Gear Head's 82 Pickup Build

Uwharrie again

 

I think I'm finally comfortable in saying this - I've officially let your 82 become my favorite truck you own over your 2000.

 

So have I . Someone's coming to look at buying the Tacoma tomorrow

 

Looks good man!

 

Thanks bud! How's yours coming along?

 

Just collecting a bunch of parts.. It'll get there one of these days. I'm putting a weber on right now

 

do you have another DD or just the two trucks?

 

Ha just the two trucks right now. I'll dd the 82 for a week or so and I'm going to pick up a powerstroke or duramax

 

nice! powerstroke gets my vote!

 

Been trying to talk my dad into selling his.... not going well haha.

 

Working a little here and there. Finally got off my ass and finished my other half door. Taking them to my dad's tomorrow for sanding and bondo.



Found the dimensions for a TG winch plate so I made one out of cardboard to start brainstorming front bumper ideas



Measured and taped out for my bed bob.



Cut out my slider legs. Just have to make my frame plates and gussets



And ordered some goodies. Got a TG truss, full diff guard, knuckleball gussets, and marlin axle seals. Going to order the rest of my gears soon and do it all at once.

 

nice truck. where did you find the dimensions for the winch plate? I got an 81 I want to build one for

 

A guy on a fb page measured his and posted it. I took pictures of his comments and I'll post them for you tomorrow. If you're planning on copying the tg bumper you will have to have a body lift for it to line up or mod the winch plate. The top of the winchplate (where the fairlead mounts) is almost dead even with the bottom of the grille so theres no room to run a tube across.

 

Picked up some more goodies! 5.29's and 37 iroc's

 

Lemme know how the IROKS are on road compared to your tires now.

 

Subd

 

I've only drove it up and down my street and they are surprisingly MUCH quieter and pretty smooth compared to the mtr's. They all have 25 psi in them

 

Went wheeling again this past weekend with a few guys from the forum.

 

Nice meeting and wheeling with ya Jacob, thanks for showing us around the trails as well! That rig ya got there is just too damn cool, pictures don't do it justice, can't wait to see the 37s mounted up. Here's a couple pics I took of you from the weekend, that first ledge at Daniel making it look easy











Some more shots








Dickie Bell




Hope to wheel with ya again sometime soon, and maybe I convinced you to get a crawl box too

 

Hell yeah, was nice meeting you too bud! I was telling some of the other guys now that I have a truck and trailer maybe I'll make it up to Rauch Creek one day. And let me get the 5.29's in and see how slow we are.. dual cases would be nice though