Body Swap 4runner to pickup
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Body Swap 4runner to pickup
hey everyone, im new to the toyota world. Bare with me, while i try to ponder the impossable. Maybe im crazy but, i have a 94 runner, jacked up, big tires and wheels new tranny and engine etc... with my luck a tree fell on my body and just tore it up. Now... i either gotta find another 4runner body to swap or maybe put a pickup body on. What would be the process and how hard? Is it even possable? would i need to look for an ext. cab pickup or std. cab pickup body? Any help would be great!
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hey everyone, im new to the toyota world. Bare with me, while i try to ponder the impossable. Maybe im crazy but, i have a 94 runner, jacked up, big tires and wheels new tranny and engine etc... with my luck a tree fell on my body and just tore it up. Now... i either gotta find another 4runner body to swap or maybe put a pickup body on. What would be the process and how hard? Is it even possable? would i need to look for an ext. cab pickup or std. cab pickup body? Any help would be great!
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Interesting idea
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A phew of these have been done in Australia.....they look really neat!!
A single cab body, with an extra cab tub, matches the 4runner wheel base perfectly...Ends up being a SWB pickup.....The front 4 mounts for the cab line up, with custom mounts needed for the rest, but it wouldn't be too much work to make those. I'd like to it to mine someday, but with a late model cab and tub.
Heres a couple pics.....not how I'd do mine.....but shows how it all sits on the 4runner chassis.
A single cab body, with an extra cab tub, matches the 4runner wheel base perfectly...Ends up being a SWB pickup.....The front 4 mounts for the cab line up, with custom mounts needed for the rest, but it wouldn't be too much work to make those. I'd like to it to mine someday, but with a late model cab and tub.
Heres a couple pics.....not how I'd do mine.....but shows how it all sits on the 4runner chassis.
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Really not all that hard if you are okay with going flat-bed. The front two body mounts line up, the b-pillar body mounts will have to be moved to accommodate the rear body mounts for the pickup cab. Then throw a well-designed flat-bed at it and call it done.
Bones on PBB did it w/ his 86 4Runner. Threw an x-cab at it after he rolled the 4Runner. Not a hard swap at all.
Bones on PBB did it w/ his 86 4Runner. Threw an x-cab at it after he rolled the 4Runner. Not a hard swap at all.
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Not sure of the actual damage... or your fab skills...
But why not chop the back of the body you have? I think the 4Runners look great that way. Basically remove the back windows and roof past the back doors. Kind of the SUT look.
Search here for pics. There are a couple guys who have done it.
But why not chop the back of the body you have? I think the 4Runners look great that way. Basically remove the back windows and roof past the back doors. Kind of the SUT look.
Search here for pics. There are a couple guys who have done it.
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Not sure of the actual damage... or your fab skills...
But why not chop the back of the body you have? I think the 4Runners look great that way. Basically remove the back windows and roof past the back doors. Kind of the SUT look.
Search here for pics. There are a couple guys who have done it.
But why not chop the back of the body you have? I think the 4Runners look great that way. Basically remove the back windows and roof past the back doors. Kind of the SUT look.
Search here for pics. There are a couple guys who have done it.
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