This is my buddys runner. It was originally purchased as a motor donor for his 3rd gen pickup mud truck, but he liked this body style too much, and the frame wasn't very rusty (surprisingly) so were gonna run it. This will not be any sort of resto, this truck sat in tall grass for 8ish years with the famous leaky windshield trim. Front floors are shot, rockers are shot, winched it onto the trailer with 3 frozen breaks. It lives at my house because he doesnt have a place to keep it.

We picked it up for $600 because the motor had great compression, and started for a few seconds when spraying starter fluid in the intake (and one other reason ill mention later) .





Got it home. Fuel tank was full of bad gas and the pump looked nasty. Replaced with a summit 10 gal fuel cell and e2000 pump. With the thought that we could move to the mud truck with the engine when we did the swap.

After that it would run and idle but die when we gave it gas. Found that the afm was frozen shut. Soaked in PB blaster and hammered free, cleaned up with a little sand paper and it runs well! There is no exhaust after the O2 sensor, but who cares, its a low budget beater trail rig, nothing more than cheap fun.



Got the breaks freed (removed them) and mounted some bald ish 35s and gave it a sawzall lift. Trans popped out of first but who cares, it was fun.











We added some v6 calipers off a parts truck (blue pickup in the photo above) and that seemed to stop it enough.

My buddy managed to find a few scrap hand rails some that were getting scrapped, so we turned one of them into a front bumper, using the TG mount as a base.