Builds Project: Dead Lined Taco

[TachedOutOffRoad]

63" Toyotas and moved forward about 6"s. May go another 1-2"

Gonna try the Long Daddy style

shackle angle with about 300lbs sitting on the back

 

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I may gusset these NO WAY the shackles were going through the frame like you can on a Hilux

Full droop

 

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before

during

after

need to clean it up a little too

 

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beat on this a little too. You have to have full range of the skinny pedal!!!!!!

Duals attached. Working on crossmember.

 

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oh yeah . . . rolled the bitch out of the garage

Looking good to me. Should do a little more with some weight in the rear.
Thinking about some of those sweet ass revolver shackles-->Its built for show, not for go!

 

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at full stuff

little bitty scratch in a really crappy pic

This wont work either unless I want self siping tires

 

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Im going full hydro and Im not really that worried about the steering clearance issue right now. Im going to put one overload back in and run bump stops.

Even with pushing the front axle about 3" forward, its still eating the inner fender by the firewall. Im going to work on that tonight and fully burn in the suspension mounts.

I promise that one day the pics will be taken in the daylight and wont suck

 

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I know that eveyone stays up at night thinking about the design for my tube bed like I do Well, no more sleepless night for you because there will be no more tube bed :shaking:
The original idea was to bob the rear of the bed becuase I want it to look like a truck and not a buggy. Then I figured out that I would have to bob the rear AND the front of the bed just to beat it to death and then replace with a tube bed. This was also when I saw the pics of the Ballistic Taco's sweet ass and wanted to do something like that. So the plan was to sell the bed and use the money to buy tubing.
Now, Im not sure if I like my rear springs or not and if I design my tube frame around them, it will be a lot of wasted tube, $$$, and time if I decided to swap them out. Between wanting to keep the factory frame for now, liking the look of beat down trucks better than buggies, and being better with a cutoff wheel than a bender, were are going with dovetailed bed skins.
I talked to my free labor/body work guy and he said he didnt mind helping me work on a bed-skins/ dove tail project that would probably be destroyed in a year, so game on this weekend.
. . . playing on the internet and making this decision is all of the work that Ive done to my truck this week
pics form Ken Carter/ Bruiser thread and Ultimate Taco

 

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more poser shots

good angles

I think it was 28" away from the fender at droop and 3" at stuff

 

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worked on crossmember

 

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got some parts in

BLING!

49ccs of love
Yeah Baby, Yeah

 

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for sale . . .

. . . a bed liner and tailgate

needs a little trimming

 

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Im going to post this again because the whole kit cost more than the truck did

 

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slowed down just been kinda busy I guess and lazy We started to come in to work at 6:30am and it makes my vagina itch when I stay up to 1-2 am and get up at 5:30am a few nights a week

We are supposed to go to KY in about 5-6 weeks so I really need to get on it and make at least one test run before we go. I think that four months for a complete buildup isnt too bad

 

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got the new crossmember finished and installed. Will probably need a little more clearancing.
Its not quite a flat belly because of the front output drop ive got one of those cool skid plates so it should be good.

not my best welds, but it wont fall off

 

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just spray painted the interior so the gay purple wouldnt blind me driving down the road.
The PO had pill bottles, video games, old cell phone bills, 5lbs of dog hair, 2lbs of broken glass, and three tire gages hidden under the carpet

If you are at least 5'10" youre good

If you are a rock midget, you better like 4low

 

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I promise this wasnt leaking at all

so I put this in

Both of these were under the hood too

I have a lifetime warranty on this guy from another truck, so Im going to go ahead and swap it, the starter, and all of the belts out

 

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little more driveshaft damage

You know that when the front end let loose while he was driving down the road, the guy must have pooped his pants no clutch, broken steering, and maybe three pumps on the breaks before the lines were empty



Took this out

Want to put this guy here but hes a big 'som 'bitch

 

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I got the exhaust laid out and new intake stuff but no pics

We are "for sure" going to Harlan for four days next month, so I working on everything to get this slut running and then will do the winch mount/ bumper/ paint/ bed stuff.
Its 1:35 now and the sand has built up enough in my clit for tonight.

See you in 3.9 hours

 

[Tapage]

What a fast dude .. keep the good work ( and the pics ) coming ...