:) no, it isnt. Hahah, 1979-1983 is this bodystyle. 82-83 have different grills/headlights/instrument panel.
Your misunderstanding, is because when i first got this 83 4x4, i was disgusted by the 83 grill and square headlights, so i took them out, and put in the ones from my 79 2wd. That grill was only used on 79-81 2wd trucks. 4x4s always have different, tougher looking grills. I prefere the 2wd grills personally.
Now THAT is a fucking truck!!! Not these pussy ass big boys riding around jacked up on shiny suspensions.. It's prob just as well they don't take them off road, though. Cause' they sink in as soon as they touch mud!! LOL...
hahah :) damn fucking right man! :) You need something small, lightweight that you can beat the living shit out of without worring about it. :) Thats where the fun is.
Ya I love the old 1st gen toyota 4x4. Now I have a 1989 Nissan 4x4 pickup (i love it, its great) and I would love to sell it for an old straight axle Toyota, but they are so hard to find in nice shape! And I'm not gonna give up my nice Nissan for an old rust bucket Toyota with a billion miles on it...
Unfortunately thats true man. Good eye! When i got this, i had a parts 79 2wd pickup, and i took the grill and headlights/bezels from that for this. The cut outs were the same for the headlights, and the holes were there for the round headlight brackets, just no nuts welded on. So i got 6 nuts and bolts. I had to splice the wires together for the lights, because the plugs were different. But other then that, easy swap :) And man, made it look a million times better.
The 79-81 (circle headlight style) grills had 2 different styles. 2wd, and 4wd. This is the 2wd which i prefer. The 4wd grill is sopposed to look tougher, a little bulkier, not so fine lined like the 2wd. I think the square headlight years had different grills for 2wd and 4wd as well.
Also, the gauges are different for the square headlight ones, i tried to put the 79 cluster in, but the plugs were different for that as well :(
I'm really partial to the 79-81. 81 specifically because it was the first year with the 22r, which is somewhat more of a beast then the 20R. But the 81 has the circle headlights and awesome grill like the 79 and 80, the 82 and 83's have the square headlights, different grill, and different gauges, which just isn't really my style. The 82-83 front end looks like a cherokee. The grill and headlights i put on this 83 was from my 79 2wd truck. 2wd and 4wd are different grills.
As long as they are stick, and not powered by the gm 2.8l then they are cool machines. :). But the toyotas are their own awesome trucks, and had their own incredible front end before they started looking like cherokees. They just shouldn't have done it. Luckily its easy to convert them to the pre - 82 stlye front end. Get that Toyota look back
Yeah man :) they're hard to find. My friend janet has one with the 4.2L (pretty sure) and the Puguet (spelling?) 5 speed trans in it. Fun to drive, Trans feels week though :) Manual says you can only plow snow with the auto trans. The manual isn't strong enough. But still, its way more fun to drive :)
@tommartyn Yeah the Puke goat is worth its weight in cardboard, but I'd argue that the AX-15 (5spd used after that and for the rest of its years aside from from 00-01s) is as strong as the AW4, aka indestructible.
That was the long bed, so it was a 7 and 1/2 foot long bed. I think the standard bed's are 5 foot something. The shortbed's are better for romping though, because the wheel base is a little shorter, and less bed hangs past the rear wheels. Plus they're probably a little lighter, and thats always important for romping.
That is an 1980 Toyota round headlights and look at the Grill I am sure and it does have a 20R in it I have one and it is my favorite truck.7 inches of lift weber carb and an ignigter off a 1985 toyota Ignigter are the first thing to go on 20 R engines.And you can't find them easy.
Good eye man! I think only one other person has commented about the grill/headlights i took off my 79 2wd for this thing. Thats a 2x4 grill by the way, the 4x4's are different.
Yep, its an 83. I hate square headlights though, and had a 79 2wd with 90,000 miles on the 20r. I put the facelift on right away, and put the 20r in a few years late when the 22r finally went. Now its in my woods waiting for me to finish bolting up the 87 22r i dropped in.
@tommartyn The round headlights were the first thing i noticed. I like the round better than square too. but why would you waste time putting those on that truck
haha, well, i put that front setup on a few years before this footage. before all the rust showed its ugly head, and the bed fell apart and all. I'll send you a video of when i first put it on the road, which was about a year after i got it.
Ah man, yeah, i could see that destroying it pretty good. I hope the engine and trans got reused, alot of people need those. and that was the 1st year for the 22R. I had an 81, stock, and the thing was amazing. it was an SR5, so it had awesome sr5 pinstriping, sticker type stuff on it, a tach, stereo radio, sr5 steering wheel, thing was awesome :) I didn't realize it but it had serious frame rot, and after a few years in the field, broke in half.
@sethicania It was super easy to change the headlights, the healight bezels, the marker lights that are in them, and the grill. All the holes are there for everything, the grill just screws right in, and the bezels too, but the headlight holders have to be bolted on. each side has 3 holes in the perfect spot for them, but you have to buy bolts. 3 3/4 inch long 1/4 inch wide bolts with a nut for each side and you're good. 1984 and up is a completely different body style and it won't work.
hahah, damn right man :) These bitches are incredible :) some company, that i think is in africa, was buying all the old toyota's from around here a few years ago, maybe still are. they would come in and cut them in half, and just buy the front ends :) ship them over and i guess put other rear ends on them.
The Toyos in this country are now living off those older Toyos reputatiuon.I had a 06 4x4 tundra the shittiest truck I ever had.Now Im running a 09 3500 Duramax and Im keeping it forever.
