Project DD moonlighting as trail rig

[Senor_Taylor]

Went to Toyota to get the new bolts and it turns out that I have to buy the entire shackle assembly to get it. Which will be $200 for both sides and won't be here until Tuesday.

So, it rained all day on Saturday. I didn't bother trying to get someone to drive me 45 minutes out to this dude's house so I could attempt to fix it. I hop on to TacomaWorld and look at the thread for our Central VA group at 4 AM and the guy said he had worked all day in the rain and managed to get everything back together! He sent this picture!



Holy balls, does it look good. But I still need to get new shackles. As you can see, it's pretty sketchy looking the way he got it together. I'm going to go pick this up and get it home at least. Order some aftermarket greasable shackles, which are half the price of OEM ones. Then I'll install them, along with my BPV bracket and extended brake line in the safety of my own driveway. I can't thank this guy enough. Doing leaves is AT LEAST a 2 man job and he did it himself. Crazy. What a great guy.

Here's some more pictures he posted.







Here's the shackles I'll probably buy. I don't plan on driving my truck at all until I get these installed. The stock ones look really unsafe. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://trdparts4u.toyotaofdallas.com/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=-8230">http://trdparts4u.toyotaofdallas.com/sc ... duct=-8230</a><!-- m -->