DB's build

[Ben_holyman]

Hmmm yeah, rear isn't a drama having a flat tray. Thinking that having the 55mm will look a bit funny, just wanted to know what you thought of the 40's! Those grommets for the flares are a great idea too.

[DeadlyBeast]

Haha - didnt see you had a tray. Yeah, I stuck with the mid-range flare width to suit the OEM rear 30mm.
90% of the time I run 245's on +15 rims so these 40mm flares work well for that

[DeadlyBeast]

[DeadlyBeast]

[Caleebra]

Great work!
Have been wondering to do this my self.
Have you done the doors too?

[DeadlyBeast]

Hi Arne,
yes - doors done too

[10 luxxxx]

Nice work mate. Have you noticed much of a difference with the roof being done.
I have done the doors and floor. Procrastinating on doing the roof.

[DeadlyBeast]

Good question man.
To be honest - no, I havnt noticed a difference (edit - while drving ) but I took some surface temperatures on the doors before doing the roof.

Did this in the while it was about 34-35 degrees ambient - car windows open so 34 + degrees in inside the cabin

Temp in the sun for 2 minutes:



Temp of factory sound dampening pad:


Front door with dynamat and 6mm insulating foam:


Parked out in the late afternoon sun for 10 minutes




Front door with dynamat and 6mm insulating foam:



In terms of the extra sound insulation that the dynamt and the 6 mm foam adds I have no way of accurately measuring that. What I can say is my partners 2014SR doesnt sound much louder in the cabin compared to mine - but I havnt done my floor or fire wall.

There may be additional sound and heat insulation from the foam but difficult to quantify.
If windows were up and AC on, temperature differences between insulated and non-insulated panels would be interesting as would cold weather climate observations.

Just posted the above for interest - Its not intended to be scientific fact or a theory lesson.

If I was to do it again and only wanting insulation from heat I would just use dynamat or a product like that. Reason being is that if the car is parked out in the sun for hours its going to suffer radiant heat from the sun beating in thru the windows and heat up to 70 + degs anyway. However it would significantly reduce conductive heat from dark coloured paints or panel wraps plus provide sound dampening.

[DeadlyBeast]

Be warned and check your bushes. This cut a once a year trip short.

2nd day in I noticed a rattling noise. Strangely this sounded like loose factory stone guards rattling over corrugations.

Brand with-held
Aftermarket suspension 3" lift with less than 15,000km.
Same brand same problem with my partners 2" lift suspension (less than 10,000km)

I didnt even think to check bushes on near new suspension











Bush supplier blamed however lower top hat bush was in perfect condition:




Old top hat washer and nut:
Below washer has completely inverted being pulled thru destroying the bush wen under extension / down travel

(it should bend up the other way!)





New top hats, bushes and washers supplied:



Aftermarket nut


OEM Flanged nut on factory hilux suspension


Theory of failure:
Top hat washers too thin and too small in diameter.
Top hat nut unflanged creating too much pressure in a very small surface area onto tophat washer = failure

I have since replaced the bushes, washers and added an extra nut washer to increase the foot print of the nut

Lesson - check your bushes no matter how new your suspension

[DeadlyBeast]

How to wrap a gen 7 dual cab like an idiot

1. Dont even entertain the idea of trying this at home yourself... just dont

If you chose to ignore 1. and you decide to give it crack:
2. Purchase the wrap direct from the States - it will save you over $1K
3. Dont attempt the wrap alone unless you are also a stubborn s.o.b and have all the time in the world

Below is what I did and what I did wrong: a lot of the wrong

Spent a lot of time on YouTube - Avairy and 3M do some good professional guides
Got some basic tools:

Squeedgy cards, Little chizzler, Application glove, various pointing tools, knife, dozens of spare sharp blades, wrap cut tape

Remove badges

This effort with a heat gun and plastic chizler didnt work so well. Took for ever to remove backing adhesive, heat ended up making the paint soft so plastic scraper dug light grooves into paint

Rethink

Wrap Fishing line around perimeter of badge and draw together.
The line will cut through the adhesive, no scraping, no damage


Toffee wheel


Easy


Lifts easy when new. No heat, just peel

First Panel attempt.... thought it would apply as a single sheet


Tried to apply with tonneau buttons insitu by pre-cutting around them




after the stretch the last pre-cut hole made the rest of the sheet wrinkle.... fail

[Rocket55]

What a mission! Go DB!!!

I feel an army theme coming on here

[gold member]

Hey DB did you get the vinyl on in the end? I have so contemplated doing this myself too but I am terrible stickers let alone wrapping the whole car


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[DeadlyBeast]

You got it Rocket - cant deny the theme when the wrap colour is called this:
http://www.metrorestyling.com/3M-1080-M26-Matte-Military-Green-Vinyl-Wrap-p/matte1080m26.htm

Sure did GM - more pics coming mate

[DeadlyBeast]

Oddly I didnt take any pics of the re-wrap of the first panel
Moved on to the rear

drilled rivets out, removed decals, stop light, cam shroud

[gold member]

That's looking really good DB! Very time consuming and I bet you need a lot of patience! Can see.


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[Rocket55]

You got it Rocket - cant deny the theme when the wrap colour is called this:
http://www.metrorestyling.com/3M-1080-M26-Matte-Military-Green-Vinyl-Wrap-p/matte1080m26.htm

Sure did GM - more pics coming mate

Haha, awesome, this is going to look good when you finish. You've got more patience than me mate.

[DeadlyBeast]

Haha - possibly not so much more patience, more like being bloody tenacious as a bulldog

Speaking of finishing, whats with this page going on forever?....

[Rocket55]

For ever and ever

I think its based on the number of posts, not the length of the page. If each post is full of interesting pics then the page can get pretty big

[DeadlyBeast]

[DeadlyBeast]

For ever and ever

I think its based on the number of posts, not the length of the page. If each post is full of interesting pics then the page can get pretty big

Aha! that would explain it