Build Project: Dead Lined Taco

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I had to use this to get the tranny out!!! We wiggled it up, down, pried on it, hammered on it, but could only get it to have about a 3/8" gap. I was kind of joking when I suggested to put the binder on it, but it took two full pulls to pop it off. It was pretty impressive. The truck has been sitting in CO for a year and a half and the flywheel, pressure plate, and stuff we really rusty. Is this normal for snowing places?

What happens when the front driveshaft breaks at 45 mph. It took out the brake lines, emergency brake line, slave cylinder, bellhousing, steering (that has been replaced), and knocked the floorboard up about 2 1/2".

Fake shot

waiting for IFS removal

 

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My magic truck gnome dropped off some parts

 

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Mandatory IFS pile-o-s***-pics

Still need to grind

 

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Body lift by Dewalt

My buddy Chris when I told him the cut is going to be too high

Well, I was right, but the super high cut may help me get it even lower if I trim up the inner fenders really well. The only thing on them is the fuse box and a sensor that I can move. The white lines are the probable cuts.

Zero lift, 24" to the frame rails with no bed, gas, tranny or t-case, and 30lbs of pressure in the tires . Im going to measure my '98 when I get the 300lbs of IFS crap out of the back of it and see what it is stock. It should be about 17"-18"

 

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Im not done cleaning up the fenders and frame and I picked up some plate for the frame, but thats it for tonight.

My oil pan stuff, x-member, t-case skid plate, and U-bolt flip kits should be here Monday too.

FYI, "dead lined" doesn't mean I have a due date, its a term in the militray that means that a piece of equipment "can't move, shoot, or communicate" --> cannot perform its primary function. A truck that has no brakes, no clutch, a hole in the bellhousing, and a dead battery is deffintely dead lined. Some people were confused.

Semper Fi,
TachedOut

 

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Parts gnome again

 

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I finally got to add some parts to make this a "build" thread and not just a dismantle thread

Shout out to my UA '07 "Carnage Award" welder

better pic of driveshft/floorboard love I promise the carpet in the Taco didnt smell like three month old wet feet

 

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Before

After

I knew that I should have cut the body mount off earlier and made a cleaner plating :shaking:

All the damn bracket under the frame made for a lot of grinding while laying under my truck <--- one of the things that I image that they make you do in hell :evil:

 

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The frame flexed out about 2" after I had all of the IFS, body mounts in the front, sway bar brackets, and t-case crossmember out. My handy dandy strap was there to help with the re-alignment.

In my hours of playing on the internet, I found where people do the front spring hanger/crossmember with the IFS stiff intact. I would might try that next time.

This was also when my wife comes in the garage, looks at me like I retarded, and says "I dont get it" or " beauty really is in the eye of the beholder"

I also caught my favorite Carharts on fire

 

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My buddy Adam put my 4.7 gears and 23 spline stuff in in about 4 hours Thats about 20 hours faster than I could have He has blown up his Dana 300 five times and now I starting to sell him Toyota stuff for his next build

21 spline and 23 spline

My old output shaft was twisted about 10-15%, crappy pic though

I didint get any directions with my gears, but the ones on the MC website are VERY detailed

Marlin Crawler

 

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The plans are to have a wrenching party on my truck Sat so when can get a trip up to Harlan KY soon. It will be the only day that I have worked on it before 8pm so that will be nice for the pics

 

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looking pretty sweet

 

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Great build .. but more than the great build are the great comments about the process ..

 

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Thanks!!

If was a awesome fabricator I could just post pics of my tube bending skills and tig welding, but since Im not, Illl entertain with pics of my kids standing next to tires

 

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Just a little behind on the updates


new bell housing from 99FlowedTaco. Thanks for the quick shipping!!!

My son helping me make spring hangers

If my dad would have show my how to work a drill press when I was six this build would be going a lot faster

 

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The problem

Solution

The swap was pretty striaght forward. I only had to pop out a little plug for the new dipstick and seal up the new pan.
Factory Toyota part #'s:
12101-75060 Oil Pan, (T100 2wd 2.7L, 6 qts)
15104-75020 Pickup Tube & Strainer, (T100 2wd 2.7L)
11494-75010 Oil Hole Plate, (T100 2wd 2.7L)
15147-75020 Oil Strainer Gasket, (T100 2wd 2.7L)
15301-75020 Oil Gage (Dipstick), (T100 2wd 2.7L)
11409-75020 Oil Gage Guide (Dipstick), (T100 2wd 2.7L)
91651-60614 Bolts (Oil Hole plate), (4) Req'd
00295-00103 FIPG (Form in Place Gasket material)

I didnt see this anywhere else in my SAS searching though: there was no factory dipstick tube mount so I drilled a hole in the motor mount and we were done

 

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The taco frame is a good bit wider and my springs are totally inside of the frame

I started on my inboarded shackle hangers

I think that they are some at least half-ass decent welds but I cant get my crappy camera to focus in on them for a good pic

 

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My UA co-pilot checking the clutch and flywheel status.
FYI: Autozone was the only place that I could find a throwout bearing in stock without having to buy the whole clutch kit.

Safty first

It feels really good to be doing more righty-tighty than all the damn left-loosy that I was doing up untill now

 

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Im picking up 160 ft of 1 3/4 DOM form Keith Bailey at the Off Road Connection.
Motovational tube bed/frame pics

 

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It will end up something like a mix of the above and these

Thanks IMUZ ME for the pics!!! Very