1st gen re-alive

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Stompyou

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A little backstory on this truck.. about 15 yrs ago or so I rolled the truck. Found out the hard way on why you don't mount 34x9.50 on 8" Wheels lol. I put truck out to pasture, never got around to parting it out. Fast forward a bunch of years later, I had finished a back half and trailing arm setup and new cage on a 4 door taco. Which got me alittle inspired to build a cheap reliable pnw rig. So I had some 60's laying around, so I threw them in shop to build.. gears and lockers went in, also 1/2 ton disc brakes f/r . Pulled truck out of retirement pasture to clean

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I had forgotten how really nice condition this truck was in.. youth killed a good truck haha
Got all the mouse crap and engine bay all cleaned up.. its a 22r with 20r head on it with cam and 40 over pistons. Hopefully it still runs haha

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Stompyou said:
A little backstory on this truck.. about 15 yrs ago or so I rolled the truck. Found out the hard way on why you don't mount 34x9.50 on 8" Wheels lol. I put truck out to pasture, never got around to parting it out. Fast forward a bunch of years later, I had finished a back half and trailing arm setup and new cage on a 4 door taco. Which got me alittle inspired to build a cheap reliable pnw rig. So I had some 60's laying around, so I threw them in shop to build.. gears and lockers went in, also 1/2 ton disc brakes f/r . Pulled truck out of retirement pasture to clean

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Is this a right hand drive truck? I ask as it looks like the panhard bar on that D60 comes from the right side of the frame to the left side of the axle and I’m curious about that part of the build. Whatcha up to ☺️
 
Mike Shull said:
Is this a right hand drive truck? I ask as it looks like the panhard bar on that D60 comes from the right side of the frame to the left side of the axle and I’m curious about that part of the build. Whatcha up to ☺️
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Negative it's not rhd.. this axle used to live under another truck of mine
 
Ok so forgot to add in original story. After rolling truck (remember I was young) to fix the bent up stuff I put old school (new at the time) 4" all pro 54's and bilsteins in rear and ubolt flip kits up front I did waggy springs ubolt flip kits and bilsteins as well. I don't think I got a pic of that stuff installed.. its all brand new and has been sitting in pasture since install lol...
 
I always hear of people bitching they can't do anything without a shop and fancy tools.. so to teach some youngins how most us old guys did stuff back in the day, chose to do this build outside on jackstands (also was swamped with projects soooo hahaha)
Started to pull yota axles and after good inspection of truck I realized how bad it was damaged in roll. Frame was bent pretty bad and I was not educated enough or in denial back in day. With the internet being a thing and not wanting to go viral because my frame broke in half somewhere cuz people don't see that much anymore lol. I chose to back half it..

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