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Well this beast is ready to wheel. Outside of a few punch list items, like welding on a non crucial fish plate, and some poly bumps for an upcoming trip, she's good to go! I knocked out the sliders today, goddamn that sucked. Not the rain of fire like people warned me, but it was just a tedious, dirty, nasty job.

I chopped out the rockers and I found this under:
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That side impact beam ATE cut off wheels, like evrey inch I moved the wheel it took off an inch of wheel. Crazy.

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Welding thick steel to sheet metal and rusty body seams sucks!! My objective was to finish them in one day and mission accomplished. I do have a Barnes cross member bushing kit to mount them to the frame back by the wheel in the future.
 
FleshEater said:
I like how this is all crinkled and abused and NOW you decide to add rock sliders. :laughing:
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TG Sliders were my very first mod to this truck in 2006:flipoff2:. They were bent, rusty and I had to cut them off when I did the frame so I figured I would try this style out.
 
Slander said:
TG Sliders were my very first mod to this truck in 2006:flipoff2:. They were bent, rusty and I had to cut them off when I did the frame so I figured I would try this style out.
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Ah, I went back and looked at your pics and saw them. Looks like they didn’t hold up well. :flipoff2:
 
willis_racing said:
It's fucking hard man. When I did mine I just gave up and left like 3 stitches on each side. A few of them are tearing off the body anyway so at some point I kinda figure it's more effor than it's worth.
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Yea I figure if worst comes to worst it gets frame mounted sliders again lol
 
chaplinfj60 said:
wait... maybe i missed it. so no mounts going to the frame? just add a couple. cant hurt can it?
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I still have factory rubber body mounts, so yea just sending mounts to the frame can fuck some stuff up and crack and break things. I do have a bushing kit to add a support to the frame for the 2ft section between the cab and rear tire that's kind of hanging out in space there. I'm wheeling it this weekend so I'll update with what happens lol.
 
Slander said:
I still have factory rubber body mounts, so yea just sending mounts to the frame can fuck some stuff up and crack and break things. I do have a bushing kit to add a support to the frame for the 2ft section between the cab and rear tire that's kind of hanging out in space there. I'm wheeling it this weekend so I'll update with what happens lol.
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after i typed i thought about body monts.

cool beans go forth and do great things :beer:
 
Well pics are coming slow so I'll just do a TLDR wall -o- text and add pcs later. Truck worked great, as dumb as this sounds the part I was most excited for was the new space I had in the bed. Without those damn shocks poking through I was able to reconfigure my bed and not have shit stacked all over.i also pared down the spares I carried for this trip, as I was only 5hrs from my house and my wife didn't come with, so I blew up my steering box for example, she could run my spare out to me. Anyway to the wheeling, I did a shakedown run to Adventure Offroad Park with a wide variety of trucks, ranging from a few jeeps on tons and 42s, down to IFS rigs on 35s. Rained the first day, no real issues until we hit the George Winter Trail and I backed into a rock and bent/cracked my rear bumper on the driver's side. I knew it was going to fail at some point before even leaving the house, but did have time to fix it. So I winched out and kept on wheeling. Few other rigs had issues, but I was all good. Next day the dudes on tons wanted to hit the buggy trails so we woke up early and went to the buggy trails. I was dropping into the entrance of little ceasers when my spotter wanted me to take a way too cute of a line. Basically I was going down hill, dropping off a ledge, 3ft hole immediately to the driver's side and he had me riding a rock ridge to my left. I be ame beaches, and anytime I let off the gas the ass end slide sideways to the drivers side. I was shitting myself. We hooked a winch to my rear bumper that I damaged the day before, I meant to weld that up at camp and just remembered at this point that I forgot. He sucked me down a bit and the bumper ripped off, but it was enough for me to grow a pair and I goosed it out of there in 3rd. Rest of the day was drama free. I did spring a rear brake leak on the drive home so I had to skip hitting tail of the dragon.

The good:
The fuel tank lift is badass, I should have done that a long time ago.
I was taking lines and hitting obstacles the guys on 42s and tons were getting denied on we ran evrey black trail on the non buggy side of the park.
The rear frame held up great, rear suspension worked awesome, I can't wait to get the air bumps on. The truck performs very similar to how it performed pre all this work which is great.

The bad:
Rear bumper needs some work
The rocker sliders have no provisions to hook straps to.

