Just bought this '79 Toyota pickup:
Background: I blew up our '97 Land Cruiser's engine. It turns out that our oil pressure gauge actually wasn't dead, we were actually getting no oil pressure. Still managed to drive it 7000+ miles before I developed a severe rod knock. That should tell you all about my level of intellect and mechanical competency. So we need a vehicle while we source a new 1FZ for our Land Cruiser, and we picked this one up for 1500. It runs and drives, but it's positively third-world. I love the way it looks. As you can see, the body is not straight, and the driver's side body mount thing is smashed. I don't know if that's even fixable.
This one's got 92k on the original 20r motor and a lot of body damage and rust. It rides surprisingly well - that said, this is the first manual I've ever driven - but the story of how @math figured out how to drive stick will be for another time. That said, it's absolutely a cool truck. I was faced between buying a cheap new sedan for a daily driver or something more like this. Living above 10,000 feet, we'd get about two weeks a year to use our sedan, and let's be real, I'd want to plunge the damn thing off a mountain the whole time. This is much slower and much colder, but sometimes, sacrifices must be made in the name of self-respect. Life is too short (as is my commute) to drive a boring car. This thing is just full of that character stuff old mechanics talk about. Or maybe it's just rust, not sure.
More pics:
I'm going to leave it largely as I've found it, with a couple exceptions:
1) New tires. The 35's on it are dreadful and dry-rotted, so we're going to put some of those neat military tires on it. It looks like it has a 6-7" lift on it. Can I fit 46" tires on it?
2) I'd love to straighten the body and replace the smashed body mount. This is a cool truck and I love the way it looks. I'd like to put an original grille back on it and make it look right again. Is this possible?
3) The long term project, either a 1KZ swap or a 22re swap. Sorry, you salty old mechanics, fuel injection is one of the few things the future got right.
4) Probably going to give it a good clean. The knuckles are actually invisible under the mud, and probably require a sensitive archaeological operation to find.
(Disclaimer: I ridicule millennials a lot. I am one. Please don't be offended for me.)
More pics and investigation forthcoming, but it's pouring snow outside, so those will come later. In the meantime, school this youngin' about what we've just bought. Wanna soak up that knowledge and be less crappy.
Background: I blew up our '97 Land Cruiser's engine. It turns out that our oil pressure gauge actually wasn't dead, we were actually getting no oil pressure. Still managed to drive it 7000+ miles before I developed a severe rod knock. That should tell you all about my level of intellect and mechanical competency. So we need a vehicle while we source a new 1FZ for our Land Cruiser, and we picked this one up for 1500. It runs and drives, but it's positively third-world. I love the way it looks. As you can see, the body is not straight, and the driver's side body mount thing is smashed. I don't know if that's even fixable.
This one's got 92k on the original 20r motor and a lot of body damage and rust. It rides surprisingly well - that said, this is the first manual I've ever driven - but the story of how @math figured out how to drive stick will be for another time. That said, it's absolutely a cool truck. I was faced between buying a cheap new sedan for a daily driver or something more like this. Living above 10,000 feet, we'd get about two weeks a year to use our sedan, and let's be real, I'd want to plunge the damn thing off a mountain the whole time. This is much slower and much colder, but sometimes, sacrifices must be made in the name of self-respect. Life is too short (as is my commute) to drive a boring car. This thing is just full of that character stuff old mechanics talk about. Or maybe it's just rust, not sure.
More pics:
I'm going to leave it largely as I've found it, with a couple exceptions:
1) New tires. The 35's on it are dreadful and dry-rotted, so we're going to put some of those neat military tires on it. It looks like it has a 6-7" lift on it. Can I fit 46" tires on it?
2) I'd love to straighten the body and replace the smashed body mount. This is a cool truck and I love the way it looks. I'd like to put an original grille back on it and make it look right again. Is this possible?
3) The long term project, either a 1KZ swap or a 22re swap. Sorry, you salty old mechanics, fuel injection is one of the few things the future got right.
4) Probably going to give it a good clean. The knuckles are actually invisible under the mud, and probably require a sensitive archaeological operation to find.
(Disclaimer: I ridicule millennials a lot. I am one. Please don't be offended for me.)
More pics and investigation forthcoming, but it's pouring snow outside, so those will come later. In the meantime, school this youngin' about what we've just bought. Wanna soak up that knowledge and be less crappy.