Build Live in Texas, drive a pickup: HDJ79 single cab build

[RevISK]

Super low hanging fruit, but @bhicks (BH3D) makes a nice TEQ badge to replace the flaccid sombrero. I can't remember which one fits the older 70 series grill (I think it was for a 3rd gen 4runner), so you would have to measure and get with him on which one would fit. It's a nice way to dress up the plastic grill until a metal one is sorted.

80/100/LX450/LX470 TEQ grill badge – BH3D Printing

www.bh3dprinting.com

"Flaccid Sombrero" is my new band name. We play Tejano elevator muzak.

 

[ofer bruhis]

I made a prototype and have the file to cut more but I haven't spent time trying to sell them. The prototype is on @ofer bruhis HJ75. He modified it and is using it. I will probably cut another one and work out the final bugs, then sell them. Mine incudes the headlight bezels too.

Attached… I needed a custom grill for the custom intercooler. @kelly saad can do anything.

 

[ofer bruhis]

This is Nate. He’s almost 12. Pretty much all he wants to do in this world is 1) be wherever I am and 2) to go for rides in the car.

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He hates bucket seats. For over half his life I’ve been promising him that I would build him a truck with a front bench seat.

Today Nate got to go on his first truck ride with a 60/40 bench. He loved it.

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Galen, the pretty one in the photo is Nate.

 

[OGBeno]

Nice work, Galen. Pulling ahead: I’m still living with cinder blocks around my neck.

 

[svsisu]

"Flaccid Sombrero" is my new band name. We play Tejano elevator muzak.

Hopefully I can see the band in action one day. Sounds like you would be a smash hit anywhere.

Here's to the banishment of the Flaccid Sombrero:

The BH3D badge in a late narrow nose grill

 

[bottombracket]

Back at it today. After yesterday’s initial shakedown, I have a new leak. I’m absolutely pissing power steering fluid out of the bottom of the pump and back of timing case. It’s probably a bad O-ring. I’ll drain the system and take a look.

I have officially entered the predatory phase of the project… The double cab is now a donor for lots of small body parts like the hood bumpers, snorkel, etc.

 

[bottombracket]

Sometimes Toyota ingenuity just makes me sit back and say holy sh!t why didn’t I think of that?

The front hood bumpers are a solid piece of rubber with a spiral groove cut in it. You just turn them clockwise/counterclockwise to adjust them for height. No other hardware. Brilliant.

 

[bottombracket]

I gritted my teeth, swallowed hard, and installed the factory dorkel. I can’t tell if I love it because it makes the truck original to its design, or if I hate it because it’s a snorkel and I hate snorkels. Either way, it has Speed Grooves on the side.

@RevISK -Dorkel Hat is a great name for the first single off of Flaccid Sombrero‘s debut EP.

 

[bottombracket]

To make myself better I installed the new factory steering wheel that I’ve been saving for years.

 

[cruiserdan]

Have you had a physician look at that thumb?

 

[bottombracket]

And we gotta pour one out for the homies that have left us… One of my favorite screwdrivers died. This is a Vintage SV Tools Screwball, the greatest ratcheting screwdriver ever made. I collect them off of eBay.

 

[bottombracket]

@cruiserdan I whack f@&ked it against the frame when I was installing the power steering pump a couple weeks ago. Now I just have to sit here and stare at it for months just like you do.

 

[cruiserdan]

You could paint over it...

 

[bottombracket]

It’s a great conversation starter in clinic. It gives my patients, uh, great faith in me. Yeah.

 

[bottombracket]

I know a lot of curse words. I know how to string them together in many ways. But using these little tapered bolts to bolt together the transmission tunnel hump cover, and the shifter boot into that cover plate required many new and interesting combinations yelled at very high volumes.

But it looks nice when it’s all done.

 

[Gun Runner 5]

Vortex Generators ….. Often associated with “high performance”. Think, aircraft wings and 70 Series Land Cruisers.

 

[bottombracket]

Hmmmm…Vortex Generators is an even better band name than Flaccid Sombrero me thinks.

But we were still doing stuff to trucks!

I intend for this to be a truck that I actually use…. I mean, I titled this thread “live in Texas, drive a pickup”…

I picked up an 80 ARB the other year with the intent of stuffing it on here. Since the truck after all has an 80 frame. I knew that it wouldn’t quite match and that there would be frame gaps but honestly, I don’t really care.

@shanko dropped by just as I was lining it up and trying to get it over the front frame rails… Except the 80 frame rails were too wide by about an eighth of an inch. I tried to ratchet strap them together, but that didn’t work. So I called the person you call when you want to figure out how to do something: Bill Stayner.

I was just about to get the cut off wheel and cut and re-weld the 80 frame rails , but I grabbed a bottle jack and some lumber and @shanko and I were able to spread the ARB bracket just enough to squeeze it on.

Success. #Billspec.

You could probably sleep a family of four in the gap between the bumper and the intercooler, but you know what? I dig it.

 

[bottombracket]

I know what I need to do. (Picks up cut off wheel, swallows hard).

 

[bottombracket]

 

[bottombracket]

Grill has been trimmed a fit. It’s tight, but it’s there. It’ll need a little bit of finish grinding with a flap disc. Now I need some expanded metal mesh…

I have a OEM 70 series TOYOTA logo on the way.