jessamiah's 1985 Pickup Build-Up Thread
 

i dont do alot of buildin up, but i do a little tweakin here and there and i like to b.s. alot. any one is welcome to throw sweet pics of whatever on here leave comments to tell me i kick ass or how much i suck i dont care. so lets do this......

i cheated and got my truck like this.......


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so far i have added the bumpers and rails that i got with the deal. cleaned the hell out of the engine bay tune up and redid all the gaskets on the valve cover.

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i welded the sliders straight to the frame. should you even do that??? to late now i guess

Awesome Truck, Jess!!!!!!

Glad to subscribe to your build... and nothing negative to say, ...lookin good so far. (Yes, you're SUPPOSED TO, rather, 'preferable' to many, "weld in the sliders". Unless you plan on taking them out of course! lol.

Wow, ...really love that truck! More pics, please? lol. Let's see that engine bay all cleaned up! :great:

nice truck man. so luck to have a solid axle alread on it. good luck with it and if you need and advice or help. id gladly help, i also have a service manual for trucks/4runners 1978-1988. i know you alredy gaped your plugs. just wanted to let you know tht the .031in is correct.

Sweet Truck Jess. I would love that solid front axle too. Seeing as your in the springs too, If you need a hand wrenchin' let me know. And yeah, need pics of the engine bay. What are any future plans for the rig?

dig the rig. post up some suspension, engine bay, and interior shots of that truck. What are the specs for the suspension? lift, tires, gears?

with all that tweakin you do, never let it lead to removin those factory graphics. IMO, you got about a 1 in a 1000, or maybe less, of a chance findin a 2nd gen that original color with those graphics

thanks alot everyone!! appreciate the love. as far as the paint that will not change its one of my favorite parts, straight 80's. the tires are 35x12.5 BFG's baja champion mud terrains, its got 4" of suspension lift pro comp shocks, stock high gearing and 4.70 low.

im definately a novice so correct any terminoligy or whatever, i havent done any MAJOR crawling but have tested out the low end and its a friggin tank. it gets me where i want to go....... case in point

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it does have a header on it too. i probably want to upgrade the exhaust and im planning of fabbing a light guard for the turn signals and mount them to that stinger. it looks cool in my minds eye. we will see.

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Simply spectacular. Best 85 I'e seen in 26 years!

HOLY CRAPOLI! SR5-EFI 85 W/Orig. Graphics and clean interior? A fella would get RIPPED of a good chunk of cabbage in L.A. for that beautiful beast!!!!!!

DANG YOU! hahahahaa. Jk, ...CONGRATZ! B-E-A-UUUUUUUUTIFUL PIC of the rig on the mountain top, btw! Gotta get another with a lil closer shot of the truck, same background.... BETTER be in the calendar this next year! lol

thanks chef. you cant recreate that backgroung image though. it was raining in town and we just went up above it. next time im there i will set it up and check the difference though. its cool to take a pic at the same place in different times and see the changes.

by the way that is an original washington state truck. i stole it off a kid graduating from the air force academey getting shiped out to london. his dad bought it brand new and gave it to him at 16. i dont know how but that boy kept it that clean for six years!! if it was me then i probably would have wrecked it 3 times over.....

Just looked at it again, ....that view pic! lol. It's fine just like it is.. I just thought, for a calendar, ....maybe if the truck was a lil bigger in the pic since the pics aren't as big as a 17-24" Monitor? lol. NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT PIC, period! It's a great shot, Jess!

Killer clean truck Jess!! I like it.

OP: when you copy and paste your pic into your post, you don't need to hit the image icon too. That is why you keep get the [img] on both side of your picks.

And they are called sliders, not rails:P

Chef is right that one pic belongs on the calender.

wow i cant stop lookin at that truck. if i ihad the cash and seen a truck liek that for sale, id drive to cali to get it. that thing is unbelievable. if you sell it, dont sell it to some 16 year old punk that only likes it cuz it jacked up wit big tares on it. that truck needs respect lol. seriously though. that interior is stupiiiiiid clean. pssh. and my fiance says i have a toyota problem......

hehehe i cheated when i bought my truck also took me over a year to find an extended cab 85 sr5 efi that was within 1500 miles of and not beat to heck or way over priced. what did you have to give for it?