Yeah, i'm sure the newer ones aren't made nearly as well as these old beasts. These were the complete package right here :) Minus the insane power the Duramax has. But these things were the best.
The main guy at toyota recently, and sadly appologized to people for any problems or poor workmanship and engineering that people may have experienced. He says the company started growing too fast... And they feel shame about it. Ask GM if they give a shit if they make a shitty car.
Hey, i checked out your profile, and you seem to have a strong ability to describe things in alot of depth, with words i never hear or see usually, and it seems like there is alot of meaning, and also fun with the way you write. SO, i was wondering if you could elaborate on the 2 comments you left. I'm interested for sure :)
I could make a lot of guesses, but i think they'd all be wrong
@tommartyn I stated "Japanese people...." with an ellipses, which denotes that I purposefully removed content; to say, to the reader, that the content is omitted on purpose. Meaning, the reader should be able to infer what I am saying after watching your video upload.
@tommartyn thats wat i love about the 4 cyls, my wrangler has a 4 banger and it always starts first time, show me another engine that does that after bein beatin to shit and is old lolz
true true. he has trouble keeping track of things. Last night he did a kamakazi into the creek with a bolens in the crazy rain storm. he didn't know it was the creek, went full throttle into it, tractor went straight down, and so did he then he flipped up side down, landed on the ground with his back, and the tractor flipped forward and slammed into him. then fell over. some how, he's ok.
haha, me too :) I just ripped a 22r out of an 85 2wd, that we're going to put in this thing. Re power the beast. the 20R i put in it, blew the head gasket... :(
aw man, THAT sucks. Those things are pretty awesome too. even though they're independent front suspension. it looks kinda stupid, but it really does pretty well.
@tommartyn 4cyl 2.4 whith headers and dule exsost 4 inch lift 32.s in the back 31.s up front 5 speed and i had 4 kc lights on top i had over 1500 in it and got 200 for it
:( son of a bitch, that sucks. Did you try to sell it with all that stuff on it? Frame was probably rotted out i guess, they normally are. taller tires in the back?? :) Trying to blow up your transfercase? i guess as long as you only used 4x4 in the mud, or snow it wouldn't hurt anything. I think on our 87 nissan we had one huge tire on the back left , but that thing was a field beater, didn't matter if it blew u the transfer case. Seen vids of ours?
@tommartyn the frame was not al rusted and thows were the only tires i had for it and i drive it to work and mud and a lil rock. i have seen a lot of ur vids thare good most of them i hate the ones when u kill old dodges thow but other than that not bad
That must have been cool to drive that around, and romp it. Thats how it was when i had this truck on the road. i loved every second of it.
Glad you like most of our vids. We've never killed an old dodge :) from what i can tell, they're unkillable. My two road trucks right now are 2 red shortbed dodge pickups, 2wd, one slant 6 and stick, other v8 and auto. Just fired up the 65 dart tonight, and cruised slowly around the field for a while. Putting new engine in this toyota tonight
@tommartyn yhaa me to sept the spedo didant work and i got it inpandied the first day i got it haha passed a cop when he was goin 70 haha and didant u have that vid whith that ramcharger getin all fucked up the black one???? how many motors have u put in that old yota??
haha, nice :) Yeah, the cop must have been pretty happy about that.
I have a vid where i'm reving the piss out of a black 84 ramcharger, and its smoking like crazy, i think the valve seals went bad, like my new 318, it smokes alot too. But revving it didn't kill it. I just never started it again. The drivetrain was broken, and i had to get rid of it, so i took the carb and intake off. Its crazy, this 83's gonna be on its 4th engine. with 154K miles. My 81 4x4 had 270K Original
I love toyotas! I got stuck and was partially submerged in water for several hours, and it ran fine when out. How do these older stucks stand up? Do the frames have any trouble with rust after so many years? anything I should check out before I buy one?
Yeah, this one in the video was left overnight in my flooded woods, and the water went well up over the engine through the night. a few days later, i pulled the plugs, cranked the engine till the water came out, changed the oil, and drove the bastard out :) running fine :) I love them too! :)
The frames do have rust over the years. always check the frame where the bed meets the body. as long as it looks and feels solid when you hit it with a hammer, Buy it up :)
they also rust out where the rear shocks hook up to the frame. up under the bed. if you can weld, some of the rust can be fixable. the outside of the frame is the thick part, so if the inside part is rusted out, that could be patched with some good metal, and give years more use :) The front brakes on the ones i've had have been 4 piston calipers. 2 on each side of the rotors, and on my one, all were seized up except 2 tiny ones. one on each side of the truck :)
hahaha, :) never thought about it like that before. I guess it doesn't work like that. :) And being that all the toyota's are broken right now, and i'm starting to develop a bald spot at 26, its not looking good for the future either :)
ya it was the 2nd engine. the guy b4 more put it in. was pretty fast for a torquie 5 speed truck. beat my friends kia rio hahaha. it inspired me to get another toyota. i own a 07 corolla s 5 speed. but i miss my truck, i remember going uphill through the woods in 3 feet of snow in a blizzard with no problem. best truck/car ive ever owned in my life.
We ride on a whole shitload. but the part with the pile is on my grandmothers land, then we ride all around on the neighbors land as well. Most of the creek stuff is on theirs.
the ONLY problem with these old toyota trucks were the frames breaking in half behind the cab and on front of the back tire. BUT you could prevent this by cleaning the frame out every so often.. but its too late. Live long Toyota FTW!
