started a little work on the japanese truck today, mostly getting ready for body work, bondo and paint, and put in a bed liner...
heres a few pics
more pics here
EDIT: i forgot to post before pic.. so here they are
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started a little work on the japanese truck today, mostly getting ready for body work, bondo and paint, and put in a bed liner...
heres a few pics
more pics here
EDIT: i forgot to post before pic.. so here they are
That rust looked worse with the paint on. You gonna paint it yourself? Hope you didn't use the duplicolor roll-on bedliner.
most of it was just bondo cracking,whoever used to own it i think used alot of bondo to straighten out the bed, or had cut out the rust, filled it then bondoed the **** out of it, it was pretty thick but it wasnt rust, only real rust i found was along 1 or 2 seams and that surface rust on the bed, yeah ill probaly paint it myself, i have just a little bit of experience with paints, no it was rust-olium(sp?) warrior bed liner
Looks good. Whats next?
... have it run :flipoff2:
did i miss something here? did you buy that from eric? or is eric living in the east wing?
if you did get it from eric, what made you do it?
Grand theft auto again maybe
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Originally Posted by eight
just kidding mario, yeah im gonna buy it from eric, ive been looking for a truck for a long time and this is in my price range and ive always wanted that exact truck, i know it needs work but im gonna make her pretty and run real good, get a new motor and lower it back a little if i have too, and im gonna buy chris scotties all terrains to help with that..... yes its wierd, ive crossed over to the dark side for jeep owners.... but yes like ryan said, this vehicle will be legal and more practical, now i can use my jeep for just off-road and take the yota when ever i feel like it also
he'll take the yota when he wants to wheel hard AND pull chicks
all the cool kids drive yotas anyway
I thought you said it had a lot of Bondo?! That's all metal under there! Oh yeah, I have a small tub of it that might still be good.
Bedliner looks bad ass. Do you know how long I've been carrying that stuff around?
Where'd you put the springs and stuff that were in the back? I might redo Ugly's suspension on sunday. I'll be over to try and get Charlie running this afternoon...
yeah ive idolized michael j fox since back to the future... now i get to be a cool kid too :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by uglyota
there is alot of bondo, but it was used to make it straight not fill in holes,
and the springs i took to bryan iron and metal.... they gave me $5 for all of em :flipoff2:
there in the garage
thats cool man...i've always dug the 1st gens as long as they're not rusted out and complete.
i jsut finished painting my uncles cherokee cooper and not to toot my own horn but turned out better than i thought it would if you need any help or a paint gun i can bring mine when i come back to college station next month.
Stop or you'll go blind! :flipoff2:Quote:
Originally Posted by stx4wheeler
paint might be a little down the road now....
pulled the valve cover today and this is what i saw, and i broke my wrench trying to turn it over, i cleaned it up a bit, and it moves fine now... then i drained the oil and it was brown like it had water in it....
think a 4.3 tbi would look good in this truck?? :confused:just need to get the adapter
or something like this...
off to pull the motor out and see whats up...
If you want it to run on the cheap here's some ideas. pull the head clean it up and check the valve seats. may be able to hand lap them. replace the vavle stem seals. pull the the crank and use a what I call a dingle berry hone and lots of oil to hone out the cylinders. replace the rings and main bearings, maybe the rods and slap it back together, You could even leave the block in the truck and do the rebuild in situ. It's easy w/ an inline engine. Austin could borrow the hone for you from Vilas. Total cost: set of rings, bearings, and gasket set, oh and some lapping abrasive and a suction cup from vatozone...it would make Eric proud!
just keep everything in order and know the exact location and orientation of where it was. carboard and a numbered punch set from your local Harbor Freight Store
Well, it was a stubborn little *****, but we got that old jap outta there. We added up the cost to do what you're saying, it's not too bad, but still twice what it would be for a good american engine. Eric thinks if you pull the head it'll warp.
cleaned it up a little bit, there was some sludge in the oil pan, but the pick up and filter looked clean, so im thinking the rust occured after the motor was pulled from its previous vehicle and the moisture is what rusted the top like that, i think the motor can be fine with a little things like grayson said, its already out, might as well do a couple things to it that are cheap, if it gets to expensive i would rather just find a 22re or a 4.3 and pay for the expensive adapter, or an 83 can fit a 350 with no problem, but then i would just end up with something like marios choda :flipoff2:.... ill just try to fix the 4 little hamsters first
chevy engine is an easy swap...i'd rather put a 4.3 FI in there instead of a 4 banger.
but i don't know anything - look at the nightmare of a rig i've got.
hooked up a bellhousing and started and did a compression test on the motor, and it was dead, so we pulled it all apart to see what it looked like... verdict is "complete piece of ****" doesnt look like it needed machining, but definetely lots of new parts and a rebuild kit at the least... so to me its junk... next motor please
more pics here
eric making the engine his ***** with the help of ryan
going going gone!!!
after the motor was apart... and a few beers, we saw a june bug and a roach... so we did what anyone would do....
lissa at 7 pm(before), putting in new gear box and axle shaft w/closed bearing unit.... lissa at 5am(after) tried to go home and her tire would not spin, it was like a dog dragging a dead leg...
Man... that looks like trouble. You are now officially the "1101" house. :)
burn baby burn!
WOW :cool:
reminds me of my time spent there. I will start getting my hands dirty again with a D60 build-up...
What happened with Lissa's Jeep? Was the bearing that she got off ebay frozen?
i think it has something to do with the backing place, with the tire off and the lug nots off it spins fine, once you put the tire on and tighten it, it doesnt move an inch, i think the tire and rim and smashing the rotor into the steering arm
Damn, that lying sob must of dunked the truck in a creek before I got it. well engine #2 should be coming into town late thursday, early friday, so lets hope we have better luck with it cause I'm running out of spares.
yeah looks like it was a beach truck or something... one that liked to swim, but yeah hopefully number 2 works, thanks chris :beer:
I'll give you a call when I get back to town with it. Is the number you have in your sig your cell phone?
yeah thats my number
you guys fix this last night?Quote:
Originally Posted by J Cooper
They got it all apart but the new u-joint they bought didnt fit, so lissa is finishing it up todayQuote:
Originally Posted by uglyota
they BOUGHT a u-joint?
Kopecki must not have been there with his receipts :D
did you guys decide to swap the rotor out and see if that fixes it?
its all together except for one bolt that holds on the caliper i couldnt get it on and there wasent a boy around to help me. i think i messed up the heli coil thing so ill probably have to redue that but shouldnt take to long
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Originally Posted by lissa
did I read that right, you helicoiled the caliper bracket?
well robert if you think about it the bolt really has no load but to hold the caliper in place. So it should be ok but helicoils are really not meant to have a bolt run in out alot they just dont hold up over time.Quote:
Originally Posted by robertf03