Guess I belong here now! Got a rust bukkit 1980 P/U and a 4.3 to stick into it.
Hey...Got it to werk!!! (the pics...couldn't get it before)

Got new 2x4 HSS rear frame, Camaro hibrid springs....lotta new body metal...it never fukkin ends...these things have arteries of rust that don't quit til you stab them thru the heart with a POR 15 covered wooden stake!

Here's what it'll look like when it's done

kidding!!!

so ya found some POR-15 eh?
lookin like a fine rally truck for the back road's, when can we expect cage pic's and a shot of the blower stikkin thru the hood? :D hehehe

Hey Dan'l Boone! How's it goin? You mean like this...

Well I would but the blower is wayyy bigger than the motor..lol!

Oh ya...the rust...how you likey...started out as (what I thought was a little spot (long story)

The PO was a weird dude...look close and you can see the "C" clamp he used to hold the heat riser on with...funny..he used a bigger one to hold the DS rear spring pack together

Found a good use for the new frame...cool holder for a bead roller!

But right now I'm werkin on the important stuff...new cup holders...lol...well maybe they are bling exhaust hangers!

funny thing is that blower would look rite at home inside my scoop hehehehehe

holy fawk man you's musta had a good crop in BC this year..... i remember some killer shit but never have i ended up eatin old dutch and friskies..... maybe you should lay off the medcin while yer stikkin that yota back toghether next thing ya's know that race motor will end up fallin off the stand and in between the frame rail's and you will mix up the water pipe and chromoly come cage time.... hey while you got the box off the ass end why not drop the 3rd outa it and give er a lil tack.... that would be fun :) hehehe

Hahahahaha...good one!!! Fawk...Old Dutch=pattern makin material. Friskies= can for POR15 and a tasty snack while yer waitin for the paint to dry(BTW...the POR keeps the cat food amazingly fresh)...lol

Update..You know the water collectin little pocket in the footwell (it's where the mounting bolt goes through) that these trucks have...well ya gotta get rid of it...it starts rusting and you end up having to replace this

These are the parts I made to rebuild the cab mount itself so it couldn't collect water(or beer)

Little bit o' tig to hold the POS together..

There you have it...new cab mount..better (as you can see)than the original

yer gunna leave a hole in the floor to drop the empty's outta.... right?

makes a fine doodle dranin hole too for when you let the lil woman run into walmart to grab some more old dutch and friskies..... just dont burn nothin vital on a hot exhaust.

sure love that tig dontcha? got a foot pedal for it? they kik ass.

Hahahaha..good thinkin...a "drainin hole"..hope you don't have a patent on it yet cuz I'm gonna...lol! Nope...don't have no foot pedal...they're great on a bench but I do lotsa my shit standin on my head inside race cars and shit and they're too damn hard to manipulate(with yer knee or the bak of yer head or whatever) so I use a thumb slide mostly.

That's in better shape than the 82 i bought for the Axles....It had Hardwood crossmembers in it.The frame broke off on the way home with it and the d-shaft nearly wore(burnt) a hole trew the hardwood! lol

Yup...these things sure are rust bitches. Fukkin metal just turns to powder. The frame right behind my cab was so rotten that u could pull out hand fulls of rotten shit. The new floor pan is a prick to make %&@*#$@%!!! Lottsa beatin and bending and especially swearing! Aaaand I got stupid and listened to some of the geniuses on Pirate...built the pan out of 16 ga. Ain't gonna do that again. It's way too hard to hammer form it and it REALLY makes my beadroller suckhole. What type of hardwood should a guy use for crossbraces anyway??? LOL :):):)

And the foolishness continues...Have to tug the frame back straight but I have to rebuild all the floorboards first. Seems they are all tied together. Have to pull sideways on the frame but need the cab mounts all bolted up so it is easier to hold it in place so it doesn't bend where it isn't supposed to. This is the shitty part of having to keep the thing mobile til the last possible minute. I keep having to drive it out of the shop so I can build chit for other peeps. Boring but it buys the goodies for the yota. Got the motor mounts (bling) all fabbed up and now I'm tryin to dream up a cool crossmember for the T-case.

Got the motor mounts finished with lots left to trim for the install where they'll weld on the frame. Cut a grease groove in the tubes that hold the bushings. I'm told they squeak so added a grease nipple to lube them up.
Got the crossmember figured out...be done in a bit.
Just found more rusted chit in the front of the floor

hey them look's purdy......