The solid front axles and leafs are a dying breed in Toyota Trucks. You can mount plows on them and the frame won't scrape the ground like on newer trucks.
yeah, i really wish they'd never switched over like that... I always like it when a truck sits level. You can fit 33's under these stock 79-83 Toyota's. the rub a little turned all the way, but just barely.
A suspension lift is simple in the Toy's with the leafs. Put the leafs over the axle. Now with the coil springs, someone will have to buy larger coils.
i've got a few trucks, but right now just the willys Jeep is working. I still have this beast, but it needs the head resurfaced, and checked for cracks. i'm going to get that done when i get some money. :)
Very nice, way to use the yotas. I have a 83 with a 5 speed and a 22r, only has 119 thousand on it, and I just bought a 79 with a 20r and a weber carb. Gonna make the 79 my rock crawler
I gave the guy 300 for it, and all it needed was some fresh gas and a battery and i was in the mud and rocks in no time flat! Yes it is a 5 speed, but i think the transfer case is the wrong one for it
Thats a great deal! 300 bucks, can't beat it. Thats weird, whats up with the transfercase. I think it should be just like the one in the 83. Don't know for certain though. 79 was the first 4wd year. things might have been different. the front axle should not have extra welded support around the pumpkin like the later years
haha, preferably the most powerful of the R family eninges toyota used huh? wow. you don't ask for much! :) Yeah, automatics suck dick, and no 4 wd toyota should EVER be auto. thats an insult to the awesome trucks. the years of toyotas i have didn't have extra cabs, or 22rte engines.
It might make the rock crawling thing easier, but its still just not worth it. You can hit the brake with your heel, and the gas with your toes :) Why do you want a turbo for rock crawling? wouldn't it be kinda not used much, what with the lower rpm's and all?
I've never had a 22R with fuel injection, but my friend andrew brown just got an 87 or 88 or something 4x4 22RE and it's deffinatly awesome :) Had alot of fun with carburated 22r's though. the 20R carb's are crap, but the ones on 22R's are very well made :)
idk where u are, but hteres this place in pico riviera where they have nothing but japanese engines, they have plenty of the 22r and 22re, they might do a trade.
I'm in eastern PA. Nice! Unfortunatly, around here, all the 22R type toyota's were bought up from all the junk yards, and they cut the frames at the cab, and shipped all the front ends to africa. where they weld them on old back ends i guess. the junk yards said that they were being paid alot! but its sad for people like around here, who have old toyota's.
from wat i here, toyotas are sought after more than landrovers ij africa. some guy i knew was in africa doing something idk wat, but the vehicle of choice were toyota trucks. on the of some of them it said "Land Rover recovery vehicle".
very nice man. i want a beater toyota so that i can turn it into a bush truck, they just go and go no matter how hard you beat on it . check out my 1982 yoter its in a little bit better shape then your 83 here . but it has also had over $12 000 into it, and now its good for another 30 plus years.
That is great man! as long as you take care of any rust that starts, the thing will go forever... Very cool, THAT is an investment. as far as vehicles go, that will be well worth the 12,000 bucks. Very cool man :)
yep, it was from the next day after i got it, but a few minutes after i swapped out the incredibly ugly and horrible 83 4WD grill (which looks just as hidious as an older jeep cherokee) squar headlights and everything.... with the grill and headlights from a 2WD 79 toyota with circle headlights! :)
the guy i got if from drove it into the ground, never fixxed anything, the bed was completly rotten under the cap and bedliner, (thats why it fell apart for me) and he had blown the head gasket
ya i thought it was a pretty good deal man, you have to run it between 2 and 4hi, not quite egaged into either one, he says he has to run it like that for years. Ya the front axle is kinda similar to my 83. i'm workin on dovetailin it and narrowin the nose now, i'll go full 4 link and coil springs
and he would just drive it untill it overheated and shut off, then he would sit and wait till it cooled enough to start... the guy was killing it for years. then it broke down, and he let it sit in his drive way. he would have junked it (and it would have got crushed at the junk yard) but i found it, and said i'd take it off his hands. then we fixxed the poor 22R, i drove it till that broke, then we put the 20R in it, and the head gasket went in that, because of some rust issues
i couldn't have. im not the greatest mechanic, and i really don't have much money at all. and it would have took alot of money. theoreticallly its not really worse off now then when i got it. it needed a bed then, and the window on the drivers door was broken then too. and the engine shot. this one needs a head gasket. not hard to fix. needs front callipers, probably rear break stuff too. other then that its not really doing bad at all. Spedometer cable.
@tommartyn wat u were tell that guy before this conversation
Trebuer22 1 week ago
@tommartyn i understood that
Trebuer22 1 week ago
@Trebuer22
hahah, what?
tommartyn 1 week ago
thats a 80 model body
corey15469 1 month ago
@corey15469
:) no, it isnt. Hahah, 1979-1983 is this bodystyle. 82-83 have different grills/headlights/instrument panel.
Your misunderstanding, is because when i first got this 83 4x4, i was disgusted by the 83 grill and square headlights, so i took them out, and put in the ones from my 79 2wd. That grill was only used on 79-81 2wd trucks. 4x4s always have different, tougher looking grills. I prefere the 2wd grills personally.
tommartyn 1 month ago
@corey15469
Got that? :)
tommartyn 1 month ago
She ain't dead yet,you too easy on her.don't be afraid to try harder!
