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Post by Slacker on Dec 9, 2014 18:39:33 GMT -8
so I picked up a truck this fall , past customer whom had purchased a fiberglass bed from us about 10 years ago . Older fella just used his truck for gardening and yard work ran the engine out of oil . truck is in GREAT shape , but does need a little frame work on the passenger side .... ~ 240k kilometres on the clock . so with the crap brown color , I had to think hard on what to do to this truck to make it have some eye candy ... and this is when the tribute came to mind ... The original Mojave was a brass # plated , 1983 truck from Japan . Canada had 2WD and 4WD models while the USA only had 2WD models ... I'm going to build this one ----- like that
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Post by Slacker on Jan 24, 2015 16:37:11 GMT -8
so out with the old 22re
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Post by Slacker on Feb 7, 2015 16:44:33 GMT -8
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Post by 83trekker on Feb 11, 2015 11:43:27 GMT -8
Cant wait to see this when its done.
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Post by Slacker on Feb 11, 2015 18:13:27 GMT -8
love to supercharge it .. but havnt found one yet
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Post by Slacker on Feb 21, 2015 18:42:48 GMT -8
lots more sandblasting today .. hope to powder coat tomorrow
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Post by Slacker on Feb 28, 2015 17:00:31 GMT -8
started the tear down this morning .. pulled the truck in my shop and got to work . canopy was the first thing to go and then removed the bed I was actually excited to see the out come of this , as I have only done this once before on one of my old beds . as I mentioned earlier , this bed was installed at my shop ~ 10 / 11 years ago , so I was anxious to see what it actually looked like after so many years . my personal DD has had it's bed on it's truck now for 15 years , but someone else's truck is always good "gauge" as well . so heres what we got other then the inner paint , and under side paint , everything is GREAT , I'm super happy with what I have to work with , and It should last at least another 15 years ... easily !! anyway ..... also , got the tranny out and the fenders off
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Post by Slacker on Apr 6, 2015 18:31:59 GMT -8
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Post by Slacker on Apr 9, 2015 17:29:37 GMT -8
some color on the block today ... now I can start striping and building
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Post by Slacker on Apr 17, 2015 17:30:44 GMT -8
frame back into the shop for the weekend ... pulled the fuel tank,brake lines,torsion bars .. and other pieces , getting ready for the POR 15 treatment
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Post by Slacker on Apr 20, 2015 19:03:05 GMT -8
little more work in the last couple of days .. my buddy Joel .. yep , supercharger 4Runner Joel ,( owner of a build I did for him a few years back ) wanted to help .. so put him to work cleanin the frame up ..
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Post by Slacker on Apr 24, 2015 16:20:31 GMT -8
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Post by 83trekker on Apr 24, 2015 21:00:21 GMT -8
Man that looks so cool, nice job
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Post by Slacker on Apr 29, 2015 16:25:30 GMT -8
thanks .... Joel still workin' on the frame ... almost ready !!
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Post by Slacker on Apr 30, 2015 15:57:42 GMT -8
Joel has been a huge help on this .. and to keep up with him today we had to mount the tranny and engine to get the positioning for the new mounts . I used some round tube I had , worked out great ...
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