tacobell007's "RC Toy" Build

Well I think I'm long overdue for making a build thread, but since I have some time I decided to make one. "RC Toy" nickname, because I think my truck kind of looks like a radio controlled (RC) toy truck; but it can also stand for Regular Cab Toyota... So whatever floats your boat.

Started off with a 2006 Tacoma, Reg. cab, base model, 4cyl, 5spd, with 55k miles on it, for $14,000. Bought the truck in September of 2013, when I was 19. Had Bilstein 5100's on all 4 corners, Deaver 1.5" AAL in the rear, and Eibach 650LB springs up front, sitting on 245/75/16 Firestone Destination A/T with stock steelies painted black.

Now onto the fun stuff...

Instagram: drew_malloy it is mostly truck pics

Current pic


Suspenion

• Walker Evan Remote resi coilovers with adjustable dampening wrapped in Eibach 650lb springs
• Icon Uniball UCA's
• OME Dakars
• Icon VS 2.0 12" shocks

Wheels and Tires

• 5 Mastercraft Courser MXT in 35x12.5X17 load range E
• 5 Fuel Off-Road Trophy d551 in 17x8.5 4.5" BS

Audio

• Kenwood DNX-5140 headunit with nav and bluetooth
• Kicker TC-10
• Alpine 250 watt mono block amp
• Kenwood 6.5's in the doors (for now)

Armor

• SOS Off-Road Concepts front plate, full hoops, light tabs on main hoop, winch cutout
• SOS Off-Road Concepts high clearance rear plate, swingout, flush mount cutouts, bedside protection, and SOS Concepts cut outs on the sides
  
• SOS Off-Road Concepts regular cab bolt on sliders with kickouts

Lighting

• Rigid Dually's (spot pattern) on ditch light brackets by SOS Off-Road Concepts
• Sea Tough front bar, 22,000 lumens, 200w
• Amazon NiteBruiser 3x2 flush mounts in the rear bumper
• Amazon Cree LED 25w 921 reverse bulbs in tails
• Sylvania dome light LED
• Sylvania 194 LED in corner markers and plate bulbs in 6000K color

Headlights

• The Retrofit Source, mini D2's 4.0
• G-37R Shrouds
• Dual LED switchback halos
• 35w ballasts
• 5500K 35w bulbs
• Morimoto harness, and everything else
• @Boogyman Thanks for the awesome job, and showing how it is done

Performance

• LCE stage 1 clutch kit
• aFe Pro-5R intake filter
• Flowmaster Super44
• Exhaust chopped after the axle

Miscellaneous

• $150 Uniden BearCat 880 CB Radio with 40 Channels and Large Easy-to-Read 7-Color LCD Display with Backlighting, Backlit Control Knobs/Buttons, NOAA Weather Alert, PA/CB Switch, and Wireless Mic Compatible
  Uniden BearCat 880
• FireStik 4' with heavy duty spring
• @emelianenkov Gauge Cluster swap to white with blue needles and TPMS removed
• Bench seat to Bucket seat conversion, with 6spd center console
• 35% tint on windows and rear glass
• Stickers, I like stickers...
• Rear diff. breather relocate to storage cubby in bed
• Satoshi grille mod, custom painted (Silver Streak and Speedway Blue) and color matched to the grille '89 Toyota Pickup front Badge, done by myself
• Rigid 32" job box bolted to the bed
• *NEW* as of 2015, Frame, LCA's, hard brake lines, Lower BJ's, some other stuff, Thanks Toyota!
• At The Helm bed stiffeners
• SOS Off-road Concepts Hi-Lift mounts
• SOS Off-road Concepts ditch light brackets
• Poor man's bushwackers mod
• 2012+ clock (white numbers)
• Diode Dynamics Smart Tap relay

States Traveled

• These are places I have gone to do something while driving the truck... I have traveled through more than just these, but I don't consider stopping for gas or breaks on my way to said place, visiting that state
• MA
• NH
• VT
• ME
• RI
• NY
• CT
• NJ
• PA
• SC

After my test drive...




Once the papers were signed and it had my plates on it, blue DCLB is my dad's...






The Saturday after I picked up the truck, I bought a Better Built toolbox from AutoZone for it...



Got the windows tinted and the Flowmaster put on a few weeks later, don't really have any specific pics of them. Also, color matched my grille (did autobody at the time so paint was free and readily available).

November of 2013 I drove to NY to pick up 5 285/75/16 BFG KM2's from a member on here selling them...



Bought some Depo brand BHLM headlights on Amazon






Then I went ahead and did my Satoshi grille mod







That is salt on the grille, was running the grille with no mesh since I was waiting for my mesh to show up...





Didn't do much to the truck for awhile because I was not working very much and was taking night classes for precision manufacturing (machinist).
Pretty much ran it and wheeled it this way with 2 pairs of 1.25" spydertrax wheel spacers. Painted my rear bumper to color match somewhere along the line...






Bought new tire in very early November of 2014, my 5 General Grabber AT2's in 33x12.5. I was looking for some new MT tires, but I have a tire hookup and he told me they had 5 of these a "return to store" because they were mounted and balanced and rubbed to much, so before the previous owner even left the parking lot with them, they were dismounted. Ended up scoring all 5 for $950 so it was way too good of a deal to pass up. Was not able to get them mounted until I bought new wheels which did not show up until January of 2015 since I ordered them just after Christmas.









