greyheadedguy

My beloved 85 Toyota truck was hit in the drivers front wheel with the front wheel and the rest of a Geo Metro doing 40 MPH. The other car blew through a red light and hit me I was getting ready to turn left. The grill, driver side fender, inside fender, bumper and hood is damaged and the frame bent downward. The force of the impact has lifted the engine a little making it idle very fast. Oh, there is damage to the suspension and steering linkage. After the accident I used a come-a-long and pulled the carnage off the front wheel and drove the truck home.

After getting the truck home and looking at it, the inside fender is the worst part of the damage, after straightening the frame. What is the best way of going about to fixing my truck. There is no damage beyond the fender that I can tell. If it will help I'll jack the truck up and get some pictures of the frame damage.

Thanks for any help you can give me.


Here is the side view of the damage, you can't tell from here but the space is still even all the way around the door.


A look under the hood and the damage to the fender:



Front view of damage:

dropzone

iTrader: (6)

get a front clip from a donor truck, cut and replace.

or try hooking a chain to it and pullng it out, but that buckle is pretty good

Logan81Pickup

Since it's a 2wd I'd just buy another one. They're easier to come by and alot cheaper.

greyheadedguy

Problem is Insurance doesn't want to give me what it will take to replace the truck, not counting all the work I've put in to it over the last 3 years. Only 2 wheel drive 85s I've seen are running $300 - $600 more then insurance wants to give me and that is including my shell and engine work completed 10 days before the accident. I have less then 200 miles on the rebuilt engine.

Any hints or clues what a shop might charge me to R&R the corner? I've been told about half day on a machine to straighten the frame

grey

Logan81Pickup

More than it would cost you to buy another 2wd. Part out all the good stuff and just buy another 2wd.

nothingbetter

On older vehicles you'll never get what its actually worth. Take the pay out, buy your truck back from the insurance company, then put all the parts you want in the new truck you buy. You should be able to get one with a wrecked engine for cheap. Since your current engine is new, just swap it in.

greyheadedguy

Okay I have found a 86 4x4 22RE with 7' bed just like my old truck. Can I swap out my 22R engine and clutch with the the existing 22RE? The 22RE needs work and my engine is good. Body is real nice, needs boot on passenger side front drive axle. Oil is dripping from the clutch fork through the boot (and around the boot) by the slave cylinder. Uses about a quart of oil a month I'm told. The clutch slips I popped it in to 5th and floored it after popping the clutch and the engine went up almost 1,000 RPM before the clutch caught and lugged the engine.

I can do the work, I want to know if I an pull the 22RE out of the 86 swap heads from the 86 22RE to the 85 22R and drop it into the 86 now as a 22RE?

How different is this 86 from my 85? Both are longbeds with single cabs. The bed on this truck is the new style bed w/o the exterior ridge around the top edge of the bed. It also has wing windows which my truck didn't have.

One other thing I have noticed is it stops like it is twice as heavy as my truck. Bad vacuum assist? Will my 85 fit the 86?

grey

Crtzlow

You should be able to pull the good 22R (if it is a '85) and add all the injection manifold components (from the 86) to it along with the knock sensor and be good to go in the 86. I've been in a similar situation with a swap and found almost all the answers in searchs on this site and with Google. IIRC the 85 and 86 heads should be the same. But, if I'm wrong I'm sure someone will jump up to shoot me down and you'll still get the answer you are looking for.

A lot of the parts should swap out from one truck to the other also.

Here is a link to head info on the truck. Exhaust and intake should bolt up.

http://www.lcengineering.com/LCTechP...ges/eng49.html

greyheadedguy

Just wanted to add an update. The 86 fell through, but I am in the process of negotiating on a 87 4x4. I'll post pictures when I own it.

Elwiney

i Dont know where you are from but i recomend you to cross the truck to Mexico you can have it repaired for like $400 or $200 easy beazy 2 days max youll have it fixed

greyheadedguy

The accident shoved the drivers front wheel back almost 2" compared to the passenger side.

Picture of the frame damage:

Notice damage above the tow point as well as the kink where the frame rises to go over the link age.

Elwiney

Here is some body attention to the longbed in the 85 i have

[IMG]
sube fotos[/IMG]

i repair mine it went out really well


subir fotos online

it only cost like 100 usd