Just finishing the second coat now Mr McFly. it was too dark for outside pics. i got every light working, brakes are solid, e brake holds tight. solid little truck Loving the TAs I pulled the speaker wire from the drivers door forward to the dash connection and rebuilt it. It had wire tape all over it from repairs. This is nicer. I retained the door jamb grommets and shrink wrapped the jamb section. Used the factory connectors. Stereo sounds much nicer and balanced now. That’s about it until the spring and I get after the paint job. Then it’s “back to the past” for this truck.
Some of the best times I’ve had lately have happened since my daughter caught a local oil change place ripping her off and she decided to do her own vehicle service. While I usually avoid working on our late model junk like the plague, I really enjoy working with her on anything she decides to do. She’s sharp and fearless. Mighty impressive, aren’t they? Love the truck, nice work on the repairs and upgrades, as usual.
Thanks @bchctybob , my son moved his family to Virginia because they were tired of living on the west coast. They took my only grandchild with them and I miss her and my son terribly. I always wanted to make her my gear head, start her young and build cars with her. That won’t likely happen anymore, my daughter sensed that pain and is filling in. I couldn’t be happier.
I have learned a lot from working on the truck. it is well made and those 22Rs are supposed to be incredible. My daughter was asking about turbos the other day, she really thinks it is down on power but she is comparing it to her 22R in her 2 wheel drive parts truck (that runs like a Swiss clock). I told her the 4x4 and the gearing have a lot of HP eating gearing and drag. I will do a compression test before I paint it and see what we have. I did get a bit giddy hearing one of my kids ask about power adders.
I have a Yota in the fleet that has passed the 500K mile mark . I would be afraid to lite the wick and head to the Bandit’s house from here (Ky ) with it . Billy , you have a gem there . Have fun with the daughter , they are grown and fun times will always be in the memory bank .
I am making as many deposits as possible! She called yesterday and the truck is leaking still. I had her cover the cowl vents with duct tape and still leaking. I had my glass guy install that windshield, he doesn't make errors. I figure it still has to be coming from that cowl panel but...?
Cool truck, nice thread. White letters out was the correct choice. I’m glad we got an OT forum this year. Threads like this are so much better than just a note somewhere about “working on my daughter’s OT truck”. Good call @Ryan!
If she wants more power SBC's do fit in those..... Seriously, though, cool deal working with your daughter on a neat old truck. I was a Toyota Master Tech in a previous life, so I kinda have a liking for them. Devin
I am expecting that. I used an inspection cam to look in the cowl area and didn't see anything and I checked the windshield area while the glass was out. Doesn't leak when it is not raining (not the heater core). I started a thread or two to test the waters and I kinda like seeing what guys are working on when they are not doing hotrods and customs. I do like having a project with my daughter. I have little experience with foreign cars/trucks. What I have is due to her!
Mine leaked just about the fuse panel,,,where a seam had let go… I had a ‘81 diesel Toyota..a true slug…upgraded to a ‘91 22RE 12 years ago. Rattle can graphics, cheap like borscht
Headlight upgrade. https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/sealed-beam-headlights.1324784/#post-15463071
Since she plans to do a lot of outdoor stuff maybe in remote areas, I would seriously consider some type of dual battery set up that keeps an extra battery charged but not participating and some type of self protection device secreted inside............. Those roll bar lights may take a lot of current.
If you decide on a hidden personal protection device, I found a good place to hide one. The console in my pick up has a drink holder molded into it. It has a "seam (?)" where it slips into place. When its in place it looks like a one piece console......no one realizes that it can be simply lifted up because of the one piece look. Plenty of room under it to store a little emergency money and maybe a tracking device along with the ppd. Enjoying the thread..........
The 22R is pretty bulletproof. The only problems I've ever seen is the front crank seal/oil pump o ring and a warped exhaust manifold. A few companies make a accessory shut off, goes on the battery terminal and then you hook the accessory to it. It opens the internal contact when the battery hits somewhere near 11 volts, then reconnects when it sees charging voltage.
My wife and I were watching a movie with terrorists and she asked why they always drive Toyota 4x4s? I said cuz "tho they aint fast, they start when you turn the key one direction, and they don't stop until you turn it the other way".
Truism from Wednesday this week. My daughter drove down for some garage time (one of my favorite days, whenever it occurs) to change the gear lube in the diffs, change the engine oil and filter and such. She was pulling the truck onto my lift after driving an hour and a half off Mt Hood and it was spewing coolant all over my floor. We opened the hood, and I was barking "find the leak before the pressure drops". She did, a third radiator hose that runs from the water pump to a connection point on the right side of the block. Pin hole leak streaming its sweet smelling, bright green life force onto my clean garage floor. How lucky is that? She and I walked the driveway looking for drips to clean off the concrete that I "had resealed" this summer (thank you honey for doing such a great job) and there were none. It seemingly chose that exact moment to pop. Lucky girl indeed. Looked like original equipment, original wire clamps, rusty and bloated rubber, hidden from view under the alternator. If that had happened on her way back to the mountain that night it would have been AAA time for her and AA time for me. While we were at it, we replaced the yellow radiator cap with Japanese writing on it. Likely also original equipment. She used her phone to read the cap... "13 pounds, no remove hot cap" While she was down, she got her birthday present finally, a new set of tools, all metric. Hard item to find. She owns 2 of these Toyo trucks, the VW bus and a 72 Suzuki 250, she needs metric tools. Her BF has the standard tools in his F250 4x4. She picked a good man!
In the early nineties I changed high schools and was laying out a new tool pyramid for the shop. I had all the standard tools on the top rows when it dawned on me we had entered a new world. Redid it with the metric on top.
Its funny, she said she didn't want to see any imperial measurements in her tool box. She was quite disappointed to find a 1/4, 3/8 and 1/2" drives and extensions.
I actually do have some metric end wrenches and sockets but I get tired of guessing (wrongly) and making multiple trips back to the toolbox. Hmmm
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