hes flexing on a 46"

 

Thanks.

 

So I finally managed to arrange to make the 5 hour trip to recover the truck I bought last year. She runs a little warm and really doesn't like hills (starts to overheat) but other than that the trip home was uneventful. I made it all the way from La Pine, or, to Vancouver, Wa. on roughly 3/4 tank. Since it only took about 8 gallons to tank it up, I'm going to assume it's a 12 gallon tank. I haven't refilled it yet to get definite numbers,but if 3/4 tank = 9 gallons, then that means for the 200 miles I drove I was getting somewhere between 20 and 24 MPG.

Photoy goodness:





Project #1, clean up the engine bay:



Project #2, find a decent set of bucket seats (gotta have a center console):


Project #3, figure out what I want to do about the back bumper:


After a good looking over the only readily noticeable damage is:
Front passenger corner:


Rear driver quarter panel:

 

probably should post pics of mine in the official thread....

when i brought it home:



and what it looks like now:






hey Phssthpok, i'll trade you my stock chrome rear bumper for that rusty pushbar of yours....

Al

 

Nice trucks all of them, in my country ( Chile) I just have see three of them mine plus other two with short bed.

regards

 

Thanks, but I like the push bar. It's pretty solid, and all it needs is a little paint to make it look good. I also plan to add a bit to it. As a welder/fabricator in a heavy manufacturing plant, I have access to some pretty beefy equipment (hydraulic pressbrakes ranging from 12 to 53 feet in length and up to 1250 tons, mechanical and hydraulic shears from 6 to 16 feet capable of cutting up to 7/8" mild steel, CNC plasma torches, etc, etc...), and material (anything from 1/8" to 2" in thickness A-36 mild to AR-400 armor plate.)

By figuring out what to do about the rear bumper I meant "design my dream bumper".

 

 

i had these in my third gen pickup b4 i sold it i now am getting this

just hit only 100K Pro comp wheels with 33" tires Custom made utility bed

 

My "new", $150, 1977, 75K mile, 2wd. (I did have to paint it, am in the process of swapping on a weber, and I put new cheap tires on it though).

 

New guy checking in Here's a pic of my Yoda heading up to the hunt camp.

 

what's the story on the bed compartments? I like that alot.

 

Here are My 2 1st Gens~~~

 

I like the Rock crawler..that first truck is nice but sure doesn't look like any first gen truck I have ever seen before

 

Here is my 82 LB pretty much stock
added exhaust and the 33's so far

 

here's my new girl !



soon to change for the better !

 

Here's my old 1st gen 1982 SWB SR5 4x4









Sold it in 2006 it's somewhere in Montana now....

 

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where did you get that bumper? Im looking for something like that.

 

I think Marlin Crawler sells something like that..
I just found out that even in my town, there's an offroad fab shop, and they seem to have a fondness for Toyotas. I'll bet with a good photo you could have one made.