Starting Over... Taco Style!
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articulate
Expedition Leader
Sorry you missed it? :cow:kcowyo said:
Gregory's Taco is looking saaaaweeeeet! Tall-n-skinny tires, racing suspension, and and expeditionportal.com sticker. Without the fridge, she's not quite ready for Baja, but as soon as I get one perhaps we can just go together and share? Attached some pics of her in action out at Saguaro Lake ...
Desertdude
Expedition Leader
viatierra
Explorer
Minor Update
Prior to this year's Expedition Trophy I did complete a few minor additions that I wanted to post.
Inside the truck, I installed a Jeniko laptop mount as posted by 1legLance. It is a simple, affordable mount that has worked great so far. It did wobble a bit, but it was easy enough to fab up a simple brace that connects to the seat rail. The wobble seemed to come from flex in the transmission tunnel. Perhaps there was a better place for the mounting plate. Despite how it looks, the whole system doesn't interfere with the passenger's comfort too much. For $50 how can you miss??
In the bed, I mounted a Hi-lift and shovel. This was intended to be temporary until I move these to my tent platform, but I'm satisfied with how this is working. Moving the jack to the platform with only raise my COG and decrease accessability to the goodies in the bed. The jack base rests on the wheelwell so stress on the mounting should be minimized. I have some large fenderwashers for support on the backside. We'll have to see how it holds up over time.
I'm really pleased with the shovel mount. I copied this system from John at Hunter Offroad. It is an $8 shovel from Home Depot that I cut to length and about $3 in hardware for the mount. Now I am only 1 wingnut away from digging holes or smothering fires. Pretty cool.
The Tacoma is FINALLY being dropped off at Hunter Offroad on Tuesday for the next phase: Tent platform. As documented in Jeffery Scott 's photograph of Camp Hanson overlooking my squalor...
the Maggiolina still sits unused in my garage. Although, my vision for the truck is to maintain simplicity, I have increased to scope of the platform a bit. TacoDoc and others have such cool tent setups that it's hard to keep the wheels from spinning! I hope to have a nice update in 2 weeks!
Prior to this year's Expedition Trophy I did complete a few minor additions that I wanted to post.
Inside the truck, I installed a Jeniko laptop mount as posted by 1legLance. It is a simple, affordable mount that has worked great so far. It did wobble a bit, but it was easy enough to fab up a simple brace that connects to the seat rail. The wobble seemed to come from flex in the transmission tunnel. Perhaps there was a better place for the mounting plate. Despite how it looks, the whole system doesn't interfere with the passenger's comfort too much. For $50 how can you miss??
In the bed, I mounted a Hi-lift and shovel. This was intended to be temporary until I move these to my tent platform, but I'm satisfied with how this is working. Moving the jack to the platform with only raise my COG and decrease accessability to the goodies in the bed. The jack base rests on the wheelwell so stress on the mounting should be minimized. I have some large fenderwashers for support on the backside. We'll have to see how it holds up over time.
I'm really pleased with the shovel mount. I copied this system from John at Hunter Offroad. It is an $8 shovel from Home Depot that I cut to length and about $3 in hardware for the mount. Now I am only 1 wingnut away from digging holes or smothering fires. Pretty cool.
The Tacoma is FINALLY being dropped off at Hunter Offroad on Tuesday for the next phase: Tent platform. As documented in Jeffery Scott 's photograph of Camp Hanson overlooking my squalor...
the Maggiolina still sits unused in my garage. Although, my vision for the truck is to maintain simplicity, I have increased to scope of the platform a bit. TacoDoc and others have such cool tent setups that it's hard to keep the wheels from spinning! I hope to have a nice update in 2 weeks!
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heeltoe989
Explorer
Very cool truck. Look forward to seeing more.:chowtime:
viatierra
Explorer
Well guys... thanks for your encouragement. While others were enjoying their rigs in the Arizona rain, I went to check in on the tent rack progress. I haven't seen my truck in over 2 weeks! In fact Saturday was an anual BBQ at Hunter Offroad. My truck was to have the honored distinction of being one of the projects in progress for folks take a peek at. I was anticipating taking a few cool pictures. Well with the rain, the vehicles were evicted and tarped so folks could eat inside. What I was able to get a good look at was pretty sweet. I'm getting antsy. Who knew it would take 6 months to get this Maggiolina perminately mounted!
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Dave Bennett
Adventurist
Nice truck man! Love the Indigo Ink! :bigbossHL: