{"id":7404,"date":"2023-09-24T17:41:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T21:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=7404"},"modified":"2023-09-24T17:42:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T21:42:21","slug":"tacoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=7404","title":{"rendered":"Tacoma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had Abe and Orlando up this weekend.  Abe to work on the Tacoma and Orlando to continue with the trailer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rear suspension on the truck needed some work\/adjustment. I had purchased new u-bolts weeks back, along with bump stop and new shocks. The shocks were pricey due to needing to match the lift kit (Rough Country). Also, due to the impact, so reallignment was also needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is always the availability of parts when you need them. There were a host of things needed, but nowhere to get them. That left fabricating them as the only option. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I needed some metal shims to go between each leaf. That meant buying a sheet and cutting\/drilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955911270287206781998603016349-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955911270287206781998603016349-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955911270287206781998603016349-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955911270287206781998603016349-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955911270287206781998603016349-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955911270287206781998603016349-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, they worked and we got everything needed done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955911788204862298740002261471-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7402\" srcset=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955911788204862298740002261471-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955911788204862298740002261471-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955911788204862298740002261471.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The truck is now safely up and running. I need to find time now to get it down to Mexico to do the bodywork.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We took it on a high speed test drive and all felt in order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/wp-16955916845924854252518350850054-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had Abe and Orlando up this weekend. Abe to work on the Tacoma and Orlando to continue with the trailer. The rear suspension on the truck needed some work\/adjustment. I had purchased new u-bolts weeks back, along with bump &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=7404\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7406,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7404\/revisions\/7406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}