1981 Toyota DD/ Trail Truck build
 

SO a couple weeks I bought a 1981 Yota Pickup. Its the SR5 model. I got it for $500 heck of a deal for a running truck. The body has a lot of rust, but this is my post for the build up. I have new seats out of a totaled s10 to put in it, so far I've put a rollbar on it, rebuilt the carb, put new shocks on the rear and put a new steering wheel on it. Next week im putting new front struts and a new steering stabilizer. If anyone has advice for the truck or any ideas let me know. I'm going to paint it WWII OD Green here soon. I'll post pictures later this evening The picture of the carb is before I rebuilt it

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SO heres some more pictures of the truck. I took the bench seat out to get ready for my new seats and I painted the first gen emblem on it
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Awesome truck bud. Cant wait to see more

Awesome deal..... Check the frame real good on the inside near the spring mounts..

Good luck and enjoy.... there is plenty of great guys on this board that are willing to help with advice..

Good deal for $500. Like gmack mentioned check the frame really well.
For an east coast truck I was expecting to see some extensive cab floor rust.

The can corners are rusted pretty bad, and the drivers side right at the pedals is really bad so I'm going to patch it with some sheet metal I've got laying around and I'm going to put some spray on bed liner in it to cover it all up and make it look a little but better

So today I painted and put my grill back together its looking a lot better than it did to start.
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This weekend I plan on repainted the steering wheel and fixing the floor and patching the bed of the truck here's some more pictures
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Just more pics
 

Tires that came with it still have decent tread
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Axle seals need to be replaced real soon
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Just some of the bed rust, me and a bud are gonna bondo those hole before we paint it
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This is old vs new on my rear shocks I'm putting Rancho's all the way around next week so Ill have a little extra room to flex

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thats the same steering wheel I have haha

I got the idea on how to repaint mine from your post

Ditto....

Cool thread. Ima be watching this one.
Keep us posted!
Mark

Cool, glad I could help someone out haha. I used a Rustoleum Satin Nickle . I like the way it turned out.

So I changed my plans for the whole plan for the truck looks, I want to take as much of the looks as possible back to factory looks as I can that won't interfere with my other plans for the truck. I'm going to go back to one of Toyota's blue paint colors and I'm going to restore the dash as best possible, I am currently in the process of taking the dash out heres some pictures of what I got done today.
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I tested that spray can bedliner since thats what I am painted my cab floor with and it actually turned out pretty good
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So I took the hood off and sanded some of it and primered it Im just gonna primer the whole the whole truck and worry about painting it later but I also picked up the new seat im gonna put in the truck

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Nice seats, what did they come out of?

chevy blazer or s-10

They came out of a 98 s-10