JasonWin's 1985 Pickup Build-Up Thread

[JasonWin]

Alright so I first got this truck in early november of last year and have been picking away at a few things. New clutch, Rear brakes. Hooked up the cd player and subwoofer and tinkered with a few things. Right now I got a couple little things to fix up for inspection and then I'll be able to start on a few more cosmetic changes. That picture was taken the day after I got it, so before any of the mentions fixes were done but gives you a good idea of what it looks like currently. Now this truck is gonna be a learning experience for me so things will go pretty slow. So go easy on me. Current Mods - 3" toyotafiberglass front fenders - Custom Box With Big Stepside Fenders - Pioneer Deck With iPod Controll - About 3" Body Lift - 35/12.50/R15 Remington Mud Brutes Future Mods - Musical Air Horn (Already got it, sitting in the shop) - Steel Cover for back of bed to protect air horn - Clean up and paint the frame - Clean up and Paint Body (Orange) (In Progress) - 5.29 gears - Transfer Case Parking Brake Dream Mods - Rear Disc Brake Conversion - 2.7L swap If anybody has any sudjestions go ahead, This rig won't be my daily driver but will have to stay road legal.

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[cdphillips60]

Is the horn some type of emergency signaling equipment (in lieu of a CB, ham radio, GMRS, etc.) ? If not, I'd focus more on things that keep you from getting stuck or otherwise getting stranded, such as lockers, winches, or auxiliary fuel tanks, IMHO....

[JasonWin]

No the horn is just for fun, but it will take little time to hook up. As I said I've already got it. I do however plan on mounting a CB (I already have one in my DD). I just forgot to add it to the list.

[slacker]

ahhh very cool ... the fronts should match your bed nicely , good choice

are those fiberglass fenders on the bed ?

[JasonWin]

Ya they are fiberglass, it's what was on the truck when I got it. I know it's not stock but it's really grown on me and I really like the look of them. Very unique.

[JasonWin]

Alright I'm gonna try and keep a steady flow of at least some information to this thread even thought the actual build will be slow. So here's a picture of the musical air horn I'm putting in the truck.

it's a Wolo Model 430 Dixieland horn. I purchased it over ebay for a decent price witch included the button shown in the pic (it's not included in the actually horn packaging) For those of you who may not of figured it out by now it plays the first 12 notes of "Dixie" witch is what the "General Lee" horn from the dukes of hazzard plays. I did some research before I bought this horn and heard nothing but good about Wolo brand horns, this one in particular so I have high expectations for it. I will let everyone know my thoughts on it once I get it installed and then keep you up to date further down the road after it's been used for a while.

[JasonWin]

Alright I actually got out to the shop this afternoon to do a little work. I got my new blinker lights in the rear mounted up. The bracket is just temporary. I'm gonna make better ones out of some thicker metal and it'll get painted up. But I needed to get them on for inspection so the better bracket will have to wait.

You can see the lights that used to be on (way to small).

[Trustyrusty]

I had that horn and I in' hated it. It shorted out and kept going off until I could drive the 20 minutes across town to my house to unhook it, by the time I got there the motor was melting and sparking... Plus the only place to mount it is behind the drivers side headlight... I hope yours works better than mine! Nice rig!

[JasonWin]

A friend of mine has the same horn and he likes it. And I'm gonna mount it in the bed instead of the engine bay so that should help.

[bigt]

id love that horn man..can you make a video when you get it in??

you should make a pull chord i would!!! \m/

[ozziesironmanoffroad]

i take it the P.O. loved chevys.... that looks like the 60's chevy C10 stepside shortbed... thats what i thought it was when i saw the first pic

[85toy]

the fenders are acually the 73 to i think 87 or 88 stepside, the beds are all the same on the stepside version from 1955 second series to 1987 or 88 just the fenders are different.

[ozziesironmanoffroad]

really? didnt know that.... learn somethin new everyday huh?

[JasonWin]

Just thought I'd give everyone a little update. I got the truck on the road today, inspection, insurence and regestration all taken care of. Got all the leaks in the exaust welded up and a new belt to the alt/fan. Also it's starting to get warmer around here so hopfully soon I'll be able to start alot of the work i wanna get done. I might take my fenders over to my friends house this weekend to figure out my plan with them.

[88wildrunner]

ditch the chevy bed and go flatbed or get a yota bed.

[JasonWin]

No thanks, I like my bed and so do most people I've talked to.

[LAW]

Hey what's the stock wheel base on your extended cab yota

[JasonWin]

Alright thought I'd stop by and give a little update. I haven't gotten a whole lot done since my last update. The trucks not being driven right now because it had a little miss for a while and then for some reason she decided to just spew out oil so i decided to park her untill she gets looked at.

