jpmillermatic
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Hey, all
so my buddy has a truck that is near and dear to him. its a 1999 Toyota Tacoma v6 4x4. its in great shape because he has kept up on the frame rot repair and other issues that have cropped up. These little trucks are known for frame rot, but also, like most pick ups, suffer from a few other areas to watch for. Namely, the fender arches and bed floor where that meets with the inner fenders.
I was just going to touch up the fender flares...thats how this whole things started.
I noticed that previous repairs done 2 years ago by a professional body shop had begun to fail. I was going to take the bed off anyway...but now it was not an option....
Boy, its nice having the lift. I didnt have to worry about scratching the cab, or pulling favors from neighbors...it just lifted it straight up...no fuss...
Then I started looking at a few suspect areas..This one, I decided to tackle first:
it looks bad enought, but the surface just above the rot through is actually the bed liner!...they had filled the (then) smaller hole with bondo and smeared it all over the bed liner and onto the metal surrounding the holes. This of course, made things much worse and the holes grew from roughly 6-10" long to over 24" long! arrrgghhhh.
I had to cut through the 3/4" thick Rhino liner product to expose the damage...that Rhino liner is tough stuff! what a mess.
and the results:
the big pieces are the rubberized bed coating (Rhino Lining) you can see the bondo still stuck to the bottom of it.......(grooves in it)
Heres where it gets a little nuts. I cut out part of the floor from my old Dakota bed and believe it or not, it actually fits the Tacoma!...(for the most part) Now I really have to finish the Dakota!
First piece held in place with a couple of magnets:
second piece:
The gap you see is because there are two layers of metal. The inner fender lies on top of the floor piece....So that will be next...
they really made this much worse.....but hid things pretty well...for a while. nutjobs.
thanks for looking....
JP
so my buddy has a truck that is near and dear to him. its a 1999 Toyota Tacoma v6 4x4. its in great shape because he has kept up on the frame rot repair and other issues that have cropped up. These little trucks are known for frame rot, but also, like most pick ups, suffer from a few other areas to watch for. Namely, the fender arches and bed floor where that meets with the inner fenders.
I was just going to touch up the fender flares...thats how this whole things started.
I noticed that previous repairs done 2 years ago by a professional body shop had begun to fail. I was going to take the bed off anyway...but now it was not an option....
Boy, its nice having the lift. I didnt have to worry about scratching the cab, or pulling favors from neighbors...it just lifted it straight up...no fuss...
Then I started looking at a few suspect areas..This one, I decided to tackle first:
it looks bad enought, but the surface just above the rot through is actually the bed liner!...they had filled the (then) smaller hole with bondo and smeared it all over the bed liner and onto the metal surrounding the holes. This of course, made things much worse and the holes grew from roughly 6-10" long to over 24" long! arrrgghhhh.
I had to cut through the 3/4" thick Rhino liner product to expose the damage...that Rhino liner is tough stuff! what a mess.
and the results:
the big pieces are the rubberized bed coating (Rhino Lining) you can see the bondo still stuck to the bottom of it.......(grooves in it)
Heres where it gets a little nuts. I cut out part of the floor from my old Dakota bed and believe it or not, it actually fits the Tacoma!...(for the most part) Now I really have to finish the Dakota!
First piece held in place with a couple of magnets:
second piece:
The gap you see is because there are two layers of metal. The inner fender lies on top of the floor piece....So that will be next...
they really made this much worse.....but hid things pretty well...for a while. nutjobs.
thanks for looking....
JP