Going to start a new thread for my 80 just so I can look back someday and see where i started at.
This is my new to me 240k mile 29 year old 80 series
It's a sick truck I love it, but it's quite rusty as with most seem to be
But before my dad passed away me and him drove to Ohio and bought a frame for his 2uzfe- 80series chassis- fj40 body project.
Sadly he never got to see it all the way through and it's not nearly far enough along for me to be able to finish it properly. But it does get me a wonderful rust free chassis albeit with a bit of welding oem body mounts back on. After getting the truck home tho and getting a chance to really take inventory of what all I have and what all I'm going to need it's really quite the list, and everything on my want list is going to have to wait while I give it all the bits It requires. I have to sort some things out till I can get the other frame into my garage and start chipping away at cleaning it up. Paint, bushings, suspension, axle rebuilds fresh hardware etc etc. I'm not going for a full restoration i just want something nice that I can drive wherever whenever I want and not stress about what's going to fall off, break or wear out.
It did come already very well thought out and quite honestly completely overkill, two batteries, two remote oil filters, York compressor, some sick external jumper cables, separate fuse blocks, trans temp gauges and more
A very nice interior too although I will probably end up replacing the majority of it from a odc sort of standpoint.
Anyway that's the start, posts will be slow but I'm gonna try to work on it a little bit every day even if it's only one bolt
This is my new to me 240k mile 29 year old 80 series
It's a sick truck I love it, but it's quite rusty as with most seem to be
But before my dad passed away me and him drove to Ohio and bought a frame for his 2uzfe- 80series chassis- fj40 body project.
A very nice interior too although I will probably end up replacing the majority of it from a odc sort of standpoint.
Anyway that's the start, posts will be slow but I'm gonna try to work on it a little bit every day even if it's only one bolt