Recent;y however I started doing some work on the bed. I started grinding out some rust spots that'll be replaces with sheet metal and then the inside will be sprayed with some sort of bed liner. I also got a new cd player for the truck. It's a Pioneer DEH-P5000UB (pictured below). It's kinda a downgrade from the Alpine deck I got now but I wanted something with iPod input so it should work well for me.

[JasonWin]

Alright I've started to do quite the amount of work. As you can see I've taken the bed off the frame.

What I've started doing now is taking a wire wheel to the bottom of the bed, cleaning off the rust. Then I'm gonna coat it with bed liner, Flip it over, do the same to the inside of the bed and inside where my fenders will sit. Them paint the rest of it. After that I'll probably move on to the frame/axels witch i'll also wheel down and bed liner up. I'm also in the process of putting my new fenders on. and then bed linering the rockers and painting the rest of the cab. And probally a few other small things I'm forgetting right now.

I've also got that CD player installed and it's been working great. You can see one of my patch metal sources, an old pressure tank I love having so much metal lying around, I'm gonna cut up an old boiler to patch the frame with too.

[JasonWin]

Got a little bit more work done, not to much further on the bed but I got the driver side front fender on and lined up to my liking. Also got a coat of paint on the grill. Might get a bunch of work done this weekend.

[JasonWin]

Well I found it to hot this weekend to do the welding I needed done so nothing was done saterday or sunday. But this afternoon/evening after work I did a Bunch of stuff. So first thing I did after welding on the last couple patches on the bottom of the bed was to give it a good coat of bed liner.

After that It was time to tackle the passenger side fender. I got it on good enouph for my tastes althought I've yet to decide how I'm gonna mount the radio antenna. I'm still not sure how to take it apart and the nut on the outer part of it is rusted in pretty good and stripped.



Next step witch I hope to do tomorrow will be to do all the body fill, witch includes my welds and a few spots on the body. I also might start wire wheeling the frame to prep it for the bed liner I'm painting it with.

['88 4-RUNNER]

Hey jason,, fellow Islander here,, PM sent

[JasonWin]

Alright I did quite a bit of work tonight, but I should probably start with some of the other stuff I've gotten done. Sorry no pics right now, not sure where my camera is at the moment

Alright to I did a all of the body fill I plan on doing for a while, not quite completely smoothed out, but it's done. Hood also has a rough coat of orange paint, as well as back of cab where bed will cover. Allot of work was done to bed. put bedliner on a few sides and got one fender back on (both fenders have a rough coat of orange paint). No that's what was done before tonight...

Tonight I finished putting on the bedliner (on the box, not the frame yet) and got the other fender on. I also finally fabed up the mounting bracket for my turn signals with some thicker steel, instead of that thin sheet metal I had on temporarily. thoses were all painted up and the tail lights mounted back up on the bed. Only thing missing on the bed now will be a little bit of orange paint.

Next thing left to do is to patch up part of the frame (the old just in front of the driver side rear wheel trick) and then wire wheel and bedliner the whole frame ( I'll just do the best I can to get under the cab). Once that's done it'll be time to set the bed back on the truck, Bolt it down, Hook up the lights, then send er off to the shop to get the engine fixed.

Right now I'm considering getting up a little earlier tomorrow morning to throught some paint on the bed, but we'll see how i feel in the morning

[JasonWin]

Alright, I guess it's time for a little update. I got the bed back on the truck and it's all wired up. Didn't do the work to the frame yet thought because I plan on doing that weldings at a friends place. But after I got that all set up... I ran into a little snag...

I took the truck to the shop to get the engine looked at. turns out the compression was bad in two of the 4 cylinders, one at 70 some, and the other at 40 some. Ya, not good. So now the truck sits. If I find a cheap 22RE I'll drop it in temporarily but right now I've started looking for a donar vehicle to do a 3.4L swap. I'll try and update once I get things figured out, but don't expect anything for a little while.

Right now I'm gonna be working on getting my car in good shape for the winter, and then giveing it some crazy mods just for the hell of it, like giving it sliders and a push bar (I've got a bunch of thin tubing not good for anything else so I figured what the hell ) and I think I'm gonna pick up a 3000lbs winch for the front of it today Once I get some work started on the car I may start a thread for it, Should be a good laugh.

[JasonWin]

Alright anouther little update. I think I found a Parts truck for $500 or less. 91 pickup with 22RE 5-speed. engine is supposed to be good. so as soon as I can go pick that up (it's a fair drive and will have to be trailered) I'm gonna put that 22RE into my truck to get it back on the road.

I'm also considering swapping the rear end over to utilize the parking brake guts that're hopefully in good shape. Then maybe rebuild, regear, and disc brake swap the 85 rear end, Funds permitting of course. As you can see I updated my OP with a "dream" mod list.