my 85 yota rockcrawler project

[mosslager]

Looks great!... Gonna be a fun toy

 

[az_amsoil]

MIke - any reason you didn't run coil-overs?

 

[megadesertdiesel]

MIke - any reason you didn't run coil-overs?

yes, i bought the AllPro extreme suspension kit that will give me 21" of wheel travel, and thats all i will need. besides cost of link material and ends were 2x what a leaf spring complete system was.

i did not want to re-invent the wheel. my last crawler ended up fabricating everything and i didnt drive it much.

KISS on this build.

 

[az_amsoil]

gotcha...I'll hook you up with some guys to "break" it in. My buddy is finishing up his crawler for next weekend.

 

[megadesertdiesel]

gotcha...I'll hook you up with some guys to "break" it in. My buddy is finishing up his crawler for next weekend.

yes this winter its on, one weekend in the dunes and the next in the rocks. hells yeah i cannot wait.

 

[megadesertdiesel]

ok the weather cooled down here in HE double hocky sticks enough to work in thegarage again. i made mounts for my CO2 tank, spare tire, cooler, toolbox, and highlift jack. just need to weld a tab on for my CB antenna and rough up the bed so when i spray bedliner on it it will stick good. also i bought a tube of body panel caulking to make all of the bed seams sealed water tight.

here are this weekends progress pics

 

[megadesertdiesel]

i stayed home from work today to get this darn Toyota bed completed. roughed up the new sheetmetal, seaed the joints, rattle can sprayed the outside of the bed and sprayed in the bedliner. pretty easy to spray the bedliner stuff but it sure makes an overspray mess. color came out lighter than i wanted but oh well it on there now.

 

[affliction]

looks awesome. What product did you use on the bedliner?

 

[megadesertdiesel]

looks awesome. What product did you use on the bedliner?

Hippo Liner. i bought it a a local paint store and bought the toner to tint the color there also.

 

[JimandMelissa]

Truck looks great!!!

 

[Friedman72]

Truck is looking awesome for sure! Makes me want to jump on craigslist and look for a project.

 

[mosslager]

Yep.. I need to learn a few trades.. this project looks like a great way to keep busy and have fun with an end result. Nice work.

 

[mosslager]

Any update?

 

[megadesertdiesel]

It got hot outside and i gave up. Its forsale right now. $3k

 

[mosslager]

Looks like most of the pix are blue (?)s now. Email me a few of how it currently sits and a list of whats left to get it on the trail. Mosslager@gmail.com

 

[megadesertdiesel]

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/cto/3202323422.html

 

[megadesertdiesel]

 

[Dirtdaddy]

Love the Toyota's my son and I have two going. One in the shop has a EFI small block and Rockwells on 44's under a 86 4runner and the other is a 85 bobbed short box waiting for new power.

 

[JoeyD23]

Love the back half mike

 

[mosslager]

This would be a killer Ocotillo rig once finished. Very tempting but I just have no room for a 4th car at my condo, especially a project.... I need to move.