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Offline smaug1911

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swap a steering rack and replace oil pan
« on: February 12, 2008, 05:39:44 AM »
on a Tacoma

Anyone done this? Doesn't seem too hard, but rust will make it virtually impossible.
97 V6 Tacoma TRD. 2.5" front coil spacers. 3.5' Downey leaf springs, 2" 4Crawler body Lift, rear Bilstein 5125's, 35" BFG KM2's, Skid row transfer skid, Ocean State Crawlers front winch bumper, custom rear bumper, Kajobuilt sliders, deckplate mod, grey wire mod, Smittybilt XRC8.

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Re: swap a steering rack and replace oil pan
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2008, 08:53:15 AM »
not on a taco, but on a chevy
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Re: swap a steering rack and replace oil pan
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2008, 05:33:19 PM »
PB Blaster works wonders.  Soak over and over again. 
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Re: swap a steering rack and replace oil pan
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2008, 07:34:13 PM »
yeah, i KNOW your truck brian. i would probably find all new hard ware. no offence. it will be very hard to try to keep a lot of the hard ward if everything is a rusty as all the bed mounts.

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Re: swap a steering rack and replace oil pan
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2008, 10:41:18 PM »
dude...rust is our friend!

it is the only thing holding my truck together at this point.

97 V6 Tacoma TRD. 2.5" front coil spacers. 3.5' Downey leaf springs, 2" 4Crawler body Lift, rear Bilstein 5125's, 35" BFG KM2's, Skid row transfer skid, Ocean State Crawlers front winch bumper, custom rear bumper, Kajobuilt sliders, deckplate mod, grey wire mod, Smittybilt XRC8.

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Re: swap a steering rack and replace oil pan
« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2008, 01:51:18 AM »
I thought you had a white taco?  ???

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Re: swap a steering rack and replace oil pan
« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2008, 05:10:02 AM »
not me...

are you thinking of Ben near colchester?
97 V6 Tacoma TRD. 2.5" front coil spacers. 3.5' Downey leaf springs, 2" 4Crawler body Lift, rear Bilstein 5125's, 35" BFG KM2's, Skid row transfer skid, Ocean State Crawlers front winch bumper, custom rear bumper, Kajobuilt sliders, deckplate mod, grey wire mod, Smittybilt XRC8.

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Re: swap a steering rack and replace oil pan
« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2008, 05:15:02 PM »
no, that is stich/mike. he painted it blue.


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Re: swap a steering rack and replace oil pan
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2008, 02:35:32 AM »
Yeah, that's right. I knew it was an "S" name. Sorry it's been a while.

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Re: swap a steering rack and replace oil pan
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2008, 03:44:45 AM »
no worries

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Re: swap a steering rack and replace oil pan
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2008, 05:30:44 AM »
pb blaster the shit out of it and stand by with a drill, tap and spare bolts.
Lets go see what I can break next