HmongGuitarPlayer 1 month ago
@HmongGuitarPlayer
:) haha, i never said it was dead :)
tommartyn 1 month ago
Now THAT is a fucking truck!!! Not these pussy ass big boys riding around jacked up on shiny suspensions.. It's prob just as well they don't take them off road, though. Cause' they sink in as soon as they touch mud!! LOL...
bliglum 2 months ago
@bliglum
hahah :) damn fucking right man! :) You need something small, lightweight that you can beat the living shit out of without worring about it. :) Thats where the fun is.
tommartyn 2 months ago
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4JeepxJK4 3 months ago
Destroy!! Destroy!!!
989enry 4 months ago
@989enry
Romp Romp Romp!
tommartyn 4 months ago
fucking nice bed lolol
jacobcog 4 months ago
Ya I love the old 1st gen toyota 4x4. Now I have a 1989 Nissan 4x4 pickup (i love it, its great) and I would love to sell it for an old straight axle Toyota, but they are so hard to find in nice shape! And I'm not gonna give up my nice Nissan for an old rust bucket Toyota with a billion miles on it...
RideRed1994 4 months ago
@RideRed1994
I hear ya man. Nissan's are really nice too man. We had an 87, and it was seriously un killable. Believe me, we tried :)
tommartyn 4 months ago
If im not mistaken, didn't '83s have square headlights and a different grille?
RideRed1994 4 months ago
@RideRed1994
Unfortunately thats true man. Good eye! When i got this, i had a parts 79 2wd pickup, and i took the grill and headlights/bezels from that for this. The cut outs were the same for the headlights, and the holes were there for the round headlight brackets, just no nuts welded on. So i got 6 nuts and bolts. I had to splice the wires together for the lights, because the plugs were different. But other then that, easy swap :) And man, made it look a million times better.
tommartyn 4 months ago
@RideRed1994
The 79-81 (circle headlight style) grills had 2 different styles. 2wd, and 4wd. This is the 2wd which i prefer. The 4wd grill is sopposed to look tougher, a little bulkier, not so fine lined like the 2wd. I think the square headlight years had different grills for 2wd and 4wd as well.
Also, the gauges are different for the square headlight ones, i tried to put the 79 cluster in, but the plugs were different for that as well :(
tommartyn 4 months ago
what tire size r u runnin?
146DEMO 5 months ago
@146DEMO
I think they were about 31 inches tall. Maybe closer to 32
tommartyn 5 months ago
@tommartyn thanks man
146DEMO 5 months ago
@tommartyn do you remember what backspacing on the rims?
146DEMO 3 months ago
you must hate that truck!
davidcbates 8 months ago
@davidcbates
Yeah, i can't stand how awesome it is :)
tommartyn 8 months ago
i would love to see this driver behind the wheel of a monster truck during freestyle!!
scojakracing 8 months ago
@scojakracing
haha, something bad might happen. it would be fun though
tommartyn 8 months ago
There'll never be another truck like the 83 Hilux...
Hanswurst27278 8 months ago
@Hanswurst27278
I'm really partial to the 79-81. 81 specifically because it was the first year with the 22r, which is somewhat more of a beast then the 20R. But the 81 has the circle headlights and awesome grill like the 79 and 80, the 82 and 83's have the square headlights, different grill, and different gauges, which just isn't really my style. The 82-83 front end looks like a cherokee. The grill and headlights i put on this 83 was from my 79 2wd truck. 2wd and 4wd are different grills.
tommartyn 8 months ago
@tommartyn
well, those details are the frosting on the Awesome-Cake that is the Hilux!
Hanswurst27278 8 months ago
@tommartyn Nothin wrong with Cherokees now :-P
Droiddest 6 months ago
@Droiddest
As long as they are stick, and not powered by the gm 2.8l then they are cool machines. :). But the toyotas are their own awesome trucks, and had their own incredible front end before they started looking like cherokees. They just shouldn't have done it. Luckily its easy to convert them to the pre - 82 stlye front end. Get that Toyota look back
tommartyn 6 months ago
@tommartyn The sticks a bit hard to satisfy seeing as thats only about 1 in 20. Believe me I'm always looking for sticks lol.
Droiddest 6 months ago
@Droiddest
Yeah man :) they're hard to find. My friend janet has one with the 4.2L (pretty sure) and the Puguet (spelling?) 5 speed trans in it. Fun to drive, Trans feels week though :) Manual says you can only plow snow with the auto trans. The manual isn't strong enough. But still, its way more fun to drive :)
tommartyn 6 months ago
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Droiddest 6 months ago
@tommartyn Yeah the Puke goat is worth its weight in cardboard, but I'd argue that the AX-15 (5spd used after that and for the rest of its years aside from from 00-01s) is as strong as the AW4, aka indestructible.
Droiddest 6 months ago
@Droiddest
hahah :) I've never driven one with the newer 5 speed. glad to know they had a stronger trans! :) They are really fun machines
tommartyn 6 months ago
whats left of that bed you got there haha but toyota ftw hands down!
TheFreakyfixed87 9 months ago
@TheFreakyfixed87
:) hahah, yeah, over the years it pretty much naturally turned itself into a flat bed. Toyota's are beasts man :)
tommartyn 9 months ago
do that in your chevy, (and keep doing it)
MrFilthyMcnasty1 9 months ago
@MrFilthyMcnasty1
What do you mean?
tommartyn 9 months ago
@tommartyn those little toyota trucks will go more places than most chevy 4x4's and take alot more abuse and less maitenance
MrFilthyMcnasty1 9 months ago
@MrFilthyMcnasty1
:) oh, i gotcha man :) yep, true true. They can't haul as much weight as american trucks, or as easily, but thats about it.
