swapped out buckets for a bench and threw some of the interior back together today

hooked up 99% of under the hood stuff now one wire left and the battery

doors 1 in primer next on is about 1/2 hr away from being primed


looking for opinions on the hood. I have the opiton of doing a custom hood by combining a mustang cobra hood and my stock yota or just running the yota. im leaning twords the cobra hood deal.

 

lookin real good! I say go for the mustang hood.

 

Can't say without knowing how it would look...

 

today have front axle half way out. Passenger side frame scraped and ready for undercoat when axle is out. gas tank is undercoated. drivers frame ready from cab back but needs from fender well to p/s box cleaned for undercoat. I will be starting on front axle, springs, and shackles. hopefully tomorrow afternoon, while the undercoat is drying up on the frame. pics will be up tomorrow. when finished and iill try to get a pic of the cobra hood.

 

saw the repair work on the door and did a double take on the fire extinguisher..
first thought--oh no!! not Lambo doors
first glance thought the extinguisher was part of a hydro set up for the door..

the detail is great on your rebuild

edit: oh and on the hood: Al's CHop shop has a double cowl intake on his hood and there is another one on pirate that looks pretty dang cool. For some reason Al doesn't think a 12 pack of beer and my hood is a fair trade for his hood...
I say go for it...if it doesn't come out right a stock hood is easy enough to find

 

here are the pics from today

axle is disconnected and just have shackles left to get out of the way so that i can under coat the frame tomorrow.

started cleaning up front axle

finished undercoat on gas tank

tomorrow seat belt latches undercoat frame from radiator to bed mount.
clean up axle.

also here is the picture of the hood i have to use i would cut out the feature lines and panelbond it to the toyota hood and do some fiberglass and filler work to finsih it out. what do you think bout middle section formed into a stock yota hood. i think im gonna use it

 

ooooo post up a more distant pic of that hood on the truck

just kinda hard to really see what it looks like that close up..lol

 

i would but i have about 2.5 ft infront till the wall so its hard. the hood is about 1.5 ft longer than the normal toy hood so its going to be a lot of moddin but in the end it will be a good fit .

anyone know how much back space you can run and not rub on a set of 37 x 12.5 x 16.5's i am running 39.5's on 15x14 rims and do not rub on frame at all just wondering if anyone has figured out how much you can run without rubbing in front or back

 

Stick with the original hood please!

 

what is that seat out of looks comfy

 

its outta a 91 nissan 2wd pickup

 

what mods did you have to do to fit it in there I think Im gonna try that my seat is worn out bad

 

its actually a good fit for the truck a little taller than buckets but all in all it fits the front rail well.

i just put it in the truck and i have it off set to the passenger side about an inch so that the drivers seat is centered and just more practical for a carseat.

marked the spot for the holes drilled them and bolted it in i had it al ldone in about an hour. then refit for carpet was about 1/2 hr

 

passenger side frame is done and drivers side has all been patched and waiting on response of tire sell if they sell i will be ordering highsteer and putting that in before i under coat drivers side

axle is out and ready to be cleaned / painted/ and have gears changed

 

Nice! Stellar job on on that frame.

 

project is back on line, 4 wheel disk in, tvs are ready for paint, rear bumper on step bars redone and on, interior put in, header back on, skid plate later today and after the hood work is doen an overall paint on all but bed it has not been started yet

 

Just got done going thru your build. Great job. You have alot of work into it.

 

Looks good, I kind of wish I would've started mine by doing things this extensively but I'm not as patient and it's gonna be wheeled to hard to look pretty for long. Keep up the good work.

 

Great build going on here. Hard to wait to see the finished rig. Congrats on the hard work so far. Thanks go out to you for your service, from a 22 yr Vet

 

Go http://paintnpiddle.com/Rob_Toyota.html for most pics more to come bumpers step vars skid plate all gauges shafts track bars shocks are in pics soon