trdcorolla
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Circuit City! Their car audio department got a whole lot of my money when I was young.
What have you done to your 100 Series this week? (78 Viewers)
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Ha! Well thanks for that. I managed one of the CC car audio shops in Portland back in the day and kept all of the "Roadshop" swag when they changed our nameto "Firedog" to align with the computer support group. Wasn't long after that when the whole company went under.
Using the HSA to buy anything for the cruiser is awesome!
Hardest part of the whole project was cutting the hole in the bumper! And I guess second hardest was cutting the metal bumper frame but all in all pretty easy job
Looks clean! Which winch mount did you go with? When I was running the TJM one it had an extra brace on each front corner:
Yes it’s a TMJ, no extra braces on the corners though. This one looks a lot like the trail tamer one that used to be available. Solid as a rock and very very easy to mount. I was expecting a little more difficulty but honestly if you have a sawzall the bumper frame is easy to cut. The actual hole in the plastic bumper was the hardest part and that’s only because you don’t get a second chance to recover from a mistake. So I installed the mount (without the fair lead) and then replaced the bumper cover to its normal position and then reached inside the winch Mount and used a sharpie to outline the opening in mount and the bolt holes. Then took bumper back off and placed the fair lead inside the bumper cover and traced the outside of the fairlead to give me exact lines to cut.
Trail Tamer or Trail Tailor?
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I SOOOOOO need those. Put me on the 1st release list please Jason! My back 45mm ToughDogs look like they've been sandblasted over the past year. In addition to the shock skids, you can apply a layer of this Trimbrite Protective Film. Its thick enough to hold up against the sanblasting effect...
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Trail Tailor Offerings- Racks, Sliders, Control Arms and Misc
The rear bumper on that 60... Amazing. Thanks! That 60 rear bumper is what started Trail Tailor. It's morphed a couple of times over the years. J
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Don't want to sound any false alarms but with the winch mounted feet down and having no bracing at all at the outer edge will make me worry about mount. Everytime you pull, there will be a lot of torque on the plate and nothing to stop it from twisting since it is only mounted/braced on one edge. Having two extra braces to counter the torque on the leading edge would mitigate that.
Yeah good point. Well the trail tailor ones didn’t have those either but I do see your point. Honestly in my particular application ( I don’t plan to do any crazy stuff that would require extreme winching) for the most part I would only envision straight away pulling but I guess you never know what could happen or what situation you might find your self in. I have two mounting locations on this plate. The under frame mounts ( under the recovery points) and then on top of the cross member so any torsional forces would be mitigated to some degree by the counter locations of those two mounting points but to your point, if I were to say try and hang my rig from my winchline then the upward forces could bend or twist the mount plate. Or really any considerable angled recovery but again, I’m not a hardcore rock crawler so the most I would need is getting unstuck from a bad mud hole
I checked off two little things in the list today.
Last week while maintaining my mandatory garage quarantine, I had plastidipped the exterior badges on the truck. While staring at the results for what was most likely the 6th time, self medicating may have been involved, I thought, why not try it in the crappy looking badge on the airbag.
Overall an improvement but I scratched the vinyl a touch. As with most of my projects there is usually some small secondary casualties.
Last week while maintaining my mandatory garage quarantine, I had plastidipped the exterior badges on the truck. While staring at the results for what was most likely the 6th time, self medicating may have been involved, I thought, why not try it in the crappy looking badge on the airbag.
It's good to have friends in high places. Was able to pick up a large stash of Pinthouse Pizza Electric Jellyfish Hazy IPA...YUMMM. Should be enough to get me through the whole "shelter-in-place" stuff. My trusty, but not rusty 98 LX to bring home all this beer 
While “working” from home I’ve managed about 4 trips wheeling/camping in 5 weeks and managed to replace the carpet on the tailgate and get one of the Rigid brand tool boxes to replace the duffel for dry food storage which now doubles as a step ladder. Slapped some poly on my drawer to hold me over until I cover it and made a simple latch. Made a few stuff sacks including for my Dutch oven so no more ashes floating around inside the drawer! Put some Velcro inside the drawer to keep most common items handy and labeled my fire starter!
Also installed my hitch due to a upcoming move and pretty much blew out my AHC. The combo really causes a lot of dragging on the ground!
Also installed my hitch due to a upcoming move and pretty much blew out my AHC. The combo really causes a lot of dragging on the ground!
Can you give some details on how you fastened your tailgate cover?
JohnnyUtah2
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Took off my rear sway bar.
Went out for a little test drive.
Found a good rock for testing out the flex. Have to admit I think it flexes pretty good.
Went out for a little test drive.
Found a good rock for testing out the flex. Have to admit I think it flexes pretty good.
Converted the turn signals to DRL/turn signal combo
I like this. Are you planning to do a write up on what you did to convert this?
Yeah, I went there too, and they were sold out, NOW I know why, so much for buy only what you need, lolIt's good to have friends in high places. Was able to pick up a large stash of Pinthouse Pizza Electric Jellyfish Hazy IPA...YUMMM. Should be enough to get me through the whole "shelter-in-place" stuff. My trusty, but not rusty 98 LX to bring home all this beer
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I was planning to do a write up but decided to wait since the wiring I did isn’t final yet. We are currently on a lockdown here in Manila due to the Coronavirus. All the stores are closed so I had to make do with what I already have at home. Here’s what used:
-two waterproof SPDT relays
-fuse holder and 5 amp fuse
-DRL controller (optional)
-two 1157 bulb sockets
-two 1157 LED switchback bulbs
-LED flasher relay to prevent hyperblink
I’ll go ahead and post a more detailed writeup with the wiring schematic tomorrow
Just drilled through the wood and the tailgate and used 1/8 blind (pop) rivets. I’ll do something fancier one day but this was just quick and easy. Carpet HAD to go!