Stock for stock they will go more places then any american truck, hands down.
tommartyn 9 months ago
just take off the bed!!! And wht type of tires?
ellerymont 11 months ago
just take off the bed!!!
ellerymont 11 months ago
whats the box lenght on your 83 toyota?
dodgedieselrebel 11 months ago
@dodgedieselrebel
That was the long bed, so it was a 7 and 1/2 foot long bed. I think the standard bed's are 5 foot something. The shortbed's are better for romping though, because the wheel base is a little shorter, and less bed hangs past the rear wheels. Plus they're probably a little lighter, and thats always important for romping.
tommartyn 11 months ago
thanks for the info, tommartyn
dodgedieselrebel 11 months ago
thats a hurtten unit
18SARA81 1 year ago
@18SARA81
it could use some repairs
tommartyn 1 year ago
That is an 1980 Toyota round headlights and look at the Grill I am sure and it does have a 20R in it I have one and it is my favorite truck.7 inches of lift weber carb and an ignigter off a 1985 toyota Ignigter are the first thing to go on 20 R engines.And you can't find them easy.
hubhunts 1 year ago
@hubhunts
Good eye man! I think only one other person has commented about the grill/headlights i took off my 79 2wd for this thing. Thats a 2x4 grill by the way, the 4x4's are different.
Yep, its an 83. I hate square headlights though, and had a 79 2wd with 90,000 miles on the 20r. I put the facelift on right away, and put the 20r in a few years late when the 22r finally went. Now its in my woods waiting for me to finish bolting up the 87 22r i dropped in.
79-81 had round headlights.
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn The round headlights were the first thing i noticed. I like the round better than square too. but why would you waste time putting those on that truck
sethicania 1 year ago
@sethicania
haha, well, i put that front setup on a few years before this footage. before all the rust showed its ugly head, and the bed fell apart and all. I'll send you a video of when i first put it on the road, which was about a year after i got it.
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn I had an 81 and loved it. It had a 3" lift. I flipped it and it was trashed. It was a beast
sethicania 1 year ago
@sethicania
Ah man, yeah, i could see that destroying it pretty good. I hope the engine and trans got reused, alot of people need those. and that was the 1st year for the 22R. I had an 81, stock, and the thing was amazing. it was an SR5, so it had awesome sr5 pinstriping, sticker type stuff on it, a tach, stereo radio, sr5 steering wheel, thing was awesome :) I didn't realize it but it had serious frame rot, and after a few years in the field, broke in half.
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn Hey man, Do you remember? How hard was it to change those lights out?
sethicania 1 year ago
@sethicania It was super easy to change the headlights, the healight bezels, the marker lights that are in them, and the grill. All the holes are there for everything, the grill just screws right in, and the bezels too, but the headlight holders have to be bolted on. each side has 3 holes in the perfect spot for them, but you have to buy bolts. 3 3/4 inch long 1/4 inch wide bolts with a nut for each side and you're good. 1984 and up is a completely different body style and it won't work.
tommartyn 1 year ago
You guys should've gotten the one taillight working just for shits n' giggles.
brapboys503 1 year ago
@brapboys503
:) haha, yeah, probably would have been pretty easy, maybe just needed bulbs. Would have been funny
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn Yeah it would've.
brapboys503 1 year ago
the toyota pickups are like the cockroachs of the auto world, they'll be the last ones standing lol
llMAINLUNATICll 1 year ago
@llMAINLUNATICll
hahah, damn right man :) These bitches are incredible :) some company, that i think is in africa, was buying all the old toyota's from around here a few years ago, maybe still are. they would come in and cut them in half, and just buy the front ends :) ship them over and i guess put other rear ends on them.
tommartyn 1 year ago
Crappy Toyota ever
But looks like you are having a lot of fan
Good for you man. Rock on!!
I will take it, if still free.
007ayala 1 year ago
@007ayala
Thanks man!
Nah i like it a lot. I got it for free, but wouldn't give it away.
tommartyn 1 year ago
I love how it looks like crap...but the engine starts like, no problem, and it sounds like its running good....gotta love those old yota's
captaincrunch69 1 year ago
@captaincrunch69
Definitely gotta love these beasts! they are incredible for sure!
tommartyn 1 year ago
only thing that stopped my 81 was a log in a mud hole bent the tie rod out bad. I think your missing a tail light.
kvhemiboy 1 year ago
@kvhemiboy
:) yeah, they are pretty unstoppable. Lucky tie rods are replaceable.
I don't know man, it passed inspection :)
tommartyn 1 year ago
The troll under that bridge oughta maintain his road a little better.
chrisdjonestube 1 year ago
@chrisdjonestube
:) yeah, that guys slacking, for sure.
tommartyn 1 year ago
The Toyos in this country are now living off those older Toyos reputatiuon.I had a 06 4x4 tundra the shittiest truck I ever had.Now Im running a 09 3500 Duramax and Im keeping it forever.
jmac5058 1 year ago
@jmac5058
Yeah, i'm sure the newer ones aren't made nearly as well as these old beasts. These were the complete package right here :) Minus the insane power the Duramax has. But these things were the best.