Jeezus...finally starting to make a bit of progress again. Been following the rotten, rusted road to hell for what seems forever now. Someone put an antena cable into the cab and didn't bother to use a grommet. Water got in there over the years and Toyota decided to use double layers of pop cans to build the truck sooo. I have the whole side of the firewall and most of the floor cut out and have finally started to put it back together today. Never seen the likes of this. Metal is too thin to weld to so you can't even cheat. It all has to come out and be replaced. Water got under their tarpaper shit and rusted the shit out of everything but you can't see it til you take a heatgun after the tarpaper shit and remove it all. Real nice when a thick layer of rusted metal comes off with it.

Gawdammit.... I figured out a way easier way to put the humpy bumpy fawkin floor back together. Way simpler than the factory way and way simpler than the last side I did. AND it won't rust.
The way the factory does it is to use a mount like this

Then they place the floor over it and spot weld it in a few places. Two layers= lots of water holding capabilities.
I'm building a new one of these cab braces and it dawned on me....cut the damn new floor out so it goes AROUND the outside of the brace....weld it in place there..grind it down smooth and weld another panel over top of it for floor strength. Using Weld-Thru and a seal weld...there's no way any moisture can get inbetween the floor panels. And it's going to be ten times quicker. Dammit, dammit...shoulda thought of it before I did the other side. FAWK....the other side will rust out in 32 years...just when I was plannin on a wheelin trip to Wayne, Alberta

might sound dumb cuz i never chopped up a yota before but cant you just cut the floor pan out then roll a 1/4" bead around it and stick a chunk of aluminum diamond plate in thar?.... i seen some rice car's doing this.... mind u there uni-body.

Dan...you can't really do that with these POS. The floor actually helps hold the cab mount bracket in the pic. It drops down from the side almost an inch and forms a water collecting pocket. I made the other side flat but now I still have a moisture collecting pocket inbetween the floor and the cab brace/mount. The way I did this one it has no place to collect moisture. A hell of a lot of work though. Hours of making templates...beatin and bangin and shapin and weldin in the new jigsaw pieces. ONE more little piece to go! Almost got it done tonight but it was gettin too smokey in the shop. Almost burnt the lil truck up a couple times. Lots of tar undercoat that I can't get at to remove it...so it catches on fire underneath when ya weld on it. Fawkin stinks too. About two more hours and the floor'll be ground and painted. Thank Christ for dat!

Well it took a little longer than two hours...found more fawkin rust. There's still a little underneath and two patches mid cab in the back that I'm just going to open up...kill the rust,paint it with POR15 and weld a temporary patch over it for now . Fawk it...I'm sick of rust repair. Floor is now 18 guage....about half of it is two layers...galvanize treated...seal welded and strong as hell. I now laff on these guys who cry that their body lift pucks are pushing up through the floors of their yota pickups.
Just slopped on the POR15 tonite. Tomorrow it gets boxliner coating then three coats of three part epoxy paint...take that you rust varmints!

Hmmm...well that was an unproductive fawkin afternoon/evening. Put together my hillbilly frame straightnin gizmo. 12 ton jack pushin the frame up...frame chained down to a 10"X5"X1/2"X10ft long I-beam. Problem...not enough room to stand the I-beam up properley. So...lay it down...gotta be tougher than the rusted out yota/skinny ass little frame. Nope...frame was tougher...bent the frikkin I-beam. Just about ready to rent a jackhammer and put chain pockets in the floor. Ha...try to bend a cement floor.
Tomorrow I'm going to build some bridgework on the back side of the I-beam so it can't bend. Dammit....I'm THAAT close to getting the motor/tranny in. FAWK!!!

Heh heh heh...just got it figured...more hillbilly engineerin...gonna get a timber...put it on the outer end of the I-beam...and drive my big block 1 ton up on it. Ha...skinny ass frame ain't gonna lift that.

Whew...don't try this trick at home kids. First time the jack popped out under full power and flew across the shop and put a big debt in a tool cabinet. Next time a 2X6 block snapped in half where it shouldn't have. So far it bent back about half what I need. Hmmmm...more after supper.

heh..... reminds me of this story os some asshat who put a 6000lb SUV up on a jackall and proceded to yank a 9" that was hung up on the leaf spring's out.... my reznor overhead still has paint from the open rear hatch on it.. heh