Toyota Tacoma Frame Repair

Fits 1996 2004 the xtracab 2wd and 4wd models.

Toyota tacoma frame repair.

I ll be posting more videos soon. It s made of heavy gauge steel and is 30 inches in length. Check out this frame repair. Toyota tacoma pickup truck that had a rusted through frame at 90 000 miles due to a manufacturing defect.

Here is a time lapse of a frame replacement on a 2005 toyota tacoma that i did. Unfortunately our tacoma was never taken in for the frame replacement recall offered by toyota and by the time ownership passed to us the truck was too old and had too many miles on it. Hello everyone and welcome to my channel. Toyota lexus has two collision repair information bulletins cribs pertaining to structural sectioning that you should be aware of.

It s in his build thread in the profile. Our kit is designed to repair the frame where the spring mount is located in front of the rear tire. Toyota sent a deliberately misleading notice to give the impression they were going to own their mistake and offer some relief to the customers who had prematurely junk. As many as 225 000 steel frames under toyota tacoma and tundra pickups and sequoia suvs may need to be replaced says a lawyer who helped settle a class action lawsuit against toyota over the.

The spring mount will need to be cut away from the frame then re attached after the new frame section has been installed. Crib 155 body frame component sectioning which states frame sectioning is considered partial replacement of a frame rail or component which is not an approved repair procedure on toyota and lexus full. It will give you an idea of what your up against. Tacoma s generally rust through in the same areas.

Safetcap kits are designed to be functional repair sections for your vehicles frame engineered through best practices in our auto rust tech facility. When we inspect the damage it is usually located from the center of the frame rails to the rear leaf spring front mounting bracket area. The good news we have access to repair kits that allow us to save the vehicle from going to the salvage yard.