Clintrudy

Hello, I bought this truck a couple of months ago and been working on it for a couple for weeks now, had a lot of frame rot! A lot of time cuting,grinding,fitting and welding, want see what you guy thought of it, and how I did with it. Everthing came out pretty good.

wyoming9

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I have to ask did you change welding processes between the first and last pictures??

Welding machines??

Your welding seems to have improved as you posted pictures.

One thing I have learned is to get new spring hangers and shock mounts makes things easier.

If this is your first one not bad.

Terrys87

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That frame was looking bad with rust but you have it looking ten times better. Great job!!

wyoming9

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Lets not swell his head to much !!!!

Clintrudy

Thanks guys, yeah it's my first time with frame work! Thank god I am welder and will upload some pics soon of it done.yes I was stick welding then my dad got a good miller mig welder and it was much nice!!

Terrys87

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Great job getting it done. Those extended cabs are hard to find around here.

Clintrudy

There's not a lot of older Toyota around my area. When you find usually you have to pay for them.

skypilot

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I think you did a pretty good job of saving what you could there. Give yourself a pat on the back.

Maybe I'm out of place; I think I might have gone with a new tubular back half job like they do on drag cars. A lot of that metal under there is pretty corroded, right up and under the cab. I wonder if you missed an opportunity to modernize the back half?

wyoming9

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Might have been a budget limit .

Yes all new rectangle tubing with all new hangers and mounts would have been nice.

Sometimes you need to work with what you have.

roadtrekker

Good job! You must be a really patient person to remove all that rust. Nice!

HaydenConQueso

Horizontal is such a pain in the arse. looks good.