Special tools needed to disassemble an 80?

[CharlieS]

Anyone here every taken an 80 completely apart? Are there any special tools necessary?

I've got a full selection of hand tools and a couple of air tools (impact wrench, air ratchet). I also have an engine lift, and a floor jack and several jack stands.

I only have two special toyota tools, the rear axle too and the large (42mm?) front axle tool.

I am thinking I will need to completely disassemble it, so I want to make sure I have whatever tools I need before I get started.

Thanks for anything you can tell me.

Charlie

 

[Arsenal]

front axle nut is 54mm, invaluable tool.

 

[Mars]

Wow, not to hijack, but I can't resist...why in the world are you going to completely disasemble and 80??

M

 

[fzj80kidpen]

Wow,
I can't wait to see this.
Pics, lots o pics please

 

[CharlieS]

Mars,

This is going to sound like a strange answer...

I tried selling my 80 on the classifieds, and the price is down to $9,000 with no responses. (I have $15,000 into it including the $11,000 I paid to buy it last year February).

I need to recover as much of the money as I can, and if selling it in one piece won't, then I'll sell it bit by bit. It sucks, because it is a great rig, but my bottom line is that I don't want to lose any more money than I have to.

Charlie

 

[e9999]

seems to be that worrying about the right tools upfront when contemplating a task of such magnitude is a bit odd... You don't think you're going to do all this over a weekend, do you?

 

[CharlieS]

I stripped my old rally car (VW GTI) in a couple of weekends, same with my old 911 when I restored it.

Disassembly is the easy and fast part, especially when you don't need to label connections, etc. Putting things together properly takes much more time.

I don't want to get stuck or slowed down by anything that requires a special tool, hence the question.

Charlie

 

[Mars]

Selling it off part by part could net you more in the long run...but I would be sure to put your time into your calculations for money spent! Personally, I'd drop it while its still holding its value, cut your losses and move on. Sell the big stuff individually, (ARB, tires, lift, etc), and find a chump to sell the truck to as is in stock form. Then again, the experience of a complete teardown would be invaluable!

Marsh

 

[CharlieS]

e9999,

There won't be pictures, no time for that. This is a cost recovery operation and I only plan to spend as much time as is minimally required to tear her down.

March,

Thanks for the advice.

Sure, of course I'd like to sell it whole - but I'm not going to drop the price so low I lose that much money. Even if it sells for $9,000 that is a loss of $6,000 over one year. I haven't gotten one email at that price, which tells me people are only willing to pay less than that. Hence, I lose even more money. That just sucks for me.

My time is well worth it if I can recover more of my investment. Heck, if my time was so valuable, I woudln't have spent time doing things like front axle services, I'd just pay the dealer to do it.

If I could've found this rig in the condition it is in with the work that I've done to it for that money, I'd have been all over it. I don't get why it isn't being snapped up. Oh, well.

Back to the thread topic...

I need to formulate a plan for the teardwon and one of the things I need to know is special tools. Any info?

Charlie

 

[cruiserdan]

It you are intent on parting it out, check your local laws. You may need to obtain a dismantling permit to do it legally. Also check on what piece(s) the title will need to remain with in order to be legal.


D-

 

[Koffer]

Ive taken apart a few trucks and the last being a 80.
basic hand tools and air impact help but you can pull just about everything off with what you have
To sell it part by part is a real PITA as everyone wants something for nothing. plus they all want to know how much for shipping them when all is said and done they back out when your ready to ship.
As for selling the motor/trans its much easier to have it running and driveable so the person knows what they are getting . The one I parted out was totaled with a front end impact and before i even took it apart I got just enough stuff out of the way so I could run it and make sure it was good and for the buyer see I was jerking them around.
Taking it apart is the easy part, selling and shipping the parts is the hard part

 

[CharlieS]

Thanks guys.

CDan, I'll check into it. I live in Vermont and dismantling and selling parts has never been an issue in the past.

Koffer,

I guess I hadn't thought of that side of it. You make some good points though. Selling and shipping sounds like the real hassle. How was the disassembly? Any special tools?

Charlie

 

[e9999]

yup, seems to me that the easiest / best? think to do is to sell the mods here and put it back to stock status for easier resale.
It's well accepted I think that heavily modded vehicles don't sell well and that you will lose a lot on mods if it does....

 

[Koffer]

Thanks guys.

CDan, I'll check into it. I live in Vermont and dismantling and selling parts has never been an issue in the past.

Koffer,

I guess I hadn't thought of that side of it. You make some good points though. Selling and shipping sounds like the real hassle. How was the disassembly? Any special tools?

Charlie

The taking it apart was the easy part. 2 guys and a weekend it was pretty stripped out . The hardest parts was the working around what was beat up from the damage (used a axe to take off one fender )
Heres the tread about the truck
https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=50503

I had a person who was looking at buying the molding for the rain gutter
HTF do you mail a 7plus foot piece of molding thats got a bend in it and not have it broken for cost $50 for something im going to get $10 for?

 

[RavenTai]

No special tools required, I took one apart (body and interior) with a small tote tray off tools and no air. A #2 philips, a 10mm and a 12mm gear wrench gets about 90% of the parts off, One thing I did have to bring from home was a set of torques bits for the airbag controller.

Getting 5k in parts will take several hours a day for many months, you will have to squeeze every part to its max value that means even more time.

Getting more than 9K? Forget about it.

Sell it whole or keep it.

 

[sc40]

CharlieS, i tried sending you a PM about parts but your mailbox is full, send me a pm if you get a chance

 

[FirstToy]

CharlieS, that's a real shame a good 80 is being dismantled. It sounds painful.

It is easy for me to say that you can find the right buyer (which I believe) but it's not my rig... dismantling sounds like more work=less $

 

[sleeoffroad]

There is no way to recoup close to $9k in parts from a 80. If you want to get any decent money for the motor, you need to sell it when someone can hear it run. So that means you can't pull the rest apart. Since the motor and axles are the best money you can get, you are kinda stuck.

Your truck has near 200k on it, so the used parts are really not worth that much.

My best advise is not to sell it on Mud or any other Toyota following site. Prices here will always be the lowest.

 

[KLF]

Christo is right. Nobody will pay top $$ for your engine unless they can hear it run.

I parted out my old '84 pickup a few years ago, the frame was rotted in half and I wanted to keep too many good parts to sell it whole, so I had no choice. It sucked. How much is your time worth? On several occasions I had somebody lined up to buy a $20 part, then I would spend a lot of time hunting down a box, getting it packed, get a price for shipping, then they would back out when they found out that shipping was $30 on that $20 part. A lot of stuff I just ended up throwing away in the scrap pile, I got tired of looking at it in the way.

Put it on eBay, you'll do a lot better than here. We're all cheap bastids. Somebody will pay you stupid money for it, my brother just paid almost $16K for a '97 (he bought it before consulting with me).

 

[landtank]

what color is the exterior and interior? I might be interested is starting things going.