cruiserinsanity
SILVER Star
Several months ago @Godwin and I made a visit to a local junkyard after I found two 1977 2wd Toyota pickups from marketplace. I had been looking for a disc brake truck for a guy for a while to convert his from front drums to factory discs. When we arrived at the junkyard we saw this '99 100 sitting on its rotors at the entrance.
I paid the man for the two mini trucks, and we asked about the 100. He had it for several years and had intended to drive it but it kept randomly not starting. This is rural Alabama, 350 SBC country, and any sort of potential electrical issue is a death sentence. He and my dad agreed on a very cheap price and made arrangements to come back the following Saturday to retrieve it and the second minitruck.
My dad intended to just part it out or sell it, but we ended up deciding I would fix it and turn it into a driver/ light tow duty truck. I buy and partout minitrucks and 4Runners when I find them and up to this point I have either used my FJ60 or one of my dad's 80s for that stuff. This will fill the role a bit better.
It is a '99, has a factory rear locker, with 318k miles on it, it's from Georgia, then came to Alabama at some point. No rust just dents and neglect.
I cleaned up the battery terminals, drained most of the old gas out of it, poured in some fresh gas and it fired up.
The cats were cut off at the junkyard but @BamaPaul hooked me up with some, and the driveshaft got bent when it was loaded with a forklift. I found some cheap almost new KO2s on marketplace for ridiculously cheap and slapped them on today to drive it around the field.
It runs like crap, I think it's only running on four or six cylinders and has died on me a couple of times. I only put a few gallons of gas in it so I'll start there and see what happens.
The plan is catch up on all the deferred maintenance, lift it in the back with some Iron Man springs we have and crank the torsion bars in the front, and try to find a cheap ARB or IronMan bumper. I need to rebuild the front end; Upper Ball Joints are sketchy and the steering rack has play in it. I'm going to Rockauto as much as possible without sacrificing quality of parts. Aisin waterpump/ timing belt kit, Koyorad radiator, chunk in a cranksensor just because, and the valvecovers are pouring oil.
I paid the man for the two mini trucks, and we asked about the 100. He had it for several years and had intended to drive it but it kept randomly not starting. This is rural Alabama, 350 SBC country, and any sort of potential electrical issue is a death sentence. He and my dad agreed on a very cheap price and made arrangements to come back the following Saturday to retrieve it and the second minitruck.
My dad intended to just part it out or sell it, but we ended up deciding I would fix it and turn it into a driver/ light tow duty truck. I buy and partout minitrucks and 4Runners when I find them and up to this point I have either used my FJ60 or one of my dad's 80s for that stuff. This will fill the role a bit better.
It is a '99, has a factory rear locker, with 318k miles on it, it's from Georgia, then came to Alabama at some point. No rust just dents and neglect.
I cleaned up the battery terminals, drained most of the old gas out of it, poured in some fresh gas and it fired up.
The cats were cut off at the junkyard but @BamaPaul hooked me up with some, and the driveshaft got bent when it was loaded with a forklift. I found some cheap almost new KO2s on marketplace for ridiculously cheap and slapped them on today to drive it around the field.
It runs like crap, I think it's only running on four or six cylinders and has died on me a couple of times. I only put a few gallons of gas in it so I'll start there and see what happens.
The plan is catch up on all the deferred maintenance, lift it in the back with some Iron Man springs we have and crank the torsion bars in the front, and try to find a cheap ARB or IronMan bumper. I need to rebuild the front end; Upper Ball Joints are sketchy and the steering rack has play in it. I'm going to Rockauto as much as possible without sacrificing quality of parts. Aisin waterpump/ timing belt kit, Koyorad radiator, chunk in a cranksensor just because, and the valvecovers are pouring oil.
