I need to do the lanyard on my f-in-l's trailer. His crews are horrible about losing the pins.
What have you done to someone else's ride lately?
- Thread starter drew02a
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Yeah it pisses me off really bad when people lose stuff you let them borrow.
Silverback
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I had fuckers stealing my pins when I kept it in the storage lot so I just took them all off and kept them in the door pocket of the truck.
PSU Taco85
Well-Known Member
Had a few friends over, got to install two new CBI bumpers on a 2016 and 2017 tacoma. I was really impressed with the CBI quality of the welds and design of the bumpers, as well as the packaging and powder coating job.
My one negative review would be the swing outs were like an ikea assembly project, with dual swingouts it took just as long to get them together as mocking up and cutting the bedsides for the rear bumper. CBI also does not tack weld their studs on the spare tire mount but instead give you speed nuts to hold the bolts on, a shitty and cheap design IMO. I had a friend who had a CBI bumper lose his whole spare tire because those bolts loosened up on him. I took the time to weld the bolts on for the spares to prevent this issue. Also one of the bumpers came shipped with the wrong thread pitch for the spare, didn't realize it until AFTER I had welded them on
. They sent him M12x1.25 threads instead of M12x1.5, and I didn't notice when I was welding them on. He ended up picking up different lug nuts to match the M12x1.25 until we can source the right thread pitch studs. The bearings on the swingouts had to be pressed in, and that was fun, had to find a jerry rigged cup to press them in and it also had a strange design. Double bearings on the bottom and a single bearing on the top along with a seal and a cap that gets pressed on. And all the bolts that hold shit on for the swingouts were allen key button head bolts, and every bolt seemed like it was a different size 
We also did new 886 springs on the tan truck and new dakar leaf packs on the blue truck. Made for a long day/night.
Anyway, onto some obligatory install pics, shipped on a pallet and shrink wrapped nicely. Notice the absurd amount of christmas trees in the background for later
Union break, good help is hard to find these days
While we had everyone there, took the time to do some christmas tree burning out back, man those things light up like they were covered in gas, but this was started with just a piece of cardboard lit under it
Don't mind the comments in the background, we were pretty well into the night and had a decent amount of beers at that point
My one negative review would be the swing outs were like an ikea assembly project, with dual swingouts it took just as long to get them together as mocking up and cutting the bedsides for the rear bumper. CBI also does not tack weld their studs on the spare tire mount but instead give you speed nuts to hold the bolts on, a shitty and cheap design IMO. I had a friend who had a CBI bumper lose his whole spare tire because those bolts loosened up on him. I took the time to weld the bolts on for the spares to prevent this issue. Also one of the bumpers came shipped with the wrong thread pitch for the spare, didn't realize it until AFTER I had welded them on
. They sent him M12x1.25 threads instead of M12x1.5, and I didn't notice when I was welding them on. He ended up picking up different lug nuts to match the M12x1.25 until we can source the right thread pitch studs. The bearings on the swingouts had to be pressed in, and that was fun, had to find a jerry rigged cup to press them in and it also had a strange design. Double bearings on the bottom and a single bearing on the top along with a seal and a cap that gets pressed on. And all the bolts that hold shit on for the swingouts were allen key button head bolts, and every bolt seemed like it was a different size We also did new 886 springs on the tan truck and new dakar leaf packs on the blue truck. Made for a long day/night.
Anyway, onto some obligatory install pics, shipped on a pallet and shrink wrapped nicely. Notice the absurd amount of christmas trees in the background for later
Union break, good help is hard to find these days
While we had everyone there, took the time to do some christmas tree burning out back, man those things light up like they were covered in gas, but this was started with just a piece of cardboard lit under it
Don't mind the comments in the background, we were pretty well into the night and had a decent amount of beers at that point
Oswego
n00b
It looks like they did a great job but some of the common sense design stuff got left in the Autocad program of the drafter before it hit the production floor.... that latch to open the swing gates up couldn't be in a worse spot. Soon as you back up into anything it will either release or break or both. Whole point of a steel bumper to me was to not care about what I backed into and to not have any damage when I did back up into things..... putting fragile stuff as the "feeler" that sticks out the furthest just seems silly to me. They even have plenty of room to put it on top so it doesn't get hit like mine is mounted. I am glad it's not on the end like I have seen some crazy people do - thats 10X worse IMHO. At least in the middle you have to be a pretty crappy driver to hit anything there. All these years and hundreds of designs later and some of them still seem like they were designed without taking actual use into consideration.
Mitt78
Sanford and Son was my Sesame Street
Its a Jeep, isn't that the best they can do?
AlienXtx
Nignog
One of my mechanics just bought 30 acres not to far from me. Guess who he calls to come pull his ass out. Muddy has fuck and he wants to try and pull his camper out there. Instead of backing it in, he pulls strait in and sinks that dodge
Told him if he woulda flipped up his mirrors like this he’d not gotten stuck due to the HP boost
He’s never gonna live this down, fucking Dodge guy.
Told him if he woulda flipped up his mirrors like this he’d not gotten stuck due to the HP boost
He’s never gonna live this down, fucking Dodge guy.
Installed a new air filter, cabin air filter, cleaned the mass air flow sensor, cleaned the butterfly valve on the throttle body and got all of the corrosion off the battery terminal on my Aunt's 2003 V6 4WD 4Runner.
Throttle body. Damn thing was caked.
Spent twenty minutes cleaning the corrosion out of the battery terminal. Forgot to take pic before I started cleaning it. It was one blue chunk of corrosion.
I will note that the interior of this 2003 is nicer than my 2007 Tacoma. It seems to have a bunch more features than my truck which pisses me off since mine is four years newer.
Throttle body. Damn thing was caked.
Spent twenty minutes cleaning the corrosion out of the battery terminal. Forgot to take pic before I started cleaning it. It was one blue chunk of corrosion.
I will note that the interior of this 2003 is nicer than my 2007 Tacoma. It seems to have a bunch more features than my truck which pisses me off since mine is four years newer.
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Installed these Sierra Expeditions plastic valve caps on my wife's S60. I've had em on my truck for years and love them. You don't have to worry about losing em. My wife had really nice, heavy duty metal valve caps that came with the car but after a few trips to discount tire they went "missing".
I got an extra pack for future use. You can use discount code "NoLoss" to save $5 on shipping from Sierra Expeditions.
I got an extra pack for future use. You can use discount code "NoLoss" to save $5 on shipping from Sierra Expeditions.
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Silverback
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Got a link to those? I am missing most of my valve caps on the Taco.
AlienXtx
Nignog
Make sure you get the "Plastic" option. It's for TPMS valves.Got a link to those? I am missing most of my valve caps on the Taco.
NoLoss Valve Caps - Sierra Expeditions
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
I don't see them. I looked earlier.
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
Bingo.. thanks
No problem. Buy a bunch of em at once. It makes the shipping worth. They are GTG. I've had em on my truck for a few years now with no issues.
AlienXtx
Nignog
I didn’t
Silverback
Lima Gulf Bravo Foxtrot Juliet Bravo
On order.. gracias!!!
PSU Taco85
Well-Known Member
Helped a buddy hack up his new tacoma for 35s
