Buttercup's Build

I guess its time for me to crawl out of the cave I been hiding in and show you guys what I have been working on. Its a 85 toyota that had all the pavement pounder goodies on it like bushwacker flrares, light bar, awesome wheels and tires, 4" lift with a 5" body lift, yes you read that right 5" body lift. I had to repair the 2 cab mounts on the cab behind the seat because the body lift broke the mounts on the cab.

Well on to the plans for this truck, planning to keep it street driven as long as possible so nothing to fancy right now, just the basics. Like get it locked up and longs in the front and get some 36" or 37" Iroks for the trails, duals cases with 4.7. not sure If I want to bob the bed on this one since I actually like having the room to haul stuff. anyways one to the pics.





after I got a hold of it and took the body lift off and sold all the stuff I didn't want. I went to PAP and grabbed 4 leaf springs out of a wagoneer and bolted under the toyota, got some street friendly tires, 5.29" front and rear but only locked in the rear right now.

It's not extreme flex but its just useable flex. not to bad for $13 springs and only being 48" long.





Then I took it out to walker to see how everything work.

Looks good....that's one of my old trucks I bought in cali back in the day, it used to be on about 20" of lift and 44" tires.......I think I have a pic somewhere.

ya i was gonna say it looked like one that used to run around my neck of the woods, only it was blue, but looked identical! looks like it works good now!:hi:

Odie- By the way those diffs are working great. Thats crazy thats its one of your old trucks, I did buy it in tacoma. If it was your old truck it had like 10 freaken shocks in the back, what a PIA to cut all of those shock mount off. And who cut up all the EFI wiring harness to put a Weber on the truck?

Brian- Yeah its works pretty damn good for what it is and not using anything fancy.

jzmudbogger said:

Odie- By the way those diffs are working great. Thats crazy thats its one of your old trucks, I did buy it in tacoma. If it was your old truck it had like 10 freaken shocks in the back, what a PIA to cut all of those shock mount off. And who cut up all the EFI wiring harness to put a Weber on the truck?

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It was a perfect running fuelie when I bought it, no idea who cut the harness or how many times it changed hands after I sold it.

This weekend I built a front bumper and sliders in hopes of not trashing the body to bad.

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sliders

Back when I bought it about '95.

One more....

Holy **** that's crazy, that's the truck. I have that red license plate frame and everything.

Did I meet you last year at Ashford, you were with a cummins buried up to its balls in the snow?

I cut my leg open pretty good on that gay aluminum side step (didn't realize it til I got home, but I remember ripping my jeans on it)

don't know if you remember me, but I told you I owed you a beer, and hope I can pay ya back for the help sometime.

assuming this is who I'm thinking of :redneck:

I just picked this truck up this august so I think you are thinking of someone else, but I'll take that beer.

damn! Must have been the same truck though. :beer:

So change of plans, this truck is going to remain the way it is as a daily driver and weekend wheeler since I now have a new project. Took out the new rig to Elbe on Saturday for that Sno Jam event to see how it acted and what bugs I have to work on.


Called Sky Manufacturing today and placed an order, got all the pieces for the front suspension that I put on all my rigs since it has worked great for me. Also bought down all my 4 linking stuff that I never used and got everything to do hydro assist and duals. I hope to have it done by Memorial weekend.

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Good job on that bumper. :awesomework:

Thank you Joop. I wanted something different than what is normally seen

Well the old setup was and has been working get but things were getting worn out to a point where they need some attention. so I changed out the S shaped leaf springs do the typical RUF and chevy 63's.

So when comes bigger tires, comes duals/4.7 and longfields. Going to borrow the ARB 3rd member out of the other rig to put it in the front of Buttercup.

4.7 rear case is done, waiting on adapter which should be here Sat. Put the transfer case back into the staying pretty 4runner, going to button that rig up tonight.