Well here is my purple taco.

[benswan440]

Well i am new to the forms and to the toyota world.
So here is my 1988 toyota. It has a 6inch lift and 35's. Has the 3.0 V6.
I traded a 91 VW GTI for this thing straight across..
i think i have alot of work ahead of me to get this thing on the road or Trail.
So far the rear end housing is cracked around the leaf spring perch.
the motor runs like crap. and i have a budget of like nothin.. lol
Im glad i work at a junkyard.. FREE PARTS!!




If u loook REALLY close u can see the crack. and it pretty much goes all the way around the axle. The funny thing is the guy drove it to my house from about 30 miles away..



So i hope to order a SAS from soon but first i got alot of crap to replace.. hope to have more pics soon..

[j.barrett]

i like the pic of the spider on the rear end, not a bad start,

[benswan440]

LoL ya i didn't see him till i uploaded them on to here.. I will call him Ted.. ya Ted works.. lol.. i got a new rear end today.. just got to wait a week or 2 to put it in.. but should be fun..

[glenn stewart]

ive found that the real needy parts are hard to come by from a yard... since some companys buy them to build them up... curious to see how your build comes around.. props to all yoda builders

[benswan440]

Well today i put in the newish rear axle.. and man was that rear end messed up.
Pull out the old one was.. well lets say im glad my buddy owned a auto shop.
Well here are the photo's of today's work.

Got everything torn apart.


Newish rear end and old dirty one that came out of it.


Ok on these two next pics is of the bolt that came out of the Right Rear leaf spring. it was the bolt that hold it together. the Stud or what ever u wanna call it. But ya this Bolt is spouse to be Straight.



On this pic i guess this is how u add on chrome Tube steps to your truck??
Welding them on?? LOL wow....


Well newish Rear end installed and so far so good. Everything is way Tighter and drives so much better.. Well next is the front end.

[glenn stewart]

nice to see some more work done on your truck... so are you building it for trails?

[benswan440]

Yes i wanna build it for trails. But money makes thing very very slow..
i wanna do the 4inch SAS but ya.. lol maybe 2 years later.

[tattoo]

Nice

[benswan440]

Well its been i awhile.. so here is a small update..
Ok this last weekend i got some new bucket seats for it.. which is BADASS. lol
I got them out a of 95. 4 Runner which all the seat holes where the same spot as the bench. So Tomorrow i am going to be putting a new harmonic balancer on it cuz my is all ****ed up.

Old crap bench seat..


New bucket Seats for the win!

[John Voth]

I need some of those.... My bench seat looks like the one you removed from your truck.

[benswan440]

Ya buckets are way mobetter. hehe But i also got some new tires.. there are toyo 35/13.5 R15.. since im going to make this a daily driver i decided these would be a good tire to go with.. but i also cut the exhaust off and i should be able to see why..









Ohh and this is my daily driver.. just had to show her off.. hehe

[tron]

looks like that exhast was really restrictive at the "bends" haha
nice truck

[tattoo]

Clean.