To post pics you need to open yourself a free photobucket account and upload you pics to it. Once you do that photo bucket will assign your pics 4 different links, each link is for posting different places like email, and face book and forums. You will need to copy and paste the IMG link to post them. It's so asy even I can do it. Now start a build up thread and post some pics of that thing!

 

Man I love your rig!! Cant wait to see it with the custom shell!!!

 

I have always been a Jeep guy and since I got the license i have had five Jeeps. but because of the sky high fuel price here in Iceland I finally saw the light and bought a 1994 Pickup as a daily driver, and by far that is the best investment I have ever made. It also helped my father had owned one in the past along with friends and family.

Here's the '84 my father used to own. It had a 2.4 Diesel engine with turbocharger and 5 speed. Detroit lockers front/rear. It was on 36" Mudder tires rather than 38".



This here is my daily driver. It has a 22RE engine and a 5 speed manual trans. I'm very pleased with it, aside from the wheels are also pink, that's need to be changed. But it gets me where i need to go and gets decent mileage also. It's every motocross racers dream



Best regards.

 

Hey, Kristjan, ..... that color is "Island Punch" from Jelly Belly's! lol... Not pink... Actually, maybe I'm just getting color blind, as I age, haha. Nice rigs, and I wonder, ....does your pops regret getting rid of the 84? NICE!

PS> Are you saying you're painting the whole thing another color, or just the wheels? I vote for black on the wheels, if just the wheels! lol.

 

My plans where just to paint the wheels on the pink one, because even though it's pink or "Island Punch" as you mentioned, it ain't that bad apart from the wheels. The color I had in mind was gun metal or similar gray.

I would say that he regrets selling it because when I saw nothing but some old Jeep Cj's he would recommended me to buy me self an old trustworthy Toyota Hilux/4Runner. Apart from this Toyota I have only had some rigs that had old Chevy V8 so this thing is all new to me, And I don't know why I just didn't buy a Toyota when I got the license, It would have saved so much time and trouble

In those days when he (dad) had his truck the diesel price was hilariously low. If we compare the price in Isk to Usd, then a one gallon of diesel would have cost about a dollar when he owned his Yota. Today it costs about seven dollars !!! So It's quite expensive to travel in the highlands, especially if you have a V8 Truck...

Here I'm going to post some pictures of one of my fathers off road trip's (This was when it did still snow in Iceland, Around 1990's)


This probably had a 2.4 Diesel engine, It's on 38" Dick Cepek tires. Those are probably the most popular 4x4 for use in snow here in Iceland. And that's for a reason ! Somehow you don't see many of those in the Us ?


My father's and the black one is a '88 Extra Cab that had a 3.0 V6, Seems to me it's on 38"-40" Mickey Thompson's.


Somewhere in highlands.


Many of those Standard or Extra Cab trucks got these plastic tops on the beds and got opened up, Thus the cab was cut up and connected to the bed, so you got a space similar to a 4Runner.


My uncle built this one. Somewhere in the progress it got a V6 4.3 Chevy and 700 trans with Toyota doubler. It also got a 12 Bolt Chevy carriers into the original Toyota axles, on top of it all it got some 44" tires.


You can't always stay on top of the snow.


Proof !

Best regards. Hope you enjoy.

 

^^ sweeeeeeetness. i love yotas from other parts of the world

 

x2, who doesn't? That is an awesome rig!

 

My first Toyota,it cost me $350, its a 1990 4runner SR5.
Before a little bit of rust repair.

After rust repair




I plan on putting a lift in it,33" or 35" tires not sure yet, I was also looking in to ARB air lockers.
Any tips hints or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Gears along with larger tires. Oh and WELCOME to YotaTech.

 

What would you suggest for gears and tire size?

 

when the BFH doesnt work then its time to break out the BFTorch!!!!

 

agreed! this isnt Truckin!!!

 

holy old quotes batman haha

 

you should ship a bunch of those cabs over this way!

 

me 2!!!! Toyota should have offered those in the U.S. Im totally jealous!!!!!

 

Assuming you have a manual trans, not an automatic, I'd say ideally you'd want 4:56's for 33's or 4:88's for 35's I had a 95 4runner with a 4 inch lift on 33's with 4:30's it did all right but I think it coulda used 4:56's. That's my opinion and you know what they say about opinions lol search around here and you'll find there's lots of good info on it and somewhere (I believe it was google) i actually found a chart that shows all the gear ratios with tire sizes ect. I'll post a link on here if I can find it. Welcome to Yotatech!!

And without any further a due here is my work in progress:

In the driveway


and it was the only parkin spot left lol

 

Nice rig, Mr. Duck! I LOVE the 90's X-tra cabs! Love that color, too, lol.

 

Thanks it's still got a little way to go but its gettin there. I just realized that both those pictures are at almost the exact same angle.

 

This is what i want my truck to look like some day lol on your headlights I've been looking at the same ones (I believe) on ebay and i was curious do your have both high and low beams? My old room mate had some in his f150 that only had one setting so i was kinda curious. Beautiful truck!!

 

Me and the yota hit a ditch last night hard. Flew through the windshield. Got 5 stitches. Got no picks of her wrecked because we've already fixed her in the 6 hours since I was discharged from the hospital . Missing my blinker and my fenders banged up. Pic of that later. Here's me lol.


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