Local Legend Not much left Tacoma left... 4500 koh build

After I went in from welding the bungs I realized I screwed up and welded both rights on one bar and both lefts on the other. Ordered new ones from poly performance but shifted direction to going over the crawler for tacos on the rubicon and getting the trailer ready. Overall the rubicon was a great time. Super dusty and seemed rougher than usual but no issues it seemed

Placed a big order yesterday for stuff and cycled the front some more as it seemed like I had a lot of bump steer but after putting the permanent draglink and panhard in, it’s at best very minimal

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My dad was here for a few days and we knocked out the sliders. Hopefully they don’t bend. Debating sleeving them with 1.5 solid aluminum or 1.5x.120 wall tubing.

Welded up the pitman arm after cycling the front again. And made some sway bar extensions for the Currie bars my dad gave me. Also worked out and made them dual shear. Practiced my tig on them and feel like I’m getting better

And slapped the busted hood and some fenders on. Need to order an 01-04 hood and driver fender.
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And the motor from summit, my wheels and a builder exhaust kit showed up from magna flow. Appreciate Magnaflow helping me out and sending the kit out along with a muffler.

Still struggling to find a set of headers to fit the passenger side with the motor mount so if anyone has any suggestions. Ideally I’d like it to dump in front of the motor mount so I can run it under the oil pan and tie into the driver side exhaust.

And no pictures but my dad knocked out the rear third member which looked great. He took all the stuff to build the front one home so that should be done soon as well
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knocked out two more swing arm extensions for the rears. Feel my tig is getting better but still a little shakey on some of them. I’ll do a second pass on them tomorrow since they were to hot tonight.

Driver front sway bar will get a small bend to clear the panhard and I made the extensions a 1/4 longer to account for the bend.

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Lower links done. Sleeved and wrench flats milled and plug welded. Capped a bunch of tubes. Sleeved and capped the sliders. Bent the sway bar but waiting on heims. Started on the winch plate.

Winch needed to be raised an inch to clear the steering box. Used some 1x1 rectangle and sleeved with some 3/4 dom. Tig welded and then ground smooth. Come up was nice enough to send me one of their competition and air free spool attachments. Works like an arb from the quick test I did. Add air and winch spools freely. Release air and it’s locked in and can winch in or out. Super happy with it
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Worked on the fuel cell some. Upgraded to a -16 breather/rollover and new -6 bulkheads for the feed and return. 2.5” od clear hose for the fill. First time ever tig welding aluminum and not upset with the results. It’s fat and ugly but I don’t think it’s going anywhere.
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McNeil finished my dash so ran down to socal Wednesday night and came back Thursday. Stopped at prp on the way back and grabbed a y strap for the spare and limit straps and then stopped at kartek. Never been to kartek and that place has everything. Picked up a bunch of parts from them as well to include the batteries

Big thanks to McNeil for helping me out with a discount on the dash and also to morrflate for helping get me setup with onboard air with one of the compressors. Fragola also helped me out with a discount so I placed a big order to plumb the car. Should have everything minus the brake lines I think.
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More stuff. Limit strap tabs welded. Used the rear third to test fit the axle shafts and welded the cs on. Finished the wing/upper radiator mount. Put some tube connectors on the lower radiator tube to be able to get the fuel cell out. Front bumper is welded and done. And made the upper links.
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Got the car turned around and body off. My dad’s been working on the floor pans under the seats while I worked on the exhaust. Redid the passenger motor mount for the 2nd time and made it straight again to clear the header. Not bad for my first time doing stainless. Super happy with the tube work on the car.

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Only a half ish day before my dad left. He got the motor put together and I got most the passenger side exhaust figured out. Just need to add another v band, grind the one joint and figure out the dump. He took a bunch of the panels to paint and clean up along with the dash to fiberglass it all back together.
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