Looks good! Not sure if you saw what happened to another tacoma but they didn't leave enough gap between the rear steel bumper and bedsides the rear gets compressed up (from a hit from the bottom) the little give will pushes up into the bedside. People were saying to add atleast a 1/2 inch to 1 inch gap. subbed!
Nice job! I have the same hinge for the same purpose. Going to make one for my Sequoia. The only modification I would like to do with hinge to replace the bolt with grade 9 or grade 10.9 bolt.
Nice work! I would definitely practice welding to do non stop welding, that tacktacktack weld is super weak. I welded a bunch of stuff that way on my dessert sled\adventure triumph back when I first started and almost all my welds fails one by one over time. It looks great but fails.
Yeah at work I do continues welds but for some reason my welder at home pops the breaker when trying to do any sort of long bead need to upgrade the electrical for sure but so far no issues here!
I love this but I would like to make a suggestion. The way you have your latch might be a problem. Since it is facing down, the failure point means the weight of the tire and anything else you add it pushing down in that security point. So it is more likely to fail in that placement. And since it is off on the side facing down, it you catch a branch wrong it can unlatch or loosen it. So I want to recommend changing that or adding a second pin lock or something else as a fail safe.. Other than that thus is a bad ass build!!!!
Thanks! And I love the suggestion maybe I can update it facing a different way in the future because that does make sense but so far so good luckily on this latch it has a secondary safety latch that you have to press in in order to actually open the latch
