My 87/89 longbed pickup

[leatherhead25]

My old thread.....https://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/toyota-truck-4runner/1884762-my-long-bed-build-pile-flame-fest-4.html

I bought this truck back in highschool in 2011. Over the years i have molded it into what it is below. This truck has taken me all over the east coast wheeling and has been relatively reliable, Serving as my daily driver until this past summer. Some of the specs listed below;

1987 longbed
22r..... with 240,000 it won't die
g52 trans
Dual cases with Advance adapters doubler, marlin crawler 4.7 gears, Old school Bobby long 300m output shaft (Rip).

Front and rear 5:29's
G2 birfields
Lockright in the front
IFS hubs with tacoma brakes
Square tube front drive shaft
Rear axle has a spool and rock rash

Ruf's with springs added
Dodge ram 1500 springs flipped around in the rear

Custom paint and round headlights.... Pictures

Bone Stock

Chopped the Ifs

Wheeled it like this for a few years. 35's single case and a spool in the rear.

Built and installed the dual transfer cases Davez offroad supplied the twin stick setup.

 

[leatherhead25]

More wheeling pictures.

I ran a cool set of ssr's for a while. 35x10.50x15s, Man they were cool looking but really didn't do anything well.

 

[leatherhead25]

The Cab was shot and the bed wasn't any better. I wanted a 2wd look so i managed to find a decent 2wd bed and cut a foot off of the back. Cut and replaced the roof to the best of my ability( the rust came back) and painted the whole thing.

Test fitting the bed and boxing the frame in.

 

[leatherhead25]

Painted it and glued some armor to the front end.

Rausch Creek has been one of my favorite parks so far, trying my hand at shoot the moon.

 

[leatherhead25]

Currently as she sits

 

[leatherhead25]

My next project for the truck is to replace the tired 22r with a 2rz. I bought a mint 1989 longbed single cab that i plan to swap the cab and bed over to my frame. Once i have the body off i'll stab the 2rz in there. Fingers crossed

Parts truck that was in great shape!

The new time machine. 22re with an auto and 43,000 original miles. I wanted to swap everything over to this truck but didn't want to cut and weld everything over again, so i'll have to sacrifice some up-travel with this stupid ifs frame.

 

[BlueCruiser84]

What did you have to do to get round headlights in there? Did you make those bezels? Hard to tell from the picture.

 

[leatherhead25]

What did you have to do to get round headlights in there? Did you make those bezels? Hard to tell from the picture.

I used stock headlights with the steel buckets behind them. Then i narrowed the first gen grill on both sides and built my own headlight bezels out of sheet metal. I had to drill new holes into the core support to make it all work, not the best way of doing it but it works so far.

 

[leatherhead25]

Kind of the end goal without the flatbed though!