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More pics of the 62
Project Uranus (4 Viewers)
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Rock crawling and the 62
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Thanks agian Jer and Little bruddy Bandy Rooster for helpin tear the mall wagon apart.
That 62 is pretty clean. I bet you're gonna get some money for the drivetrain of that rig.
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Today I got the front bumper, clip, rad, bunch hoses,wires and some smog items removed. Tomorrow I will get more wires and hoses taken off to get the engine and frame ready to roll out.
I really love toyotas stuff but some of those electrical connecters are a wicked pain in the ass. Will post some shots when it get more interesting.
I really love toyotas stuff but some of those electrical connecters are a wicked pain in the ass. Will post some shots when it get more interesting.
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I have been thinking about it and kind of at a loss. I was planning on painting this project truck a light brown...Hense the name. But I dint expect the truck to look this good. I mean the paint is near perfect.
I do want to do somthing a little different because the charcole grey is just a lil boring... maybe a two-tone with a lighter gray???? I really dont know... Im gonna have to blue sky it for a while.
Any ideas???
I do want to do somthing a little different because the charcole grey is just a lil boring... maybe a two-tone with a lighter gray???? I really dont know... Im gonna have to blue sky it for a while.
Any ideas???
Just keep it the way it is.....use the money that you would spend on paint and put it towards something else. Or you could camo it out. I like camocruisers.
yodafrick
Cruiserhead
Jer-why didn't you do like Dad and put all that fine metal on the roof rack of the 60? Cheater!
srplus
Walked with the Dinosaurs
Hot Dog!
having owned two charcoal colored cruisers, the one thing i can attest to is that the excellent thermal absorption qualities of that color can barely be improved upon and are unmatched in florida by any other color except black. if you are gonna do some painting on that rig better make the top side lighter.
light grey / silver?
tinted windows and darn good A/C are musts. that, or set up a hot dog stand and leave a pot of water on the front seat with some dogs in it. And just paint a sign on the side: HOT dogs For Sale. Your weenie is guaranteed to get warm in the summer, but you can always melt some velveeta to put on the dogs.
having owned two charcoal colored cruisers, the one thing i can attest to is that the excellent thermal absorption qualities of that color can barely be improved upon and are unmatched in florida by any other color except black. if you are gonna do some painting on that rig better make the top side lighter.
light grey / silver?
tinted windows and darn good A/C are musts. that, or set up a hot dog stand and leave a pot of water on the front seat with some dogs in it. And just paint a sign on the side: HOT dogs For Sale. Your weenie is guaranteed to get warm in the summer, but you can always melt some velveeta to put on the dogs.
i think the grey kicks ass. but there is a guy around here. with a badass sprungover 60 that is the same charcoal grey and he did some sick work with black linex. also had big ass araco sticker on the rear cargo drivers sidelowtideride said:
too cool keep up the good work man.. DRE
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Will do. I am trying my best to take the wiring harness off the 3fe without breaking any of the funky connectors.
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Got mostly everything disconneted and the body is on its way UP UP UP....
I tore into the EGR like most of you have prob. seen and after seeing how gummed it was it is going to get a bath in the tank. The 3fe will get a de-smog according to spook50s right up. Sorry for the crappy photo I was swating at a bug or somthing....Nothin like a gargeless build up
I tore into the EGR like most of you have prob. seen and after seeing how gummed it was it is going to get a bath in the tank. The 3fe will get a de-smog according to spook50s right up. Sorry for the crappy photo I was swating at a bug or somthing....Nothin like a gargeless build up
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Nothing to amazing going on....Just got the drivetrain rolled out from the 62. In the next few days I will have the drivetrains swapped on the frames...
Working on taking the flares off the 80 and my brothers 40 arrived Sunday, Its nice to have his 40 down south for a while.
I will post some more shots when I swap drivetrains and roll the new painted frame and drivetrain under the 62. I think I might Hammerlite the bottom of the 62 before I roll the frame under but have not decided yet..
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Working on taking the flares off the 80 and my brothers 40 arrived Sunday, Its nice to have his 40 down south for a while.
I will post some more shots when I swap drivetrains and roll the new painted frame and drivetrain under the 62. I think I might Hammerlite the bottom of the 62 before I roll the frame under but have not decided yet..
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All I can say is that it looks like a lot of fun.
Enjoy every minute. It's the journey that's important.
Surf/ride on.
Enjoy every minute. It's the journey that's important.
Surf/ride on.
Excellent project, a rust free truck with coils will be worth the labour. Will you cut the body mounts off the 62 frame and weld them on the 80 frame or fab new ones alltogether? If the body is so nice on the 62 how is the frame?
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frames near perfect so I am not going to cut it up, I will fab all new mounts on the 80 sereies frame.
The projects been pretty fun so far, Its just been hot as all hell. I will be super stoked when its done...
Benji...You got it man...Ride on Brotha...
The projects been pretty fun so far, Its just been hot as all hell. I will be super stoked when its done...
Benji...You got it man...Ride on Brotha...
I hear you on the heat, I am now a full fledeged red-neck with my new sunburn after working on my truck all weekend.
Did you use floor jacks in the dirt to lift the body off? That's some serious shade-tree bravado dude! i can't imagine the mess of vacuum lines and wires you're dealing with either.
Did you use floor jacks in the dirt to lift the body off? That's some serious shade-tree bravado dude! i can't imagine the mess of vacuum lines and wires you're dealing with either.
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The vac lines were not too bad...Although I am gonna have a hell of a time remembering where they go. The huge pain in the ass was the wiring and funky plugs. I had to take the EFI off just get to some wires. I have a huge amount of cinder blocks and 6 x 8 preasure treated lumber holding the body up at the moment.
As for the heat it was a 105 heat index here on sunday when I was working on it....ughh, I had ice tea injected right into my veins.
As for the heat it was a 105 heat index here on sunday when I was working on it....ughh, I had ice tea injected right into my veins.
Heats been close to 100 here lately combined with killer sun. Seems like its finally letting up. anywhoo, cool Al.. Also do you have the link for the desmog on the '62? I just did a headgasket on a 3FE. What a PITA, took me about 15 hours easily in labor. Wasn't removing the head but all the emissions and then putting it all back... Not that is was hard but just time consuming. Also little things like the carb cooling fan ground (that little ground that sticks off the back of the intake manifold. and spent about 45 minutes scraping the gasket off the connection between upper and lower intake manifolds, mine was old and crusty. But regardless I am definetely a fan of the 3FE and a 3FE / H55F is just a killer combo so congrats my friend Keep up the good work Al! DRE
Keep up the good work Al! DRE
