luxes 1986 Toyota

yea im mad cause i aint sasd yet

 

you'll miss the taco

 

HILUX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

old hilux

 

so, since I left off last time here’s the new problems: 1. Truck starts fine when the truck is cold but when it heats up to operating temp. it doesn’t want to start, I'm unsure why. 2. I took the carburetor off to clean all of the oil that sprayed in to it from the pipe that came from the valve cover and when I reinstalled the carburetor I adjusted the idle screw and the air mixture screw and now it won’t run unless you pour gas in the carburetor, So I took a fukitall pill and let the truck sit for a few months and then ran across this supposedly 1985 Toyota extended cab 4wd pickup on TTORA for 400$, I told the guy that had it I wanted it but itd be a few weeks before I could pick it up and he said that was fine. My buddy and I went down to Georgia on Jan 1, 2012 (250 miles there) and found out it wasn’t a 85, it was a 84. but I bought it anyway because it really didn’t matter.
This is what I got for 400$
A brand NEW (to me) 1984 Toyota 4wd



The two girls getting to know each other before going under the knife



Now the 86 doesn’t have a motor and she’s sitting and waiting patiently for the running “somewhat” perfectly 22r from the 84. I started to tear down the 84 completely but then I thought why not take her out for a spin? I live out in the country so i probably wont be seen by any cops, so I took her out for a short drive and she did pretty good and I frove her back home, then I started thinking and asked my buddy “I wonder how well the 4wd works” he said, “only one way to find out” so we took her on a lil “trail” run through some ditches, well… needless to say I would have flopped it if my buddy wasn’t there to get on the back of it. she did pretty damn well for a truck with pretty much nothing but a cab, seat and bald ass rotting tires.
After math of first and final trail run
*no motor in it, but this is what it looked like…..you know..Plus a motor



Oh by the way dose this truck qualify for the Toyota frame rust buyback program?




Pretty much how the 84 is sitting right now



All that’s left to do now is to pull the axles. I wanna sell it but then again I wanna keep it and go either custom mini truck or this to be exact
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw1v...list=ULtK3fvTQfhFU&lf=mfu_in_order&playnext=2


now back to the actual 86 project: I pulled the 84’s motor and didn’t plan on doing a full rebuild. I just wanted to swap over the 86’s brand new water pump, brand new timing cover and the valve cover (just to have something that was original to it). when I took off the timing cover off of the 84 I didn’t relies I broke the head gasket where it meets the head and the new timing cover wouldn’t fit exactly like it should so I started investigating and found out I broke the head gasket, well damn…. Oh I also ended up kinda breaking my engine stand because I couldn’t get that crankshaft pulley bolt out




About this time I started to lose interest in the truck a little because of all this crap so I had to do something to the actual truck to get me interested again.
Something’s different



THAT’S RIGHT….TUBE DOORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



The tube doors was just the motivation I needed to get this crap bucked back on the trails.
I couldn’t wait to get this motor built so I can drive my baby with my new doors on , so I jumped back on building the motor and get it almost ready that night…until I got ready to put the oil pan back on…..I didn’t think about the engine stand being broke (it made the motor lean forward) and I tried to turn the motor over on the stand……..and away she went……..crashing into the concrete floor…….every sentence I said for the next 5 minutes contained curse words of all kinds, most were directed toward me and some to the stand and some to the motor and some to the guy that invented concrete. Looking back now it was quite funny, after a few minutes to calm down I picked the motor up to assess the damage. It looked to only be a shattered distributor cap.



Luckily I had another, and I replaced it with the new one from the 84 (yes it was actually brand new) and threw the oil pan on and dropped the motor in its final resting place.



I got everything hooked back up and tried to start her… she said, “I'm still sick” so I called my buddy who is a “Toyota expert” and he came and looked at it and told me I wasn’t getting a spark, well I had a parts truck at my disposal so we swapped the coil pack and that wasn’t it so he said it was a wiring issue and I told him that couldn’t be because it ran before with the old motor and nothing from the donor (electrically wise) was swapped to this truck. He basically gave up, and off to the interwebz I went, the trolls of the interwebz led me to a grounding issue so I went back to the truck and sure enough I left off a grounding wire but it had nothing to do with anything and I thought just for shits and giggles id swap the distributor and sure enough when I dropped the motor I bent the distributor which caused it to lock up and not give a spark I felt like Einstein, but now she won’t idle but that’s not a big deal because it didn’t do that in the 84 and it was just a carburetor tuning problem.

 

I won't quote that post... Too long...

+1 for the update...

 

Love this thread...all of it. Jealous of the fully equipped garage...my parents were never DIY people...

 

its not fully equipped

would you believe im 19 and have never taken any kind of automotive class, im pretty much self taught

 

You're right, it's clearly missing a lift

 

even better.

 

that and a couple of left handed screw drivers

 

im just learning as i go on some things i suppose

 

Nice update, bet you can engine swap that baby with your eyes closed by now

 

actually i think i was asleep during most of that

 

what color should this bitch be?

i don't like the black no more

 

Roll-on paint it tan.

 

why tan?

i was thinking like white or silver

 

subbed. good job so far dude! i vote silver

 

do white, my dad's is going to be tan

 

white works.

roll on of course