Dirtyfingers' build thread..

[Dirtyfingers]

Dang dude what the hell did you do?

 

[HedgehogOutdoors]

Dang dude what the hell did you do?

Well, we got out of EMT class early yesterday due to the weather. I missed my turn, and went to turn around in a parking lot. Snow was really slick, I was at full lock to the right, slid into a curb. Bounced off that, and got turned 90 degrees to the right, and slid into a wooden guard rail. Drove off cause it didn't require police involvement seeing as nobody else was involved. Got back to my firehouse and took off the bumper, and noticed I left my plates at the scene. Whoops. Went back and got my FD one, bent around the guard rail. Couldn't find the regular one, so I went back to the firehouse to straighten out the bumper. Lucky for me, my past assistant chief races cars, and he champed the bumper with a sledgehammer and now shes pretty much brand new! Went back and found my regular plate on the side of the road, must have run over it because it was straight again lol. This is how it looks now!

 

[Dirtyfingers]

Dang man, glad you're okay. Time for a plate bumper!

 

[Srabai]

Ho ho, those TRD wheels are beautiful. Where did you pick them up? Not sure if you have a harbor freight tool out where you're at but they have a really nice 3ton jack for ~$90 right now.

Really nice work on your 4runner man.

 

[Dirtyfingers]

Ho ho, those TRD wheels are beautiful. Where did you pick them up? Not sure if you have a harbor freight tool out where you're at but they have a really nice 3ton jack for ~$90 right now.

Really nice work on your 4runner man.

Yeah there's one right around the corner from the base. As far as the wheels go I got them from TRDpartsforu.com

 

[Dirtyfingers]

Found an old video of the first time wheeling my truck, dang this was so long ago, don't worry there isn't a double rainbow guy in this one haha.
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[Dirtyfingers]

So a quick update. I was taking my Nova to the shop the other day and the guy asked me about. Had a small conversation and he said he wanted to buy it, I ended up selling it to him for $3800 haha. I more than doubled my money on it. So I'm starting to do some shopping.

+1 rep if you can figure out why I got this thing haha.

Oddly enough on my way back home from the dealership, a tree ran out in front of my truck! And destroyed the original antenna haha.

My truck can't get it up anymore headed to my shop where I work on my truck and started some rust prevention.

I hung this like a curtain when I started painting to prevent the paint from getting speckles in it.

Sanded down.

Not sanded down haha.
All that said and sanded, I only had access to grey chassis saver, I'm going to be covering it up with something black later.

After I sanded most of that junk, I decided to figure out why my rear window goes down but won't go back up via switch. Works just fine on the key in my travels I found an odd bulb. Thought someone might be interested to see it.

Don't know what it is or how it got there, but I couldn't get it out haha.

 

[Kenjan]

Hhhmm whip ant??
Or cb ant

Bulb ?? No clue

I don't have 1

 

[Kenjan]

Tag bulb??

 

[Dirtyfingers]

Nope, not quite, as far as the bulb goes, I just want to know how it got into such a strange place haha.

 

[Kenjan]

So no to the taco whip mod?


Hhhhhmmm

 

[Dirtyfingers]

So no to the taco whip mod?


Hhhhhmmm

Well yes it is that but not specifically.

 

[Dirtyfingers]

Got an alighnment done because at first my tires were like this...

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And now they are like this

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All is well that ends well. Hope you enjoyed the pics

 

[4Running Daily]

Got an alighnment done because at first my tires were like this...

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And now they are like this

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All is well that ends well. Hope you enjoyed the pics

At least they weren't like this

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[Dirtyfingers]

At least they weren't like this

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What the heck happened there? Jeez that looks bad.

 

[4Running Daily]

What the heck happened there? Jeez that looks bad.

Golf carts bend lower A-arms all the time on my course.
\---/ this isn't uncommon either haha

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I really like those TRD wheels. Very nice....

 

[Dirtyfingers]

Dang Connor, and you are the one that fixes it? Haha

And thank you Blitz, they really set everything apart.

 

[4Running Daily]

Dang Connor, and you are the one that fixes it? Haha

And thank you Blitz, they really set everything apart.

Ya, easy peezy.


When are you going to get that detail?

 

[Dirtyfingers]

Ya, easy peezy.


When are you going to get that detail?

Idk. I'm getting touch up paint.