Under Seat Pan

[amkluttz]

It turned out really nice looking, very professional.  Your bike looks great too.  I like the black stripes on black.

You took the time to put racing stripes on your license plate but not your front fender?

Thanks.  I appreciate the compliments.

I can assure you that not striping the fender was not due to laziness but more personal preference.  I can't explain why but I just didn't like the idea of running the stripe on it.  If I ever decide to do it all I have to do is clean, pull out the gun and paint, and spray.  I completely understand what you are saying now that I think about it.  It does seem silly not to carry it all the way through.

The reason for the stripe on the tag was that I forgot I had to put the tag on.  I felt that adding the tag bracket really broke up the stripe on the pan and made it really hard to see so I striped the tag.  It's probably very illegal so I guess I will see when I have to get it inspected this month. 

[BeerIsSoAwesome]

Will you do me a favor and plug the frame stubs? It's bothering me seeing them open like that... I'm picturing water getting in there and rusting the frame from the inside   

Great job, in general. I love the paint. I'm bringing a GS500 back to life right now, and I have both drag bars and round bar-end mirrors coming in the mail. I was afraid I might not like that setup, but I'm reassured to see how awesome it looks on your build. Did you do anything to the suspension?

[Slack]

What all have you done to your yota?

edited because I can't spell in the mornings

[amkluttz]

Will you do me a favor and plug the frame stubs? It's bothering me seeing them open like that... I'm picturing water getting in there and rusting the frame from the inside   

Great job, in general. I love the paint. I'm bringing a GS500 back to life right now, and I have both drag bars and round bar-end mirrors coming in the mail. I was afraid I might not like that setup, but I'm reassured to see how awesome it looks on your build. Did you do anything to the suspension?

My friend said the same thing about welding some end caps on.  That's how the GS comes stock but I know they are covered with fairings.  I'll get around to it hopefully when I can find some paint to match the frame.  I know I can do colorite but I'm not spending $35 on a can of spray paint.

I wasn't sure if I really wanted to go as far as drag bars but I'm glad I did.  Everytime my wife rides with me I thank myself.  It does put the riding position much lower but I don't mind and like the look of the front of the bike much more now.  I did completely disassemble my gauge cluster and rebuilt it to drop the gauges behind the headlight. 

I have done nothing to the rear but suspect a previous owner might have.  I haven't had any sag problems out of it and I'm probably 215 lbs. geared up.  The forks were originally horrible and did the typical nose dive on braking.  Found out the forks didn't have any oil in them (almost none) and replaced it with 15 weight fork oil and put some spacers in for compression.  It's almost too stiff now and I think I could have gone without the spacers.

What all have you done to your yota?

edited because I can't spell in the mornings

The Tacoma:

2.5" Spacers on top of TRD coils and Bilsteins up front
2.5" Add-a-Leafs with crappy shocks in the rear
Home made rock sliders out of 2" Schedule 40 bolted to the frame
Home made skid plate that runs from the radiator all the way to the t-case crossmember
33x10.5 BFG All Terrains and black steelies (I painted the steelies and the sliders to match)
A lot of audio mods

The '80 Pickup:

No Lift but removed half of rear leaf pack, flexes like crazy
Swapped 20R out of '79 Celica (much quicker now)
Welded rear spider gears
31x11.5 Super Swamper LTB's

I used to go to Uwharrie and do a lot of trails there but I lost all of my riding buddies.  It's no fun being stuck in the woods all day so I stay home.  I would love to get back in to it.

[matttkeller]

Hey i noticed in the early stages of your mod the battery was left exposed, is it still or did the pan you added cover it up?
I ask because i removed my rear fairings so i want to cover up my battery somehow!

[Golly]

Love it..the stock fender leaves no bloody room for my pencil case tool kit n torch

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[amkluttz]

Hey i noticed in the early stages of your mod the battery was left exposed, is it still or did the pan you added cover it up?
I ask because i removed my rear fairings so i want to cover up my battery somehow!

The pan helped in terms of covering the battery some but it is still mostly exposed. I had intentions of welding another panel 45 degrees from the bottom of the front of the pan to be a deflector for the battery but I never got around to it.  I haven't found that it affects the battery at all and I have been caught in my share of rain storms.