I am very late to your thread, but saw your truck in Toyota Trails and immediately recognized it as my assigned vehicle when I was stationed at Eskan Village in late 1996. It wouldn’t keep up in the “Allah Lane” but for everything else it was...
Working on this recently. It was really nasty inside. The tuner was completely seized up, the tone control was corroded in place. I was able to get everything back functioning, after giving it a bath. Replaced the big caps and pilot light.
Decided to go a different route for idle up option so I’m selling the bits I collected.
1. 79-83 accelerator pedal with hand throttle provision. I painted the pedal pad black since the zinc was gone to keep it from rusting. (Includes cable...
@Godwin camped out at the shop last night on his way to catch some lizards and s***. I put him to work helping me put the 2F on a pallet and move the Goat into temporary housing.
I was planning on getting the new motor this weekend but Rory is...
I was waiting for good weather to paint to sliders, so I could get them installed.
I opted for a two tone job, so they were painted Pewter on the outside to match the bumpers and I painted the legs black.
Installed
I really need to pull...
Screwing around on our main road this morning and caught the snow bank with my ds wheel. Pulled me right off the road into waist deep snow before I could even react.
Just had to dig deep enough to lock both hubs, which was ROUGH in flip flops...
I stopped off yesterday and talked to the guy that is going to do the AC this time.
He suggested I pull vacuum on the evaporator before I jammed that thing back in place to see if I have any leaks.
My junk did not have the correct fittings...
New replacement mirrors came in to swap out the convex mirrors. I really think the rectangular ones with the rubber surrounds fit the look of my 40 much better. Plus, I just like the non distorted view of these.
One happy owner!
Such a...
Lol, not much has changed with this one, just driving it. Been busy at school between exams and running this years suspension sub-team on my universities Baja SAE team. I landed an internship locally, so should have more cruiser time after work...
Nolen, if those wires you cut out are going in the trash, can I send you some coin to mail them to me? Always enjoy your build threads. Thanks for the motivation to work on my own '78 project!
Andrew
I polished this window inside and out to get it transparent again, if you go up to the photo when I backed it out of the shop for the first time it looks like a piece of cardboard in there, a completely brown opaque rear window. I was asking my...