haha sick idea and its looking good man

 

I think when you get it finished make it a polished finish. That'd be sweeet!

 

Can you post some details about your rear window and bed? The grill's looking good man!

 

How are you going to deal with the body sheet metal below the headlights?

I was having that dilemma, but then I just built a bumper instead.

 

For Mic09dcsm... my plan is to just cut out the exposed metal from the body and then cap off the bottom. Then I'm making a bumper and it'll cover it up a bit.

 

Do you think u could post some measurments for the side brakets and where exactly are you mounting them??

 

x2 id like to hear that and see soem more pics of your truck. nice idea on the grill ive never thought about that. i dont know why because it doesnt look nothin liek it but it reminds me of a 1st gen grill

 

Sounds great, really nice work man.

 

Let me start by saying sorry i didn't make this a build up. I think it deserved it. Anyways let me tell you guys how i did it. Well, i started off by getting a tailgate out of a 2nd generation 4 runner. What i basically did was cut the back of my cab out and replaced it with the tailgate. I made some mounts and then had to make some panels to cover up the gaps since the tailgate was curved. To do this i got a door from my generation of pickup, and a door from a 2nd gen 4 runner. I cut sections out of them to match up the body lines on both the cab and the tailgate. Along with the cab i had to add panels to the bed to match the contour of the tailgate. I also had to cut out the floor since it didn't match up with the flat bottom of the tailgate because the stock floor on the passenger side had a big hump in it to go over the stock fuel tank. Along with the floor the stock gas tank had to go and i had to have a custom fuel cell made. After all of the i finished the welding up and sent it off to get many coats of body filler
And here's how it stands now...

here's the cab and bed gap that i used the panels off of the doors to make


the window in operation...






I don't have it completely sealed and weather proof yet, but I'm getting there


here's how it looks from the back


and here's the interior. You can see the figure of the tailgate




the floor and had to put in ( a little bit dirty ) haha


some pictures of it overall...

 

man,,, that is one slick setup,,,,, way cool,,,

 

That is really really nice!
great work!

 

Dude! Nice - I'de vote your rig to be included in next years calendar if was not too late. Sweet. Make sure to put an alarm or else some bum might go for it.

 

alarm? ( sorry newb here) haha

 

WHAT!?!?!

Dude, that's sick; nice fab work!

 

That is pretty feakin nice!!

 

Now why didnt I think of that!! LOL, good work man, and a very nice truck too!! Do you take it wheeling at all??

 

Thanks. Nope, haven't taken it wheelin yet. I haven't gotten it quite done, but ill be sure to post some pics when its all finished

 

nice 88 man!

 

DAYUM !! Awesome ideas and work!!

 

Man thats just awesome, you are doing some great fab work. Keep it up and look foreward to seeing more work from you in the future>