The main guy at toyota recently, and sadly appologized to people for any problems or poor workmanship and engineering that people may have experienced. He says the company started growing too fast... And they feel shame about it. Ask GM if they give a shit if they make a shitty car.
tommartyn 1 year ago
my celica has a 20R
TheMetallicafan88 1 year ago
i miss my old 83 toyota...... best truck i ever had
thatkidsmokin 1 year ago
@thatkidsmokin
They are incredible machines man, for sure.
tommartyn 1 year ago
Japanese people....
fawnknudsen 1 year ago
@fawnknudsen
Hey, i checked out your profile, and you seem to have a strong ability to describe things in alot of depth, with words i never hear or see usually, and it seems like there is alot of meaning, and also fun with the way you write. SO, i was wondering if you could elaborate on the 2 comments you left. I'm interested for sure :)
I could make a lot of guesses, but i think they'd all be wrong
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn I stated "Japanese people...." with an ellipses, which denotes that I purposefully removed content; to say, to the reader, that the content is omitted on purpose. Meaning, the reader should be able to infer what I am saying after watching your video upload.
fawnknudsen 1 year ago
be easy to load a deer on that bed...
Opium323 1 year ago
@Opium323 J
be easier with a 2wd toyota, the beds sit a few feet lower on those.
tommartyn 1 year ago
and it still starts first crank
ripper3494 1 year ago
@ripper3494
Yeah :) that thing always started right away. A little quicker to start when it was cold though :)
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn thats wat i love about the 4 cyls, my wrangler has a 4 banger and it always starts first time, show me another engine that does that after bein beatin to shit and is old lolz
ripper3494 1 year ago
@ripper3494
Nice! Some day i really want to get a wrangler with a 4cyl.
I do have the 46 willys with the 4cyl, but that was the only engine they had in them :) 60HP man :)
tommartyn 1 year ago
ha this video made my day. toyota for life.
hostilerosstyle 1 year ago
@hostilerosstyle
hell yeah man, toyota for life :)
tommartyn 1 year ago
you shud of used a pos ford...fords suck
potatosniffer 1 year ago
i think he is just not careful and he looses them in the creek. i recall him losing his penis too lol
AcaAllertor127 1 year ago
@AcaAllertor127
true true. he has trouble keeping track of things. Last night he did a kamakazi into the creek with a bolens in the crazy rain storm. he didn't know it was the creek, went full throttle into it, tractor went straight down, and so did he then he flipped up side down, landed on the ground with his back, and the tractor flipped forward and slammed into him. then fell over. some how, he's ok.
tommartyn 1 year ago
1:12 free balls? mike must be interested in that deal lol
AcaAllertor127 1 year ago
@AcaAllertor127
haha, Free Balloons, thats what it said originally. Yeah, mikes always in the market for some new balls, being that his are always falling out.
tommartyn 1 year ago
iv seen this vid like 100 times and i just want that truck
MrJjj55 1 year ago
@MrJjj55
haha, me too :) I just ripped a 22r out of an 85 2wd, that we're going to put in this thing. Re power the beast. the 20R i put in it, blew the head gasket... :(
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn shit that sux i just got rid of a 84 nissan 4x4 king cab that my frind blue the motor in
MrJjj55 1 year ago
@MrJjj55
aw man, THAT sucks. Those things are pretty awesome too. even though they're independent front suspension. it looks kinda stupid, but it really does pretty well.
Which engine was it? the 4cyl or the 3L V6
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn 4cyl 2.4 whith headers and dule exsost 4 inch lift 32.s in the back 31.s up front 5 speed and i had 4 kc lights on top i had over 1500 in it and got 200 for it
MrJjj55 1 year ago
@MrJjj55
:( son of a bitch, that sucks. Did you try to sell it with all that stuff on it? Frame was probably rotted out i guess, they normally are. taller tires in the back?? :) Trying to blow up your transfercase? i guess as long as you only used 4x4 in the mud, or snow it wouldn't hurt anything. I think on our 87 nissan we had one huge tire on the back left , but that thing was a field beater, didn't matter if it blew u the transfer case. Seen vids of ours?
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn the frame was not al rusted and thows were the only tires i had for it and i drive it to work and mud and a lil rock. i have seen a lot of ur vids thare good most of them i hate the ones when u kill old dodges thow but other than that not bad
MrJjj55 1 year ago
@MrJjj55
That must have been cool to drive that around, and romp it. Thats how it was when i had this truck on the road. i loved every second of it.
Glad you like most of our vids. We've never killed an old dodge :) from what i can tell, they're unkillable. My two road trucks right now are 2 red shortbed dodge pickups, 2wd, one slant 6 and stick, other v8 and auto. Just fired up the 65 dart tonight, and cruised slowly around the field for a while. Putting new engine in this toyota tonight
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn yhaa me to sept the spedo didant work and i got it inpandied the first day i got it haha passed a cop when he was goin 70 haha and didant u have that vid whith that ramcharger getin all fucked up the black one???? how many motors have u put in that old yota??
MrJjj55 1 year ago
@MrJjj55
haha, nice :) Yeah, the cop must have been pretty happy about that.
I have a vid where i'm reving the piss out of a black 84 ramcharger, and its smoking like crazy, i think the valve seals went bad, like my new 318, it smokes alot too. But revving it didn't kill it. I just never started it again. The drivetrain was broken, and i had to get rid of it, so i took the carb and intake off. Its crazy, this 83's gonna be on its 4th engine. with 154K miles. My 81 4x4 had 270K Original
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn oh yhaa so happy he towd it haha sweet yhaa dodge dont like to die lol . hay what state u live in?
MrJjj55 1 year ago
@MrJjj55
I'm in eastern pa. Where abouts are you?
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn mesa AZ
MrJjj55 1 year ago
I love toyotas! I got stuck and was partially submerged in water for several hours, and it ran fine when out. How do these older stucks stand up? Do the frames have any trouble with rust after so many years? anything I should check out before I buy one?
