86 toyota 4x4 PreCrawlLander?*#$

[Kellyex1450]

Here is my 86 pickup, bought it originally 12 years ago from a good friend's aunt in Lake Tahoe as a rust bucket for 500$. It currently is built as a sleeper. The prerunner part of it is front has a home built LT and rear is linked keeping everything under the bed. It also has a mildly built cage, race radio, race seats and harnesses. The Crawler part of it Is re- geared Transfer case to 4.70, a rear e locker, winch, rock sliders and obnoxious bumpers. The overlander part is just the home built camper, made of thin wall DOM and sheet metal. The rest of the truck is mostly rust mitigation.

 

[Turboyota]

Hell yeah! Welcome Kelly!!

 

[84projectFORD]

Ha! i thought that screen name looked familiar. Welcome Kelly!

 

[dwphoto]

Hell yea! Welcome
How are you guys doing up there in arrowhead? you got a plow on the front of this Majestic vessel.

 

[Kellyex1450]

Hell yea! Welcome
How are you guys doing up there in arrowhead? you got a plow on the front of this Majestic vessel

I hope to see Lake Arrowhead soon if I just keep digging, lol.
I thought being snowed in would mean you hang out with not much to do but it instead meant frantic, exhausting stressful digging, to keep things from being destroyed.

 

[Kellyex1450]

here is the truck on Hells Revenge in Moab the second week i got it, no mods just rust.

 

[Kellyex1450]

Here is Pismo dunes around 2011, went to the dunes before picking up the second non rusted bed for the truck

 

[Kellyex1450]

here are some pictures from version 1.0 of the truck which lasted from 2012-2020, the suspension was fox 2.0 shocks with reservoir adjusters at each corner meticulously valved to perfection and explorer leafs in the rear, it worked fantastic for what it was. starting from top down with the pictures,John Bull trail, waterfall at deep creek, Rubicon trail and the top of a snowy peak on 2n17x SBNF

 

[Turboyota]

Rock crawling with Bajas! What a savage!!

 

[Kellyex1450]

I got rid of the Baja T/A's immediately after I drove them in the snow for the first time, it was like driving on power wheels plastic tires.

 

[Kellyex1450]

this is one of my favorite pics, taken in Dixie national forest in southern Utah circa 2017ish

 

[Kellyex1450]

At the end of 2020 I broke a rear leaf spring on a trip with Turboyota. I used that minor breakage to justify linking the truck... below is the first revision of the link set up that did not work very well. what I had to do to get everything to work well was lengthen all the links basically doubling them in length, this was suggested by my good friend Roy Tomkins or "ODRMSE" when I was explaining to him the poor handling characteristics of the trucks setup.

 

[Kellyex1450]

here are the longer links, the old short links were the leaf mounts so you can see how much longer I made them

 

[Kellyex1450]

short links caused driveshaft to crash into gas tank when flexing, long links fixed this problem.

here are 2 pictures of the truck flexed with the same shocks, one is with the short links and one with the long links. I was able to get way more movement with the long links and the rear is way more compliant.

 

[Kellyex1450]

Full Droop and almost full bump, just under 14" of travel, with no intrusion into bed.

 

[Kellyex1450]

the upper link mount started to rip off the frame, luckily I caught it in time and threw some straps at it. the cage is a simple cage from 4xinnovations with some diagonals added to it, got some knock off hard shell seats also.

 

[Kellyex1450]

Jug Tug.

 

[Kellyex1450]

here are some pics of building the front extended arms.

 

[Kellyex1450]

more front end build pics

 

[Turboyota]

I have been absolutely thrilled by what Kelly has done to this truck over the past few years.

Things that I’m particularly stoked on:
Budget
Outside the box thinking
Execution
Very aggressive driving style
Sleeper look