Ol' Yota

[2ndGenToyotaFan]

That looks like fun! I await more pics!

 

[Yota Tony]

Some REAL progress was made this weekend. Fist Andy and I removed the flat bed from the truck and took the gas tank out. Had to cold chisel a captive nut out to drop it which really friggin sucked.

From there we had time to kill till my buddy showed up to help with some more work so we did some less important things.
Half doors!

Grinder with cut off wheels made pretty quick work of it. I chopped up some 3/8" bar I had to make braces/stiffeners for inside the door and then started to plate it off.

 

[Yota Tony]

Around this point in time, Dylan (huckthehaus) showed up. Huge thanks to time for making the drive out and staying till 1AM last night fixing my frame.
Here's what it looked like when we started.

Then Dylan started cutting out the frame, we started with the driver's side.

Patch panels were made and Dylan welded them in place. As a note, having breakers in your house that can handle a welder are nice. I kept tripping mine every few minutes and had to go reset thus ADDING time to the whole process.

BAM, finished! No more hole filled rusty frame.

Then we started on the passenger side.

 

[Yota Tony]

We had to almost totally remake this section of the frame. The only orginal part left is the top and maybe a quater of the outside.

Around this point in time Chris showed up to check on our progress and of course horse around. I also through the Grand Cherokee seats in for s***s.

Chris had to test the Flintstone braking system. I don't think it will pass inspection though.

Back to work. Welding started.

Now I stopped taking pictures for a bit because I was tired and simply forgot but here's the finished product with some black paint on it for now. I'll under coat it in the next week days.
Passenger side.

Driver side.

This week I'll finish making the tube doors, still need to put a cup holder in them, plate them and mount things like lock cylinders and door handles.
Also I'm going to start in on welding the new floors in.

I'll get done what I can but I'm busy since I'm getting ready for a trip to the Dominican. I leave on Saturday morning

 

[Yota Tony]

Did some more chopping on the Toyota today.
Finished cutting the floors out of it.

Plus I cut the fire wall so I can tub it for the tires.

I personally didn't think this was enough room. The wheel wells still looked a lil small to me so I stood back and looked at the truck.

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[Yota Tony]

This might work I think, no turning back now.

I can fit in my wheel wells now, should work great for the rubber I'm planning.
I'll be welding the floors in this Saturday

Plus I chopped that damn cow catcher off.

 

[beatdown83fj60]

Nice work, the cab on my 80 pickup almost fell on the frame due to the rust in the floor right before I got rid of it. I should have fixed it, could have tubbed the firewall at the same time. I like the pic with the potato chips, kind of looks like somebody isn't feeling ANY pain lol

 

[yarosig]

Reminds me exactly of my rig, I will post pics soon.

 

[a85toy]

You guys seem to be having a lot of fun with all that work. Looking good, keep us updated.

 

[M3TAL D0RK]

looking good. im enjoying this build up