Toyoda Tacoma X-Runner Detail

As the saying goes "The cobbler's children have no shoes" my truck had been neglected as with the shop almost all of my jobs are completed there, and the truck needed to be tightned up.

Well a customer of mine backed into my truck @ Premier while I was giving an estimate(hit the car at about 15 miles per hour) and caused damage to the bumper and left rear quarter panel, which was fixed properly @ Brooksmotorcars here in the Bay Area.

Here is the damage caused, which in the pics does not look to bad, but there was some shifting of the rear X brace and pushed in the rear quarter.





After the paint repair was finished I took the vehicle to Performance Art the shop I built a few years ago(and left due to severe conflict with the clueless owner) to have new brake pads installed(Hawk HP tightness) wheel balance(match mount) and alignment. Little did I know the shop would close one week later and leave two highly trained techs out in the cold with 1.5 hours notice before closing that day, this was exactly what I expected from the owner and said as much over the last three years so it was not a suprise at all.

Truck on the rack.





Kevin dismounting the wheels.



With the wheels off it was time to clean all the wheel well areas.



While Dave was balancing the wheels, Kevin turned my rotors(conventional wisdom says you cannot turn slotted rotors.....guess Kevin did not get that memo lol).







Hawk HP's intalled.



Hub mounting face cleaned of all rust, studs cleaned as well along with the caliper.



There will not be incredible 50/50's as I keep the truck pretty nice, here is a pic of the LSP curing(Blackfire WD).



Removed the LSP.



Here is the re-sprayed panel, when done right it is undetectable.





Color and texture match the adjacent panel.











Truck is back to it's old self.

 

Great job Bob. Love the tag

 

Tag is great. That shop is very clean. Gotta love that.

 

Not bad. That's not the whip I'd expect you to have.

 

:agree:

 

I may work on high end stuff, but I canNOT afford high end (whips) at least I get to touch the tight stuff on a daily basis so there is comfort in that.

Someone sent a PM also saying I misspelled toyota..... which is true, it is a nickname for my truck (toYODA) as in "tightness your truck is".

 

With your knowledge and experience I'd look into making your own line of products. The guy who owns Surf City Garage had no intention of it taking off so much, and now look at him. I say go for it.

 

Tried that with GI.........that did not turn out so well(understatement of the year).

 

sweet truck. where did you get that custom camper shell on the back? Never thought of that option in case i can't locate a van at a reasonable price around here.

Truck looks real good.

 

Keep on keepin' on. Now you know why it didn't work.

 

Thanks...... I bought the shell from Carter Industries in Hayward CA, the shell is a Leer shell and the whole set up with the pull out slider installation and paint to match set me back $ 4,100.00.

 

great job!

 

nice work, your taco is sweeeet

 

Cool truck, nice tag, great job :applause:

 

Sorry to hear that your friends were left out in the cold like that. With that being said, is there any way you could make that your shop and expand your business to include the sale and installation of wheels and tires? Maybe offer some alignments or upgraded suspension work as well? That's a sweet shop and it looks like it could hold a lot of cars easily.

:thud: Please tell me that you're talking about his truck! lol

 

I was thinking the same aranoia:

 

nice truck, I have to pick out my next one

 

lol... I believe that tacoma owners call their truck "tacos" and since norcal bob looked very enthusiastic about his tacoma, I felt that it would be appropriate to say "taco".

 

Nice truck Bob ... really liking the BBS rims on the x-runner. I wouldn't mind having one of those at all.

 

Nice truck Bob! Looks as it should.