Might have to part with my '76...

scouthead · 06-17-07, 04:33 PM

I may need to off my first piggy (NOOOOOO!?!) in the next couple of weeks. It has some good rust in the gutters above the rear cargo windows, and a little in one of the rear corners, and a little coming in on the lower fenders (usual crap).
This truck is damn close to being mechanically NEW. Just about 30K on the odometer (I have had to go through almost everything anyways). I have more money in this thing than I care to admit, and I don't really want to part with it anyways, but yada yada yada. I either off a couple of rifles or this pig (and I am building another), so if I can get at least 4 grand for it, it might go...

Just thought I would post it up in here first in case someone's interested. It may go up on E-Bay soon, and reserve will be at least 4. Depends on what all I do to it before it goes.
(it's got the factory nippondenso A.C. , and fj60 P.S.)

I was building this thing to keep forever... never thought I would even be thinking of giving it the boot after only a year or two...

clemson55 · 06-17-07, 06:57 PM

You could always sell that little Scout 800 sitting next to it.

Gumby · 06-17-07, 07:27 PM

Is that an original Toyota Parking Brake Supplement (Part no. 53489-00452) under the back tire?

You could get big $$$ for that on eBay.

scouthead · 06-18-07, 02:50 AM

O.K. the good:

A.C., power steering, origional wheels and caps, front disc brakes, header, both heaters blow hot, all doors/locks/windows function perfectly, parking brake works awesome, door panels in great shape, jack/hand crank/jack rods are still under seats, $pecter carpet kit, all lights work, couple of offroad lights, tailgate and rear window work, wiper/washer work, will cruise on freeway at 75mph all day long (much quieter and better MPG at 65 though),

This all happened since November of '06 (most of it since January '07):

Original engine with 27,000 miles rebuilt anyway ( it's a long story), carb rebuilt, new Downey Offroad header, new exhaust/muffler, almost every hose and belt replaced with new, new clutch, flywheel resurfaced, new clutch master/slave/throwout/pilot bearing/throwout bearing, new $pecter brake boo$ter, new brake master, new front calipers and pads, knuckles rebuilt with bearings and wipers, hub gaskets, new tranny input shaft seal, new transfer output seals, new front/rear pinion seals, new spedo cable, new gear in rear window regulator, new 31x10.50 BFG mud terrain tires, PIA superwhite dash bulbs, passed CA smog with flying colors (air rail currently removed), new pedal pads, FJ60 power steering installed...

I know there's more, but it's late as hell, and this is off the top of my head (which now hurts).

PabloCruise · 06-18-07, 09:50 AM

Where are you?

Huntington Beach?

scouthead · 06-18-07, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by PabloCruise

Where are you?

Huntington Beach?

Yes sir.

sven · 06-18-07, 02:51 PM

any close pics of rust? why are you selling this one and not the other? looks really nice and sounds like a lot has been put into it.

scouthead · 06-18-07, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by sven

any close pics of rust? why are you selling this one and not the other? looks really nice and sounds like a lot has been put into it.

I will have some better pics some time this week... waiting for one of my friends to swing buy with a digital camera (most of mine still have funny things like film and light meters)

"The other one" is a '73, so I won't have to smog it, it came with a roll bar and bucket seats, and I have already put my TBI 350/700R4, and tilt column into it... planning on going spring over and making it the beater. I couldn't justify doing anyhting too radical to the blue '76 and I just have too many vehicles to deal with... can't keep everything, as much as I would like to.

cruise4070 · 06-19-07, 02:15 PM

Would definitely like to see some pics!

scouthead · 07-04-07, 10:33 AM

O.k. here they come...

scouthead · 07-04-07, 10:51 AM

more...

scouthead · 07-04-07, 10:55 AM

and some more...

scouthead · 07-04-07, 11:00 AM

and some more of the interior...

scouthead · 07-04-07, 11:04 AM

some more of the inside...

scouthead · 07-04-07, 11:08 AM

more interior stuff...

scouthead · 07-04-07, 11:17 AM

Headliner is kind of ugly (some rips and stains... and still has acorns and bits of seat cushion around the edges that the mice who used to inhabit the car left up there for me)

and the rear cargo panels are a little beat (this is the one that looks bad... thanks to the mice again)

I should probably mention this truck was thoroughly cleaned inside and out a year or two back when I got it. The mice had packed the body full of twigs and seat foam and crap, but it's all gone now. I could not believe all the places they got into...

scouthead · 07-04-07, 11:22 AM

here comes the rust!

scouthead · 07-04-07, 11:30 AM

more...

scouthead · 07-04-07, 11:37 AM

the rest of the roof is great... I'ts just above the cargo windows and tailgate.
This truck actually got the roof worked over about ten years ago to stop the rust before it got bad... It's just coming back in the same place again. So I know the top cap and hood have been repainted. The bottom blue is origional I think? (not sure about the white in middle...)

