Addicted Offroad's Double Cab. Project "Frenchy"

[AddictedOffroad]

We are building this for a customer up in Dillon, CO.

Its a 2001 Tacoma Double Cab. Elocked. Pretty mild rig to be honest.

The plan is TG kit "C" which some mods to lower the ride height. We are going to french the springs hangers into the frame/crossmember up front to help lower the ride height. Customer plans on 35s for this rig, and I am confident we can deliver it with a frame height around 24" on TG leafs.

The rear will be more of the same with custom frenched spring hangers to lower it.

We already have it on the lift and have started assembling the front axle. FWIW, the TG Rock Assault housings have come a long way in quality since they were first released. Its a nice piece and much better than stock. Its still not a Diamond, but its good for the weekend wheeler and DD that this truck will be when done.

The rest of the build will consist of 5.29s, ARB up front, and 35s. We will also be building custom front plate bumper instead of our normal tube bumper for these.

 

[Casper421]

Sounds like a nice build! Post up some pics when you have em?

 

[Fishwerks]

:snacker:

 

[BigBluePile]

Done yet?

 

[Ol'Blue]

:boink::boink::boink:

 

[downpour11]

Who doesn't love a SAS double cab? x4 boinks :boink:

 

[AddictedOffroad]

Got the front axle all sexy today.

 

[KidVermicious]

My pants fit funny now.

 

[Slow_T4R]

This is gonna be sexy. And I can't wait to see what the plate bumper is gonna look like!

 

[AddictedOffroad]

This is gonna be sexy. And I can't wait to see what the plate bumper is gonna look like!

Unfortunately, its not going to be a production bumper, so don't get your hopes up.

 

[Skidmarcx]

Drooling right now

 

[AddictedOffroad]

Pulled the bed to get the rear frame plates welded in. We will also have to drop the tank to get the frenched hanger in later.

 

[mikey's2010SR5]

subscribed...

 

[AddictedOffroad]

Okay, so we mocked up the front hanger. Pics and measurements should speak for themselves.

First of all, we don't use TG's front crossmembers anyway in these kits. Theirs are .188 wall and an inch taller than ours to begin with. We use our Tacoma weld on crossmembers for our bumper instead. Ours is .250 wall and an inch shorter.

In this case we wanted to french the front spring hanger. So, we notched our crossmember to allow us to mount the new spring hanger into the frame. This saved a solid 2.875" of height here. That will equate to roughly 1.5" of lowered lift height.

TG's crossmember with their spring hanger is 7-3/8"
Our crossmember with french hangers is 4.5"

TG's

Our's

TG's

Ours

 

[KidVermicious]

Keep it comin', Scotty! I love to hear why builders make the choices they do, this is good stuff.

 

[AddictedOffroad]

crossmember in place. Recessed back and frame is notched to allow more clearance. Steering is going to need a flat pitman arm, and we will llikely be notching the frame for clearance of it as well.

 

[GhostRing]

Nice!

Props to your weldor - I can lay a rather decent bead, but that's just sexy.

 

[slowpoke99]

nice work man! you guys build some awesome rigs!!! keep it coming...

 

[deverlow]

Wow look at that weld! That boys and girls is what we call a thing of beauty.

 

[AddictedOffroad]

Some progress. Grinding day sucks!