Target carrier

[scrapdaddy]

Are you going to tow the angry behind the target carrier

That would be an awesome sight.

 

[J Mack]

Nice job on the cooler mounting on the angry pig.

I’ve known myself my whole life and things like this just happen randomly all the time so precautions need to be taken to protect the beer. Lots of ratchet straps and bungees on every ice chest..

looks like it stayed put on your roll over.

It started as a pirouette followed by three quick aerial cartwheels, had I stuck the landing I’m pretty sure I would have got all tens.

Save the beer!

I can assure you no beers were harmed during these shenanigans.

Are you going to tow the angry behind the target carrier?

The Angry Pig will be street legal and the plan as of today is to drive it to the local trails. The Target Carrier wouldn’t be my best option and I’m not sure the cool factor would outweigh the risk, for the out of town trips it will most likely get trailered behind my Ram pickup.

 

[J Mack]

Waiting for some of the wiring components to show up for my other pig project thought I’d jump around between the two for a bit.

I’m trying to work on a few known issues now instead of waiting the week before the pig party to get started, as I’ve stated before I can’t get enough air through this grill to keep everything happy on the really hot days so I’d like to mount the later open grill. I’m thinking about taking these parts to get powder coated to save some labor on my side of things but I’m struggling to find the extra set of headlight bezels I had (good chance I gave them away in a big box of pig parts I didn’t think I’d need) anyway if one of you have a set you’re not going to need I would gladly trade you some American freedom bucks for them.

I need the silver outer rings in this photo.

Thanks.

 

[scrapdaddy]

Jim,

I should have a set in the stash. I could send them out tomorrow. I'll trade for a cold one!

 

[J Mack]

Jim,

I should have a set in the stash. I could send them out tomorrow. I'll trade for a cold one!

Sounds like a deal, I have something way too shiny for my ugly pig sitting in a Toyota box in my office I’ll get headed your way for a trade.

 

[scrapdaddy]

Will these work?

 

[J Mack]

Perfectly

 

[Megadoomer]

I have been exploring cooling options, too. What I have noticed is that it will stay cool without the hood on. While you want to get more in, it may be an issue trying to pass it through the engine bay. Might want to louver the hood like Ron did.

 

[scrapdaddy]

 

[J Mack]

While you want to get more in, it may be an issue trying to pass it through the engine bay. Might want to louver the hood like Ron did.

Yes that is still in the back of my mind, I’ve experimented on a few of our long drives with removing the grill and continuing on with the only change being the grill, the temps will drop and average of ~10° that gets me in a safe range to drive at the speeds with the A/C running that I feel is reasonable. With the early grill and early hood (A/C condenser, turbo intercooler before the radiator) I feel I’m limited to about the 2F power levels before my temps climb, looking at the later 55’s with A/C Toyota installed grills with bigger openings and had louvers at the back of the hump hood and my assumption like yours is Toyota had to do this to keep the air velocity up across the radiator.

My current dilemma is I went through a lot of trouble to get and repair an early hood when I switched this pig from its titled body (76) to an early body style, removing this hood and going back the hump hood or cutting it up to add louvers now would be a last resort. This is only an issue when driving for extended distances on roads with moderate long hills at 80 miles an hour with the A/C running on hot days (kind of like driving to the pig party) take one of those out of the equation or remove the grill and the pig is happy. So for 99% of what I do it works well and I’m having a hard time justifying throwing the kitchen sink at a 1% problem.

(Cliff’s notes for those just joining this soap opera I usually say I’m not going to throw any more time or money at a 1% problem right before I throw more time and money at a 1% problem)

 

[scrapdaddy]

This is only an issue when driving for extended distances on roads with moderate long hills at 80 miles an hour

Just get lighter flip flops, problem solved. The parts are on the way, but won't be there until Monday.

 

[Megadoomer]

You can do it like mine.

I also have the 2 side vents open and unobstructed along with the cowl hood that is open to the bay. I wanted to make a pan and make it true induction but I wonder if that hurts the cooling. I got a duel electric fan kit last week I need to modify a bit to get it to fit. If I can stop doing side work and family crap I can get to it. I'm hoping to help my low speed cooling.

 

[PabloCruise]

Waiting for some of the wiring components to show up for my other pig project thought I’d jump around between the two for a bit.

I’m trying to work on a few known issues now instead of waiting the week before the pig party to get started, as I’ve stated before I can’t get enough air through this grill to keep everything happy on the really hot days so I’d like to mount the later open grill. I’m thinking about taking these parts to get powder coated to save some labor on my side of things but I’m struggling to find the extra set of headlight bezels I had (good chance I gave them away in a big box of pig parts I didn’t think I’d need) anyway if one of you have a set you’re not going to need I would gladly trade you some American freedom bucks for them.

I need the silver outer rings in this photo.

Thanks.

Are you going to try to modify the current grill by relieving the areas in between the letters?

I know Evan @fj55-100 has a legit '79 grill. I have a spare '74 grille, maybe I could ship to him and he could mark the areas to be cut for the benefit of others seeking more air flow? I could post pics...

 

[PabloCruise]

Will these work?

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I had no idea Ron had such nice headlights...

 

[scrapdaddy]

I had no idea Ron had such nice headlights...

That's what everybody tell me.

 

[tucker74]

Here was mine on the ‘79 Diesel Pig -

Tucker

 

[J Mack]

Are you going to try to modify the current grill by relieving the areas in between the letters?

More to it than just cutting out the letters.
I'll take some measurements when I get more time.

 

[J Mack]

My plan was to send these parts out to get powder coated so I could focus on some other projects I have going on at the moment, well it got to the point I was spending more time trying to find a shop that could do the work in the color and time frame I needed than it would take to do it myself.

So I decided to just sandblast it and Cerakote it here.



Yep I got side tracked and forgot to cut the blinker light holes..

Notice the 1968 grill has slightly different shape around the blinker recess.

Everything is installed and ready for some hot weather test driving.

Thanks to @Rix 45 and @scrapdaddy for the grill and light bezels!

 

[scrapdaddy]

Top Notch!

 

[ginericLC]

Jim, you always do amazing work. I wish had 10% of your skills.