This truck had been an offroad only vehicle parked under an oak tree at someones leased hunting property on the Tejon Ranch since it was only a few years old. The hood got wacked by a branch a while back, and a grape sized dent was filled with bondo... wich is now half chipped out. it's the bottom ding in the hood photo.

scouthead · 07-04-07, 12:17 PM

I will be looking into getting it up on E-bay in the next day or two, but I wanted to post the pics up in here first... I think i said I needed to get at least 4K for this piggy... and I meant AT LEAST! I would be happier with at least 5K, but I don't know what it will bring. I don't expect to get back anything like what I have into it... It drifts to the right a little when you let go of the wheel, but you can't feel it while you are holding the wheel (maybe because of the power steering?), and it might have something to do with the rock that the previous owner's son smacked while chasing a deer on a hunt (you can see the front pass fender is a little crunched on the front and the bumper is kind of sad). It never bothered me enough to pay $60.00 to have it aligned...and it does have a couple of rough spots (it was a hunting truck) and there are a number of small dings and scratches, but it does also have A.C. AND POWER STEERING... I was using it as my daily driver for a while, and except for the roadnoise at 75MPH was always happy with it (well maybe a couple hundred extra horsepower would be fun, but that's for my next cruiser)
Some guy not far from me is selling one now for $4500.00, and the roof looks like swiss cheese from front to back, and he has no A.C., and no power steering, and god only knows how many miles are on it...

I would rate the engine/ drivetrain on mine at a solid "A"
and the interior at a solid "B"
and the body at a "C+"ish
Anyways, I'll probably list this on E-bay with a start of around $4700.00, with no reserve, and see what happens ( I have over that in receipts just in parts/machine work in the last year or so!) I think if I could hold on to this thing for a year or so and have the paint/bodywork done, I could be making money on this one and not loosing my ass... but that's not in the cards at this point. I didn't buy this one to invest in anyways...

pr0ject42 · 07-04-07, 12:25 PM

Dood, that rig is awesome! I don't know why you tempt me, I may have to actually talk to the woman about this one.

BTT for some fine bacon!

scouthead · 07-04-07, 12:29 PM

One of the reason this little pig of mine needs a new sty, is the other FJ55 I'm currently building... there will be a P.O.T.M. on that one when it's done, and maybe a build thread soon...

The other reason is the Blazer I just Bought... (go easy on me...) It's an '88 with fuel injected 350/sm465/np208... pretty damn good gearing for a stock setup... just have to dump the rear ten bolt before it strands me somewhere...

sven · 07-05-07, 08:00 AM

if I didn't have to add $1K to get it to the other coast I'd make a presentation to the purse holder. You just can't get this stuff on the east coast. Really have studied the pics for some time now it seems like a really, really fair deal.
Sincerley,
Pig Tire Kicker Extraordinaire

Wayneraintree · 07-05-07, 11:03 AM

off topic: did all 88' K5 blazers come with that set-up? My dad has one (rusted but still driving) with EFI but I was unsure of the rest of the driveline...

sweet deal for someone... be interested to see what it goes for on ebay if no one here picks it up..

scouthead · 07-05-07, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by sven

if I didn't have to add $1K to get it to the other coast I'd make a presentation to the purse holder. You just can't get this stuff on the east coast. Really have studied the pics for some time now it seems like a really, really fair deal.
Sincerley,
Pig Tire Kicker Extraordinaire

Yeah shipping sucks, but there has to be a reasonable way to ship a vehicle... $1000.00?

A plane ticket, several tanks of rediculously priced gasoline, a lot of driving, ear plugs, a bunch of fun, some yearning for more modern seating after the first four hours or so, and some ear plugs... yeah $1000.00 sounds about right!

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Originally Posted by Wayneraintree

off topic: did all 88' K5 blazers come with that set-up? My dad has one (rusted but still driving) with EFI but I was unsure of the rest of the driveline...

