Wow, so much info in such little time! Love the truck.

 

Diggin the build. Keep up the good work.

 

Turned out awesome. Mine is the same cab same bedlength. badass. where did you find those hilux stickers?

 

Thanks guys

Thanks and long bed FTW! My buddy's girlfriend made the stickers for me. I could ask her if she can make another set if you want.

 

Not much was accomplished between yesterday and today. All I got done was the sliders welded together, painted and ready to weld to the frame. And the hinges for the tire carrier came.

 

That's a sweet yellow 2002 btw

 

Thanks. My Toyota addiction doesn't hold a candle to my dads 2002 addiction. He's goes nuts with his 2002's!

 

Haha I bet, they are definitely cool cars!

 

Got a bunch of goodies in the mail today. Slam shut latches for the tire carrier. Flush mount weld through receiver hitch and weld through shackle mounts for the rear bumper and shock tabs to weld in the bed for tie down points. Just waiting on the tire mount plate.

 

Made some good progress in the last couple weeks.

Made a rear bumper and welded it to the frame. The shackle lugs were 7/16" steel so I borrowed a bigger welder for this job. It was a Chicago Electric 220v from Harbor Freight, running .030 flux core wire. I was really impressed with the welder. Once dialed in, it layed some very nice beads and made some solid welds. For the price, I may have to pic one up. The plasma cutter made the bumper build so easy. I'm not sure how I would have cut all the holes(6) in the bumper without it.



got the sliders welded to the truck finally.





Full front axle rebuild and regear to match the rear 5.29's







The entire inside of the housing was covered with this peanut butter poop



Didn't have a torque wrench light enough to set pinion preload. Got it taken care of with a pull scale and a little bit of math. Helps to have an engineer friend on hand.



All set per AllData's instructions

 

Nice work on that rear bumper, looks really clean. Man that 3rd member had a ton of sludge! Also are you ever going to switch over to a more rock crawler based suspension? Like high steer and bigger springs?

 

Thanks! I have TG 3" springs, hanger, frame plates, 5125's, hoops, histeer and an IFS steering box sitting in the garage waiting to go on.

 

....but I creamed two deer and a telephone pole so all of that is on hold.

 

ouchy

 

Hope no one got hurt in the accident. Hate seeing that, but after the other work you have done, you have the skills to get it fixed. I feel your frustrations after every thing yoou have done and now this. Ouch!!!

 

Well, good to see another Baltimoron on the boards, welcome. Nice build, bad luck with the deer, this is one reason why I'm trying to get a stout front bumper on my rig ASAP. I fear the kamikaze Bambi.
How can you drink Coors, and name your dog Natty Boh?.... Blasphemy.
J/K

On a serious note, if you need a hand massaging the th sheet metal from the deer damage shoot me a PM, I'd be glad to lend a hand to get your ride sorted. I was a AutoBody collision technician in my past life, I still have my body tools.

Looking forward to your build process, s'cribed.
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that's sad after seeing that beautiful pain job you had on your truck. Hope you're ok.

 

Thanks man. I drink Coors occasionally, please forgive me. The biggest problem from the crash is the bent frame. Once I get that straightened the only other significant damage was the core support. I cut a good one out of another truck so my spot weld drill will be getting a work out. I'll gladly except any help I can get as I haven't done much body work.

Something that's worrying me is how to straighten the front clip. It's pushed towards the passenger side about an inch but none of the fenders appear to be damaged. Will it straighten itself out once the frame is straight and I remove the mangled core support?

 

ouch, that totally sucks after seeing the paint on her, it might be core upport or the fram might be tweeked ever so slightly, could pay a couple hundred bucks to have your local body shop tjhrow it on the frame rack just for insurane

 

Yeah, the frame is visibly bent. I hit the pole on the end of the driver side frame rail while sliding 45 degrees sideways. The driver frame rail is pushed in just by looking at it. Also, when I put a "new" hood and hood hinges on it and lined it up with the cowl, the front drivers side edge of the hood overlaps the driver side fender by at least an inch. On the passenger side at the front of the hood and fender, there is a gap the same amount as the driver side hood overlap.

I really need to get the frame sorted so I can get the front suspension, hi-steer and exo cage done. This total build stand still is killing me because wheeling season is here and I really need to start denting it up on the trail instead of the road.