Recent content by Slickrick

I have a lx I bought alittle while back that needs a new home. Interior is alittle rough, body is fairly clean. No rust that I can find. Truck does not have lockers. The truck starts right up, however something is knocking. To me it sounds like it’s something up top. The noise will actually go...

Thanks man! I like the Cummins but it had to go, this will be a way better swap in the end.

With the 80 series radiator being a lot wider, I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to fit another battery on the passenger side. I got extremely lucky and have just enough room to use an optima battery haha…couldn’t have planned that any better. My wiring was a disaster from the Cummins swap...

it fits. Had one of these u-built-it fan shroud kits laying around that fit my 80 series radiator perfectly. The fan on the 606 is pushed way to the passenger side. This kinda presented an issues for me as I want to use the stock mechanical fan. This was another reason for using the...

Local pick and pull got an early fj80, so I went and snagged the axles and suspension components. Front coil springs on these are more stiff to handle the weight of the 3fe. These seems to work perfect on my swap and is sitting almost prefect. By the time you add bumpers, winch, and batteries...

Was able to use the stock om606 engine mounts by chance. Was pretty stoked about this as Mercedes are known for being smooth and these mounts have a big part to do with not transmitting vibrations into the frame/body. These engines are a pain in the ass to lift, basically no where to hook...

When deciding on what route I wanted to take with this build, I thought it might be neat to have the truck awd just like the 80 series. The hf2a are damn near bullet proof, and not terribly expensive. They have a very simple shifter setup as well compared to the split case. I bought my...

Another BIG issues with the Cummins was weight. As you can see, the Cummins swap weighs in at 578kg…my scale is stuck in kg for some reason. Converted to Merica units that’s 1274 pounds. Compared to the om606 setup, it’s comes in at 414kg or 912 pounds. This is a huge savings over the front axle...

Driving this car kinda set things in motion for my future swap. I had already been talking to a guy about selling my 6bt swap. He was in texas and had a 60 series as well. He also had a cherry om606 with less than 100k miles on it…plus a ton of new parts. Engine had basically been re-sealed...

One of the issues I’m now facing is bumpers. Going with the 80 series frame has a ton of advantages…however bumpers is not one of those. The 80 frame is more narrow and will require a lot of custom fab for the front and rear bumpers. On a more positive note, I did get this old arb bumper for...

Another issue I couldn’t ever figure out with the Cummins was a leaking front crank seal. Even replaced it with a seal with a wear sleeve and it still leaked. Maybe I just wasn’t doing something right. Only pain about these engines is needing to pull the timing cover everytime you need to...

Just alittle poser shot…. Decided to give the 40 year old audio a bit of an upgrade as well. This insulated speaker wire from Amazon worked great running though the doors. Having the thicker jacket makes you feel alittle bit better and it not getting cut as easy. You can see the 3m...

Next on the list for me was to help with the rattle of the doors. Being old tech, there isn’t much inside there 60 series doors. Compared to modern day cars which is filled with foam and sound deadening material. Figured I’d give it a shot at making it a bit more quite. Decided to use this...

Being everything else on the truck was basically new at this point, decided I needed to revamp the ac system. It’s actually not as much of a bear as you thing. I replaced everything I could regarding the ac system, trying to use all Toyota oem parts where possible. Read on here about...

So this is the kinda crap I was referring to earlier about using the coil conversion rather than the frame swap. This is a 25 gallon baffled fuel cell from a 50 something year model Chevy pickup. Actually fits in the rear great. So I also forgot to mention that this truck already had...