Author Topic: 82 Yota Project (Read 14352 times)

Yota Tony · « **on:** Feb 15, 2007, 05:39:50 PM »

Here's my project truck/future trail rig. I won't lie that it needs some work but it's not that bad at all.

82 Toyota Hilux Short Bed, Regular Cab. 22R, 4spd and a top shift t-case, 4.30 gears.

Here's the problems.

Gathering parts to do rears up front, Chevy rears, high steer and of course fix up the frame and body.

Yota Tony · « **Reply #1 on:** Feb 15, 2007, 05:41:22 PM »

Did some work on cleaning some of the parts up.
Painted the header up. The outlet looks HUGE!

Cleaned up the manifold and carb.

The manifold is an Edelbrock Performer, I think it's OLD because Edelbrock no longer makes it.

The carb is a Holley, again old!

The power steering set up.

That's it for now. Ordered some stuff but I won't say what till it gets here and I take pics.
I've got an L50 5spd sitting here and another top shift t-case. Doublers are a lil while away though. I need to get the truck running first.

DTB · « **Reply #2 on:** Feb 15, 2007, 05:51:16 PM »

Quote from: Yota Tony on Feb 15, 2007, 05:41:22 PM

Did some work on cleaning some of the parts up.
Painted the header up. The outlet looks HUGE!

what size is it? what did u paint the header with??

Yota Tony · « **Reply #3 on:** Feb 15, 2007, 06:25:38 PM »

Quote from: DirToyBoy on Feb 15, 2007, 05:51:16 PM

what size is it? what did u paint the header with??

2.5".
I painted it with Duplicolor High Heat manifold paint.

AaronB · « **Reply #4 on:** Feb 15, 2007, 06:37:26 PM »

Man, that rust looks pretty nasty!

topar · « **Reply #5 on:** Feb 15, 2007, 08:07:32 PM »

That rust sucks. Reminds me of my first Toyota.

papa mike · « **Reply #6 on:** Feb 15, 2007, 08:21:32 PM »

man looks like a nice start ,,just think i cut up a good frame because no one wanted it

Yota Tony · « **Reply #7 on:** Feb 16, 2007, 08:24:10 AM »

Yea, the rust blows. Shouldn't be a huge issue to fix it though.
Picking up more parts tomorrow.

Yota Tony · « **Reply #8 on:** Feb 17, 2007, 01:40:23 PM »

Good things come to those who wait.

Picked up some more stuff over the pass couple of days.
63" Chevys BARELY fit into a Civic Hatchback but I got them there.

Got my 2nd case for dual (got a deal on a bunch of stuff case included, won't do duals till next year). The top case is for a friend's Sammy.

Plus carb'd an el cheapo inline filter for my carb.

Got more stuff on the way too.

red · « **Reply #9 on:** Feb 17, 2007, 01:44:16 PM »

looks like your making more progress than i am. fixing that rust wont be any fun.

86bobbedtoy · « **Reply #10 on:** Feb 17, 2007, 04:53:32 PM »

Rust our arch enemy. Anyway the rust does suck. What do you plan on doing? I mean how to reinforce it. I have always wanted to cut the rear part of the frame off and narrow a clean rust free one so it could have inverted springs and be rust free. If that makes any sence? killing 2 birds with 1 stone.. good luck

Yota Tony · « **Reply #11 on:** Feb 18, 2007, 07:32:44 AM »

I've got a friend doing the frame and body work plus setting up the suspension.
We'll replace what we can. Don't worry, there will be pics.

Yota Tony · « **Reply #12 on:** Feb 26, 2007, 12:45:46 PM »

Missed the mail man today but he left the package at the post office.
What was inside?

High Steer!

Yota Tony · « **Reply #13 on:** Feb 26, 2007, 12:46:08 PM »

Picked up the truck yesterday.

Here's a few pics I took, the floors, the front axle and the over all truck.

The driver's side front wheel is a lil seized, I'm not sure what it is. Either knuckles or the brakes are seized. Both of which will be rebuilt so I don't really care.
I'm gonna get it running good this week. Need to swap the new carb on, do a tune up and change the oil. This is all dependent on the weather though. If it's cold and/or snowy, screw it.

I'll have some more pics of the thing tonight.

Yota Tony · « **Reply #14 on:** Feb 26, 2007, 03:23:25 PM »

Some more pics of the over all truck, not much of a looker but give me time.

Inside the cab:

Yota Tony · « **Reply #15 on:** Apr 02, 2007, 12:15:47 PM »

Well, I didn't get much work done this weekend, I worked on a friend's Jeep instead.
I'm going to start prepping it for body/frame work this week and then pull the carb off and rebuild it. I'm not looking forward to doing, it's going to be a learning experience for sure.

Friday afternoon with the help of my buddy's F150, I LITERALLY dragged the Toyota onto my street then pushed it into my drive way. It took some time and some muscle on mine and my neighbours behalfs. The wheels aren't the proper back spacing so they rub like hell on the steering arms/TREs.

Then on Saturday all I did was paint my steering arms and clean all the crap out of my interior. Then I helped my buddy work on his Jeep.

I also found out that one of the pervious owners bobbed the truck a good bit. I have to plate off and clean that up a tiny bit so I'll do that when patching my frame.

86bobbedtoy · « **Reply #16 on:** Apr 02, 2007, 07:29:47 PM »

they are 2nd gen IFS 4runner wheels. I didnt know they would clear the hub on a solid axle.

Yota Tony · « **Reply #17 on:** Apr 02, 2007, 07:45:02 PM »

They clear the hub but not the steering arms.
I'll be running some 2" BS rims eventually.

