89 runner rebuild

Made some progress. Front end is out and stock mounts cut off the housing. Ground it all smooth and removed the shock towers. Hope to get the frame ground clean and prepped ne t day or two. Got the new pump and reservoir installed to.
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Anyone knows some one needing a complete front swap kit for a yota I got one ready to go!
 
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Some progress after a couple weeks of working weekends trying to get caught up. I got the brackets tacked to the axle and found the drivers side lower needs to be moved. I ordered a couple things from Barnes to to try as I’m not real thrilled with the axle or frame upper mounts. Maybe Thursday ill get the driver frame brace done and the lower frame mounts burned in.
 
Welding done on the suspension links and tabs! Moving to mounting the shock mounts. It’s about 2 inches high in the front now.
So I’m at that trimming hacking to clear some shock hoops. Talk me out of dovetailing the front and tubing it with drop on panels and narrow hood grill.
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took the pile to Chamber fab and auto to get finished up. Bert did a bang up job on it and was really quick On the turn around. The steering is amazing and the link front is awesome. It just works so well. Had a shake down run at gulches yesterday. Little muddy but was a blast. Walked papa gulch, ship wreck and radical ravine. But was solid rejected in a low speed crawl/flop on bad mamma. The wife had a laugh that I beat papa gulch like a drum but got bounced by mamma.
big thanks @chambersauto for getting the pile steering so I could take it out for some fun.
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with the door taking some abuse I finally had reason to put on the tube doors I got last year. Found a leak on the cooler for the steering I need to fix and I think I’m pulling the charcoal canister to bypass it. had some fuel trying to come out the filler and it seemed to be running rich. Not sure if that is it but if it doesn’t help I’ll put a new adjustable regulator on it. Bumped the idle up to 1000 to fix the stall at idle. Waiting on the cage to make it in and really wheel it hard at the bigger parks.
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superpile said:
with the door taking some abuse I finally had reason to put on the tube doors I got last year. Found a leak on the cooler for the steering I need to fix and I think I’m pulling the charcoal canister to bypass it. had some fuel trying to come out the filler and it seemed to be running rich. Not sure if that is it but if it doesn’t help I’ll put a new adjustable regulator on it. Bumped the idle up to 1000 to fix the stall at idle. Waiting on the cage to make it in and really wheel it hard at the bigger parks. View attachment 353398View attachment 353399
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Miss my tube doors...especially since I put 4-point harnesses in my rig. Had what looks like these exact ones.

That said, I would have never ran them knowing what I know now. If you lay over hard on a rock, the door panels will give...the tube will not and will direct that blow inward to your door jam. My hinges and doors have never been right since that happened to me on Crawford's Cry 2 years ago.
 
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Miss my tube doors...especially since I put 4-point harnesses in my rig. Had what looks like these exact ones.

That said, I would have never ran them knowing what I know now. If you lay over hard on a rock, the door panels will give...the tube will not and will direct that blow inward to your door jam. My hinges and doors have never been right since that happened to me on Crawford's Cry 2 years ago.
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Yeah I have 100% opposite experience. The stock doors just bend and bust the glass in when you flop then I have to pick glass out of my head and can’t shut the door after a flop or two. I’d rather the impact go into the structure than Gumby the door in, my previous experience in the last 5 yotas I've built have lost doors fast as result of my drive by Braille style so instead of no doors I’m using the tube doors again on this build and running hip bars on the cage once it is in. On a previous yota once it shifted the first time I just adjusted the door latch pin and it didn't seem to move after it settled or bent to form so to speak. So I’ll update as I try these out, they will have a rough life for sure so testing will be fun😳 To be fair though mine isn’t street driven and I no plans to ever put the stock doors back on.
 
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