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Update: truck is sold! Thanks everybody!

Edited to add the video tour. PMs also on their way shortly. Also, added parts I remembered: - T-case rebuild kit - Manifold gasket/hardware to go with the exhaust and intake spares I was going to get machined

The good news is: the forum timestamps everything for me, haha! PMs received!

I've been trying to make the time and space to put parts in this dang truck for three years, now, and it just ain't happenin' and I'm ready to lose out on all the untapped potential to know somebody is actually gonna finish it and drive it. I'm the third owner, bought from the second in...

First time I've seen a working *roof* skid plate....

For what it's worth, the carb is still slightly balky ten years down the line, but reliable, and I have a desmogged Jim C. unit sitting in a box for after I put the H55 in hopefully before too much good weather goes by. I'm willing to chock any weirdness, early on, up to me being an idiot 24...

I put an $800 mid-drive on a $550 gravel bike and put together a pair of 500Wh batteries for it after finding that the only ready-made e-bike that could handle 250 pounds of me plus 50 pounds of gear (Super73 RX, highly recommend if you're a heavy but not tall bastard) was lying when they said...

Here's my thinking, with a desmogged and way too lived-in and abused to ever want to keep stock truck (10 years of DD on zero budget does that): If you're thinking of a second alternator to take up space on the left side of a desmogged 2F... - You probably wanna deal with the crappy OEM power...

I've had a set of the DC Extreme Country's since 2016(?) in 33x10.5, and I like them a lot. The only other personal comparisons I can make are to Super Swampers in 32x10.5 (they were much louder, worse in snow/ice, no better on any kind of rocks/mud that I ever noticed), Yokohama Geolandar ATs...

Leaf springs are made of 5160, which sword nerds have been cold-working, grinding, and sometimes hot-forging into blades since they've been showing up in junkyards. From what I know about heat-treating 5160, it actually isn't probably all that difficult to 'properly' hot re-arch. What you need...

Serious answer, at least in my own goofy-assed new-kid-reinventing-the-wheel POV? Wood gas for old, bad engines you don't care about, some combo of propane, hydrogen, methane/natural gas, or ethanol for anything you'd like to keep running for a long time/it's easier to find fuel than...

For what it's worth, for my money, I'm just polishing the 2F turd until my hobby experiments with electric power on two-wheeled stuff that I've been getting into lately and advances in battery/fuel cell tech intersect and I can get ~300 ft/lbs, a bunch of manually selectable gears (because I...

The conventional wisdom is that for the effort involved, there's always some combination of Chevy V8/Toyota diesel/cobbled-to-your-exact-needs bastard 2FE/2F-TBI and Toyota and GM/NV/etc. running gear & adapters to put all of it under the truck. The thinking is that'll one of those is guaranteed...

I feel like if it's running fine and you're happy with it, EFI only makes sense as something to start piling up parts for when something expensive to replace eventually goes bad on/in the carb and the proverbial house of cards that is a working stock smog setup starts to come down. But, for now...

No US-market 80-series trucks came with a manual, and you can clearly see the 'P/R/D' on the dash in the second video. If you want a 1fzfe in your 62, you could use the whole 80 automatic drivetrain, some combination of the right bellhousing etc. to keep your trans (probably not a great...