Rig of the Bi-Week I'll try to update a lil everyday till I'm cought up with the last 4 years, but I don't have any pics of my truck before the exo, except on film, so there is gonna be quite a few undocumented details.
1st a pic to show how my rig sat as of new years.
I Bought my 85 toyota in the summer of 04, after breaking my then dd/wheeler an 85 fullsize Blazer, on 3/4 ton axles. I would wheel with some friends with ifs toys, who would go everywhere I went , but they were wheeling on 32" tires, while I was wheeling a powerfull, big tired TRUCK! I would break something almost everytime I wheeled, but they wouldn't, so I decided to downgrade, or so I thought at the time.
I bought a 85 reg cab toy from a friend at work, he said it was sitting for about a year, and was wrecked but ran. I took a look, handed over $450 , and drug my new scrap heap home. From here things started to move slow, as I had to fix the damage caused from the wreck, and try to make a capable rig out of a truck I wouldn't expect to make the 10 mile round trip to work and back home.
I tore the drivers fender off, and inspected the frame, to my suprise it was bent, and bent bad. Convinced it was just gonna be a temporary fix I used 3 trees at my friends house, some logging chains, and a 3 1/2 ton chain, comealong to straighten the frame to the point that I was satisfied. I then picked up a fender that matched the same color as the faided (red) pink truck, bolted it on and started to get it back to driveable condition, by cleaning it up, changing all the fluids, filters, and cleaning an inch of dust off of the dash and windows.
1st a pic to show how my rig sat as of new years.
I Bought my 85 toyota in the summer of 04, after breaking my then dd/wheeler an 85 fullsize Blazer, on 3/4 ton axles. I would wheel with some friends with ifs toys, who would go everywhere I went , but they were wheeling on 32" tires, while I was wheeling a powerfull, big tired TRUCK! I would break something almost everytime I wheeled, but they wouldn't, so I decided to downgrade, or so I thought at the time.
I bought a 85 reg cab toy from a friend at work, he said it was sitting for about a year, and was wrecked but ran. I took a look, handed over $450 , and drug my new scrap heap home. From here things started to move slow, as I had to fix the damage caused from the wreck, and try to make a capable rig out of a truck I wouldn't expect to make the 10 mile round trip to work and back home.
I tore the drivers fender off, and inspected the frame, to my suprise it was bent, and bent bad. Convinced it was just gonna be a temporary fix I used 3 trees at my friends house, some logging chains, and a 3 1/2 ton chain, comealong to straighten the frame to the point that I was satisfied. I then picked up a fender that matched the same color as the faided (red) pink truck, bolted it on and started to get it back to driveable condition, by cleaning it up, changing all the fluids, filters, and cleaning an inch of dust off of the dash and windows.
Can't wait for more pics!!!
Its gonna be COLD in the winter. I may have to fab up a soft top of sorts. My mother-in-law does apholstery work, so mabye I can figure out something.
I built inner fender, and all that , and I do not plan to mud bog this thing. Well I might if its hot and everyone needs a shower. 
