What did you do with your 60 this weekend? (37 Viewers)

[cruiserpilot]

Going with rust repairs around the back seat support where it welds through the rear wheel well. Ugly job but got it all patched up - forever this time! But I am sound deadening the truck to reduce low range gear noise. Got tired of it after these long trips. The Noico 120 ml I got from amazon, it’s significantly thicker than the competitors and much better value than high priced name brand stuff. This took about 12 hrs to do. It’s painstaking, and I’m glad it wasn’t hotter out. This stuff gets sticky fast! BTW, I had only 2 sheets left from two boxes to do just what you see. The back of a 60 is about 56 sq feet. But more because of all the deformation.

I wanted to find this too. Noico is a huge company providing sound deadener for the entire industry of everyone by the looks. But here is a link to them, but these articles are invaluable to helping understand the whole process and how to understand it.

Articles

In our articles archives you will find detailed and useful information about the purpose of car sound deadening and how to make it.

noico.info

 

[vipergrhd]

^^^ How hard was it to install? Someone here suggested a tennis ball to get into the crevices.
That thing looks great BTW. @cruiserpilot

 

[cruiserpilot]

I actually used a 45 angle cold chisel with the tip ground flat so it was about 1/16”. This allowed mass to press the hard to reach edges and it slid along the foil without damaging it. You absolutely need the foil tape for the seams, as much to reduce mess as repair edges. But I used the steel Noico roller, the thinner one 98% of the time. The wide roller was almost too difficult to attain download pressure to make good adhesion

 

[KWalkerM]

Took a little drive today with the now unburdened Burro. My home for the next few months!

 

[BlackCat]

Replaced the who knows how old it was fuel filter, and took it to the grocery store.

 

[bwesty]

Replaced the who knows how old it was fuel filter, and took it to the grocery store.

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@BlackCat
Given the condition of the filter you replaced, run a tank or two of fuel then replace the fuel filter again. Likely a lot of debris still in the system if that's how it was cared for.

 

[BlackCat]

@BlackCat
Given the condition of the filter you replaced, run a tank or two of fuel then replace the fuel filter again. Likely a lot of debris still in the system if that's how it was cared for.

I’m going to change them much more frequently than whoever had it before. Weird thing is the truck has been extremely well taken care of by the monstrous maintenance book of recieptsI have. It sat for the better part of 2 years before I bought it, and only has a few thousand miles on the new fuel tank/recall. I didn’t have any driveability issues or anything, just changed it because it looked like it looked.

 

[Prime]

Test fit a potential wheel/tire setup. I think this could work!

 

[Silveredition]

Raptor!! Finally! Turned out reasonably well for a front-lawn spray job...

 

[drwright68]

Being that it is mother's day and I am still married, I better not do a damn thing to Snowflake...lol

 

[drwright68]

Test fit a potential wheel/tire setup. I think this could work!

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What size tires and wheels?

 

[Silveredition]

Being that it is mother's day and I am still married, I better not do a damn thing to Snowflake...lol

Yep - I hear you!! Raptor on Sat...

 

[drwright68]

But.....Friday...installed arb bumper, Marlin crawler histeer, and painted tuffy box to match interior.

 

[Prime]

What size tires and wheels?

33/12.5/15
15x8 -12 (4” backspace)

If I go this route I’ll probably do 33/10.5 to keep the more classic look.

 

[aviafx]

Test fit a potential wheel/tire setup. I think this could work!

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Love these wheels, looks great!

 

[aviafx]

Drove it! Hung out for a bit around Mt. Shasta.

 

[cruiserpilot]

^^That's a Toyota Trails cover shot!

 

[Paul DiNapoli]

round 2 of light bar for lighting up the tailgate while camping.

(first round I used self adhesive strip light and just attached it right to the metal part of the upper tailgate - but over time the 2 sided tape didn't hold so well - and having it stuck to the metal part of the upper tailgate blocked access to those removable service panels

Bought a strip of superbright LED - and some nice aluminum track for the strip to sit in (this helps protect the lights from inadvertent cargo moving) and then a plastic trim cover to finish it up.

need the aluminum strip to clear the hump that is the wiper motor - so I used a few steel spacer bushings to act as standoffs.

I doubled up on the heatshrink right where the red/black wires connect to the light strip. the kit comes with a very long chunk of wire, pre-soldered onto the light strip - but with a pretty thick (too thick) white outer insulation jacket - so I stripped that off and then twisted the wires up nice and tight and shrink wrapped the whole kit so I could slide it through a hole in the panel - also protected with a rubber grommet in the hole to prevent abrasion.


I got power to the switch by tapping into the cargo area light switch - pretty handy since that's already continuous power - so i tapped into that - routed wire through the rubber tube at top left that brings power to the rear defrost and then used a fish tape to get it up to the panel shown with the LED push button switch. once I got power there the rest was easy.

happy with finished product so far. puts out about 670 lumens

 

[TLC Norway]

33/12.5/15
15x8 -12 (4” backspace)

If I go this route I’ll probably do 33/10.5 to keep the more classic look.

Please share the vendor of the wheels!
Will look prefect with the 33x10,5!

 

[Prime]

Please share the vendor of the wheels!
Will look prefect with the 33x10,5!

Wheel Vintiques 12-580604

Also the spare on my Hilux Surf (sorry for the non-60 picture)