Here's the butt pucker, looks like nothing in pics but I was shitting myself and normally I don't get concerned with offcamber.
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^^^ obstacle that took out my rear bumper on day one, this dude broke a coilover on it.
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There should be a ton more pics and videos coming soon.
 
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Wheeling trip storage pre moving the shocks:
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So much better as I drive this to and from the trail. The camo bin is my tool box, I was able to scale down everything to fit in there as opposed to the 55gal action packer permanently in the bed.
 
Are you happy with the width of the 60 housing? Do the Leafs limit your steering at that width?
 
4runner666 said:
Are you happy with the width of the 60 housing? Do the Leafs limit your steering at that width?
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Yea I'm happy with it, it has a good stance and isn't obnoxiously wide. I'm annoyed by the other typical Toyota axle stuff (parts hard to find outside the internet, and steering angle kinda sucks). I do not hit the leafs, I narrowed the front frame a bit and thus where the perches land on the axle.
 
Slander said:
Yea I'm happy with it, it has a good stance and isn't obnoxiously wide. I'm annoyed by the other typical Toyota axle stuff (parts hard to find outside the internet, and steering angle kinda sucks). I do not hit the leafs, I narrowed the front frame a bit and thus where the perches land on the axle.
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I agree, I like the width.

What is limiting your steering angle? High steer geometry, or felt retainer to housing?
 
Bebop or anyone else not electrically retarded like me. I have the battery in the bed with 1/0 welding cable running up to a positive and negative bus bar under the hood. My winch, and everything is hooked to that bus bar. What kind of over current protection do I need so I don't burn my truck to the ground in the event the cable chafes along it's route under the hood? It runs.along the frame rail, then up under the hood to the bus bar. I found some 500amp fuses, the m8000 pulls 420+amps at 8000lbs. It would be annoying to burn my truck to the ground in the woods or blowing fuses while winching up something sketch.

Something like this in the bed by the battery: Inline fuse kit 500 AMP Fuse and Holder - AimsPower

Any other solution is should be looking at?
 
Slander said:
Bebop or anyone else not electrically retarded like me. I have the battery in the bed with 1/0 welding cable running up to a positive and negative bus bar under the hood. My winch, and everything is hooked to that bus bar. What kind of over current protection do I need so I don't burn my truck to the ground in the event the cable chafes along it's route under the hood? It runs.along the frame rail, then up under the hood to the bus bar. I found some 500amp fuses, the m8000 pulls 420+amps at 8000lbs. It would be annoying to burn my truck to the ground in the woods or blowing fuses while winching up something sketch.

Something like this in the bed by the battery: Inline fuse kit 500 AMP Fuse and Holder - AimsPower

Any other solution is should be looking at?
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Get Painless heat resistant and abrasion resistant tape.
 
Slander said:
Bebop or anyone else not electrically retarded like me. I have the battery in the bed with 1/0 welding cable running up to a positive and negative bus bar under the hood. My winch, and everything is hooked to that bus bar. What kind of over current protection do I need so I don't burn my truck to the ground in the event the cable chafes along it's route under the hood? It runs.along the frame rail, then up under the hood to the bus bar. I found some 500amp fuses, the m8000 pulls 420+amps at 8000lbs. It would be annoying to burn my truck to the ground in the woods or blowing fuses while winching up something sketch.

Something like this in the bed by the battery: Inline fuse kit 500 AMP Fuse and Holder - AimsPower

Any other solution is should be looking at?
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Just sleeve the wires with firesleeve.
 
Slander said:
Bebop or anyone else not electrically retarded like me. I have the battery in the bed with 1/0 welding cable running up to a positive and negative bus bar under the hood. My winch, and everything is hooked to that bus bar. What kind of over current protection do I need so I don't burn my truck to the ground in the event the cable chafes along it's route under the hood? It runs.along the frame rail, then up under the hood to the bus bar. I found some 500amp fuses, the m8000 pulls 420+amps at 8000lbs. It would be annoying to burn my truck to the ground in the woods or blowing fuses while winching up something sketch.

Something like this in the bed by the battery: Inline fuse kit 500 AMP Fuse and Holder - AimsPower

Any other solution is should be looking at?
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I am running my battery like this along with lights and winch and haven't had an issue yet
 
mine's been in the bed for years...

just stock fusible link.
 
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