DsiDan

Looks like it came off the factory floor that way!

toyospearo

The van body is too far gone to do anything interesting with. I like the thing. It's fun to drive and I can park it anywhere and not worry for a second about it getting broke in to.
I just built a back bumper for it. I did it kinda quick and dirty but it works. I was driving on the highway and I heard a noise I look in the rear view mirror and the back bumper was sliding down the highway and slid off onto the edge. I figured it was time to fab one up.
The van has a new motor and tranny. You wouldn't think it did by the way it looks.

toyospearo

Unfortunately it doesn't look like that anymore. The sea spray is having its way with my truck.

westy44runner

From the pics, it doesn't look like you have plated the frame at the PS box mount. I would consider doing this in the near future.

toyospearo

I did do that after those pictures. I lost the little bolts for that and I had to get some more.
Thanks for the heads up though!!

rangerruck

Man, I love a volks van... a totally unheralded, yet fabulous driving machine.
Also surprisingly handy to drive. Hope it lasts you a long time.

I would get out the spray cans of rustoleum paint, and start going to town, on that body though.

toyospearo

The body is too far gone I am afraid. The front looks like its red its so bad. I did manage to get everything working in it lights, heater, stereo. It is kind of fun to drive.

toyospearo

Wheeled a little today. Not too much. I took a lady friend of mine out even got stuck once and had to tug it out.
We came upon this little fire going. Probably some bear hunters. So we got out and warmed up.

snow..


saw some bear tracks. The bear did some strange thing in the snow...

looks like it rolled around for some reason...

rangerruck

It is obviously a painting... he had Picasso on the brain.
The image on the left is a man's face, with various animals and a clock image in it. I am not sure of what painting he was thinking of, on the right. It could be a cartoonish rabbit, laying face up, or face down, in the snow, not sure yet...

UpTheYotaPunx

I think you should go grab another one of those skulls and put it back on there!

Truck looks amazing by the way, I'm also starting to fight the battle against rust/salted roads hah, makes me wanna SAS, Thanks for the build-up

MSR

found some pics of his build including how it showed up at my shop enjoy

toyospearo

HAAHHAHAHH!!!
Nice Mike!! Thanks for those! That tow truck driver had absolutely no idea what was going on. He thought I was totally crazy.

the 38 special

I probably would have too!

Great build - just read through the whole thing. I know I have seen it before but worth rereading.

Pelley

Great thread and thank you very much for doing nice detailed write ups along with lots of pictures. I love the flat bed also!!!

Thanks to your topic i started my SAS on my 91 toyota as with all the info on here it made it alot easier than just looking at manuals!!!

toyospearo

THANKS!!
I agree about the manuals. When I saw the actual set up and chop chop in pictures it made things a lot more easy for me.
Make sure and a thread of your SAS

BLKNBLU

iTrader: (1)

Hey!
Haven't looked at this threrad for a bit and noticed two things:


The difference in your springs and mine is impressive/interesting.



And this should be in the next YT calender. Great shot.

toyospearo

yes mine are much shorter. I ordered them that way. I didn't want to go too tall on my build.
you can see the difference in this little mud vid...

BLKNBLU

iTrader: (1)

Yeah, I remember we had different goals with our builds. That looked nice and stable as you zipped through there. Good job!

toyospearo

Oh yeah!! My little truck is a TANK. I actually had a few better wheeling runs that day but didn't get them on video.
The truck is super stable and balanced. It is a bit lower than most of the SAS builds but I built it to be a trail rig rather than an all and all out rock crawler. However, it does that pretty well too.

Wheelingnoob

Cant wait to get my truck down to that height!

Jeremy