took it for a good joy ride **** I love it now sway away and bling steins and drop leafs are the ****

oh and drop spindles

 

Today I got the new head and block all cleaned up and ready to go together. Hopefully it all goes well. I also swapped the dash sliders for some I found on a 60s ford van. And switch knobs from a 70s dodge truck wiper switch. Check it out.

 

that looks good standardbyker88

 

i yanked the bed off (with the help of the bro inlaws) to scrub the frame clean. going to coat it this coming weekend. also should be picking up a 5th (possibly 6th) starion wheel this weekend as well.

 

Thanks. I really like the how it's coming together. Alot better than stock.

 

Drove the truck to nearby Emmett, ID for their cruise night with the club and some others

 

Looks fun!

 

Converted to a regular F/R split brake system (No more LSPV...no point since I use the air shocks), all new steel lines except the LF and new stainless soft lines, and installed a new fuel pump bracket (dealership said last one in country, then realized it was gone when he tried to order it. ordered from ebay, said it WAS the last one there).

Stops on a dime now or at least without the pedal going halfway down due to the 20+ year old rubber lines.

 

Finally got around to doing a valve adjustment. All intake valves were at least at .025. Yikes! Sounded like a sewing machine. Good to go now.

 

finally got to do all 4 of my blown shocks...lol...no front side pics

 

I adjusted my carb linkage.. Wasn't opening the secondary more then probably like 10%. Now it goes wide open, and a lot more fun!

 

Cross threaded the spark plug hole on the head. not bad, but enough to make a simple tune up to get emissions into a mess.

 

found out what the switch under the seat was. haha. finally put the interior back in and changed the knock off hub adapter to a celica hub adapter. way better quality.

 

You can't leave us hangin, what was the switch for??

 

Glad you fixed the carb on the hilux. And what kinda swap? Steering wheel it sounds like?

Today I rechecked my valves and made a few other adjustments. No problems driving it around all day. Even got it run most of the way through 5th gear on the freeway. Ran out of room and had to let off at about 5000 rpm. Which with my gearing is about 102 lol. Plenty of power. Who wants to go racing in Monroe at the 1/8 mile drags next week?

 

Test fitted the new lip. Going to hard mount it some time this week.

 

washed it after having a nice little vacation...back on it tomorrow

 

Did absolutely nothing haha

 

shes looking great! i dont think we coulda did a better trade. im really loving how the gold and polished lips compliment the truck!

 

Thanks