Toyota Tacoma Frame Repair

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Toyota tacoma frame repair.

Safetcap kits are a cost effective frame saving repair kit for your car or truck. Toyota tacoma pickup truck that had a rusted through frame at 90 000 miles due to a manufacturing defect. Fits 1996 2004 the xtracab 2wd and 4wd models. Hello everyone and welcome to my channel.

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. Tacoma s generally rust through in the same areas. The good news we have access to repair kits that allow us to save the vehicle from going to the salvage yard. Our kit is designed to repair the frame where the spring mount is located in front of the rear tire.

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. 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. Over 40 years of r d have gone into our safetcap kits. I ll be posting more videos soon.

The spring mount will need to be cut away from the frame then re attached after the new frame section has been installed. Safetcap kits are designed to be functional repair sections for your vehicles frame engineered through best practices in our auto rust tech facility. 1999 toyota tacoma 3 4l v6 sr5 4x4. 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.

It s in his build thread in the profile. 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. It s made of heavy gauge steel and is 30 inches in length.