pics of his truck weve been working on.... progress as of sat...
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Now it's got wings!
(Chris I need you to bring the key by and drop it in the mailbox sometime today so I can turn the wheel to get it in the backyard.)
When are we going to squeeze mine into the queue? :gigem:
Oh, did you spend the weekend helping us, Lissa, Brandon, Chris Scotti, or Austin? I don't remember seeing you...Quote:
Originally Posted by Chadnutz
damn, forgot about the keys. You gonna be around after 6? If not I'll just drop them off
going for a bike ride (really!)...just drop it off.
If yall've got all that stuff just tacked in place I can weld it friday, or probably saturday or sunday.
I was out of town the last 2 weekends. I'll be here this weekend.
friday afternoon would kick arse.Quote:
Originally Posted by eight
nutz, don't quote me, but I think the work this weekend is gonna go down at club 218.
:cheers:
Well Friday afternoon is good. I get out of class at 11:35.
And I just dropped a class, so I'll bring it by in a little while. I'm free friday to weld if its cool with you ugly. I'll also come by and help coop out this weekend. Gotta work graveyards, but I'll be there in the afternoons, so if anyone needs any help the next few weeks, give me a callQuote:
Originally Posted by uglyota
BTW austin, sorry I couldn't get out there to help you faster, but they made me jump through a bunch of hoops to drop that class
Also, I'm begining to think I need a sticker saying "built by keystone" for this thing
friday work... pretty much done :beer:
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the pics don't really do the thing justice either. I can't wait to get it home, repaint it, rewire it, and get it running again. Thanks everyone for their help.
BTW, nice pic of john grabbin his nutz :laughing:
I think she turned out pretty good!
it's red, with some...rust...coloration....
looking good guys all i know is all of you are making way to much progress to quickly, i think you need a bronco to work on.
the mazda seems to be pretty good at halting progress...
Holy hell, that thing looks freakin' cool. I don't think I've ever seen this one. Between it and the two at the house behind JJs, there are all kinds of Toy projects going on. I'd like to see this one also.
come by my house and check it out...it's in the backyard.
If there's a white car in the driveway, knock on the door and walk right in and grab a beer out of the fridge while introducing yourself as "it's okay, I'm eric's friend"
Just kidding...not such a good idea for friends to be there when I'm not, and the landlord didn't like it displayed in the driveway.
Thanks for the props, though...Chris' design, we were just there for the :beer: (and I'm the only one willing to drill holes in my driveway)
well the truck is back at my parents house. I mounted the winch, radiator, and started putting the seats back in last night. gonna work on her some more this afternoon. I still think we did pretty good for our first time bending. Now I want to find a Bender (the robot from futurama) doll holding a beer or something to strap to the front of the stinger.
BTW eric, did you see any third gen trucks with a tilt column when you were junkyard hopping? Its not bad, but I had to raise the seats a little to clear the cage, so it would make it easier to get in and steer if I had tilt.
Wasn't looking for it, but I bet the 4gunner there had one.
I have picked up a few on Ebay for $50 shipped
hey ugly, what size were those nuts you used to beef up the steering stops again?
5/8-13 maybe?
Grade 8 :D
I think it's in the pirate toy faq
well I have all the stuff to do my hydro assist, so hopefully I can get this thing finished over the labor day weekend. Gotta tap my steering box, build the mounts for the ram, weld on my tire carrier, front shock mounts, and a few gussets, and I'm good to go, well other than the fact the ***** still doesn't want to start
well, today I did a bad thing. The toy is gone. It hurt to see it go, but sometimes you just need a change. It seemed like I never got a chance to work on it anymore, and I haven't wheeled in forever. It just seemed like a never ending cycle, and with the engine giving me problems now that I was so close to the finish, I just wanted to bang my head into the wall. But now i have a new toy to play with, so hopefully things will be better now, and I might actually get to wheel
gave up so easy... man i even got the ugly charlie truck running... even with the wiring harnessthat you gave me that was cut up to **** and missing half the stuff ...aka main ciruit relays and such :flipoff2:
if that thing can run, anything can.... but good luck on the new project...
...what is it?????????????
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Originally Posted by eight
haha, its already sitting at the house. Gotta do some small things to it, like mount the winch and stuff. As for the old one, it was just time to change. I shoulda just built a buggy. They're were alot of little things that I didn't like, and new problems kept coming up. Me and a friend of mine (a professional mechanic) worked on the engine for a long time, and it still didn't want to run, and we had basically run out of ideas short of pulling the entire thing apart, and checking everything. The new buggy is a blast to drive, and it means I'll actually get to wheel some over the holidays. As for charlie's wiring harness, I knew it was stripped. It was basically complete when i got it, but then the PO called and asked if he could come out and grab one relay for something that wasn't really needed unless you had a 4runner. Well I was busy, so I let him go to where the truck was and get it himself. Instead, he stripped everything he could get off it without my dad noticing. After that I never could get a hold of him again. I still want to kick him in his head
Congrats. Cool rig too. Probably a real smart choice.
So it will be in Clayton?
remember kids, don't cut more than a few wires at a time (not 20 :flipoff2: ), and label carefully! ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by CRaSHnBuRN
sweet rig chris
hell yeah, it took us like an hour just to get the wiring order back, and that was with a wiring diagram (albiet a pretty ****ty one, but the best I could find). I still love the look on your face when I went, uh, eric, why did you cut this off like that? And no, it won't be going to clayton. I had that weekend off, but because of finals swapped it out. know if something for some wierd reason changes, than maybe so but that week is really wierd with finals and my birthday. Now if we make a trip after christmas, I'll try to make it.
BTW, any one have a plasma cutter. I want to chop up my old winch plate (1/2 steel) to make a mount on the buggy.
I was actually referring to the 2" dia bundle under the dash...you're talking about 6 wires on the ignition module; a quick ebay replacementQuote:
Originally Posted by CRaSHnBuRN
which bundle was that? There was a chunk of an old harness there, but that was just some trash that was that I didn't feel like taking the dash apart to get to.
yeah, that one...those wires include the main circuit open relay (which gave us so much trouble on the charlie truck), along with who knows what else
... yeah.. if you have another harness out of another truck (non SR5) that isnt cut up and missing ****, or know where to find one i would be willing to buy it. tired of trying to ghetto rig the main relays.
the wires I had in the cab I swapped in were allready cut all to hell. That was just the last little bit that was left. The harness in the cab was also to a V6, so it wasn't any good. As for the runner harness, thats how i pulled it out of the vehicle. Like I said, the guy came back for one little relay, and ****ed me over by cutting everything he could out of it. I didn't know the wiring was as bad as you'll say it is, but I gave you what I had. I told you both I could not make a gaurentee on this engine, and was just doing my best to make good on the rusted out 22r. I don't know where to find a harness, but maybe check pirate of toyota heaven in dallas.
Chris I don't think anyone feels shafted, I told you that you had done more than enough to make good on all of our trades
we do get a laugh every once in a while about your harness disconnecting skillz though ;)
:flipoff2:
so what exactly did you keep from the safety truck and put on this buggy?
hydro? Super cases?
has it's cage been tested...yet? :D