What the hell is that thing???

Brian who is 6' 3" stopped and posed for a photo with my bumberless machine. Thank you for coming and checking out my flatbed page, I decided to do a history of my 1984 SR5 Toyota 4X4 pick-up, showing you the many colors and mechanical failures through out the years. This truck has been my means of testing out my own, and my buddy Jared's Ingenious Engineering feats of Brilliance. In other words sometimes our ideas work and sometimes they don't. I am working on devloping a bulliton board so everyone will be able to post trucks, truck parts, tool boxes and etc. wanted, or for sale.

 

 

 

 

 

      

Here I am a proud papa, this was the first day I owned my     truck. At this point I really didn't know what I wanted to do with it.

 

I managed to install a 7" lift from skyjacker and a set

of 35" Boggers, and a pair of open ended 5.71's.                                                                           

This is what we would do during auto class back in high school, I was half way done sanding my truck for paint at this point.

 

This rubicon run was shortly after I had shortened my bed 14 inches and sprayed it with a nice metalic silver. I really like the look of it but I didn't have much room to bring much gear. I shortly there after decided that I was tired of silver and wanted a change. But along with that change comes a motor rebuild and yes a all new body look, a flatbed.

 

 

This is my JP Eater ready to be dropped in my truck, the entire transfer-case assembly is just 6.375 inches longer than stock. My low range first gear dropped from 51.06 to 115.92, and I love every bit of it.

 

 

This picture was taken on the Barrett Lake Trail shortly after the new flatbed and color change to Cal Trans Orange. This flatbed proved to be a lot more work to build than initialy expected but it was a great asset on weekend trips by providing a plethera of space to store gear.

 

A slight amount of fender trimmage was required for the wheel travel on the driver's side. On the first trip since a major rebuild the only thing that went wrong was carburator adjustment, loss of steering to the right, the front left brake line and a broken steering arm. All of which made for an extra long weekend.

 

I am almost positive this shot was taken the night before a run, the buggy leaf system is being installed.

 

Here is a quick shot of the air hose hook up and air pressure gauge. If you look real close back in underneth the bed you can see the three gallon air tank that is fed by the stock air conditioning pump.

 

Hey look I actually have a bumber on my truck, first time for everything I guess. This is part of the beautiful second half of the Rubicon trail.

 

A little snow to play in.