Local Legend Project: Tur-BRO-yota

[GahnRacing]

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[Turboyota]

You should buy that for your garage(side yard) ornament

 

[Mullen]

Were those video screen shots from a Nextel phone? My eyes hurt now.

Do better.

 

[Motiracer38]

Great to see it running again, just in time for desert season

 

[Turboyota]

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[Kellyex1450]

I remember this day! No better way to kick off a project, strippers and beer! Turbo Yotas party harder!

 

[Tree trunk]

Most Exellent! I’ll have to show this to my wife and explain this is how a new project truck should be received

 

[Turboyota]

Both @BROmanian and I are still recovering from being sick, so we weren’t getting much done in the shop—mostly cleaning and standing around talking shit.

FuckinForeigner: “let’s take your truck to the hills”
Me: “it’s muddy as fuck”
FuckinForeigner: “I’ll wash it for you”
Me: “Fucking DEAL. Let’s go”

Bubly: 2
Laughs: 420
Fist bumps: many
Sloppy Mud miles: ~20.69 ish. (Odometer stopped working.)
Time spent in the air: 6.9 seconds
Having windshield wipers: priceless
Tensors work great in the mud. Grippy, predictable, self-clearing.
Trans still grinds going into 4th. It has not self-healed like a proper Toyota item. I’ll give it more time. It’s making a whining sound, so that’s probably good
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[LoganB]

The whining sound you hear is the trans throwing a fit right before it admits defeat and will begin the self healing process now.

 

[84Prerunner]

You need to get on the Helton program and put an R series trans in that thing. He’s killing the 4soeeds without the turbro

 

[FasterNU]

god i hate cleaning mud. I am in middle of it right now from Ocotillo trip.

 

[Turboyota]

Recent updates that I haven’t posted about yet.

Decided I needed to add a structural tube in the orange tape location



Materials: 1.75” X .120”wall 4130
Tools: Ameribrade, orbital sander, Lincoln Dinosaur Idealarc 300, air grinder assortment
Time: 6 hours

Crib mattress over the fuel cell & TIG kegels.


I feel much better about the structural integrity of the backhalf now that those tubes are in.

Fuel filler so I don’t have to open the tent trunk lid thingy and climb up on top of the spares to fill fuel.
Materials: 2.25” exhaust tube and 2.25” mandrel bend, 0.050” HR sheet, 2.0” X .120”Wall tube to clamp over 1.75” tube. 2.25” rubber 90deg coupler.
Tools: bandsaw, TIG, and lazy migger, simple dies, drill press, hydraulic press
Time: 3 hours


Finished off some of the tinwork that I had been putting off for a couple years:
Material: 0.050” 5052
Dzus fasteners
Tools: bandsaw, drill press, Beadroller, finger brake

 

[Turboyota]

Dedicated tool & spare part storage: 3 Pelican cases & 2 ammo cans.

Materials: chinee 1.75” ID tube clamps of questionable quality, 1.25 x 0.065” 4130, mystery steel strap—1/8 & 3/16”, 0.5x.058” 4130 tube, 1x1x1/8” angle iron, 0.050” 4130 sheet.

Base structure: 1.25” tube welded to shitty chinee tube clamps


Supports for middle pelican:

Made some steel paint stir sticks for the bottom of the smaller pelican cases


Suckmesideways Ameribrade action


Left & Right pelican mounts pivot off the battery hold down clamps


Top: removable crossmember with 2X ammo can mounts and the center pelican aft mount
Middle: fuel filler neck
Bottom L&R pelican mounts


All tetrised:
3 ratchet straps hold all 3 pelicans and both the ammo cans down


Passenger side:


Driver side


Filled the forward cleavage between the spare tires with a 1 gallon Yeti water bottle.

Mystery steel strap & 0.050 4130 sheet

Added some go-fast dimples


Silicon bronzed that bitch on


Ran out of my go-to ACE premium gloss block. Red instead. Fuckit.

 

[Turboyota]

Structurally, I love this X behind the cab. It’s 1.5x0.058wall 4130, has Bitchin formed saddle gussets, and looks great.

From a storage access perspective, I fucking hate that X.

Started lopping that fucker off right above my beautiful formed gussets:



I’ll keep this around my shop and trip over it for the next 10 years:


All the access! Like a fucking sundress!


Had to cut the gussets out bit-by-bit. You can see how thin and lightweight everything is.
Look at that, I welded under everything before covering it up.


All fluffed out and tidy—like it was never there:



Mounting the 5.5 gallon sikky diamond plate water tank:

Bolts thru the rear firewall, the Allen head NAS1351 functions as a set screw holding the tank down


Bolts thru the aluminum trunk floor at the left of this pic:


Peekaboo under there:





Spigot:

 

[Turboyota]

Ice chest mount:
1.5x1.5x1/8 angle iron
Bolts thru the trunk floor to the 1.75x.120wall 4130 X beneath it, and thru the firewall. There are little feet that grab the aft part of the water tank.


Solid amount of firewood storage and convenient ice chest access from the passenger side


Gas struts added to the tent lid thingy.
Good view of all the storage containers.

UMP fluid holders moved to their new home below the spare tires. They used the be mounted atop the batteries.

Good view of spare driveline, winch, and new fuel filler neck on the passenger side

 

[GilbertG]

Any of the DR bros remember the ¿What does the Turboyota weigh? Guessing game?

Everyone guessed the total weight and the front-to-back ratio.

Truck was weighed with a full tank of gas, 33x10.5 BFG Baja/alloy wheel spare, and the majority of the front bumper is included.

This things sweet, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen you a time or 2 when I was living in Yucaipa

 

[BFAB]

Super functional. Dig it!

 

[Tree trunk]

Excellent work sir! The water tank is rad you should plumb a little pump out of it to hit your windshield or a mobile bidet…..

 

[Brett_408]

I think you win for most things packaged on a toyota pick up. The ingenuity is awesome on this truck.

 

[Mullen]

Super gay. It was better with leaf springs and cracked spindles.