Ok, so i've had my truck for almost 8 years now. it was my first vehicle, and was given to me by my grandfather when i was in highschool. It sat in storage a few years in college, and i have been daily driving it for the past year since my other car died. I have not been kind to it, and have driven and offroaded it hard in the past. becuase of this is has a few problems that i will be fixing very soon. i decided to get this thread started now, and i will fill in all the details in the next few weeks.

To start, my truck is bone stock. 1980 4x4 longbed pickup with 138k on the original 20R. When i got it from my grand father i did a few repairs and painted it. its kinda orange/kinda red. There is an exhaust leak at the manifold, an oil leak at the front of the valve cover, and probably a few other ones i haven't noticed yet.

It has 30x9.50 dunlop mud tires on it.

In the next week i will be putting a doug thorley header on it and having it helicoiled to fix the exhaust leak. Then i will be putting on a carb from a 22R with some LC engineering bits (adapter, rebuild kit, k&n). It needs new shocks, so some ranchos will be coming soon, as well as some interior bits, and a fix for the sloppy shifter. + a tune up.

Thats all for now, i will post some "before" pictures in the next few days than try and update regularly over the next month.

For the next year or so it needs to be a daily driver, so i wont be doing any extreme modifications. However, my goal for the truck is 35s, dual transfer cases, a custom flat bed, maybe an exo cage, and maybe a diesel conversion (but at least a 22re). Thanks all.

 

Lets see those pics (it's been a week) and on with the BUILD

 

Sorry, work is crazy busy and i'm still waiting for the parts to put the 22R carb on the 20R manifold. Tracking says they are 2ish days out. I got the Carb, which ran before it was pulled from the motor, but i kinda want to rebuild it anyway because Im not sure how great of shape its in. i just put a reminder of on my phone for when i get home tonight (when ever that is). updates soon.

 

Ok, Here are few pictures of my truck from 5 years ago. it is a little worse for the wear now. i had some rust problems, and there are some bondo spots, but i will hopefully get to them soon. the only thing that is different are the tires, i now have 30 inch dunlop mud terrains.

 

Domo kicks ass

the bike in the picture is a 1979 honda 185XR. we got it for 300 bucks and it still pops wheelies!