ok so i finally got my truck into the shop and i have started dissasembly, sorry these pics are very crappy but the next ones i hope will be better

ok so got all the fenders off, hood off, the doors and the interior. i pulled up the carpet and found a nice surprise, the rear cab mounts rusted right through the floor and that is why my cab always looked to be leaning back a little the front is good, my rockers are alright and ya, so i picked up a HUGE peice of sheet metal for 60 bucks and on monday i will start fixing floors and stuff

 

lookin' good and keep going.

better pics are a must !! ..

 

ya, i only had my phone on hand, but monday i will get more, and better pics with a actuall digital camara lol i just got paid today so monday i will be ordering new fenders, hood and some other things maybe new springs and mine are bowing the opposite direction as they should be

 

Fenders and hood? Is this a show truck, or a wheeler? I vote for hitting up the scrap yard for those parts, and using your cash for some gears or something mechanical that would help off road. But I guess it all depends on your style.

 

this is a restoring project, it will be my DD but i will also wheel it on weekends, i have checked the local scrap yards and all of them have ZERO first gen yotas

 

well, i got some more work done on the old girl today, and it all had to do with a swasall and a hamer and a drill

had to cut out ALLLLLOOOOOTTT of cancer today and it consisted of most of my rocker and the body mount and some other stuff

hers the pics, i hope they look a little better, i am stuck using my phone for a while

 

Looks like a newer 22r, or at least the valve cover

 

good luck with the rot

1st gen rot is fun

 

Oldgold, yes, the 22r is a newer one, came outta a 84, the origional motor had 409,000 km on it and it was dead so the PO swaped in a newer one from a parts truck only to find out she knocks, so its time to rebuild her,

4banginrunner, yea man 1 gen rust repair is SOOO much fun(that was sarcazim) i what i cut out of there, i have to try and fabricate ALLL new with just your basic hand tools, and a welder, should be fun none the less hehe, at least the other side is good so i can copy from that

 

Tell me about it lol, I wish somebody would make some replacement floor pans, and body mounts (::cough cough:: Where ya at Slacker? )

 

hahah, ya no kidding eh, well i got some more work done today, i am very happy with the way this turned out i just need to grind down the welds

 

That truck has some major rust, you must be from up north. I'm glad I lucked out on my 82, there is a little hole here and there, but nothing like what you have.

 

yes, i am from manitoba canada, my truck has the usuall rust like cab mounts and floor, but this truck was parked out in a field for 3 years before i bought it, i almost done fixing the floor, i just need to weld in the new pieces. and patch the frame and rebuild motor and she should be good to go

 

nice job on that rocker repair...looks great..

 

thanks man

 

NICE WORK!!
Thats amazing! I wish I could weld that good. That's going to be a nice truck!
good job.

 

THANKS EVERYBODY FOR THE COMPLEMENTS, ya, the key to welding sheet metal is to NOT try and make one continuious bead, but MANY tiny spot weld all very close together, it makes it look like a bead, but it has less heat and wont warp your metal

oh and by the way, all metal work i do, is with a ballpeen hamer, diegrinder and a bench vise

 

did more work today, got the cab off, and started cutting rotton cab mounts off, and i also started hiting frame with a hammer to find how much rust(rot) there actually is and well, the pics speak for them selves, so if anyone has a GOOOOD frame for a 82 short box for cheap, shoot me a PM we can figure out shipping.

 

wow, that might just be the worst frame rot ive seen, and i dealt with a lot of it. i guess that the prairie road salt for you. good luck with the search

 

yea, it wasent that bad when i bought it, till i started hitting it with a hammer. i am going to keep on cutting out the rust and fixing it until i can find a new frame i would also consider a long box frame, but it would have to come with a longer drive shaft, what would be the best welder to use to fix the frame, a 220 volt miller gas welder, or a miller stick welder OR a miller tig welder?