83, the grey ghost build

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I'm moving the original build thread from elsewhere, so this is gunna be slow.
Eta the orignal was lost to a server crash around 03...

my 83 rockcrawler
07-28-2012, 06:05 PM

It seems we lost a ton of pics in this after the forum crash n burn thing years ago? I dunno but I'm redoing some pics...

had been daily driving this for 20 odd years up till now ish...

I lost the original post sooooo...

I got this thing as a parts chaser when i got the 67....

was bone stock...
needed a tranny when i got it and grenaded output bearing coming back from frisco...
new tranny is in the works (now here's where the addiction part comes in) why not put the double transfer case in?

At this point I really didn't think the snowball was forming so I did not take pics of the parts trucks yet...

Buy a Junker #2 yank the x fer case get an adapter and a new tranny. shit this is purty nice.
now i need lockers f/r.
enter truck#3.

Somewhere along the line I swapped to a v6 carrier rear and an fj hi pinion front...

Truck #3 is axle donor...

yank the new axles with arb's (read air posi) bolt it together after pulling it apart to see what i got, looks good.
wheel it like this fer a while... crap now i need low range gearing in the transfer case #2(again addict) buy truck #4 the blue one... new double transfer case's with 4.7:1 gearset, with 4.10:1 this goes to a final reduction of @ 173:1... 3 grand in low makes 1.5 mph.

My build thread was/is on the shovelhead.us site, but I never hauled it here.
Sooooo
Here we go...

 

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Most of these were back in the days of cheap yotas sub 1k most @ $500

Geartrain

Built ultimate duals from the blue rig.

Truck #5

fullie eng. and drive train...
W 56 trans and re harness from an 85-6 runner.

Truck#6

I bought a gutted white donor for the

bed fer the blue donor to make a roller to sell, and some donor doors fer half doors fer the grey ghost.

 

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Next round

This is after the duals were installed.

Starting on the high steer , springs (3 1/2" lift) winch bumper... thanx boys.

Then this lumbered into the shop for some lift enhancement for towing a toy hauler...
Gotta pay the bills right.

Just for grins....
them wheels down low in back in pic #2 are the yota.

This thing was bone stock when I got it,
the latest project... (yota)
high steer and winch bumper and homebrew front leaf's
Did the ifs brakes and all the swap stuff at once.

2trips thru rubicon so far.

Fabwork fer winch

a little cad (cardboard assisted design) for Ron's winch plate I had to section to fit.

Sorry for the outa order pics....

 

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Supplies

Add another truck to the count.
Extra cab long bed spotless interior and body.
Something was dicked up on the 22re...

bought this for another fuelli conversion but its to clean to cut up. 150k on the clock so its gettin a new heart and then hitting the for sale spot out front.
swapped the blue Toyota truck roller for a paint/body work job on this

Painter wanted a fuelli eng.

 

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finished product

sectioning the front fenders up outta the way for 35's

Fast forward 10ish years. blew out the timing chain tensioner @ buck island 15 hrs onna strap deadstick.

Back to the build...
This is fitting the 14 gallon long bed tank to a shortbox truck.

building the 83 celica 13 bolt head

Here's a 2x4 I scored cheap to flip.
Taco axle in foreground..

poser shot @ prairie city on 31's

pay to set up trunnions while you do something else they said.....

 

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Yea 1 side was tight the other was draggin on the pin....
the trucker girls rock rings I got off the other place way back when.
the big tire taco I got while I was doing the re conversion and A.C. install , front hanger and rufs, nos old school Bobby Longfeild birfs and shafts in the front.
I'd been squirreling away parts, now was time for the big changes.
From here on out I am just photo dumping into this thread because you can only post 10 per post so some are out of sequence.

The reason why I did rufs and front hanger...

Lil bit of inspiration,

Here's the chunk I had to section outta the free winch mount.

Installing air compressor drain valves , c.o.b. deflators

Yes the 14 gallon long bed tank is a tad longer
new x member time, probably a pic in here somewhere...

moar spaghetti swap
Started with an entire 4runner harness from tail lights to headlights so I got to play butcher and surgeon

 

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Engine thrash

bed for the blue donor

Someone wanted a pic of the hand throttle setup...

