Terry is there any thing you are suggesting with that comment, Am I forgetting something?

 

I was meaning when you tear a truck down as far as you have it is easy to go thru the entire systems like steering, drive train and such. When I tear one down that far, I try to get each system. There are a hundred components but so much easier to work on when it is that far down.

 

Daggone, I remember having the time, patience, and energy to do this. It seems I'm short on all of them. Luckily just not all on the same day. Keep up the good work!

 

ah I gotcha Terry yeah I plan on doing cross over steering on that it will be much easier to weld shock brackets and stuff like that to the frame.

 

Ok so I got every thing pulled out of and off of the cab of the 82 and ready to remove the cab but before I start that I was going to work on the dash swap while it was still on the 2wd frame and lower to the ground. I put the cross bar up where its supposed to go and it hit the steering wheel mount (see attached photo) for the 1st gen it is also the brake pedal bracket. Ive seen a picture of a dash swap in a trekker that they just cut the steering wheel mount off and left the pedal bracket in place but I thought since I have the pedal assembly from the 4 runner I would install that and just unbolt all the 1st gen brackets. but the pedal assembly out of the 4 runner is about 3/4 of an inch wider than the holes in the fire wall of the first gen.

Should I cut the fire wall to make the 4 runner assembly work or just cut the 1st gen pedal bracket to clear the 2nd gen dash bar?

 

so here is the problem with the 2nd gen pedal assembly on the 1st gen fire wall. I think Im going to stick with the 1st gen pedal brackets.

 

the plate that attaches the steering column to the fire wall on the 2nd gen steering column is a little larger and only three holes line up. I thought about drilling the holes out and using a nut and bolt to fasten it to the fire wall. I took the plate off of the 1st gen column but I cannot figure out how to get the one off of the 2nd gen column without cutting a section out.

Can you take the steering column apart to get the plate off.

 

Got the holes drilled in the dash plate that attaches at the windshield and got that bolted in, got the holes punched and threaded on the a-pillar for that plate I also got 1 hole drilled and tapped on each side on the A-pillar for the cross bar bolted the steering column to it so I could mark the rest of the holes in crossbar. I also couldn't help it I sad the whole dash on the cross bar just to see what it would look like. I need to work on the HVAC system now. The SR5 seat is just in there to see if the steering wheel was pushed too far back.

 

I forgot how small this truck is. I will be installing the tilt column from the 86 so I hope that does not shove the wheel any closer to the driver.