1989 Raider swb V6 a/t, bouncy seat, no HL washers, unknown if lsd, been seeing and chasing this truck since 1996. 3 owner, 3rd PO bought for daughter to drive, yr or two, truck overheated, well taught daughter pulled it over and parked it (HOW did he manage to teach her to do that and I've tried for 40yrs to teach that to my wife....), went and picked her up, irked to the max, called the wrecker and it's sat on their storage yard for over a year untouched. Smoking some when she parked it, water pump done the week before (and no new oring, just a front half). One valve stem broken on aftermarket extra offset 10" wheels, 3 year old (over one of which it was parked) GY a/t's still have the little rubber teats.
Vanity tag, "TONKA89". Guess what color it's painted. Perfect body, perfect bumpers with ends trimmed to fender well line, tbar cranked.
Originally a red/gray truck. John has found a 95sr part out for 350, missing some intake parts, and all he wants is the front diff, so I get the spindles, rotors, caplipers, backing plates, upper a arms (and the chance to see if the adjustable gen 1 upper a arm pivot and bushings will fit the no caster adjustment gen2 upper a arms). Oh, and I get the rear air locker and the rear disc brakes (do I want the gen2 booster and MC and valves?). and the power front seats. Gonna hate to give up the multifold rears. Maybe pulling a trailer instead of loading up the back end will let me do that.
Oh, yeah, it is (was I just got off the phone and locked it down) $1500.
For those of you with no imagination, the CL ad... I wish it had a radio...
Free at last, good God Almighty, free at last...
The plans:
Initial repair. Pull the intake, pull the valve covers, retorque the cylinder head bolts, do a cooling system pressure test, repair as necessary (fingers crossed and quite hopeful that fixes it) reseal the intake. and do ngk plugs and wires, new cap and rotor, water pump complete and new oring, timing belt/tensioner/front main seal/new improved final version crank bolt. New oem thermostat. New hoses. Test fan clutch. change engine fluids, check tcase/tranny/diffs fluids. Radio/cd. Spare tire. Jack.
Stage two, find a good tank gen1 a/t radiator core for the tanks (hint, hint <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />) and do a 3 row core, all fluids, the SR locker and front susup/brakes. SR seats and adjustable shocks. better tailer hitch. rock sliders. 2 inch body lift. gen 1 lockup converter tranny. front and rear bumpers like a don's - john has Powell's old don rear for a pattern (is that ok, Don?). snorkel. CB. Rack.
Stage 3: The goRaider. I've got Charlie slowly putting together a plan for a single pside turbo exhaust manifold made from a heavy flange and sch40 steel weld fittings for the 3.0 rwd motor, with a crossover pipe fabbed from the dside downpipe at the wye to the base of the turbo intake, 2.5" exhaust from there to the rear, no cats, magnaflow muffler, MS fuel and spark control. 3000TT pistons, or custom 8:1's. 16g turbo. Potential for well over 300hp on pump gas. Chilled water/air intercooler, running off the a/c freon system. Cibie 7" conversions, one fog, one driving beam in hella 500's. John has an old Warn winch in the 82xx series for the new bumper.
Oh, yeah, a set of the Aisins or the new Rocky Ridge front hubs.
Have some thoughts about the selectrac tranny and awd locking cdiff, but I guess I'd need a sye and cv for that.
Folding roof tent to fit the rack, or a jeep trailer with same. Disco ladder. Jerry can and holder. RC magnet spotlight. tractor floods. wheel well led's. farm jack. laptop sturdy mount (gps, engine tuning on the fly, datalogging...), 2300w inverter and isolated deep cycle battery with starter boost interconnect. WWFF radio panel cut for gauges (oil temp, tranny temp, boost, fuel pressure - some of these are 1" gauges, some 2 1/16") switches (aux lighting options, shocks, rear locker) and cb. WWFF panel cut for aux gauge pod for oil pressure, aircraft style compass, and volts.