Half doors still not built

spaghetti swap

Get some

Not just a poser

14 gallon tank swap

 

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Most all of the above was/is from the biker site, and I edited out most of the superfluous stuff...I lost alot of the first pics of the big mods in that thread to a server crash, they were the lift and sliders and bumpers for the most part.
We'll pick up here on 2025 shit going forward.

 

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Here's today's crap.

After the wrights lake snow run.
Heard bubbles in the recovery tank went I would shut it off.
I took a crapshoot it would last till I made it home and won.
Runners 1-4 had standing fuel lakes.
All 4 are carboned up.
#3 was sucking water.
All this @ 21k of full longblock rebuild...

I.B.B. Warning
Avoid Selby and sons Machine shop in Sant Rosa ca.



funny the sound of dripping water in this one...

 

[Will Scarlet]

I didn't want you to be the only one posting in your thread, so enjoy:

 

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No one cares
Just another yota from the prk

 

[Penetrode Offroad]

 

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Cross post

Thread 'Help picking new 22re rings'

Feb 22, 2025

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ordered from an online vendor

Looking for input on this.
83 short box with a 1983 13 bolt Celica head on the factory 22r block fully rebuild back in 2017 ( bored .020 over .050mm on pistons ) and installed in 2020, Looks like I washed the bores on the re swap, (looks glazed up) down to 60 psi cranking compression, sub 30k on the engine so I figure to glaze break it and do a ring and valve job.
So quick search of (83 Toyota 22r) rings brings up a myriad of choices.
I got no problem waiting on rings to break in, and seeing that they are around $50 a set aint worried about cost.
What...

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[GBG8201]

Hell, I'll follow along.

 

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Wonder why it was @ 60.....
Poor ass oil control rings

 

[Chkn]

Do the other pistons have the ring gaps inline? 🤦‍♂️

 

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All 4

See post 15
# 3 had a small gap stagger less' n an inch...

 

[toyotajeep]

That is cool watching the progress. Looking forward to an update. I think OCD but uninformed people think it would be logical to line them up. You know keep things tidy!

 

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The head that was on it aint happy, the cam won't turn with the rockers removed.
I have another 15 bolt head, looks like the block deck is flat.
Gunna take both heads to my machinist and go thru 1 and pray.
New glazebreaker in hand, freshen up the rings,gasket match and polish the intake.

 

[Hooligan]

Something about the 8274 on that year just looks right.

 

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Just don't ask Marlin for a bumper.....
For funzies, the truck and winch are both from 1983...
Thanx bud

 

[Penetrode Offroad]

8274 looks good on just about anything.

 

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#2 cam journal was coked up badly.
Gasket matched the plenum/lower and cleaned up the mating surfaces.

 

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5 Cent egr blockoff plate.

Grenading the head to blend the ports, some ugly casting flash on this one...

Waiting on rings, lapped the valves and de carboned the exhaust ports.

 

[Will Scarlet]

About time you posted something again. I was getting ready to post another intermission gif today just for you...

 

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Shit, it's been a daily driver for the last 5 years.
Aint supposed to be working on it after the build.

Should be raining the rest of the week, I'll be thrashing on it.
Just the ring and valve job.

 

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scrubbing freakin carbon /oil from shitty ringseal and egr

I hate cleaning pistons

Time to rebuild the shaft

Long term project, cut a new rock ring I bent a wheel, thankfully I have 5...

 

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Bottom end is buttoned up, waiting for the stealership to deliver an undamaged head gasket.
Need to finish the exhaust ports and do the throttle body and find some zink additive for the oil.
Anyone ever knife edge the butterfly on an re?

 

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So , a psa for cavemen doing a pre 85 22r/e
My 83 celica 22re head has the injectors situated different than the 85/6 plenum.
Apparently that contributed to the puddeled fuel in the lower #1-4 runners in post #9.
So here's the gasket match details, notice that #2-3 shown in black sharpie, are the 83 injection port pockets.
#1-3 cleared, but I opened them up to straighten the flow.

 

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Then Murphy showed up...