thebeeler

I have had this truck since spring 2009. I don't remember the exact mileage on it, somewhere around 150k, it had 40k on a rebuilt engine. The previous owner threw a rod around 115k miles and had an oem block from Toyota put in, or so I was told, that engine slowly lost compression until I cracked the rings. I rolled the truck summer 2010 in New Mexico at 185k miles on the dot. I then drove it back home to Yuma, AZ and spent the next couple months getting it back to better than new. I have some plans for this truck, they may be small and slow going but I wanted to start a build thread. I always enjoy browsing the forums so I thought I would start a build up thread for you all to enjoy, criticize, etc..

Present Mods:
4.88 gears
Rear E-locker
Front ARB locker
Low Range Off-Road E-locker Motor Guard
Trail Gear Stud Eliminator Kit
Extended Diff breather mod
Marlin Crawler Eco seals to help the environment
Longfield rear axles
All Aluminum Silla Radiator
2500lb Marlin Crawler clutch kit
Rebuilt Transmission
Rebuilt Transfer Case
Marlin Crawler HD shifter seats and bushings
ENGNBLDR rebuild kit, oversized valves 270CAM
LCE Adjustable Cam gear
LCE Throttle Body Spacer
Gasket matched intake plenum with LCE teflon gaskets
LCE Street Header
Magnaflow and glasspack 2 1/4" exhaust
The Retro Fit Source FX-R 3.0
D2S CBI Bulbs
Morimoto 5Five DSP ballasts
Apollo 2.0 Shrouds 100MM Amber XB LED Rings
Rigid Industries Dually reverse lights Diffusion lens
Addicted Off-Road front plate bumper
Custom made rear bumper with tow hitch
Kartek battery box, Optima Red Top, 150 AMP circuit breaker, SKYGEAR fuse box
Bud-Built Trans Crossmember, front skid plate, and belly pan
4x Innovations Sliders - DOM with Kickout
4x Innovations - Solid engine and trans mount
American Racing Outlaw II 15x8.5 rims
31x10.50 BFG at's
New Carpet
New seat upholstery
LED dome light, marker lights, 3rd brake light, license plate lights, LED dash light swap
AC from a 93 Pickup
5% limo tint all the way around and 6" brow
Trail Gear Silicone Radiator Hoses
All vacuum lines replaced with Toyota brand, tried the silicone ones the other guys sell, they weren't real silicone. Silicone doesn't get hard and crack within a year or two.
OME steering stabilizer
Total Chaos Gen II long travel
8" Fox 2.5 coilover with 500lb springs
Total Chaos 4130 shock hoop
T-100 axles to retain 4x4
4130 rear a-arm cross member brace
Ruffstuff spring hangers and SUA bash plates etc
Deaver F55 springs
12" shackles over the frame
12" Fox 2.5 reservoir shocks
Fully Dynamated
Custom Fiber Glass box Hertz Energy 10" Flat subwoofer
Apline MRX-M55 Amp
Focal K2 Power 165KR door speakers
Rockford Fosgate PBR300X2 Amp
IBR-64 Bluetooth receiver
7band clarion EQ
Pro Eagle 2ton floor jack mounted in bed
30' snatch strap made from a piece of aerostat tether rope
Gator jaw soft shackle



Future Mods:
RTT tent
On Board Air
Canti-lever the rear shocks
More storage solutions for overlanding out of a single cab pickup
mount fire extinguishers
front and rear bumpers
beside exit exhaust
More Rigid LED's









Pic of it before roll over on Broken Arrow in Sedona, went up and down the Staircase 100%stock on street tires.


Pic of my first Toyota just to get you all excited.


