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It finally came time, the clutch started slipping, I had no choice but to replace it considering this is my only truck at the moment while my brother is borrowing my 2wd pickup. So I ordered a marlin crawler HD clutch

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I felt the truck needed a little bit of cosmetic attention, I installed a toytec lift kit on our window tint/clear bra guy's 2014 tundra, so in trade he offered to do some work for me. I had him tint the windows at 17% (no pics, I think we all know what dark windows look like), and I had him mask the center cowl of the hood in flat black

Before

Chris laying out the vinyl

The finished product

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If you've looked through my brother's build 250000_yota in the t100 build section, then you saw on our last wheeling trip, I burned up a winch control box, of course, we needed the winch for recovery, so we tore apart the box and made it work

Josh and I messing worth the winch in the corner of the pic

Just figured it out


So I talked to harbor freight, and even though I couldn't find my warranty paperwork, they replaced the winch. But when I went in to get it, their computer system said they had 5 12k winches in stock, though they had none, so they gave me a gift card with the full taxed value of the winch and sent me to another store. The other store gave me 20% off after I got a little upset with how much the 2 year warranty cost, so 20% with an $80 2 year warranty ended up costing $428, $6 dollars less than what was on the gift card. But the down side to the whole thing...

bumper has to come off...
to get the winch out

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So along with my brother (250000_yota), I also drag race my tacoma. It's been a tradition for us to camp out at bandimere speedway for the opening day test and tune. This was the first time in three years my work schedule has allowed me to go


My truck in the box ready to run next


At the line, ready to run an ecoboost.


My fastest time of the day, 16.74 @ 82 MPH. I also beat the ecoboost because he slept at the line, but hey... Winning is winning

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Haven't done much lately, except install a set of Body Armor 4x4 taillight guards