Piddlin'

[YotaOnRocks]

I’ll start by saying, I am an idiot. There is no logical explanation for a lot of the things that I do, but that hasn’t stopped me in the past.

I saw that 1970 Unimog 404 pop up on here listed by @xGROMx for his buddy. I just so happened to have $1000 and had already taken Friday off work. So I made a pilgrimage back to the coastal plain of NC from the foothills. It was a solid day of driving at 3.50 a gallon for diesel in my 7.3. Between fuel and a bottle of additive, 200$ there and back.

Deal with the mog is: cab is exceptionally well rusted. Frame and drive train appears to be complete and in good shape. It was an adventure tour vehicle in the OBX before it was purchased by the previous owner. So I imagine it will take work and a lot of rare and expensive parts to undo what the salt environment did. Oh well, I’m in it now. View attachment 359869View attachment 359870View attachment 359871View attachment 359872View attachment 359873

I brought her home and gave her a once over at the spray and wash car wash. Rust and paint chips everywhere. Still waiting on a cease and desist order from that business.

Pulled what was left of the original plywood floor out of it, cut the exploded , rusted muffler off, removed all the trailer air brake parts. Soaked the cylinders in marvel mystery oil and cleaned the plugs. Sat back, admired my work and wondered what I had gotten myself into.View attachment 359875

Glad someone bought that, I was very tempted myself, I thought hard about it and ultimately decided I had way too much going on to mess with it.

 

[ProbablyBroke]

I had originally intended to harvest the portals off of it and part out what was left, but I was overcome by the fact that it was complete and amount of fabrication to stick them under something else would be extensive.

After scavenging my best two batteries from the tow rig (24v), hooking up a 15$ Amazon fuel pump to a gas can, and finding switched power to the coil, I hit the starter button and she roared to life. I thought I had the throttle closed but instead it was wide open. The first time it has been started in over a year, after an oil change and I put her right in the redline. She smoothed out and purred. It’s a M180 6 cylinder gas motor with a zenith carb. I THINK it has 6 forward gears and 2 reverse.

Plan from here is to change all fluids, run new brake lines, figure out how to shift it and then attack the cab/ cage with @DannyH. It’s going to need at least the rearward portion of the cab cut out. The rust on this thing is what body men dream about, that flaky, bubbling, rotten kind of rust.

 

[skyhighZJ]

The excitement is building!! This thing is too cool for school!!

 

[jcramsey]

 

[ProbablyBroke]

Things I will be shopping for :
Fuel cell
Corbeau bucket seats

 

[Buffy]

If you are not familiar with this site you should pay them a visit. Lots of parts to be had there.

North America's largest resource for ALL models of the Mercedes Benz Unimog.

 

[ProbablyBroke]

I went hunting this morning and came back jacked up on coffee. Drove the mog under its own power about 200 feet and pressure washed it… again. Blasted the engine bay because hardly any of the electronics work anyway. Added a new 6” round muffler from my exhaust dude up the road.
I couldn’t look at the bed frame without any wood much longer, so I went to Lowe’s forfeited $117 for eleven 1x6.

 

[ProbablyBroke]

Well. Long story short. Sold the unimog because although it was sweet to look at, I don’t think it was ever going to be suitable for the wheeling I like. Shortly after, bought a project with a pile of parts from @chrishundley138.

Bit the bullet on 40” M/T stickies, and vision beadlocks for my single seater and then realized there was no way to make that viable with current Toyota drivelines. But it looked good a picture or two.

Listened to @DannyH more than I should and sold the axles and doubler out from the project buggy. Project buggy was 3rz, r155f, 4.7 crawl box/ chain driven FJ case/ driver drop Rock Assualt/ toy rear. Kept the 3rz and manual trans, ordered a 23 spline input gear for a 4.7 case I broke being dumb, and bought a set of tons from Toyota1. Currently the buggy is awaiting set up at an undisclosed location in central NC. In the mean time, I saw my old Toyota pickup pop up on marketplace and decided to repo it.

Dudes neighbor sheared the knuckle studs and welded the high steer arms to the knuckle. Ended up pulling it out of the woods with an excavator and giving up on it. The calipers were locked up and it took 2 hours to winch it 30’ onto my trailer. Bought it back for $1360.

Immediately rebuilt the knuckles and replaced the calipers.
bought a resurrected 4.7 case from @DannyH
Pressure washed the seats and hit the mouse turds with leaf blower.

Hopefully get it to quit smoking. Might throw a spare 22r and propane kit in it.

I owned this truck from 2018 -2019 before trading it for a four wheeler before a bunch of moves across the state. It’s still every bit a hunk of crap as it was when I sold it, but the dude wasn’t a Toyota guy, so he didn’t scavenge any of the good stuff off of it. Plan is to get it wheelin, so I can loan it out when folks make excuses about their crap being broken.

 

[ProbablyBroke]

I’m planning to update with what I got going right now. But can anyone tell me the difference in body mount location on first gen 2wd Toyota pickups vs a 3rd gen 1990s pickup? Would be interested to know if first gen 2wd and 4wd have the same body mount locations. Go ahead “ let me google that for you”

 

[YotaOnRocks]

@toyota231

 

[frankenyoter]

I’m planning to update with what I got going right now. But can anyone tell me the difference in body mount location on first gen 2wd Toyota pickups vs a 3rd gen 1990s pickup? Would be interested to know if first gen 2wd and 4wd have the same body mount locations. Go ahead “ let me google that for you”

I’m curious what you discover.

I gave my brother in law a 92 extra cab frame that we plan to sas and drop his cherry 84 regular cab on. I kinda assumed we would be making every mount.