85 4Runner - Piggy
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85 4Runner - Piggy
OK so heres my build, been going on for a while and not at a great a speed.
So 4 years in a nut shell....
Bought in 2010 when we were in Uk about to move to Aus, and Bro in law sent pic..did we want it?
Yeah we did...
Pretty rotten inside as had been a farm truck for years so need to be stripped
So stripped her back
Dropped in a V6 380 (Think they are US Buick's)
re paint..
New seats
Seat belts...Yellow of course!
Cut the back a bit...
Bit of colour coding..
Cut out rear bar
Snorkle to K&N
Back lid..
Bit of help! Front and back...
Flick aircon over to air compressor
Sort out dash with gauges etc V1
Helper in shed....!
Uprate fronts...
Subaru disk Rears with hand brake...
Brake valve for rears
Seale dup back chop
Built up rear rack
Built centre console
Bent up cross member
Lights...
Cut dash up
Fit ipad mini
Cut grillie
Paint on rad...
Add mud..
Cut down rear rack
Rears up front
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So 4 years in a nut shell....
Bought in 2010 when we were in Uk about to move to Aus, and Bro in law sent pic..did we want it?
Yeah we did...
Pretty rotten inside as had been a farm truck for years so need to be stripped
So stripped her back
Dropped in a V6 380 (Think they are US Buick's)
re paint..
New seats
Seat belts...Yellow of course!
Cut the back a bit...
Bit of colour coding..
Cut out rear bar
Snorkle to K&N
Back lid..
Bit of help! Front and back...
Flick aircon over to air compressor
Sort out dash with gauges etc V1
Helper in shed....!
Uprate fronts...
Subaru disk Rears with hand brake...
Brake valve for rears
Seale dup back chop
Built up rear rack
Built centre console
Bent up cross member
Lights...
Cut dash up
Fit ipad mini
Cut grillie
Paint on rad...
Add mud..
Cut down rear rack
Rears up front
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Thanks for the comments fellas! I am just hacking away, no artist, and the pics don't show the amount I have messed up along the way! Sorry for delay in replies as well, most of my employment is overseas so I tend to drop out for a month or so occasionally.
The cross member did come out good! It was a fair amount of messing around and in materials way cheaper than from a shop....add the time I spent on it then probably not but I like to try and do stuff myself if I can.
I scored it across first with the grinder then notched out a bit of scrap bar to fit on the top of the bender jack.
If your going to do this, make sure you use a decent thickness of bar, the one I used bent during the bending, didn't affect anything but next time I will use a stronger bit..
When it was all the right shape I ran a few beads of weld back through the score troughs to finish, then paint.
The grille is held on with epoxied cut down threaded bar, then washers and nuts to suit...
Just starting work on the suspension now which is seeming to be more complicated than it should be!
Cheers
The cross member did come out good! It was a fair amount of messing around and in materials way cheaper than from a shop....add the time I spent on it then probably not but I like to try and do stuff myself if I can.
I scored it across first with the grinder then notched out a bit of scrap bar to fit on the top of the bender jack.
If your going to do this, make sure you use a decent thickness of bar, the one I used bent during the bending, didn't affect anything but next time I will use a stronger bit..
When it was all the right shape I ran a few beads of weld back through the score troughs to finish, then paint.
The grille is held on with epoxied cut down threaded bar, then washers and nuts to suit...
Just starting work on the suspension now which is seeming to be more complicated than it should be!
Cheers
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