Hey guys,
Got this 83 yota about 3 months ago and have been doing little things here and there on her, Thought I'd go ahead and start a build thread! see what you guys think.
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Here's what I've done so far,

-14" Chrome K & N Air Filter.
-LC Engineering K & N Air Filter adapter.
-Removed EGR using LC Engineering block plates.
-Removed unneeded vacuum lines.
-Hooker header.
-Flowmaster 50 muffler w/ 2 1/2" pipe all the way back.
-Optima Red Top battery.
-GM 100 amp one wire alternator installed with LC Engineering adapter and -100 amp breaker.
-Stripped interior and sanded it down to metal, laid down 1 coat of primer and 1 coat of rustoleum. also ordered a molded rubber floor and planning on laying down Peal N Seal from Lowes and some Nasa insulation before installing the floor.
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Also ordered are Hella H4 headlight conversion and 2 sets of Hella Supertones because the factory horns and headlights suck!

Pictures here /
More pic's to come as soon as I get a chance!

 

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nice looking rig! i'm jealous of the older body style

 

thanks for that irab88! Got a few things to learn here

 

no problem!

loos really good. what are your overall plans? any future mods?

 

Saweet ride man.

 

@irab88

Overall plans include:

-New interior
-Bedliner
-Rustoleum paint job
-Marlin Crawler Front and rear bumpers and a winch
-5.29 gears and Detroit locker rear (factory gearing with 35's a dog!)

And who knows what else, these kinda projects always continue to evolve as I'm sure you know (;

 

That is a great looking truck. Like what I have been seeing. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to following your thread.

 

Thanks for the kind words! I love tinkering with it.

Hopefully some of my parts come in today, can't wait to get my interior back together.

You guys know where I can get a cover for my split bench seat? Eventually I want to put in buckets but for now I'd like to find a cheap cover.

 

good luck ... split bench covers are tough to find. it might be easier to swap in seats.

or if you don't flip down the seats, you might be able to use a full bench cover

 

Hello there again my toyota friends!

I've been working my butt off trying to get this thing back together, Miss being able to drive it.

anyway enough with that, My Hella horns and Hella H4 headlights came in as well as my rubber floor.

Here's pics,

Horn Relays
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Put two sets of horns in
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New headlights with yellowstar 80/100 watt bulbs, also painted the grill and headlight trim black.
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Put the final coat of paint on the interior.
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Stripped the doors down so I could put some Seal N Peal down.
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All shiny and purty!
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So this thing has a 3" body lift and its causing me headaches with my shifter boots any ideas on how to fix this? the problem is since the boots are 3" higher than their designed to be they don't have near enough flex to handle all the movement so I'm not sure how I'm going to fasten them down without restricting movement or tearing the boots.
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One more
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Installing my custom rubber floor, it was a real pita to cut and fit this thing since its pretty stiff, should last a long time though and its easy to clean
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more cutting
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And one of Daddy's little helper.
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Painted my reaview mirror and threw in an LED dome light i picked up from Autozone!
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This is how she sits now, put the seat and seatbelts back in, hopefully I can take her for a sunday afternoon spin tomorrow
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That's it for now guys, I'm working on a heavy duty wiring harness with 10gauge wire and 40amp relays to run some 150 watt H4's in my new E Code lights. Ill be sure and add some pics when I get the chance!

Peace out!

 

Here's another update on my progress guys,

Finished my heavy duty wiring harness for the headlights and it works great! However one of my new hella's is already cracked I took the truck out to play in the mud the other day and went through some big puddles with the lights on, I'm wondering if the heat from the 100 watt bulbes caused the housings to crack when the cold water hit them?

Mud on the tires

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Lined up with my buddies

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King of the hill!

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Getting my flex on at the shop

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More flex

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Also removed the sway bar and I think it handles better, sure it leans more around the corners but I don't drive the fast either

Installed a brand new Cobra 29 LX over the weekend,

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Like my new custom headliner?
Also grabbed a NIB Wilson 5000 antenna off Ebay for 40.00 shipped! Tuned up like a charm too, Its sitting right at 1.1 on the SWR meter.

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And yes I drilled a hole in my roof, I hate dealing with magnetic antennas and I wanted it on top of the roof for a good ground plane.


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Tonight I took the bedliner out and washed all the crap out, the bed looks very good, a little rust and a few small dents but overall it looks great.

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Going to get some roll on bedliner for it soon hopefully.

My headliner was in pretty bad shape so I just tore it out, Anybody have ideas for a new one? I thought of maybe getting some thick cardboard and cutting it to fit then covering it with vinyl?

Looks like suppers ready

Not really sure whats next on the project, What do you guys recommend I do next to make it more trail capable?

Peace out boys!

 

I made mine out of 1/4 plywood, glued some carpet pad on (I am 6'3" and will probably bounce off the roof), then wrapped it with marine vinyl and put it in my biggest problem was gettin git to fit aroudn the sunroof I installed...see you just cut a 9/16" hole I cut a 24x30" hole....LOL you can see it on my build up. The truck is coming together great.

 

wow your floors look like a million bucks compared to mine.. and im talking before you did any work haha

 

@dirtdobberoffroad thanks for that input! I like what you did there, I'll probably end up doing something similar.

@LinguraDeLemn The joys of getting a Texas truck

Now for an update with lots of pic's!

Pounded out a few dents on the front fenders best I could then did some bondo work, At first the plan was to buy new fenders but this is cheaper and I was bored so here go's!

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Cleaning up the dents for bondo
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Putting on the bondo turned out to be pretty easy, not perfect for sure but I'm going to put bed liner on the rocker panels and fenders anyway so I figured I just need to get it smoothed out a bit.
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Smoothing out the bondo a bit
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After a little sanding and some primer
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Looking better!
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Sanding the whole fender down for primer
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And the finished product
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I have started taking all the paint off the right fender now too, My plan is to clean one body panel at a time putting 2-3 coats of primer on each and then painting the whole truck once I get that complete.

83yota signing over n' out!

 

looking good i just started sanding and painting my 82 down, i really need a bed though,

 

Look'n good cant wait till I am there on my project

 

Got my right fender primed and installed.
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Put 2 layers of insulation on the roof
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Door panels cut out and insulated, Ready to be covered with vinyl.
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put this gun rack in to hold the AK47 that followed me out the door of Cheaper Than Dirt this weekend
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Its finally getting a little quieter in the cab!!!!

Anyway that's all I got for now,

Until next time....

 

glad to see the insulation works