August 2008
July 2008
November 2011
A new tire carrier design being built for a local ’89 Toyota extended cab truck. This will replace the existing tailgate and will be adjustable from vertical and flat into the bed, as well as being able to slide along the angle adjustment.
the slide adjustment pins at 5 different positions along 8″
and the angle adjustments, 5 positions total including vertical and flat in the truck bed
here’s the gate stop pin to keep the gate from damaging the bed
and the frame for the tailgate skin
finished up and painted
October 2011
September 2011
Built a stand for my JD Squared Model 3 tubing bender and powered by an air over hydro ram.
August 2011
After years of welding on the ground or whatever else I could find, I finally built a table just for welding and fabrication
I also played around with sandblasting a logo into the table top
welded up an axle truss jig for future projects, still needs the hardware, chains, and bottle jack
and just for fun I tried my hand at building a dirt board from old parts and metal I had laying around
As for the truck, I found a Toyota 3.4L fuel injected V6 (5VZ-FE) motor to swap into my 84 pickup
June 2011
May 2011
Got the bed up on the truck
and for summer wheeling, here is my first attempt at tube doors
made a cardboard cut out to design the doors tubing and get an idea what different lines would look like
this is the lay out that I decided to go with
once that was decided it was just a matte of cutting and bending the tubes to match the template I had
then I fully welded up my prototype and added a kick panel to keep things from rolling out of the truck on the trail
final test fit
then started on the front door
June 2008
This is the point I started getting more into fabrication and tried my hand at a spare tire carrier that would replace the tailgate for my friends ’83 Toyota 4×4. This is the first real fabrication project I tried with the help of my friend.
The goal was to make a carrier that could be flipped in either direction, either the spare tilted in towards the bed or tilted out like shown above.