mhafen
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- Location
- Salt Lake City
First off thank you to Steve for being a wrenching, rig swapping ball of awesomenss. I read Steves first build up thread about a year ago (the Pickup build for those of you who cant keep track of his ADD). I was blown away by his little truck. I had just bought a 1987 Samurai, loved it, but I wanted something with a little more utility to it sooo... over the weekend I went and I got myself a 1980 toyota pickup. Its already had some work done to it... twenty years ago. The interior is destroyed and the engine needs some gaskets and a tune up but it runs and for some reason I like it (half the battle right?).
My plan was to try and recreate Steves truck because... when you have a good formula why change it? The problem is that I dont have a garage #1 and I dont have welder #2. So that limits some of what I can do on my own. Not to fret. I read on Steves post that he wouldnt flat belly it if he could do it again so Im going to skip that wet sloppy mess. I can adjust the build as needed to compensate for that an it will still be awesome.
My plans include:
New 3" Spring packs F/R
New Shackles F/R
New Tcase gears (4.70)
35" Tires
5.29 dif gears
lockers F/R
OTT steering w/ toyota IFS steering box
T-case Armor
New Shocks
Ubolt Flip
Front Axel rebuild
Bob the bed
Line the bed
Strip and finish the interior (bench seat or 2 seats?)
Stereo (Deck and speakers... you cant wheel without tunes!)
Rebuild brakes (Disks rear?)
Ebrake tcase kit
New Carb (Carter, Weber, Holley?)
Remove POS Body lift (return to stock body height)
New sliders
First things first a tune-up
My plan was to try and recreate Steves truck because... when you have a good formula why change it? The problem is that I dont have a garage #1 and I dont have welder #2. So that limits some of what I can do on my own. Not to fret. I read on Steves post that he wouldnt flat belly it if he could do it again so Im going to skip that wet sloppy mess. I can adjust the build as needed to compensate for that an it will still be awesome.
My plans include:
New 3" Spring packs F/R
New Shackles F/R
New Tcase gears (4.70)
35" Tires
5.29 dif gears
lockers F/R
OTT steering w/ toyota IFS steering box
T-case Armor
New Shocks
Ubolt Flip
Front Axel rebuild
Bob the bed
Line the bed
Strip and finish the interior (bench seat or 2 seats?)
Stereo (Deck and speakers... you cant wheel without tunes!)
Rebuild brakes (Disks rear?)
Ebrake tcase kit
New Carb (Carter, Weber, Holley?)
Remove POS Body lift (return to stock body height)
New sliders
First things first a tune-up
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