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Just ordered a taillight converter for my 4runner, I was thinking about bringing my pop up camper to the meet and greet. I figure if the weather isn’t great or people wanna sit and chat they could do it in there. And it looks cool….
1) my power stroke dripped ATF right from that same spot. I think those lines are really impervious to road debris.
2) awesome progress really glad to see!
3) tires look sick
4) I’m glad You were proactive with the gas tank situation.
5) I ordered a chip for my 7.3 and it didn’t include the broker charges so I got d*cked by those crazy charges too.
I’ve used them many times, even with flux core wire the welder does what it needs to do. That is a very very very good deal! I’d buy it.
The signal light combo is a great mod for a first gen. Just a suggestion which may already know: early toyota fuel tanks can be really hard to remove I’ve found. The top of the bolt I think had some kind of little retainer to stop it from spinning. I tacked the head of the bolt to the mounting surface so all I had to do was hit the nut with an impact and the whole bolt wouldn’t spin. May no be the worst idea since it’s out.
Man good for you, lots done! Here’s the pic of how mine mounts in case you still need it. Just behind the grill obviously
I might have the horn parts you need, I’ll take a picture of how it mounts. Let me know if there’s any odds and ends you need though and I’ll take a look.
Yeah it is true about the alloy, I was thinking that if it bent at least you can hammer the steel back. I try not to do any crazy rock crawling with the trailer but I haven’t really used it too much yet.
I’ll try to grab a pic tomorrow for you!
Thanks Finn.
Princess Auto has a deal on these wheels and tires on sale so I grabbed them for the camper. I like them, do you guys think they’re too flashy?
I decided I’m going probably going to build a swing down spare tire carrier for the back to carry a full size spare. It has to swing down because it’ll hit the slide out when you set up the trailer. I might a water jug to it too with a valve, so when it swings down you can open up the valve and wash your feet off. Something like this
I hear yeah. I’ve rebled and adjusted the drums but maybe they have to be done again.
As for the bumper, I built this one with my friends mastercraft 110v welder from Canadian tire, a grinder and a some drill bits. Even if I went bought the welder on kijiji for 200 bucks, I would be way ahead. I got all the metal for free, or used what I had leftover. The hinge for the swing out was like 20 bucks at princess auto, and I re-used an old hub for the mounting surface of the tire carrier. That bumper would be 1000 plus dollars so I say build your own.
Im no expert welder either but I think it turned out really well. My goal for this was to use square tube and not make it look super home made/backyard.
Early 70s Hilux sounds like a cool ratrod! It will for sure come pre-rusted and patina’d so that’s a plus.
That’s awesome, I really think it’s a good thing to learn standard. I think it helps you focus on driving and forces attention. I’m glad she wants to learn but I wish I taught her in my orange truck with an old clutch instead of my fresh one haha.
I’m going to play around the prop valve and see if I can help the nose dive. Thanks for the compliment on the bumper it was my favourite thing to build.
A friend and I will be building a expedition trailer soon, we just bought the roof top tent for it. It’s a Smittybilt, will post pictures once we start.
So my wife wanted to start learning to drive standard so we did a lesson the other day. My worry was that the brakes really suck and I didn’t want her to have to worry about that Especially while learning. So I swapped the passenger front stuck caliper. And I found in my parts shed what I believe to be a dual diaphragm booster from an 86-87 Turbo pickup or 4runner. Swapped that in today without having to remove any lines which was awesome (thank you copper nickel lines) and bled the caliper. It feels awesome, the front end does really nose dive even after playing with the prop valve but I think it has more to do with my suspension setup.
Stuck the full size spare on too
