so I finally sold my Jeep and picked up this awesome lil truck

1981 Toyota pick up 4x4
243,599 miles
new 22R
rebuilt 4 speed
new clutch
31s
bed box

 

what did you pay for that one? and never said what you paid for the orange on either on the build down thread? thats a nice lookin lil truck im in the markit for one right now actually!!

 

Damn dude,
You luck out all the time!

 

yeah I just know the right ppl

well I figured no one would care about prices but I paid $2500 for the 83 and paid $1600 for the 81

 

colorado is a little to far away to be buying a truck for me im sure it wont be had selling.

 

ok so I went out to start the truck today to go for a lil drive and it wont start all it does is click and eery now and then it will crank but not for long and now all it will do is click wont even crank so what could be wrong Im thinking battery but I want a second opinion

 

charge the battery.

Al

 

Also if the terminals are really corroded that can happen.

 

the terminals are clean and are new but the battery looks to small in my opinion but I dont know I talked to the guys at napa, checkers, and autozone and they say battery and thats what I think cuz when I tried to jump it with my wifes jeep if kinda wanted to crank but then quit and if I let it set it kinda would

 

the clicking is usually a dieing started solenoid. which means a new starter. borrow the starter off your other truck and see if it fixes the problem

 

Hook your jumper cables right up to the starter, Positive gator clamp to the positive lead bolt on the side of your starter and then just ground the negative on your frame, now hook it up to your wifes jeep and you will know soon enough what it is. If it cranks and fires up then its the postive leads from the battery, grounds from the battery, solinoid or battery itself. If you still get the same sluggish or no crank id say it was the starter itself

 

ok so I guess Im gonna take the battery in to get tested and see what they say and if nothing is wrong Ill swap starters and see

 

did you try the battery from the '83??

 

the battery from the 83 is corroded and gross so Id rather no mess with it
ether way I need a new battery

 

Yeah, could be the starter, but you're doing it right to check the battery first. I had that happen to me, sometimes it would just clicked, but one time I just held the key ON and it eventually started cranking. Since it worked once, I started trying it again the next time when it wouldn't start. I held it on a while and heard some weird sizzling noise and saw smoke coming from my battery. In the end it was just all the corrosion on my terminals, which I didn't think was that bad, but I guess it was bad enough.

 

so I pulled the battery and put the battery out of my 83 into the 81 and she fired right up and did so the 3 times after. so I took the battery to auto zone and they tested it and it came out fine but just not enough amps to turn over

 

more pics

here's the interior (pretty good for 27 yrs old)

here's her sweet @$$ (I love these tailgates and the bed hooks)

 

haha, someone didnt take the licence plate off painting the truck

 

yeah they also painted over a couple stickers...
so I am thinking about taking it back down to the original paint or just clean up those spots and touch up with more paint or possibly gloss black

 

you were right you win I used the battery from the 83 and now she starts no problem