Installed A $20,000 Upgrade On Our Toyota Tacoma To Fit LARGER Tires.

What do we have here Quinn got some 39 inch BFG muds things are sick Dude, these things look massive you just holding them. It's like what? So these are going on a Tacoma And oh, yeah, can you say that again? These are going on a Tacoma, baby How's it going everyone? Welcome back to the Tacoma Beast channel where as you all know, it's all about the taco in today's video I am just extremely excited. This is something that I've been wanting to do for the longest of time I'm here with Quinn the owner of 74 welds. You're doing you're making a lot of noise in this industry, man Trying what are we doing today? So today we're gonna throw portals on this Tacoma and make room for some big tires, dude. I'm excited What am I gonna be able to do with portals harder bigger obstacles? so the big thing is we'll be able to give it lift without messing up the suspension and We're gonna throw a 39 on this thing and see how it goes Dude Quinn when I reached out to him and called him I was like, hey, man, what tire size should I go with? I heard you're doing 37s. He said man, let's go big Let's try to fit 39s and that's exactly what we're gonna try to do today. You ready? I'm ready. Let's get started Alcons got a nice setup up here Little bit dirty no sway bars. No, are we gonna need him? Nope makes my life just a little bit easier So what's the first thing that's got to come off? So we're gonna pull rotors Calipers get this stuff out of our way. We're gonna pour upper and lower ball joints as well as our tie rods and Pull this upright right off. Cool Guys quick side note if you're gonna take your truck to a shop make sure you clean it Before you bring it to them. Don't be me. Don't be that guy. Make sure you bring your truck nice and clean to the shop She's not seized in there So Our stock at CV here is a little bit too long So we're gonna put a spacer here and put our nut down and then we're gonna cut it right at the end of the nut That way everything fits inside of the portal perfectly So this is literally the only cutting that you'll do in the whole kit. We do no welding at all But you just have to trim that axle shaft. Oh, not bad. Let's get to it Look at that guys Perfection There it is fellas Christmas came early for me. Check out those portal axles. You guys ready to install them? Yeah So, I thought it was gonna be rocket science installing these portals I really thought we were gonna have to Start cutting a lot of things and the only thing you really have to cut is the end of your CV axle The engineers here at 74 welds have done it where they know exactly Where they need a cut and that it won't affect the performance of the vehicle as a matter of fact it's gonna help their portal axles sit where they need to be and Honestly, it was as simple as doing a suspension install in the front in the back You get a little bit more technical having to remove the hubs, right? But honestly not hard at all a shop will be able to do it in no time So, yeah, I mean basically just take your factory spindle your whole upright off bolt the portal on Stub shaft slides right through the gear money Queen has convinced me to go to 39 inch tires and You're already you're already rubbing with 35s a hair, but here's the thing We're gonna go with a higher with a deeper offset wheel And yes, we'll definitely because my 37s clear here you actually rub more on 35s than I do with 37s And that's because I dropped the centerline of this down. And so as it swings, it's swinging lower, right? And so if you did that with a conventional lift, you still get all up travel and no down travel So with this you're still getting good equal travel Out of it, you just get more height because of the portal and look at this guys no lift This is with no lift We're gonna be able to fit 39s, baby At least let's try it. No, we'll make it fit. You ready? 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So a little bit of red loctite on this Right in there make sure it doesn't come loose Everything's super tight, but it all fits it fits beautifully though Yeah, look at that Perfect There she is And we got a little cap that goes over it and seals are in place with an o-ring All right, so now that we got this axle nut on here tightened down We have an o-ring that goes here and it's going to seal the front of our portal just that fits perfect That's a perfect fit my god The engineering team that they have and just how meticulous they are at developing a product a part The pieces that are going on my tacoma are just state of the art I got into the tacoma market I bought a tacoma and I saw it as a platform that I thought could absolutely use the tech that we have So I started kind of browsing around I met tacoma beast at overland expo immediately liked the guy hit it off and so it was just kind of a natural progression and You know, absolutely the first guy I wanted to work with That was 130 pounds I don't remember we're going to torque up or lower ball joints and tie rods and get the front end as close to buttoned up As we can 80 for the top What are you doing for this one and get it up to 67 There it is we're going to do some brakes now We're going to throw this rotor on and the caliper as well and we're giving you an upsized caliper and rotor This is a four runner setup. So it's a little larger and give you a little more stopping power So let's get this thing bolted on As uh chad just told you guys these are four runner calipers and rotors As you guys know, we have the alken six piston caliper with the upgraded rotor Which we won't be able to install today because the bracket that holds the caliper. It's just does not fit Uh 74 welds portals, right? So i'm going to leave that behind so they can do the research And then they'll send me that back so I can put the awkward back in um Yeah, most likely what we'll do this bracket that you bolt on from the alcon Uh, we'll make a new one of these that integrates right into the front of our portal That way this whole system can bolt right on that way You guys can also have more options