Are your sliders on yet?

 

Nope! I'm getting together with Levi so he can help me out, sometime before the 15th!

 

Awesome!

 

Nice. Still need to get me a wench..

 

Got the winch in the mail today, pictures soon when it's all mounted up!

 

'bout time....sheeesh.....

 

I thought it'd take longer when I saw they were all sold out! But wooo!

 

Indeed

 

Hopefully if Levi helps me we can get it on Friday with the sliders, maybe. Josh said he'd show up too!

 

Josh will show up....with his sachel full of dogs...

 

Hehe silly Josh and your bag collection.

Picked up axle seals and new brake shoes today!

Winch and sliders going on tomorrow, pictures up soon!

 

where's the pics?!

 

Smittybilt XRC8 Winch w/ Synthetic Line and Trail Gear Rock Sliders installed! Huge thanks to Levi, Vitaly, Josh and Jason for the help/support! Pictures are up!

 

Slap hands!!!!!!!!!!

 

Picked up a set of 2nd gen Tacoma wheels! Think I'm going to paint them black! Picture on front page!

Also got a new bug guard, mine was damaged and was pretty loose.

Gotta take off the roof rack, again, got rust wash running down the side of the truck again. Need to take it off, do a very good clean job then spray down in the tube hopefully to fix it, not sure if it will though.

Picked up a couple D-Rings too, pictures up later when those are on.

 

Sweet

 

hey man, so those rad new aluminum rims are badass. Can I make a suggestion, or alteast give you some knowledge? When I bought those FJ Anthracite rims with 34 MT's on them i really liked the fact that they were light and stock looking but i had issues tearing them up on the trail. I went back to using my steelies and MT's for trail use and I'm working on picking up some AT's to run on my aluminum rims for street/winter/snow use. When I went wheeling i'd tear up those rims, rip the stems off, etc. my intent is to have 2 sets of rims/tires, a street set on yota rims and off road set on steelies with removable stems. T4R's looking good tho brother.

-Matt

 

Thanks a ton for the heads up man! Yeah I definitely wouldn't want these getting all chewed up, especially if I get them painted. I'll for sure put that to thought, and maybe look into another set of tires.

 

Brand new calipers, rotors and pads. Both calipers I bought a year ago went out on me, pistons got stuck. One side only had 1 pad left, the other was completely chewed to nothing, causing grinding on the rotor. Thinking it was only that 1 side, I changed it out. Putting new pads on the other side, I see that it's starting to happen with that one too. So up to Napa I go to get another caliper. Would've been able to get free rotors, but I was 3 days over the 1 year warranty. Crap! Anyway, it looks like it's all good now.

Threw up a picture I took from Seattle last week, looked pretty cool.

Grinded down the frame rust today from the sliders being welded on, cleaned that up, sprayed a few coats with some non-rust spray paint. Thanks Jason (Kiyobrown) for that can, still had a ton left. Maybe I'll get my roof rack re-painted to stop the rust inside.

Starting to save now for the 4.88's. Still deciding whether I want to save an extra few paychecks to get a front ARB or not. I think I'm going to.

 

Verry nice!