After roll over



Dash windsheild and ducting out, wiring starting to come out


Front clip removed


Front clip on new cab


Cab removed


Cab dropped onto the frame


Old cab


Test fitting the bumper for brackets


Mounts all welded up, yes that is 22r block, one of the many I have laying around


Mounted and primed with SEM self etch primer


Rigid Duallys with diffusion lens, and rear LED lights lurking in the gap


More Rigid's have yet to decide where to mount them


How she sits on 31's


November 23
Installed some lights

elblako91

hmmmm LED's how do those sr-mini's perform against the duallys?

thebeeler

I don't have Normal Duallys to compare them to, mine have the diffusion lens on them. The lights put out a decent amount of light considering the size of them.

thebeeler

Noticed my outer cv boot is torn and my water pump is starting to weep. Got new boots, Aisin oil pump, water pump, and fan clutch. Ordered all new OEM TRE's. Going to wait to pick up some Bilstein shocks. Thinking this might also be a good time to throw in a locker and re-gear the front end so it will match the incoming e-locker.

thebeeler

saved

B-yodaful

Pic of my first Toyota just to get you all excited.

Well that's just nasty. Freakin awesome

93Xtra-Cab

Can't wait to see how this turns out. S'cribed.

thebeeler

It was just your typical prerunner, 3-link and +5 race kit on the front and caged front to rear

B-yodaful

Yeah I thought it looked mostly stock. Maybe just a body lift hahahah

ShakeZulla

Nice build, I noticed that you have an adjustable cam gear. I have one as well,however, lack the knowledge of what to adjust it to. My short block is stockish with a modified head and cams.

thebeeler

When I first got the truck I noticed it was lacking in power, not that it has much anyways, any revving past 3k rpms made no difference in power. I assumed the cam had gone flat, had that problem in my prerunner before. But when I pulled the valve cover and rotated it to TDC the cam gear was not lined up, it was set way advanced. Which could be from a milled head, I do not know, I have not had the head off this block yet. So the adjustable cam gear was used to set it back to where it should of been, and then tweaked it I think 5degrees retarded to raise the power band a little so it can be more effectively used at freeway speeds. Hope that helps ya out.

thebeeler

Lights installed, will go out tonight and take some beam shots of them and the duallys in the rear

ShakeZulla

Well it at least gives me an idea, thank you sir.

thebeeler

Led tail light bar, and Rigid Dually's with diffusion lens, still have yet to find a 5w Cree that fits stock housings


Reverse with running lights on


Beam Shot of the Dually's

thebeeler

Have not had much time to work on the truck lately. I have so many other projects going on it's hard to find the time. Oil pump was starting to get noisy and I had a new one in my parts pile so I put it on as well as a water pump.

The key to making your high mileage engine quiet again. The difference this little gear will make is incredible.


Water pump on, didn't get a pic of the oil pump


Some of the other Toyota's at work

thebeeler

My radiator hoses were looking pretty bloated so I ordered some Trail-Gear silicone hoses from Low Range Offroad. I choose to order from Low Range because they were actually cheaper through them, rather than direct from Trail-Gear. I also picked up a new Japanese made radiator cap. I got all these pieces installed and noticed that my radiator is leaking from the upper tank on the side with inlet, very common place for them to start leaking because a lot of heat is focused in that spot when the thermostat opens. It is only 2 years old which is an average lifespan for a aftermarket radiator. Going to order an aluminum one from Low Range in the coming weeks see if it last any longer.

The fancy stainless hose clamps they come with.



New cap


Another side project. Retrofitting these with some Morimoto Projectors

thebeeler

Still haven't got the projectors done yet, been super busy at work being that it's car show season. But I did manage to pick up some door speakers and a crappy head unit. Tired of just having the 4" dash speakers for the past few months. Also going to be picking up an Alpine PDX-V9 and building a new sub box for behind the seat in the coming weeks.

Focal K2 6.5" component speakers, they are hand made in France.
The goods


Installed door number 1


Door number 2

thebeeler

It's been a while since I have been on here, have been really busy with work and some other projects. Got some Bro-Comps! For the front and the rear. Rides much nicer now, the old shocks were leaking.

thebeeler

Got rid of the crappy Sony I had and put a Pioneer double-din in. It will do for now. Trim bezel is hacked up on the top half to fit whatever type of single-din he had in it. On the hunt for a new one.

julsruls

Looking good so far.