Yota Tony · « **Reply #18 on:** Apr 03, 2007, 10:32:34 AM »

Picked up some Ford Shock towers for cheap last night, painting em since they where a bit banged up.

Tonight I'll be doing some more work, prepping the body and such. I'll post pics.

Yota Tony · « **Reply #19 on:** Apr 03, 2007, 05:05:26 PM »

Nasty vynil, we don't need no stinking headliner!

I still need to get rid of the left over fluff

but I was loosing sun light and it started to rain so called it a night. I've got Friday and Monday off for Easter so I'll use that to get some work done.

Hammered my Ford Shock Mounts.

The truck has already been bobbed by one of the previous owners, one less thing for me to do. However, I now have no where to mount my Chevy springs rear shackle (needs to be back 4" from stock). How do I fix this? Simple, make a bumper/shackle mount. Here's a quick drawing:

What do you think? Should work I'm guessing.

Yota Tony · « **Reply #20 on:** Apr 09, 2007, 06:50:02 PM »

More work!!

Had my buddy Andy rebuild the carb for the truck. He's been rebuilding motorcycle carbs for years so why not have someone with the knowledge do it.

All done and on the truck with the air cleaner too.

I also popped the fenders off too so I can do some body and paint work. Found out that the passenger side rocker is toast. I'm thinking I'll just cut both rockers out and weld some box plate in their place instead.

I tried to completely disassyemble the Chevy leafs so I could paint them and replace the bushings, didn't go as planned. Bolts are seized in both bushings on bolt leafs. Tried to beat and torch them out to no avail. I will try air tools on them and see if that works. Couldn't get the center pin out of one, it's spinning in the leaf so I'll have to work on getting it out.
So once they are apart I will paint them all up and replace what I need too. I also want to put some UHMW-PE(Ultra High Molecular Weight - PolyEthylene) between the leafs.

DTB · « **Reply #21 on:** Apr 09, 2007, 07:00:48 PM »

Quote from: Yota Tony on Apr 09, 2007, 06:50:02 PM

Bolts are seized in both bushings on bolt leafs. Tried to beat and torch them out to no avail. I will try air tools on them and see if that works. Couldn't get the center pin out of one, it's spinning in the leaf so I'll have to work on getting it out.

use a cut off wheel on a grinder or a sawzall...bolt comes right off

Yota Tony · « **Reply #22 on:** Apr 09, 2007, 08:23:50 PM »

Yea, I'm going to have to do that.
I need to get some cutting wheels. I only have grinding wheels.

Yota Tony · « **Reply #23 on:** Apr 10, 2007, 04:01:58 PM »

I forgot to post a pic of the new header installed. It only took me about 15 minutes to install it so I don't know why people complain about a header install being hard.

I've got a Flowmaster Hushpower 2 muffler for it that I will weld on eventually. Once it's on I'll get some sound clips.

The man in the brown suit dropped these at my door today. My first part from Marlin but definately not my last.

Yota Tony · « **Reply #24 on:** Apr 19, 2007, 08:51:58 AM »

Well, on the way home I decided to work on the Yoter tonight.
So we went about cutting the floors out.

Plus Andy started making new body mounts.

While Chris and I had some beers and munchies.

Yota Tony · « **Reply #25 on:** Apr 30, 2007, 07:44:05 AM »

Some REAL progress was made this weekend. Fist Andy and I removed the flat bed from the truck and took the gas tank out. Had to cold chisel a captive nut out to drop it which really friggin sucked.

From there we had time to kill till my buddy showed up to help with some more work so we did some less important things.
Half doors!

Grinder with cut off wheels made pretty quick work of it. I chopped up some 3/8" bar I had to make braces/stiffeners for inside the door and then started to plate it off.

Yota Tony · « **Reply #26 on:** Apr 30, 2007, 07:45:16 AM »

Around this point in time, Dylan showed up. Huge thanks to time for making the drive out and staying till 1AM last night fixing my frame.
Here's what it looked like when we started.

Then Dylan started cutting out the frame, we started with the driver's side.

Patch panels were made and Dylan welded them in place. As a note, having breakers in your house that can handle a welder are nice. I kept tripping mine every few minutes and had to go reset thus ADDING time to the whole process.

BAM, finished! No more hole filled rusty frame.

Then we started on the passenger side.

Yota Tony · « **Reply #27 on:** Apr 30, 2007, 07:46:15 AM »

We had to almost totally remake this section of the frame. The only orginal part left is the top and maybe a quater of the outside.

Around this point in time Chris showed up to check on our progress and of course horse around. I also through the Grand Cherokee seats in for shits.

Chris had to test the Flintstone braking system. I don't think it will pass inspection though.

Back to work. Welding started.

Now I stopped taking pictures for a bit because I was tired and simply forgot but here's the finished product with some black paint on it for now. I'll under coat it in the next week days.
Passenger side.

Driver side.

This week I'll finish making the tube doors, still need to put a cup holder in them, plate them and mount things like lock cylinders and door handles.
Also I'm going to start in on welding the new floors in.

I'll get done what I can but I'm busy since I'm getting ready for a trip to the Dominican. I leave on Saturday morning

fatt_matt · « **Reply #28 on:** Apr 30, 2007, 09:17:34 AM »

nice work.. keep it rockin

Yota Tony · « **Reply #29 on:** Apr 30, 2007, 01:09:09 PM »

Thanks!

I'm gonna try and get some of the floors in this week. Also, hopefully picking up my rims tonight and then I'll order tires in the next little bit so that will be done.
It's mainly just little odds and ends now.

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