I was off work today and since it was so nice out I decided to give the 82 Trekker a bath. I also did a full cooling system flush. Its running OK but still has a slight miss and the exhaust fumes are TERRIBLE, smells like its running rich, any ideas? Anyway I took some pictures of the polised turd.... Let me know what you think! The inside still needs cleaned and I need to track down some door panels, mine are shot from where somone ripped out the speakers at one point.. Here is a link to the pictures:

http://cid-a132c6a6432774a9.skydrive...2082%20Trekker

 

The one and only rust hole in the outter body is in the passenger fender, it could be cleaned up and patched easily, the metal behind it is solid and clean and the fender below the hole is solid....

 

looks good .....some new tires and wheels would look nice.

 

I must say again "Great Find"...she's cleaning up nicely!!!

I think you'll be really happy with her! Congrats.

 

Lookin Good!!

 

cool

 

Yeah, that's looking really good.

 

make some door panels..

 

Awesome! I wish I had one...

 

THAT THING IS SOO NICE!!
Looks great!

 

Hmm reminds me of my '82 long bed (also red) I had for years..Man that paint is still lookin good..All it needs is a good buff job..Great truck Congrats

 

I like how the bed/body make kinda a upside down U shape to fit the exhaust

 

Words cannot describe my envy. Drive it to my hose and park it my driveway now.

Fender - JC whitney for like 75$

Door panels are easy, grab a sheet of 1/8" masonite at your local hardware store for like 12$. Tan vinyl, most likely at WalMart, you need a 4x6 or 4x8 sheet (you want plenty of extra room to wrap), and spray on adhesive, available at both the hardware store and walmart. DON'T cheap out on the spray adhesive, your best rule of thumb is to buy the most expensive spray adhesive they have. 1/8 staplegun staples, from the hardware store.

The tools you will need:
Utility knife (don't use the cheap snap-off type, you will cut yourself when it breaks)
Scissors
Staplegun, 1/8"staples
Drill and drill bits
A Dremel and cutting bit would be nice, but not neccesary

Cut cardboard templates for your door panels, and match them up until its perfect. Trace that onto the masonite. Cut out your first panel, make sure you leave a little extra material around the edges. Put the panel on the door, scribe around any material you ned to remove, and make the cuts. You can cut the masonite with a utility knife, but a dremel or screwgun and a cutting bit works realy well.

Make one door panel, and make it perfect. Get all the holes for the screws pre-drilled, and mount your first panel fully to check for fit. When you are satisfyed that it is perfect, pull it, trace it onto the remaining masonite, and repeat.

Lay the vinyl out face down, and lay your panel on top. MAKE SURE you cut these to fit opposite sides, I have accidentally made 2 drivers side door panels on more than one occasion . Cut out your vinyl, leaving at least 4 inches of excess vinyl around the edge of each piece of masonite.

Now, to glue. Apply spray glue to both the vinyl and the masonite. Stick them together, rub the vinyl with the flat of your hand from the center of the panel out to the edges. Flip the panel over, pull one edge over and staple it on the back side. Pull the opposite edge as tight as you can, and repeat. You will probably need to make some stress-relief cuts at th corners to eliminate excess material, make sure that you do so at least 1/2" back from the edge.

Bolt those bad boys up and roll!

 

Thanks for all the input!! Its coming along, Im throwing the idea around about finding a new to me set of Tacoma 15 or 16" alloys for my 88 and putting the SR5 alloys from it on the Trekker but that would be down the road, unless someone knows of a set for a good deal I took it out last night for a while, was cruising along at 65mph with no problem, Im scared of the old Conti tires though, they are cracked up pretty good from sitting but its running good, I still have a low speed miss and the exhaust fumes are killer so Im not sure what thats all about...

 

Well if the exhaust fumes are killer you've got an exhaust leak...

 

Its has less than a thousand miles on a new manifold, down pipe, muffler and tail pipe!! The exhaust is very very quiet, I think its running really rich or has a vacuum leak, I'm not sure. The plug wires and cap / rotor only have about a thousand miles on them as well, I may swap them out to see if the slight miss clears up but I'm leaning towards a carb or vacuum leak... I hate carburetors!

 

i had a bad miss about a month ago...i replaced my rotor and distributor cap and the problem was solved.

 

I think Im going to swap the cables, rotor and cap and pick up a spool of vacuum tube and start replacing them one by one, I did notice that some are dry rotted where they plug on so it could be a leak!

 

Pumkin do you have pics of the door panel you made?

 

Huh! So maybe it's not exhaust? That's strange. Yeah, you'd hear an exhaust leak. So you can smell it in the cab? If it's running really rich you definitely want that fixed, or an engine rebuild will be in the near future.