right if you guys want to go with the willwood Yeah, uh, you know calipers and rotors you can go with alken and then we're trying to see if we can also get power brakes In the line, that would be sweet any brake options more options for you guys So it's going to come with a extended stainless braided line that'll come right out of your caliper at 90 right here It'll run right up the portal box and plug right into your factory bracket here sweet Nice and easy. It's looking good, man Cable management all around the portal just how the wheel speed sensor lays so perfectly there They have a breather hose. Everything just looks beautiful and how A piece would normally look when it comes from the factory All right, so we vent everything on our portals and on the front here So we have a couple tapped holes and p clamps So we'll run a three-eighths vent line right up the top into the engine bay and if you come up here It's going to come right up top and it's going to sit right here. I'm going to throw a zip tie on this guy And why is that? What's that for really? So we have a long long vent line here So oil can come up and back down and stay in the system and everything stays happy All right, fellas, we're almost finished so much has been going on We're going up to 39 inch tires with the 22 percent reduction and we have 529 gears. It is going to set us a little low But until we don't get the truck on the road, we won't really know it is going to be trial and error I might have to switch out the leaf springs as well Slow and steady We're going to figure it out until we get the truck nice and dialed to where it needs to be And then from there, I cannot wait to just take it out on the trails And just go ham. I'm really excited. The truck is going to a new level A new level of driving new level of everything and i'm honestly really stoked All right, guys, we're gonna move to the rear We're gonna pull these tires off and we're gonna start taking some stuff apart getting ready to put some portals on Damn dude, look at that. Look at how filthy my drum brakes are guys that just like Fell down. It was crazy ready Good thing is we won't be needing these anymore I didn't actually realize this until I bought a 23 tacoma and looked at it and said holy cow It has drum brakes on it. So we can't ever use a drum brake on any of our portals. It just doesn't work So we automatically upgrade you to a larger it's a custom made two-piece rotor and A willwood caliper with a mechanical parking brake built into the caliper And then we provide you all the cables to hook up to your factory console. So you still get your factory parking brake It's just part of our kit. It's not an up charge. It's not an add-on. It's just included with everything All right, so we got the brakes apart our parking brake cables out of the way So next we're gonna pull the four bolts that hold it to your axle housings Um, i'm gonna put the drum brake on backwards that way once all these bolts are loose I can slide hammer it out of the housing But we have our brake line up top that we're gonna have to crack and pull first But before you crack this make sure we pinch our lines up top where they're soft that way We don't drain the system and we can keep uh, we don't have to bleed brakes as much All right guys i'm excited portals are going on the back look how beautiful that piece is Look at that fit Beautiful All right. Now that we got the portal in here We are going to torque these nuts down to 38 foot pounds and uh, we'll move to brakes from there But as a portal install, that's it Tire delivery guys Our bmt's are here Let's confirm and make sure they're the right size Let's check it out 39 by 13.5 on a 17 inch wheel We're going to be rocking kmc's now. We're going bead locks I needed them to be positive 25. You can also do positive 35 Those will be back from powder coat real soon While we continue to work on the rear end So with the kit we do a two-piece rotor it's an aluminum hat that we make in-house And then we have a custom rotor made for it so it's a larger diameter and it's a directional vented rotor Specifically designed for this kit to work with a willwood radial mount caliper with an integrated parking brake so this whole setup will Just plug and play and Work pretty good a little nicer caliper Integrated parking brake so you still get your factory parking brake inside the cab Just the fact that I have rotors in the back I'm, like absolutely in love with and these are nice and beefy like look how big these are guys Yeah, this is not just uh, well and they're directional vented too So if you look at the top you can see most calipers From oe are straight vane. These actually will pull air in and do a better job cooling So it's definitely a brake upgrade All right Rear calipers fit good So you'll get a factory parking brake You'll get a better willwood caliper on the rear you get a disc brake conversion and this also converts the rear to a full float so the whole rear now The weight is carried on the wheel bearing the torsion is only carried on the shaft That is amazing I did not know Yeah, no, so it makes the whole rear a stronger setup and you're 35 spline up here So if you ever decide that you want to put Like a beefier third in there You're essentially the strength of an inch and a half 35 spline shaft and that comes standard So a little bit of routing we'll finish routing vent lines up to breathers Um, we'll route the parking brake cable and tie that into your factory lever inside the cab And I think we still have to put oil in this one But that's about it. All right, chad. What are we doing for oil man? We use maxima pro gear full synthetic 75 90. It comes provided with all of our kits We give you enough to do a first run flush We recommend after a few hundred miles and then it takes 10 ounces of oil. So almost nothing It's a very little amount of oil. So A consistent oil change is pretty key. We recommend every like 3 000 miles, which it seems like not very many miles but again, it's a little bit of oil it gets dirty quick and it's a quick oil change we have a Drain plug at the