Birdbrain

Who has done it? Ive seen Scuub's post about him tubbing his taco for 35s (thats where I got the idea to do mine), but anyone done a 2nd Gen front firewall?

After beating the ever living piss outa my pinch weld, I decided my 33's need more room to stuff and I'm too cheap to lift it/like keeping her low!


Already took a bit of the fender off on the inside too.... Gonna need to cut those. Probably shave 1/4" or so off the front bump stops and trim the rear quarter panel as well, especially since I have this

^Courtesy of a Ford expedition..
and this

^courtesy of evans creek ORV...

I think its time I just said screw it...? The lift money is gonna go towards paying the parents off and a locker for the rear.

2DoorRunner

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Birdbrain

Lol it will probably, hopefully, start next week... i need to tear into the front and see what ill be relocating... probably my 6.5's...

scuba

Brotha, heres a couple links:

http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=62417.0
http://www.trail-gear.com/tech/firewall/index.html



Like I said on the phone, just be careful on the passenger side since your ECM is down there.

Do you have a 110 Mig welder? If not, I'd suggest borrowing one from one of the guys. 220 will deff do, but I've heard its hard to get the settings down low enough to not burn through.

I was told "if you tack weld every 1" or so and use a butt ton of silicone RTV then you'll be good."
Well, I did'nt take that literally and welded everywhere plus added RTV around every seam as well as 3M seam sealer.

Before ( LOL, if you look hard enough on the door of this picture you can see my bald ass head.:





Drivers side seam sealer:


Passenger side seam sealer


Passenger side after seam sealer and rubberized undercoating


Here is my tubbing thread for reference.
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f2/t...ma-35s-222863/


I wish you luck Matt!

Birdbrain

Cool thanks man!

We have a 220v mig, and a Tig (not sure the voltage on the tig)

Would the plasma cutter be overkill for cutting?

Birdbrain

Ill get some pics up ASAP for where i plan on attacking...

scuba

I think a plasma would DEFF be overkill for cutting. I took a cutoff wheel on my angle grinder to my firewall and had no issue.

Birdbrain

But i think itd be entertaining, i did use it for cutting the hole for my 5speed swap. :shrug: worked pretty well turned way down, made a beautiful cut...

I think i might have to try it for S's&G's

waskillywabbit

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Lots of pictures
85 4Runner but same thing practically
http://www.wabfab.org/html/projects/1985/body/ft/ft.htm

:wabbit2:

Birdbrain

oh awesome wabbit!

BigBluePile

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Looks like fun...