Post by dustymojave on Mar 5, 2012 17:52:02 GMT -5
In addition to my Baja Bug, I also have this Toyota prerunner truck.
It has long travel suspension with 3" longer arms on heim joint pivots, Fox coilover shocks with reservoirs, beefed up spindles and idler arm, bigger tie rod ends on larger Chrome moly tie rods. The wheels are American Eagle 186 in 15 x 7. The tires are 33 x 12.50-15. The stock strut rod is replaced with a heim ended rod mounting to a tubular subframe welded to the frame. Here, you can see the fabricated a-arm mounts on the frame rail.
The steel bedsides are cut off and replaced with Hanneman fiberglass. The front fenders and hood match in a style called "Late Ivan" after Ivan Stewart, whose Toyota race truck used Hanneman glass. The body is lifted 3" for tire clearance. Fender wells are clearanced for the front part of the cage and shock mounts. The firewall is re-shaped for tire clearance. It retains the steel bed floor and inner walls as it is still used as a working truck. The next picture shows it just home, but still loaded from a race near Barstow. It had rained the day before the race as I was loading up to go. Driving to the Stoddard Valley offroad area south of Barstow is about an hour trip, largely offroad across the desert. Even loaded with camping gear for a weekend, it's loads of fun driving across the rough Mojave Desert on 2-track trails at freeway speeds.
The engine is a 22RE with a 5-speed and 4.88 rear gears.
A truck like this comes in handy for going to rugged construction sites such as this one in the mountains north of LA where a 1/2 million gallon water tank I designed was being built for a remote small community.
I had to be there to oversee the construction. But in the middle of the project, a severe flash flood (over 12" of rain in just over an hour) washed out a bridge and a 16' culvert under the 5 Freeway in the background of the picture. So we had to cut a new access road to come in from upstream. Trailblazing the route ahead of the grading equipment was my Toyota 2wd, going where the Contractor and his foreman with their Ford and Chevy 1-ton 4wd trucks couldn't get. You might notice my truck is sitting all by itself. Yet the Contractor 2 years later kept asking me why I had "a teenager's toy" instead of "a real man's truck"... Ha.
He just didn't get it. But his idea of fun is going out to a night club. Mine is going offroading.
It has long travel suspension with 3" longer arms on heim joint pivots, Fox coilover shocks with reservoirs, beefed up spindles and idler arm, bigger tie rod ends on larger Chrome moly tie rods. The wheels are American Eagle 186 in 15 x 7. The tires are 33 x 12.50-15. The stock strut rod is replaced with a heim ended rod mounting to a tubular subframe welded to the frame. Here, you can see the fabricated a-arm mounts on the frame rail.
The steel bedsides are cut off and replaced with Hanneman fiberglass. The front fenders and hood match in a style called "Late Ivan" after Ivan Stewart, whose Toyota race truck used Hanneman glass. The body is lifted 3" for tire clearance. Fender wells are clearanced for the front part of the cage and shock mounts. The firewall is re-shaped for tire clearance. It retains the steel bed floor and inner walls as it is still used as a working truck. The next picture shows it just home, but still loaded from a race near Barstow. It had rained the day before the race as I was loading up to go. Driving to the Stoddard Valley offroad area south of Barstow is about an hour trip, largely offroad across the desert. Even loaded with camping gear for a weekend, it's loads of fun driving across the rough Mojave Desert on 2-track trails at freeway speeds.
The engine is a 22RE with a 5-speed and 4.88 rear gears.
A truck like this comes in handy for going to rugged construction sites such as this one in the mountains north of LA where a 1/2 million gallon water tank I designed was being built for a remote small community.
I had to be there to oversee the construction. But in the middle of the project, a severe flash flood (over 12" of rain in just over an hour) washed out a bridge and a 16' culvert under the 5 Freeway in the background of the picture. So we had to cut a new access road to come in from upstream. Trailblazing the route ahead of the grading equipment was my Toyota 2wd, going where the Contractor and his foreman with their Ford and Chevy 1-ton 4wd trucks couldn't get. You might notice my truck is sitting all by itself. Yet the Contractor 2 years later kept asking me why I had "a teenager's toy" instead of "a real man's truck"... Ha.
He just didn't get it. But his idea of fun is going out to a night club. Mine is going offroading.