First of all, WUZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP! lol.... Long time no talkijieuwaiah! .....

Rig looks BA!

Lastly.... WTH? lol... How did that get in there????? Someone messing with ya, man?

 

PS. Sorry bout the HG in the first place...sux.

 

Not a hole lot chef and yea it's been awhile the single life has been damn fun man!! FREEDOM BROTHER!!! Well my buddy and I spotlight every sat in the spring and summer and hunt coyotes in the winter and the weapon of choice is our .22 pistols I think when I was doing the swap on carbs i managed to drop a casing in the intake...how it got in there and stayed without damaging anything is a miracle!! The Gasket was a time bomb once we looked at it...it's a wierd three piece cheap a?$ thing I'll get a pic up of it neither me or the old man have seen anything like it...got felpro's to go back in it

 

Well the old girl is back on the road it's amazing she ran before...I didn't take pictures of the ordeal but after pulling the head and seeing what the guy that rebuilt it did I decided to tear the motor down further and double check everything...the guy used two gaskets one being the cheap head gasket and one was the exhaust all others were just gasket maker/rtv real pro I guess...valves were anywhere between 0 and 6 thousandths way too tight...lower end checked out oil pressure is good and compression is good the truck is running better than ever...little embarrassed that I didn't check those things before but I learned my lesson

 

love the green, i was planning on painting mine the same color. Maybe, camo. Im not diggin the blue thats on it now. Did you use spray cans?

 

Truck is coming along great. One of my friends put on a Webber and it cleans up the engine bay alot. I now know why alot switch over to the Webber. What PO do to these trucks is suprising.

 

Hey nephew I didn't know you had a thread on here. I will tell you one thing I have been working on your nephews truck every weekend and most evenings I will we got we got what we paid for. your comment about the mechanic is the same thing I have to say about the mechanic that rebuilt the motor we put in shanes truck. I wished guys that aren't real mechanics would stop making the ones that are look so bad hell I am starting to put some of these guys in the same class as a car salesman and lawyers. I am having a hell of a time finding information on the wiring coming of the alternator to the plug on the fender I want to pick up a new one the old wires broke right as they go into the plug and I tried repairing it but it didn't go so well. anyways just wanted to say your thread looks good nephew.

 

oh i was gone to ask what caliber of rifle you using to hunt them fishies and when did Toyota make a boat because you wouldn't ever carie a gun in a truck like that would you

 

yea man spray paint from front to back haha the camoflage stuff they have out now thats a flat goes on easy and looks good.

the webber has made a huge difference on the truck my economy has suffered a little but performace is night and day. The amount of crap it eliminates is pretty impressive as well.

good to see ya on here uncle i have seen some of the pictures of shanes rig and its looking good some guys should not be allowed to touch a motor thats for sure. i prefer big bore rifles for fish hunting haha

I do have some bad news on the old girl though she had a close encounter with a semi

 

She can be rebuilt though took us about two hours to strip the sheetmetal off and have the parts tracked down to fix her already next week we will start the rebuild and i will post progress pics. i have figured out a new paint sceme for the old girl to so shes getting a new face a newer meaner look haha
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Your truck looks great. That sux it was smashed what happened?

 

Keep killin it ya trainspotting adrenalin junky you! Hahaha

 

Well over the easter weekend i busted a$# and got her back on the road I have some picks of the rebuild process turns out i'm pretty good body man.
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thanks man she is coming along other than the set back haha i hit a semi with the old girl

Chef i'm pretty good at killing vehicles haha but its a toyota man i can't seem to finish the old girl off it will be better than ever once i'm done with the repair its foced me to do things ive been putting off haha

 

update on the yota she is healing! got the new grille and front fender on yesterday just gotta buy the steel to make my new bumper and get the front end ready for paint also got the quick disconnects i made for the doors on but dont have pics of those yet
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Hey man great job fixing that damage. Any more details on the process?

 

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Well its been a while!!! this is how she looks right now still gotta paint the hood and get my new bumper put on but i ended up buying a 94 two wheel drive for my daily so the old girl has been sitting. just gotta spend some on it this winter i have plans to bob the bed and figure out a tube door set up

 

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Wow front end looks awesome.