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the pickles everlasting build thread
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Any Pickle updates? It's been over a year since the last entry...
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sorry, no....
spent the year on building annie, bosshogs pig swap, life in general and puff the magic wagon...hoping for next spring to get er done.
spent the year on building annie, bosshogs pig swap, life in general and puff the magic wagon...hoping for next spring to get er done.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY I... Hope you have a GREAT DAY!
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Happy Birfday Ige!
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thanks all 
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wooohoooo!!!!! i have updates. long before the death of the nuclearmarshmallow, i thought it would be really cool to have a coil sprung fzj55. i love the way the 80s ride, but i don't like the looks, and i think the fzj might be a decent engine under a lighter body.
so, when the marshmallow lost rings, i pulled the engine, bored it and stuck it in fat bastard. that left fat bastards motor and what was left of the marshmallow including a really crappy rusted frame with lots of broken bolts. while spending a thanksgiving dinner with @Texican and his better half and her sister and husband, i mentioned my plight and he said he had a nice rust free frame on the farm. after lots of prodding by him, i made the 13 hour trek to texass, hung out with old friends again, and eventually, after spending a lot of time sitting in chairs in the barn sending rude selfies to friends and saying "we should probably go load that frame" and yet not doing a damn thing, we did motivate and i made the trek home
so, when the marshmallow lost rings, i pulled the engine, bored it and stuck it in fat bastard. that left fat bastards motor and what was left of the marshmallow including a really crappy rusted frame with lots of broken bolts. while spending a thanksgiving dinner with @Texican and his better half and her sister and husband, i mentioned my plight and he said he had a nice rust free frame on the farm. after lots of prodding by him, i made the 13 hour trek to texass, hung out with old friends again, and eventually, after spending a lot of time sitting in chairs in the barn sending rude selfies to friends and saying "we should probably go load that frame" and yet not doing a damn thing, we did motivate and i made the trek home
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last weekend, since i don't have a tractor, i wrapped a couple straps around the frame and yanked it off the trailer. got it righted, up on stands and drug the remains of the marshmallow out onto the driveway. then it snowed.
yes, that is a bugger weld. we found out on the trail that the flanged head of the control arm would fit through the egged out hole, so jumped a couple batteries and welded the hole up a bit.
glad to be getting rid of this
yes, that is a bugger weld. we found out on the trail that the flanged head of the control arm would fit through the egged out hole, so jumped a couple batteries and welded the hole up a bit.
glad to be getting rid of this
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this weekend, the frame swap went full bore. hoping by tomorrow to be ready to cut up the marshmallows frame and haul it to scrap soon. i rattle canned the frame to cover up the surface rust that accumulated while it sat in the sun and dirt and started swapping parts. then i realized i can't find all the bolts for the suspension or the plates for the rear shocks, so now i'm making a very late breakfast and updating this thread 
yea, that's rust, not dirt
yea, that's rust, not dirt
. Im hungry 
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beer
So Ige, get me up to speed. Don't you have to shorten the 80 frame to fit the 55 body?
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yes. that will be down the road. right now, i've decided to get the old frame out of here, get the pig body resting on the frame and get rid of the pig frame which will free a space in the driveway to get the 45 up and running. then i'll build a "lift" for the body to fit on so i can figure everything out and begin chopping the frame.
Sounds like a plan!
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i still have to find my "somewhere in the garage in a safe place" left rear shock mount, order a few bolts/nuts that are mia, and get the engine dug out of the garage and into the frame, but for now, project frame swap is officially done. sooooo freaking nice to work on a clean frame. i'll get the pig body off it's frame and resting on blocks on this one and it will go between the house and garage for at least this year while i concentrate on the 45...then will come the figuring out the shortening of the frame and body mounting, etc.
free fzj80 frame, some assembly required
free fzj80 frame, some assembly required
You made it easier for someone if they wanted to box and ship it. I'm assuming your 45 is the one sitting in the garage? Got anymore pics of that one?
I'm assuming your 45 is the one sitting in the garage? Got anymore pics of that one?
Ige...you need more Toyotas. I assume the lawnmower has the appropriate emblem somewhere on it!