Recent content by babyeater304

Everyone, including the service guy at my local dealership, says they need to be pressed and I either need to have a shop do the whole thing or have a machinist press them. However, over on yotatech I read about people that have done bearing replacements themselves with no press. And then, there...

Update #1 - 09 August So some reconstructive knee surgery and two summer jobs have hampered my updating progress, but only slightly slowed my fab progress. So here I present, THE BUMPER. So I basically worked on this in the fab shop of a company I worked at for a few months this summer. The...

See, we are making headway already. It does make sense to weld a bracket to the frame, and bolt the bumper to the bracket for reasons stated above. Seeing as how I have yet to come up with a plan for mounting, lets discuss this further. I was thinking taking the recovery hooks off the bottom of...

Where else would I attach it? The stock bumper is mounted more or less to the frame. Give me a day or so to put up some pictures of what I mean. The stock bumper is connected to the frame by bolts; the end of the frame has an endcap plate- to this plate, a frame extension is bolted/welded on...

My Custom Winch Bumper Build UPDATE #1 With 50% complete pics! So about a month ago I smacked a deer at ~40mph and it ruined my front bumper. Luckily, 95% of the damage was aesthetic, and while the vehicle is still fully functional (save for headlights that have been slightly displaced and now...

Have a 2002 SR5. So, I am looking at ~1300$ to get the front repaired with OEM Toyota parts. The front bumper is done, as well as the grille, and some support piece that runs vertical, centered in front of the radiator (thank Christ it didn't puncture the radiator, just bent a few fins). Instead...

I didn't see one here. Had one girlfriend in the truck not too long after I got my '02. She is going through all the buttons as we are driving to dinner, playing with everything, figuring it all out. She hits the down button on the power rear windshield and freaks the **** out. Presses it...