Bodj Built
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Been lurking on here for a while but never made a thread.
Some background: My first truck in highschool was a 1995 pickup 2wd 22re. I always wanted to SAS it, but lacked the know how/fabrication skills. ended up learning about prerunners and got heavily into that area.
Overall it was a very basic build, but it was my headstart into offroad fabrication. Since then I've had another 5th gen pickup (1989 regular cab 4x4, 22re, mostly stock), built a 2000 Tundra into a pretty capable prerunner, and most recently built my main toy - 2002 GMC Sonoma Crewcab, D35 TTB swap from an Explorer frame graft, D44 Bronco knuckles/hubs, backhalf, 4 link, full floater 9", caged front to rear, 6.0L LQ4/4L80e. All built by me in the driveway.
Anyways, this thread is about the new project - a 1992 Extended Cab with the 3vze (boooo). The good news is that it has a Marlin Crawler double transfer case, 3 linked GM D44 front axle with 2.5" Kings, CTM U joints with chromoly shafts, I believe 4.56 gears front and rear, ARB air lockers front and rear, Warn 8000 winch, Marlin Crawler leaf springs and Bilsteins in the rear, extra 4.10 third members, spare axle shafts, half doors, and I got it all for a song. Some other bits are the bed that has been dovetailed, a stainless hot water tank w/ pump mounted under the bed (for camp showers), and bed cover thing with canvas top.
The truck hasn't left his sideyard in about 15 years, although he did start it up every few months, until about 10 months ago when it wouldn't start - he blamed the fuel pump.
Some friends helped tow it home (ignore the tie down job, it was only 3 miles of city streets) and get it up our driveway.
Got it running (enough) with draining the gas, and new fuel pump and filter, plugs, wires, cap and rotor. It would start every time, but stumbled hard when revving. Made it up the street and back into the driveway
I was spraying carb cleaner to check for air leaks, to no avail. The CEL was blinking 41, so I replaced the throttle body with a spare that was included (rather than checking the TPS). Still didn't fix it, and still had the code.
More in the next post
Some background: My first truck in highschool was a 1995 pickup 2wd 22re. I always wanted to SAS it, but lacked the know how/fabrication skills. ended up learning about prerunners and got heavily into that area.
Overall it was a very basic build, but it was my headstart into offroad fabrication. Since then I've had another 5th gen pickup (1989 regular cab 4x4, 22re, mostly stock), built a 2000 Tundra into a pretty capable prerunner, and most recently built my main toy - 2002 GMC Sonoma Crewcab, D35 TTB swap from an Explorer frame graft, D44 Bronco knuckles/hubs, backhalf, 4 link, full floater 9", caged front to rear, 6.0L LQ4/4L80e. All built by me in the driveway.
Anyways, this thread is about the new project - a 1992 Extended Cab with the 3vze (boooo). The good news is that it has a Marlin Crawler double transfer case, 3 linked GM D44 front axle with 2.5" Kings, CTM U joints with chromoly shafts, I believe 4.56 gears front and rear, ARB air lockers front and rear, Warn 8000 winch, Marlin Crawler leaf springs and Bilsteins in the rear, extra 4.10 third members, spare axle shafts, half doors, and I got it all for a song. Some other bits are the bed that has been dovetailed, a stainless hot water tank w/ pump mounted under the bed (for camp showers), and bed cover thing with canvas top.
The truck hasn't left his sideyard in about 15 years, although he did start it up every few months, until about 10 months ago when it wouldn't start - he blamed the fuel pump.
Some friends helped tow it home (ignore the tie down job, it was only 3 miles of city streets) and get it up our driveway.
Got it running (enough) with draining the gas, and new fuel pump and filter, plugs, wires, cap and rotor. It would start every time, but stumbled hard when revving. Made it up the street and back into the driveway
I was spraying carb cleaner to check for air leaks, to no avail. The CEL was blinking 41, so I replaced the throttle body with a spare that was included (rather than checking the TPS). Still didn't fix it, and still had the code.
More in the next post
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. Snip the timing dust shield in half, piss on removing the timing belt pulleys. All 3 of those motors lasted until they either bent rods or the truck got thrown away.