Yota Build: The CatCondo

[4xFoorOffroad]

Purchased in 2017...

Figured I would have it built out in a year...



Being turned into a solid multi-level cat condo since:










The gopher / daily / zero budget / overlander build:







The wiferunner build:









Just was told by the wife truck time's over for today... haha

 

[4xFoorOffroad]

Thinking about swapping 4runner and daily wheels.



Too busy lately to tackle stuff like:

4runner hub swap, more fab on the 7 year cat condo, or water pump replacement for the dd.

 

[Dirt Yota]

I like that single cab 6lug taco!!! Runner is sweet too.

 

[Bosto88]

That cat looks pretty tough... I think id let him keep the truck.

 

[4xFoorOffroad]

@Bosto88 100%. However, the official story is that a bus full of cat-hating nuns tried to kill him when he was crossing the road shortly after I took that picture and he didn’t make it. I don’t believe it though and am pretty sure it was actually those feline-haters that didn’t make it out of the ordeal alive.

In my heart I believe he wanted to come back and live out the the rest of his days as a stray at the truck, but he knew he that would jeopardize his friends at the cat condo by drawing the ire of those feline hating non-fornicators. Hell hath no fury like a bunch of p****y hating nuns scorned. Anyway here’s his babies I found mixed in with a bunch of truck parts five years ago. His baby madre has had 3 litters in and around my truck. (Lately she’s been adopted and fixed).





Part of rehabbing my wife’s rig after her accident (not her fault luckily) involved me expertly busting an AC line. I definitely messed up on that one and so luckily my buddy kindly welded it for a burger and a pink lemonade from InNOut.



On the way home from his place I tried to score some easy husband points by topping off and ran into my truck twin.



No new developments over at the cat condo, but a newbie has been taking over the bed, that is until I go anywhere near it lol. Caught red handed.





What’s one more feline friend spreading cat pee odors all over my rig at this point? Hah.

 

[4xFoorOffroad]

Unfortunately I've begun to interrupt the peace and tranquility that the catcondo residents have gotten used to.





Sorry bro.

I like this guy (girl?) though, she (?) isn't too scared and likes to chill near me when I'm working on the condo.



However leading up to these recent pics, I had focused on finishing my wife's ride from the accident almost a year and a half ago now.

My buddy killed it welding my cobbled together high pressure AC line.




Then I cut away more to make enough room around the line (2nd time is hopefully the charm on this one).



Hooked up new refrigerant and it works again



Repurposed the skid I had on the condo to complete the 4runner's front end, years ago I had made windows in it for squadrons and put a set of SAE cubes with a nice cutoff that come on with the headlights (if I put them on a switch, my wife will never remember to turn them on and they fill below the high output H4's well.




And the icing on the cake I made some brackets to put the original lenses in the bumper because the stock housings won't fit with the wings I added behind it.



Tada!



After that I picked up the last project I had been working on in December when last working on the condo. Made the last touches to my angle iron bedside supports.



These bolt to brackets that hold my tail lights.



That way I can keep my tail lights without running bedsides and even without the bed if I make a simple mount for the bed stiffeners to bolt down to.

The condo finally has tail lights again.



After that I knocked the 6 months of dust off the catcondo and removed the bed.



Removed the fuel tank, this is what 7 years of sitting with old fuel looks like




Ordered another tank on amazon - almost 5 stars and only $200 shipped!

Excited I put a deposit on a new motor I'll go pick up next week or the week after in Fresno

Pretty low mile engine



Couple cold starts and a compression check were given to me and I'm absolutely stoked to get an engine for this thing.



Got the day off tomorrow and hopefully I'll get something done other than making the residents angry...

 

[Klever]

Hell yeah! Some sweet updates man! I like the Siamese cat too. Cats are rad!