Very few Blazers would have been available like mine. I have never even seen a straight axle bazer from the early fuel injection years that had a stick shift. Almost all of them have an auto (700r4), and it always seems like the ones for sale are only being sold because they are having tranny problems. I have always liked the blazers, but not enough to buy one as a project. My friend's Grandpappy has an '83 with an inline six and sm465/205. I have seen other older trucks like that with the sm465, but no F.I. and a lot of smog crap. The only reason I bought this one was becuse of the tranny. It was a base model, and has no power windows, or tilt column, or cruise control(does have A.C. and P.S. though

), and the interior pretty much consists of only the rubber floor mats. It never came with a headliner or side panels (metal ash trays are welded straight to the bottom of the bedrails), and it used to have a C.B. where the radio usually would be. I kind of think this truck was a work truck, or farm, or maybe a government vehicle... park ranger kind of thing?... probably not though, as it was, and is, metalic blue inside and out. I thought it was strange seeing the NP208 chaindrive (that is usually parked behind the 700r4) hanging off my sm465. I have only ever seen 205s and 203s? behind the 465s as a factory setup. The gearing is much better, at 2.60, but a friend of mine went through three 208s in a year in his old '85 blazer (but they were, and it was, basically held together with crap and stink...)

eventhough · 07-06-07, 04:23 AM

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Originally Posted by sven

if I didn't have to add $1K to get it to the other coast I'd make a presentation to the purse holder. You just can't get this stuff on the east coast. Really have studied the pics for some time now it seems like a really, really fair deal.
Sincerley,
Pig Tire Kicker Extraordinaire

I had the same dilemna - shipping a Pig from the UP of Michigan to SC. Cost would have been about $1,200 or maybe a little more. I saved a few dollars by taking two days off, buying two cheap tickets (one for me and a co-pilot) and we drove the Piggie back over 1,100 miles in a day and a half. I wish we would have taken more time but the co-pilot had to get home. The trip was great and I would do it again in a hearbeat, especially now that the floors aren't swiss cheese anymore. A friend is currently driving a 62 3,300 miles from California to SC. If you have the time and the seller thinks the Pig is up to it I recommend a road trip. You'll have something to remember - whether or not the Piggie breaks down or makes it the entire way!

hks3sgte · 07-06-07, 10:44 AM

Does the AC work?

scouthead · 07-06-07, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by hks3sgte

Does the AC work?

The A.C. works very nicely. As A matter of fact I just spent money on the system. One of the hoses was cracked (because a mouse had used it for a chew toy, and kind of skimmed half the rubber off the top of part of the hose. It never bothered me, but I was always very careful not to bend that hose much. Didn't want the new owner to do something and get a freon leak (and then get pissed at me), so I had the hose replaced with a brand new one, the system pressure tested, and refilled with R-12. Should be good for quite a while now... Also had some freak flat tire a couple of weeks ago. REally pissed me off becauses the BFGs that are on it had less than 5k miles on them (still have the injection molding tabs on most of the tire) the spare didn't match-old armstrong norseman) so I sprung for another BFG $$. Didn't know if someone would buy it and drive it home 2000 miles or something, so wanted it complete again (and don't want to see my baby drive away limping)

Oh yeah... the picture of the front tire; that's one of the "old ones"

scouthead · 07-06-07, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by eventhough

I had the same dilemna - shipping a Pig from the UP of Michigan to SC. Cost would have been about $1,200 or maybe a little more. I saved a few dollars by taking two days off, buying two cheap tickets (one for me and a co-pilot) and we drove the Piggie back over 1,100 miles in a day and a half. I wish we would have taken more time but the co-pilot had to get home. The trip was great and I would do it again in a hearbeat, especially now that the floors aren't swiss cheese anymore. A friend is currently driving a 62 3,300 miles from California to SC. If you have the time and the seller thinks the Pig is up to it I recommend a road trip. You'll have something to remember - whether or not the Piggie breaks down or makes it the entire way!

Tell you the truth I would rather see it drive off then go onto the back of a trailer. I know I can't garauntee anything because someone might loose a belt or coil or something, but I have full faith in this truck, and personally wouldn't hesitate to take it on a raod trip if I could afford it and I had some friends who would go along. Sounds like fun. One of my buddies sold his old rickety 40 to a kid who flew out from Indiana, I think, and drove it all the way back with a couple of friends. Couldn't believe that they didn't have any problems.

Who's driving a '62 from Ca to SC? That's not Mark A. is it? I get the impression he takes the rig for some long drives sometimes.

laguna80 · 07-13-07, 12:50 AM

Wish I would have seen this about a week ago, I was in Manhattan. Could have driven this straight to the shipping yard and sent it back to Hawaii. Good luck on e-bay. Hope you can get what you want for it.