WoodcockMichael 1 year ago
@WoodcockMichael
Hey!
Yeah, this one in the video was left overnight in my flooded woods, and the water went well up over the engine through the night. a few days later, i pulled the plugs, cranked the engine till the water came out, changed the oil, and drove the bastard out :) running fine :) I love them too! :)
The frames do have rust over the years. always check the frame where the bed meets the body. as long as it looks and feels solid when you hit it with a hammer, Buy it up :)
tommartyn 1 year ago
@WoodcockMichael
they also rust out where the rear shocks hook up to the frame. up under the bed. if you can weld, some of the rust can be fixable. the outside of the frame is the thick part, so if the inside part is rusted out, that could be patched with some good metal, and give years more use :) The front brakes on the ones i've had have been 4 piston calipers. 2 on each side of the rotors, and on my one, all were seized up except 2 tiny ones. one on each side of the truck :)
tommartyn 1 year ago
you got the toyotas, you got the cool hair cut so.... wheres the bitches?!!!!
adammotox 1 year ago
@adammotox
hahaha, :) never thought about it like that before. I guess it doesn't work like that. :) And being that all the toyota's are broken right now, and i'm starting to develop a bald spot at 26, its not looking good for the future either :)
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn haha oh well. fix them up and get after it, love your videos reminds me of me and my retarded friends. haha! yotas 4 life!!!
adammotox 1 year ago
i used to have a 86 turbo charged toyota truck just like this.
lasted forever and i gave it hell the entire time.
the truck did things i thought trucks couldnt do.
deadjoey77 1 year ago
@deadjoey77
:) thats awesome man. Thats what its all about. and thats exactly what toyota's do. What you'd expect they can't. and what others can't.
Very cool that your 4x4 was turbo. i didn't know they put the turbo's on any 4x4's. That has to rock. :)
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn
ya it was the 2nd engine. the guy b4 more put it in. was pretty fast for a torquie 5 speed truck. beat my friends kia rio hahaha. it inspired me to get another toyota. i own a 07 corolla s 5 speed. but i miss my truck, i remember going uphill through the woods in 3 feet of snow in a blizzard with no problem. best truck/car ive ever owned in my life.
deadjoey77 1 year ago
man for an old junk like that, its got preety decent power !! put a diff lock on that and see wat happens !
errorserver3000 1 year ago
@errorserver3000
Thanks man! yeah, thats one of our plans for this thing.
tommartyn 1 year ago
@tommartyn Np bro ... I wanna drive that it looks fun
errorserver3000 1 year ago
Awesome video and tough truck.
hammeredscout 1 year ago
love your truck
dedred5 1 year ago
@thewhoissuperb24
We ride on a whole shitload. but the part with the pile is on my grandmothers land, then we ride all around on the neighbors land as well. Most of the creek stuff is on theirs.
tommartyn 1 year ago
that thing is beat to shitt haha least its a straight axle
cyrusford 2 years ago
the ONLY problem with these old toyota trucks were the frames breaking in half behind the cab and on front of the back tire. BUT you could prevent this by cleaning the frame out every so often.. but its too late. Live long Toyota FTW!
fergiman 2 years ago
hell ye bro thats why they call is yota cause it lastys forever.. but your clutch might not lol
longdongkong1 2 years ago
ghetto truck
YourFavoriteReviewer 2 years ago
Ghetto-ass truck
you know m ssayin?
tommartyn 2 years ago
The solid front axles and leafs are a dying breed in Toyota Trucks. You can mount plows on them and the frame won't scrape the ground like on newer trucks.
lardjumpins76 2 years ago
yeah, i really wish they'd never switched over like that... I always like it when a truck sits level. You can fit 33's under these stock 79-83 Toyota's. the rub a little turned all the way, but just barely.
tommartyn 2 years ago
A suspension lift is simple in the Toy's with the leafs. Put the leafs over the axle. Now with the coil springs, someone will have to buy larger coils.
lardjumpins76 2 years ago
do you still have this beast
curtismundy 2 years ago
i've got a few trucks, but right now just the willys Jeep is working. I still have this beast, but it needs the head resurfaced, and checked for cracks. i'm going to get that done when i get some money. :)
tommartyn 2 years ago
how many trucks di you have that you romp on o by the way u fuckin rock
curtismundy 2 years ago
nothin beats a toyota.. hands down most bang for the buck
crotchrocketrr 2 years ago 9
You know it! :)
tommartyn 2 years ago
Very nice, way to use the yotas. I have a 83 with a 5 speed and a 22r, only has 119 thousand on it, and I just bought a 79 with a 20r and a weber carb. Gonna make the 79 my rock crawler
Cadilakis 2 years ago
Thanks! awesome! How much was the 79? Is the 79 a 5 speed?
tommartyn 2 years ago
I gave the guy 300 for it, and all it needed was some fresh gas and a battery and i was in the mud and rocks in no time flat! Yes it is a 5 speed, but i think the transfer case is the wrong one for it
Cadilakis 2 years ago
Thats a great deal! 300 bucks, can't beat it. Thats weird, whats up with the transfercase. I think it should be just like the one in the 83. Don't know for certain though. 79 was the first 4wd year. things might have been different. the front axle should not have extra welded support around the pumpkin like the later years
tommartyn 2 years ago
is that manual transmission?