Truck had already failed frame inspection, but I was waiting for my frame and all related parts to show up at the local Toyota dealership. Finally got that call on a Saturday morning to bring my truck down, they didn't give me a heads up like I had asked so I could get the truck ready for them. So immediately spent 2.5 hours stripping my truck down to what the service manager, the tech, and I had agreed upon to bring the truck in. Looked goofy as hell, but free frame from Toyota at nearly the cost of the truck when I bought it!

Here is the truck once it was ready to go to the dealer, stock size tires, no tool box, no grille, no diff breather mod, and cleaned up the bed and interior some.



While she was under the knife...

















Then came the rear suspension install, broken Deaver AAL's and blown out 5100's...
Yes I need new bump stops...





While they were doing my frame, the found a sticky e-brake cable on the driver's side and the driver's side shoes had been worn down. I had originally planned to do rear brakes, but both AAL's were broken and separating from the leaf packs so I decided to do those, that is why the passenger side drum is off in the above pic. Needless to say, waited too long to get around to the e-brake cable and shoes. Thankfully the wheel cylinder blew out leaving the parking lot after getting an alignment...













Decided to get my extended length brake lines made up since I was going to have to bleed the wheel cylinders anyways (passenger side wheel cylinder blew up putting the new shoes in, but of course)





Also, while they were doing my frame, the tech mentioned I had some slight seepage from my water pump, so I got a Toyota water pump and installed myself.





Then came the install of my armor in September of 2015. My new found buddy Levi, wanted to help me install it, so I took him up on the offer since he owns the garage/house in the below pics. I now do side work for him working on cars for some extra cash...









Then I put my light bar on my light tabs...



Hit 100k miles 10/15/15



Then came my bucket seat conversion, it was relatively straight forward and I had Levi help me figure out the wiring on the seat belt buckles. Anyone that wants a bench seat, let me know...



January of 2016, took a trip to Charleston, SC to hangout with my good buddy @Boogyman for a week...

Taken the night before leaving



Some Pics from the trip!

NC at 8am, drove all night for this trip...



After arriving

 

More pics from that trip...




Total miles travelled for this excursion (truck was off, thats why the oil light is on)...



Adjusting my rear brakes...



March of 2016, Clutch blew up in my truck, so I upgraded to an LCE stage 1 clutch. Got my stock flywheel turned, new flywheel bolts from Toyota and new pressure plate bolts from LCE.





Turn back the dial to 2015 when I got my gauge cluster done, glare is from the camera, it is nice and crisp colors at night...



Back to March of 2016, had Phoenix retro my 3rd brake light



Went on a Tacoma World wheeling trip in RI. I know @DoubleRGirl @mach1man001 @yazmatic and @Sloth were there...



May of 2016 I took a trip to my family's camp in Eustis, ME. Love going up, very rural and if you want you can day trip to Canada, Quebec is only 21 miles away. Flagstaff Lake is right down the road and is a very large lake. All of these were taken within 10 minutes of my cabin, except for the border one and the Sugarloaf one.




August of 2016 went wheeling up in Henniker, NH with a group from TW again...
Thanks Rob, for the video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHgEVj51aIU

 

Time to finish this thing...

So after wheeling in NH with @mach1man001 @ERMB @Boston10Taco @DoubleRGirl @Darth_Yota @WinSlow939 @jjsul @johnnym The truck didn't change much until the week before Christmas, December 2016. Added my uniball UCA's and Walker Evan Coilovers with remote resi and adjustable dampening. Also, threw in some 'new to me' CV axles with new Toyota OE axle seals. Had to make some misalignment spacers at work so I could mount my coilovers, only took about 2 hours to make 4 of them on a Saturday at my shop.



All was in preparation for my 2nd trip to South Carolina last year, left Christmas night and got back New Years Eve day







Took a trip with Phoenix to downtown and got a tour of Charleston Distilling Co.








Grabbed some Christmas trees to burn, I think we ended up with around 15 trees total




Had Phoenix @Boogyman do my retrofits for me, he did an awesome job.







Riding around through Francis Marion on my last day there



Some of you may recognize this picture from @ERMB 's truck portrait thread!




And the sunrise in Maryland on I-95 on my way home



To be continued...

 

reserved

 

Saweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

 

Plenty more to come... Im only at January of 2016

 

I like it!

 

Dude does that have a v6?

 

Lmao just kidding. The SOS front bumper looks mean as fuck. Can't wait for mine.

 

@LivinLoud

 

Thanks!

Thanks Paul!

I'm adding more stuff as I go, had to post the first post because they only allow 50 pics to be uploaded at a time lol

 

2nd post updated!

 

Yeah I just saw the video from NH. Nice wheelin dude!

 

Thanks man!

 

Subbbb truck looks sick dude!

 

Also, good job on the build so far. Your speakers are kenwood though not pioneer lol

 

Ah! I thought they were Pioneer, thank you for noticing that haha. And thanks for the compliments!

 

Ah you think you're clever Mason?