Brandon's Fantasy Factory 1980 Build

[sixstringsteve]

I've gotta ask, why "fantasy factory"? Big Rob Dyrdek fan?

 

[Marsh99]

haha... yes and not really. I dig the name and his purpose of it.. to make dreams come true...
I Have had a lot of random jobs... I use to work for a company that sold crap on ebay. We bought stuff in case lots and researched and listed it on ebay. It was awesome and we once got a case of mini bikes and the boss gave us all one to ride around while we were at work. My boss was also a corvette crazed man and we would help rebuild corvettes some days. they also bought salvaged cars and had us help fix them for resale on ebay.
I also for a small trade show company and I was the warehouse manger ( not to impressive in company of 8 people) I drove a 1990 "danger' Ranger and was a gofer and loaded and unload trucks and random crap. The cool part was my boss was super chill and let us use the work place for whatever we wanted to do. It was a full wood, metal, and graphic shop with a laser, cnc, and a 6ft printer. Not to mention huge warehouse , we would race R/c cars, have pinewood derbies, and what not.
I am also very impulsive/committed to stuff I get into which is almost every hobby possible: R/C cars/Crawlers, R/c Helicopters, Mountain Bikes, Golf, Snowboarding, Camping, Snowboarding, Toyota trucks, Motorcycles, Politics, Cell Phones, Ksl shopping for deals, T-shirt designs...ect
and I have know idea what I really want to do for a career so I have also always joked I was just going to rent a warehouse and do be a dealer for all of these things, and or incorporated all my old jobs and own my own business so I can have it super chill.
long story...

 

[sixstringsteve]

nice, that explains a lot. We share a lot of the same interests. I get the name now. I'm thinking I'm going to have to change the name of my truck to "papa smurf" now that I'm going with this flat sky blue color.

 

[Marsh99]

Decided it was time to pick a color for my truck. Thought i would let the wife choose it so it is Brillant blue.. Basically its like the fj blue started painting to get a feel for it last night. Steve you can be the flat finished smurf and I will be the glossy one

 

[sixstringsteve]

Lookin smurfy

 

[Marsh99]

So I got a lot done today : took off the hood fenders and started to cut my old steering .... hooked my gas tank back up but it seems not to be flowing it runs if I put starter fluid in carb but dies after it burn it any ideas :-\

 

[864runner]

Pull the fuel line that leads to your carb and see if there is fuel coming out when your cranking it. If there is then its probably your carb, if there isn't then it might be your pump or filter.

 

[sixstringsteve]

did you possibly switch the two tubes that go into your fuel tank?

have you done your front lift yet? If not, you may want to wait till your springs are on before doing steering, just so you can make sure it's ahead of your tie rod.

 

[Marsh99]

I haven't done the springs yet I am going to do them together hopefully I get the front axle off the truck tomorrow so I can rebuild it and then mount new hanger and shackles


And I marked the hose... hopefully I marked them right

 

[sixstringsteve]

I'll bet you marked it right. I wonder if there's just a ton more air in the system and it takes a while to bleed the air. let me know, cuz I'll bet I'll have the same problem.

Good luck with that front axle. I spent WAY too much time on mine. Did you get dirty 30's yet? Are you trying to be ready for the 10th as well?

 

[Marsh99]

No I didn't get dirty's yet still figuring it out but I am trying get it driveable by the 28th will see though

 

[sixstringsteve]

NICE! I think you'll be fine on stock shafts for a while. Just take it easy. Eric's running 35's with a welded front, and stock axles. Maybe just get "better than stock" birfs and carry a spare short shaft. Nick (Panos) was running that setup with 37's, and all he broke was a small shaft about once a year.


Now get off the computer and work on that thing!

 

[Marsh99]

so here are some pics
Painted gas tank

gas tank skid

I pulled my front axle

mocked up my truss decided I wanted to have quick disconnect sway bar so notched truss and for steering dampener

 

[Marsh99]

truck with no fenders, hood, axle

 

[pfinder]

one sexy yota man!! nice work, now if only i could get the 88 yota in my backyard too look that good

 

[Marsh99]

thanks man but it is not finished yet but will be by the sept 11 for the low range show in provo

 

[Marsh99]

new grill I picked up I love vintage toyota stuff

 

[sixstringsteve]

That's one of the cleanest grills I've seen. Nice score on that thing. And thanks for hooking me up with your old grill, that was the second nicest grill I'd seen

 

[Marsh99]

bought my flip plates for the front

Made my front shackles 4 in from eye to eye

made my spring plate for the drivers side mad out of 3/8 by 2in flat bar and 5 1/4in. long

 

[Marsh99]

front 3rd is set up and ready to go in 5:29 gears with a Detroit

Have my steering kit from trail gear

and I have all my power steering ready to go thanks to Steve and us letting us do his first i made sure I had everything before I started: Ifs box, reservoir, cooling lines, p/s pulley, P/s pump, Trail gear ifs box mount kit ( with the updated instructions thanks to Steve)