We too went with a single row chain from Toyota in my Son's 86 eXtra cab.
The 22r in the 87 we have (that smokes) had a double row chain and we used a single in it because I had one on hand.
We are working on the 87 pickup so it can be sold. Once the 87 is fixed and ready to be sold we will start back up on my Son's truck

A few updates:
First, I replaced the knock sensor, o2 sensor, water temp sensor and got another AFM and painted it to match the engine bay. I also got an awesome deal on a cone filter so I replaced it as well.

The new AFM and filter setup, the idle is much more consistent and no more fluctuation.



I was also running steel wheels and I switched to some aluminum ones. I thought the steelies were robbing too much power for rotating mass. I got some polished aluminum rims and sanded them down to nothing. Then I used some self etching primer and hit them with a metallic charcoal top coat.



I also needed to more the rear axle forward a bit to get rid of a rubbing issue while flexed. So, like a photo whore that I am... I took a few poser pics. The flex isn't too impressive in this picture but it still gives a decent perspective of what it can do

I also have a bit of an oil leak coming from the oil pump front main seal where the harmonic balancer goes in. The balancer has a groove worn in and the seal can no longer do its job. So... I ordered an under drive pulley kit from LCE. I'm also going to delete the AC system. Between the light weight balancer and no more AC condenser, that should free up a bit of power. More pics to come once installed

Time for an update... I installed my LCE under drive pulley kit, deleted the A/C system and the belt driven fan, and installed an electric fan using a permacool unit and a 16" hayden fan.

Pics of the under drive kit:

Buh-bye air conditioner:


Here's the fan with all the wiring cut to length.

All connections soldered and heat shrink wrapped.


Built some quick brackets to hold the fan to the backside of the radiator. And of course, they had to be painted blue


Fan installed:


All wiring wrapped in split loom tubing:


For now the permacool unit is attached to the radiator using velcro. I'll keep an eye on it and if it seems as if it doesn't hold up then I'll build a permanent mount that will screw to the core support.

It's a little tight but everything fits well



So far everything works very well. The radiator hasn't gotten hot enough to turn the fan on (thermostat is set at 180*) but I used my heat gun on the sensor to get it hot enough to turn the fan on.

Between the under drive pulley taking nearly 10 lbs of rotating mass off of the crank shaft, deleting the a/c and belt driven fan, and all my previous motor mods and performance parts, the 4.10 gears ALMOST seem like they're supposed to be there for the 35" tires. I don't know what I'm at for power at the crank or the wheels but I would love to get it on a dyno and see what I'm getting for actual hp and tq numbers.

Time for another update...

I bought a soft top in the classifieds about a week and a half ago. I just needed some dry weather to install it. Here it is

The hood is open because it's getting a set of flow matched fuel injectors... Thank you LCE Engineering! My other injectors were leaking pretty bad so they had to go!

so with all that power under the hood will it turn the tires on dry pavement

Not sure. I haven't tried and I don't really care to. I would be willing to bet that it would at least chirp them. But with 35" tires, it's a lot of mean to burn!

One day I'll get it on a dyno. Maybe I'll build a stroker motor for it some day and run a mega squirt ecu on it. But that's a LOT of $$$$ down the road. Now that my drive train is solid I can actually start building it for what I bought it for... off road fun!

well get some stock sized tires and see that way you dont ruin them spenive i think that would be sweet to see smoke show from a 1st gen

What a smooth truck, someday when I repaint ill prob go to silver... really looking good, how is the softop in rain?

Thanks for the compliment! A lot of work has gone into this runner so far. Not sure on the soft top in the rain, I just put it on yesterday. I'm moving to Washington state soon so I'll definitely see how it does in the rain.

and snow

If all else fails I'll still have my hard top. These soft tops were really designed with warm weather in mind. It's a good thing there's a lot of good marine upholstery shops near Tacoma and Seattle that can give me some good advice on making this soft top functional for wet and snowy weather. Hopefully I'll get to Washington in time to so some snowboarding before the snow turns to mush on the mountains!

Well, I'm off work for the next two weeks and it's about 60* outside. Who knew that it would be this warm in February?

This was done a few months ago but I didn't take pictures during because I was in a hurry. But you know the bar that mounts under the dash and goes from each side of the body? They're ALWAYS rusted and nasty so it had to come out and get cleaned up. It's hard to see in the pics but I cleaned it up and threw a coat of primer over it so it doesn't rust anymore:



Anyways, I have plenty of time to work in the garage and get some things taken care of on the runner. First on the list is to repair the dash cracks and install an inclinometer



Just a preview of what the dash looked like before:



So I took the dash pad off and sanded down the high spots from where it was cracking:



Next I cut and drilled into the dash pad so the inclinometer could sit flush and pretty. Then I applied resin over the cracks to fill them in and over the bare padding from where I cut:

How did you get that dash off! I tried soooo hard and took out like 20 screws and bolts, and just couldn't get it off.