650,OOOkms and counting.

[cruisedeisel]

Bought ANOTHER one. My wife is in discuss. HA! This cruiser had a good life. Mostly hwy k's. Time for some welder love.

It was leaking through the roof racks. Pretty common at that age. Sealed that up and did some body work.

 

[cruisedeisel]

One spot on the outside c channel. That was the easy patch to fix. I almost got the whole driver side frame rail completely done but I ran out of blue sheilds gas. My local napa store was all out. suakafxxx. Im going to have to take a break until next week.

 

[cruisedeisel]

Fixed the pillars and around the roof. The last picture is the side of the frame where I havn't done anything to yet. This is sadly the nicest frame I've ever ran into in B.C. I would say theres atleast 70% of it all there. lol. Dam salty roads.

The engine runs like a champ. Cold starts like a wet dream. I will do a compression test but I would imagine that this engine is going to show awesome results. It needs a new water pump. Small details.

 

[Dieseler]

is it a 3B or 2H

 

[mongoose2231]

Great to see these things can go the distance

 

[cruisedeisel]

is it a 3B or 2H

1984 3b 5 speed w/ power steering.

 

[brownbear]

just like mine! and it was that colour stock too. The most boring brown out there..! I find it funny Toyota started selling this colour again too. BC cruisers are so much better than the rest of the country up here. Looks good for an oldie.

 

[cruisedeisel]

Boring? I love the poo brown. That s*** looks good

I will do a compression test soon. Any Guessers out there?

Im guessing 410,395 410,420

I drove this truck home. about 100kms of coastal hwys. Other than the broken rear cross member smashing the bottom of the body on every ripple in the road, it was a dream. tonnes of power. Snail power that is. lol

 

[cruisedeisel]

1st gear is a little tough to get into? Like tough for a novice driver. Im thinking the syncros.. I will search ihmud for a good h55f rebuild thread. Any recommendations?

 

[cruisedeisel]

One side nearly complete. This was the worst of the two sides. Glad to have that conquered.

 

[cruisedeisel]

I burnt the s*** out of myself today. Torching in board shorts and a t-shirt. You gotta love welding splashes burning your ass while concentrating on doing a nice bead. Hope I can have most of it done by tomorrow but i doubt it.

 

[cruisedeisel]

More burns and head aches. But inch by inch im getting it done. Not looking forward to cut out the other side of the shock cross member out. But i will. Don't ask me why I do this s*** because i am still figuring it out.

 

[mongoose2231]

Great work bud,keep it up. I dread going after the rust in mine

 

[greencruiser]

dude your powering through that frame rust. really doing nice work its sure gonna be nice and solid after all that. dang now I gotta get something done on my bj60 project its moving slower then a dead snail haha as always too many projects on the go.......

 

[cruisedeisel]

So far everything i've done was for free minus the weld through primer. 20$$$ I was able to do all the rust repairs with the left over 2"x5" steel from my custom frame and random scraps or steel lying around.

 

[cruisedeisel]

Ok. so I had to go spend 10 bucks on some bolts. I was going to get all fancy with the tub bender but I decided to weld my bolts to the top of the cross member and inboard them an inch from stock setting. This is how it turned out

 

[cruisedeisel]

The last two shots are closer up to the tranny cross member. I have one chunk of c channel left to do both spots. What a grind. I will chop and weld tomorrow.

 

[cruisedeisel]

Well here comes another can of worms. I decided to fix the body mounts since they are pretty important to keeping the body on. lol I started with the rear. Since i was in there and it would probably make my life a little easier if i just cut the whole rear quarter off. CUtting some fat, oh yeah!

It started raining some I came inside. Some of us dont own a triple bay garage. No complaints here though.

 

[greencruiser]

whoa! looks like there was some nice stuff in there haha. better lose that bumper its gonna get in yer way! hey i might need to copy your template for that lower quarter chop lol mine was so smashed im not sure how wide it was supposed to be

 

[mongoose2231]

Dude, you're doing the quarter chop... That's the first thing I have to do on mine. Damn, I'm a little jealous seeing as others just plow right through the jobs at hand, again, great work