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What welder are you using Chris? Nice looking welds!
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What have you done to your ride lately?
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Bet ya her Jeep doesn't have frame failure or frame rust holes in 10 years
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Bet ya you won't drive it 250 thousand miles either with minimal maintenance.
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Boomtacoma01
Tommy want wingy..
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Looks great Chris. Technique looks good to me.
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Boomtacoma01
Tommy want wingy..
Thanks. I have never had a MIG before so I am using my high school expertise.
If the weather holds up next week, I may be riding up there with the tube doors on again
If the weather holds up next week, I may be riding up there with the tube doors on again
Engines are easy to replace. Frames are not.
You can be fan-boy all you want. I now hate new Toyotas and wouldn't have mine right now if I still had a payment...
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Fan-boy... 
You sure are awful defensive about a Jeep. It's ok, my daughter wants a jeep so I'm sure there will be one in my drive someday.
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Nope, just making a statement that Toyota's quality is shit on anything bearing the Tacoma name
TacoXpo
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I have been muttering similar thoughts. Just this weekend I was thinking, "Should I find a new frame and build it the way that I would like it to be built and then transfer the body and build a cage... " Then I woke up.
There is something to be said about Dana's ability to build a frame for Toyota. I wonder how those development discussions went.
The frame and the body on the Tacomas have a lot to be desired. In talking with Toyota engineers, the Land Cruisers have two times the number of spot welds and it shows - I was bothered by the noise from the crack on the C pillar of my truck just this weekend. I have already welded the driver side, now it's time for the passenger side.
There may be a new truck in my future after the shop gets going but I'm not sure what it will be. I do like the DYNATRAC prepared JKs that I see from my office every day. Maybe I can get the hook up.
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taco4x4rar
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My next build is going to be a 3/4 or 1 ton chevy, a 2000-07 reg. cab long or short bed 2500/3500hd with a gas motor.
What are you going to do with it? Wheel it or drive through mud puddles?
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Answer C.. yard art.
Hello Pot.... Hello Kettle.. mine is still sitting.. not that I can wheel it at the moment. Someday. I think it will be on a Saturday... not sure of the month and year though.
taco4x4rar
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Just seemed like s good ides to start with s 6.0 and one ton drive train instead of buying something smaller and swapping all of it out
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I want to start with a salvage vehicle or a fully built one from a guy going through a divorce.
Or buy one off a guy with back problems who can't wheel again.
Fingers crossed that won't be me in 6 months.
Fucking Allpoo bumper bit me to the tune of 10 stitches...
Grinder got pinched and ripped out of my hand... FML this week.
Grinder got pinched and ripped out of my hand... FML this week.