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 Is a 4-runner the same as a pickup?
#529578
11/23/04 07:38 AM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 103
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Wheeler
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Got everyones attention didn't I?
I have a chance to pick up an '85 4-runner chasis. Had a cab fire but drive train and frame not burned.
Is the frame of a 4-runner the same as a pickup? Wheel base? Body mounts? ETC?
Beat to fit, Paint to match
Need a bigger hammer and more paint.
Did 75 Toyota (Downey 4X4 conversion Kit)
Building 88 Toyota 4X4 (7S Desert race truck)
Next 81 Toyota 4x4 (drive train conversion)
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Re: Is a 4-runner the same as a pickup?
[Re: Packrat]
#529579
11/23/04 12:03 PM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 134
Wheeler
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Sort of...  If they are of the same basic year yes. It is the same wheelbase as a shortbed pu, and the body mounts are all the same till you get to the seats. from there back, the runner mounts are different from the pu ones. Easily cut and rewelded from the old frame, if you are swapping them.
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Re: Is a 4-runner the same as a pickup?
[Re: bud r]
#529580
11/23/04 01:51 PM
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Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 96
Getting the Wheeling Fever
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Like bud said, it is close. The cab and front clip should bolt on, but the bed is where you will have to make adjustments. You could make it a flat bed and not worry about relocating mounts.
I hava a friend that has an 85 4runner and rolled it. He took an 86 extended cab and an old pick up bed and put them on the frame. Of course he had to cut the bed down a bit. Its now bobed and looks really good. He did nothing to the frame, ( as far as shortening it) but he did add some body mounts.
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Re: Is a 4-runner the same as a pickup?
[Re: seaflea]
#529581
11/23/04 05:46 PM
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Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 356
Mudrunner
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Also more affordable. Up my way pick-up's sell for twice what 4Runners get... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
'86 SR-5 Extra-cab 4 x 4, 2" BL, 33 x 12.5 x 15R M/T on 15 x 8 rockcrawlers ( 3 3/4" BS ), 22RE 5 sp , 4.88's Detroit True-Trac front, V6 open rear, 24 mm Sway-Away + Rancho 5000's, removed sway bar, no-rust south US bed, Ramsey 8000 winch
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Re: Is a 4-runner the same as a pickup?
[Re: Spacetrucking]
#529582
11/23/04 06:03 PM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 134
Wheeler
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But the nice rustfree doors are the same, right spacetrucking? Just as soon as we get the highwaystar to smoke on the water to you...
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 Re: Is a 4-runner the same as a pickup?
[Re: bud r]
#529583
11/23/04 07:16 PM
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Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 356
Mudrunner
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<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> ( guess my handle reveals my growing up in the seventies ! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> )
'86 SR-5 Extra-cab 4 x 4, 2" BL, 33 x 12.5 x 15R M/T on 15 x 8 rockcrawlers ( 3 3/4" BS ), 22RE 5 sp , 4.88's Detroit True-Trac front, V6 open rear, 24 mm Sway-Away + Rancho 5000's, removed sway bar, no-rust south US bed, Ramsey 8000 winch
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Re: Is a 4-runner the same as a pickup?
[Re: Spacetrucking]
#529584
11/23/04 08:10 PM
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Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 5,986
Toyota Section Staffer
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Also more affordable. Up my way pick-up's sell for twice what 4Runners get... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Yer kiddin'! Not here. The 4Runner to XtraCab conversion works really nice. You end up with a bobbed SWB XtraCab. I've seen several. If I ever rolled my Runner (God FORBID!) I would give it a go.
-Bill
'87 4Runner w/ '96 5VZ-FE, 'Red Chili II'
'97 Taco XtraCab 3RZ-FE, 'BlackBean'
TLCA # 13257, Rising Sun 4x4 Club Land Use Coordinator
"He who stops being better stops being good." -Oliver Cromwell
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