Just wanted to say hey. I have been a lurker for a while and finally picked up a 1st gen. Her name is Judith and she is a 1980 shortbed. Power brakes, power steering, AC, sun roof... riding in luxury. The trans is a 5spd so I am playing the ID game now, since my research says it should be a 4spd.

I will post some pics tomorrow.

Its my first older yota so I am sure I will have plenty of questions.

Also, I need to get emissions done on it and everything looks to be there (holy amount of vacuum lines!) but the heated intake duct (I think thats what its called). So if anyone has one for sale let me know. Also interested in a FSM too.

Thanks
Mike

 

Welcome! Yeah, get some photos posted.

 

/\ /\ /\ What he said, sounds like a sweet ride

 

Here are the pics, not sure if its lifted but it does have 31x10.5s on it. Once I get a pass on emissions I will start on the body work, paint, then rebuild the front axle. After a bunch of searching on here I think I finally understand the knuckle rebuild and birfields. I have always used Jeep,Chevy, and Ford axles before. So the birfield vs u-joint set up took a little getting used too. I have found finding parts for these is a pain, thought there would be more people restoring them. Its not like my chevelle where I can put together a whole car out of a catalog.





Mike

 

Also, thought I would share a couple other projects and past ones. Look forward to help as much as I can here.

1993 Zuk: sold it :-(




1969 Chevelle: still got her!


1955 Chevy Truck: Sold it to help pay for the chevelle


1954 Chevy Bel Air: Sold it to pay for parts for chevelle

 

That '55 Chevy is awesome.

Welcome to YT.

 

20 cans of spray paint and weeks of wet sanding.

 

What are your plans for your Yota?

 

Definitely no lift. Looks pretty nice!

No, you find brand new body panels or parts out of a catalog. You'll need junkyards and the classifieds on sites like this one. I can't imagine what it would be like if all my parts were in a catalogue...

 

Yeah sweet ol' rig, keep her stock. Congrats!

 

X2-that is a stock height truck.
here is a link to some parts sources. You have a couple of good ones in colorado (noticed the plates)

you have had some cool projects in your past, looking forward to see what you come up with on this one.

and Welcome to Yotatech

 

It's funny that the cv joints on the Toyotas are called birfields; the ones on my '58 Chevy Napco are called rzeppas. I haven't had my Toyota axle apart but from the pictures in the shop manual they look the same as the ones on my Chevy. I bet that no parts interchange though. :-(

 

Well, anything's possible. Not without persuasion, though

 

Parts link didn't go thru
https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f114...rs-etc-221643/

 

if the transmission cross member mounts look stock then it prolly has an L52 5 spd