bottom and a fill plug at the top again 10 ounces of oil pull your tires off change your oil It's routine maintenance. It's going to keep everything fresh and keep everything running good Ready, what do we have here? Quinn got some 39 inch bfg muds on some super sexy Kmc impact forged bead locks things are sick, dude. These things look massive. You're just holding them. It's like what? So these are going on a tacoma So the portals are installed in the front in the back quinn and I are really excited to see if the 39 inch tires are Going to fit. We know we have to do some trimming I'm excited and I cannot wait to see what we have to do in order to make them fit. Look how nicely tucked The caliper is guys What do you think man? Oh, I think it looks freaking insane It looks so sick These wheels are probably my favorite wheel right now second tires going on. Yeah, he's got the stickers Because I only have All right moment of truth How's the front gonna look already looks gnarly the back's looking insane guys just absolute Killer look at that It's a monster truck We'll have to make an extra inch of room over my truck on the firewall, which isn't that big of a deal But we're gonna have to do a little cutting You might actually cut up here a little too we'll see for sure front bumper, I don't know for sure front bumper might be okay for sure rear bumper She's sitting on the ground let's go That is sick dude, those tires are so good That's such a good package Look at that. Hey, nobody else is doing that. Wait, not even nobody else is doing this. Nobody's doing that Let's put it onto the pump wait does a beer can fit We got one in the fridge. No, wait, don't tell me we can do that in the back, too We can do that in the back too no, that is gnarly it's pretty good That's a full lock because you clear everything except one tiny little corner that's on 39th Wait, wait, wait Did you guys just see that that's on 39th You see that and we're just gonna have to bear barely cut now I have Been banging that up pretty hard lately and I do have a body mount relocation kit, which thank god for all that stuff All right, fellas. Here she comes It looks so nice the way it sits right there Yeah, it looks really good We need to highline cut the fenders that all the way That'll give us clearance in the front and we'll do the same thing in the rear. We'll cut from here up around Down trim the back bumper. It'll frame the tire better Yeah, it looks good guys, the truck is looking absolutely Incredible just seeing it come off the lift was completely different We were already amazed how it looked inside the lift and the second it just came out. It was just Mind-blowing. I am completely stoked with how the truck looks But most important of all how it's going to perform Thank you Saving saving some lives So there's a couple bolts that we remove We pop this off. You'll probably break a couple clips in the process. You're actually missing a few Not a big deal We'll trim this To that high line right there We'll put it back on we'll mark sheet metal and then we'll trim sheet metal Let's do it So I use this block to sharpie out our line It gives you a nice clean path all the way through We stick it up here And scribe a line so we'll just come up quarter of an inch half an inch above that and trim all along here And that'll give you a nice clean look and your fender flare will go on and you won't see sheet metal underneath it You guys are watching the artist create a masterpiece The funny thing is he's a genius when it comes to creating portals him and his team And here you see him just cutting the fenders being very meticulous about it being a perfectionist I just love how it's coming out. He's awesome But that's a rough cut Looks good. I'm liking it. Yeah So look at that guys. That's what we're dealing with here at full lock It literally so we just if we just basically cut from here down carry this line to the rock rail And cut out the firewall plate it we should be good All right, quinn tell me what did we do to fit these 39 inch tires man? So we had to do a bit of trimming on the front Um, we trimmed about maybe what half an inch three quarters of an inch off the front bumper because it sat back to here So we cut that back. We did a high line cut on these fenders that tapers back We had to do a little bit of trimming on the firewall down low move that back plate it So that's the front and it looks like it clears good on the rear We did nothing. So you already had a cut from this high clearance bumper at full stuff with a forklift I can get a finger in between the bumper and the tire and a finger in between the front The bedside and the tire and so air down off road You will get more flex than that when you get into situations the cab moves the chassis moves Um, it'll always move a little more but I think if you are going to rub there It's going to be minimal kissing and I don't really see that as an issue Now you have you did this on a stock tacoma stock front bumper stock rear. Yeah on 37s How much did you have to cut off? So I had to trim the The fenders on the front I had to I didn't do a high line cut I had to trim the back section of the fender I had to take a hammer and hit the firewall back a little bit, but I never cut the firewall on mine Um on the front side, so I still have my whole inner fender liner I had to trim sections of that but the whole top side of it and most of the front back are still intact It is a little bit of trimming on the front to fit a 37, but you're not cutting the firewall With anything you have to do the body mount relocation But that's just standard in the tacoma world. You go to 33s. You're doing that body mount relocation So 37 is the new 35 37 is the new 35 for a tacoma. Absolutely All right, guys We got mateo's tacoma dialed in on 39s and portals You want more info on the products we make check us out at 74 weld on youtube If you guys enjoy this video make sure to smash that like button If you haven't already done so make sure to subscribe to our youtube channel and we will see you on the next one I never think of the roman empire