a skid, with a single row 4cyl radiator on a 3.4, factory shroud with the bottom cut off and it stays nice and cool even...
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    Hood louvers?

    Check your fan clutch. Anytime my truck starts heating up, it means my fan clutch was starting to crap out. Other than that the temp guage stays in the middle regardless of what I'm doing.
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    Slanders TuRD

    Got some new driveshafts made for this thing still stuck with that stupid conversion joint, oh well. Been wheeling it and driving it around. Starting to put my game plan together to fix the steering, get hydro assist on the truck and link the front end this winter. In the mean time I'm going to...
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    cbechtold's Long Travel IFS Crawler Tacoma Build

    I like that loom, I need to do that for my cables running from the bed to the bus bars under the hood. Wiring looks good, I'm not patient enough for it lol!!
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    Slanders TuRD

    Haven't really.done much to the truck, just been driving it. Went wheeling last weekend on an easyish overlander type trail in Virginia and fucked up my driveshaft. I could not go over 20moh with it on the way back to the campsite. Figures I wheel evrey non buggy trail at Adventure Offroad Park...
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    Slanders TuRD

    Video from the trip
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    Slanders TuRD

    AOP is not the same obviously. If you like doing easy, kind of overlandy type stuff windrock is the place for you. AOP has a ton of trails packed into a tight spot and more focused on moderate to harder wheeling. If you don't like the harder end of crawling then AOP would get boring for you...
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    Slanders TuRD

    I did a shakedown run to Adventure Offroad Park in TN over the weekend. 5hr highway trip there and back, and some really hard trails. Truck handled everything I threw at it with little drama outside of a few driver induced issues. I ripped the rear bumper off, I backed into a rock on the first...
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    Slanders TuRD

    I'm winding this project down and prepping to go wheeling and shake it down. So glad I got the shocks out of the bed, by far the dumbest mod I ever did, it frees up so much space and I am pretty sure I have more uptravel now as well. I am also re looking at my spare parts strategy for this year...
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