Might as well get it sand blasted. There are ag shops that have people doing large equipment all the time. Get the whole thing blasted, then you can see if "surface" rust is really surface. Not that expensive, especially with the results you will get. Make a decision based on results. If all is fine a quick pickling will go a long way. Best primer step for iron / steel is to hit is with phosphoric acid. The result is black iron phosphate which is a dandy anti rust layer and makes a perfect paint surface. Check it out on wikipedia. There are several ways of doing the pickling, including spraying with diluted phosphoric, using "navy jelly" or some variant of that. After the metal turns gray / black, a quick wash with water will get rid of the acid and away you go. So, blast, pickle, wash and paint....

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I dont think I need to go that far .. but thanks for the info ..

LAST one I did .. I did all that (some of you may remember this build) but .. POR 15 does NOT need this process .
The rust you see in the pics really is only surface .. the reason for the hole (in my opinion) was because the gas tank was left in , and mud was packed in there , and it stayed wet .. thats the side that was on the bottom .

ANYWAY .. I'm totally comfortable doing as POR15 recomends .. loosen the scales , de-grease , use the metal prep .. and paint on the POR 15

This one is now 5 years old .. and still going .

well a little progress to post ..

parts truck is now in pieces .




long box frame has been sold , so it's time to "strip er' down " ... got the engine out , and cab hacked to pieces ..

box had been removed previously , and I had cut a hole in the back of the cab for the "long box Trekker" I built ...
Now that that project is all done (for me anyway) It was time to get to work on my project .

I sold the long box frame .. and I need alot of the pieces for my trekker .. so time to strip it .
lots of work yesterday , cut the roof off , and rockers , and cab corners .. I'm going to make some replacements so i wanted to keep them . got the engine bay mostly stripped , and engine out .


and here is where I started this morning ..



and finally the cab off ..


frame stripped ..




and diffs ready to build .



and finally my front clip .

so work on the front diff is finished ..



axle rebuild is all done .. and new "vented " rotors .




you can see the whole thing here http://toyotatrekker.proboards107.com/


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Wow you can eat off that backing plate.
I cant wait till i have time to start working on my truck again! *damn college*

Thanks Bro ...


got some goodies delivered today





and put away for the moment ..






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so I flipped the frame over late today , and got started on the "mock up"

installed the front springs





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so lookey what I did today

stuffed the rear springs and diff back on .. didnt get it por-15'd yet .. but that'll come later ... and yes , those are blocks .. for now .



I needed my jack stands , so I made some little wood blocks .. for everything to sit on .. I guess I did pretty good on them , kuz , it's perfectly level



moved the front diff over , and got it mounted as well ..

same thing .. I still need to "detail" but for now , I have other stuff to do .



grabbed my "cherry picker" .. and decided to see just how close the engine is to fitting on the stock mounts ...



it sorta fits , but new motor mountd are definatly called for .. the right side actually "sortta fit" ... I was able to get one bolt in , and over 1/2 the hole is showing on the second bolt ..



I'm going to "re-do " both sides .


it's comming



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ok .. so its not going to be as "easy" as I first thought <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> ..
original mounts wont work ...

got the front all degreased , and cleaned and stripped


got the engine in , and leveled .. and figured this is where I wanted it .
I left some room between the alt , and the frame .. and also I was hoping to use the original motor mounts .



got the front clip on ......






NO way .. I cant have it sitting this high .. it's about 1' above the original hood line ..

so , time to start stripping the motor a bit , so I can get it down a bit .. I also think it's inevetable , I am going to have to use a body lift <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> ..


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Body lift? I'm sure a man with such resources can make a nice hoodscooped fiberglass hood to hide the motor <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />