Builds Do I have your attention.... I call it VERA. (2 Viewers)

[2fpower]

Finally tracked down this color... Porsche meteor grey. @Timbo FJ45

 

[2fpower]

@cjmoon came by last night and has pointed me toward deleting the cats by the engine, that will solve a big chunk of my fears about heat by the floorboard. He also has some heat shielding to donate to the project. One major concern gone!!!!

I live in a non-smog state, so no inspection worries, so just makes sense. Will need to get a spark plug nonfouler thing to put downstream.

Amazon product ASIN B000CO91FY

 

[2fpower]

Snuck out for a little bit this morning.... Tranny tunnel progress.

 

[2fpower]

Was able to sneak out for a little bit tonight and got the second side tacked in

Also take a look at before and after what I was able to do with the floor panel extension and widening

 

[2fpower]

My 16 year old daughter and I Worked on new to her 4runner on Saturday. Had a great day doing the timing belt and all sorts of baselining ... but Sunday was able to roll vera back in and @tornadoalleycruiser stop by and help me through all sorts of questions... really amazing how many things we figured out and how long my list was when he left. Let’s start out with The steering column... we determined how much higher we could put it, so bent up a new column holder for the top, actually had to two of them because the first one was a little too big... then searched my parts Dash and found a shaft and u joints. Need to add about 5 inches and determined that an old tie rod from an 80 Series this is the exact correct ID Tubing

Here is how I bent, then made the angles on the new steering rod holder near dash.

The original in front, the final in middle and the big boy on the far side.

Steering column and the new section of tubing...

look familiar?? FOO donated this rod, after pretzeling it a couple times...

 

[2fpower]

Actually the first point of action for the day was to determine where to mount the new air-conditioner and heater. This unit is from old air products and is called the hurricane.

 

[2fpower]

The Excelerator and cable Done.

Tranny tunnel welds all ground down, had to do some major heat shrinking to get rid of some deformed steel, but fits good now.

So this is the area where the glovebox will be. The top left will have the engine harness going through it and the are where it says flat, is where the bulkhead for the AC and heat lines will go. I need to chop that metal out and make it flat first --- or Erik @tornadoalleycruiser ... what if I cut that bulkhead in half and put two on the upper and two on the lower portion??? same basic place, just a lot less metal work.

 

[tornadoalleycruiser]

Great getting out of my garage, Thanks for letting me ruin and make your day all at the same time. Kelly marking where the Whirrss are gonna go.. we figured out a lot of little details.

 

[tornadoalleycruiser]

Cut it.. You can mold it to be two bulkheads! or just use the pass thru's and not the bulkhead..

 

[2fpower]

Cut it.. You can mold it to be two bulkheads! or just use the pass thru's and not the bulkhead..

That just saved about 4 hours of work!

 

[2fpower]

Just reached out to Dakota Digital to see what I need to make one of their units work on the 2UZ.

 

[2fpower]

Progress. Got the engine wiring into the cab cut in.

A/C and heat bulkheads cut in and I made a grommet for the engine side....

and got the computer mounted. The wiring harness is perfect length!!!! And I used my Kleco's for the first time.

 

[2fpower]

I am thinking the bottom section in the rear is a great box for speakers. Only issue is that it is only 4" tall. Anyone have any good ideas????


I found some 4x6 Rockford Fosgate punch

Amazon product ASIN B001P86SQG

 

[2fpower]

looks like Polk makes the only 4x6 that is water resistant....

 

[2fpower]

So if you recall this was originally a right hand drive truck, so it did not come with a glove box. Decided it would be nice to be able to unbolted it so
Made an aluminum tray. And also needed to leave room for the wiring harness and the AC lines as well as the heater a/c supply 2” hoses.

 

[2fpower]

So I decided to buy some pods for under the dash and bought these as they were highly reviewed ... however I didn’t realize how big they were... They said they were 4 inch speakers so that’s what I was thinking...

Took one out and held them in place and they don’t seem too bad. Probably taking up less space than the factory air conditioner... Should be able to put them on little higher on the driver sid.

 

[2fpower]

Got the speaker mounted on the passenger side and doesn’t create any issues with space.

Then I got the filler panels for the rear made

Installed the brake switch in the old 40 series housing and clearance the front edge so I could weld the bolt on collar

 

[tornadoalleycruiser]

Bolt on collar! Genius!.. And now you have a removable steering column again! Firewall bearing come in yet?

 

[2fpower]

Bolt on collar! Genius!.. And now you have a removable steering column again! Firewall bearing come in yet?

yes... got the pillow block installed.

it took me a while to figure out how to make sure the steering wheel was straight I finally came up with this method.. measured the distance to the dash on both sides of the rule.

Clears the brake pedal with about 1/2 space... I might trim the pillow block some more; however, the pedal has no side to side play, so should be fine.

went ahead and lengthen the shaft as well

 

[2fpower]

Was lucky enough to find a jack at the junkyard from a Sequoia. Unfortunately had to cut the base to fit where I wanted to hide....