Necrolemus 2 years ago
doesnt rust come standard on many toyotas?
adb140275 3 years ago
haha, Definitely came standard on the bed of this toyota! and in the middle of the frame on 2 other ones i have...
tommartyn 3 years ago
this HISTORIC toyota truck :)
sovie7 2 years ago
:) Yes it is :)
tommartyn 2 years ago
how many u got and wat years and can u give me 1 with auto transmission and xtra cab for some trails/rock crawling? preferably 22rte engine
Necrolemus 2 years ago
haha, preferably the most powerful of the R family eninges toyota used huh? wow. you don't ask for much! :) Yeah, automatics suck dick, and no 4 wd toyota should EVER be auto. thats an insult to the awesome trucks. the years of toyotas i have didn't have extra cabs, or 22rte engines.
tommartyn 2 years ago
rock crawling auto pratical a must, unless your have 3 legs to ba;ane clutch, brake, and gas. but yea sticks are better overall
Necrolemus 2 years ago
It might make the rock crawling thing easier, but its still just not worth it. You can hit the brake with your heel, and the gas with your toes :) Why do you want a turbo for rock crawling? wouldn't it be kinda not used much, what with the lower rpm's and all?
tommartyn 2 years ago
true, but thee fuel injection is a must. for me at least.
Necrolemus 2 years ago
I've never had a 22R with fuel injection, but my friend andrew brown just got an 87 or 88 or something 4x4 22RE and it's deffinatly awesome :) Had alot of fun with carburated 22r's though. the 20R carb's are crap, but the ones on 22R's are very well made :)
tommartyn 2 years ago
idk where u are, but hteres this place in pico riviera where they have nothing but japanese engines, they have plenty of the 22r and 22re, they might do a trade.
Necrolemus 2 years ago
I'm in eastern PA. Nice! Unfortunatly, around here, all the 22R type toyota's were bought up from all the junk yards, and they cut the frames at the cab, and shipped all the front ends to africa. where they weld them on old back ends i guess. the junk yards said that they were being paid alot! but its sad for people like around here, who have old toyota's.
tommartyn 2 years ago
from wat i here, toyotas are sought after more than landrovers ij africa. some guy i knew was in africa doing something idk wat, but the vehicle of choice were toyota trucks. on the of some of them it said "Land Rover recovery vehicle".
Necrolemus 2 years ago
hahah, yeah it is! :) thanks!
tommartyn 3 years ago
very nice man. i want a beater toyota so that i can turn it into a bush truck, they just go and go no matter how hard you beat on it . check out my 1982 yoter its in a little bit better shape then your 83 here . but it has also had over $12 000 into it, and now its good for another 30 plus years.
"my toyota wont get stuck it only gets delayed"
holyluke 3 years ago
Awesome! i'll have to check that out :)
That is great man! as long as you take care of any rust that starts, the thing will go forever... Very cool, THAT is an investment. as far as vehicles go, that will be well worth the 12,000 bucks. Very cool man :)
tommartyn 3 years ago
was that picture taken when u got it because it looked really nice but not anymore thanks to u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MO3MINI 3 years ago
yep, it was from the next day after i got it, but a few minutes after i swapped out the incredibly ugly and horrible 83 4WD grill (which looks just as hidious as an older jeep cherokee) squar headlights and everything.... with the grill and headlights from a 2WD 79 toyota with circle headlights! :)
the guy i got if from drove it into the ground, never fixxed anything, the bed was completly rotten under the cap and bedliner, (thats why it fell apart for me) and he had blown the head gasket
tommartyn 3 years ago
ya i thought it was a pretty good deal man, you have to run it between 2 and 4hi, not quite egaged into either one, he says he has to run it like that for years. Ya the front axle is kinda similar to my 83. i'm workin on dovetailin it and narrowin the nose now, i'll go full 4 link and coil springs
Cadilakis 2 years ago
and he would just drive it untill it overheated and shut off, then he would sit and wait till it cooled enough to start... the guy was killing it for years. then it broke down, and he let it sit in his drive way. he would have junked it (and it would have got crushed at the junk yard) but i found it, and said i'd take it off his hands. then we fixxed the poor 22R, i drove it till that broke, then we put the 20R in it, and the head gasket went in that, because of some rust issues
tommartyn 3 years ago
in way ur right but could u not have saved it?
MO3MINI 3 years ago
i couldn't have. im not the greatest mechanic, and i really don't have much money at all. and it would have took alot of money. theoreticallly its not really worse off now then when i got it. it needed a bed then, and the window on the drivers door was broken then too. and the engine shot. this one needs a head gasket. not hard to fix. needs front callipers, probably rear break stuff too. other then that its not really doing bad at all. Spedometer cable.
tommartyn 3 years ago
thats one awesome and awesome looking work horse
uscar17 3 years ago
haha, yeah, for a free truck, the thing is really incredible.
tommartyn 3 years ago
gotta love ole toyotas
uscar17 3 years ago
how many yoters do you have?
83yoter 3 years ago
right now i'm at...
6
i've had around 12 total. not all trucks though, some corolla's, tercels and a celica thrown in there.
tommartyn 3 years ago
thats one big heap of shit
83yoter 3 years ago
Ha man you should go get dodge ramcharger. and show them how its done.lol
tazzees 3 years ago
I would, but the trailduster is broken... :(
tommartyn 3 years ago
toyota p/u's are so awesome one of my friends (cooldan1990) wants to buy an 89 2wd for $400
savagexhaley14 3 years ago
they are incredible! yeah, he should get that thing! for sure. 22R! insane awesome trucks. 2wd's are fast! and fun.
tommartyn 3 years ago
does that say free ill take it lol
BobbyFlanders 3 years ago