What kinda toyota truck do i have?

[jeepkid]

it has the 20r motor and a 5speed..





i plan on taking the bed off and making a flat bed..

im more of a jeep guy and this is the first toyota ive ever owned..

this truck was really beat i want to bring it back to life.. just not too much.. i got it for free so thats a start..

[legoliomia]

Wow! and I thought my truck was beat when I got it.. yours takes the cake!

[jeepkid]

lol you should have seen the crap under the seat and the way everything inside looks i cant believe i drove it home 40 miles..

[legoliomia]

OMDL.. thats horrible! get the woman out there to clean it out for ya!

[sonofmayhem]

its def. before 84 p/u. ?2wd? thats a piece of work man .. and i thought i had a lot of work to do. check out WWW.PARTSTRAIN.COM that will help alot

[jeepkid]

its a 1980 2wd.. love machine.. lol nah we ripped out the front seat already and tore half the dash off.. i might just remove the rest.. does anyone kno anything about this truck?

[80toy]

i have a 1980 4x4 longbed. 20r, 4spd. i am not a mechanic, but i know some about these trucks. if you have any questions just pm me and i will TRY to help. there a many differences between the 2wd and 4wd versions, but some stuff is the same.

check out TAP recycling, they have good stuff.

[80toy]

that thing is in horrible shape. fortunately these things are a dime a dozen junkyards.


and are you sure that is not a 79? 79 and 80 are the two years with that bodystyle, headlight style, and 20r, and your interior does not look like any 80's i know.

[jeepkid]

its an 80 well thats wat the release of interest paperwork says.. i think id like to try a motor swap.. ive heard of the early supra motors?

[LOCKnGO]

MMMMMM Sleepy!


DAmn It is gonna take alot $$$ just to make it safe to drive.

Good luck.

[80toy]

swapping a supra inline 6 into one of these is definetly ground breaking and creative, but i imagine it would take a whole lot of custom work. if you have the time and money it could be worth a shot. i would just put in a hot rodded 22re. LC Engineering maybe? let us know how it turns out

[Mr Tode]

I think a smallblock V8 might even be an easier swap than a supra. Though I've fantasized plenty about putting a 2jz-gte in place of my 20R....

I have a '78 20R truck with a five-speed...very similar hardware-wise to what you've got there. One of LC Engineering's hot-rod 22Rs is probably the quickest path to high-performance, but if you've got the guts to try a more serious swap, then by all means go for it! In the meantime, a Weber 38/38 carb will give you a little bit of a shot in the arm. Good luck....

[80toy]

my friends dad once swapped a small v8 into one of these things, but ti was a long time ago. he said it would burn out forever. i think i remember him saying it was a toyota engine he got from japan, like a 4 liter or something. i am not sure about this though because i had never really heard of an old toyota v8. i think a chevy 350 and a 350tranny would be easier than the supra engine, just because people have done it before. if you want to keep it toyota though, i think the supra engine would be cool. maybe consider a the tundra v8

[jeepkid]

i said the supra engine because a buddy had an old supra and would pretty much kno everything there is to kno about getting one and how to work on it.. but ya im leaning towards a small v8 id like something EFI.. but im not stressing..

[93 Camry LE V6]

I knew it was no newer than 1981, because I think that beginning in 1982, they had retangle headlights. I know they did by 1983, because my grandpas old 1983 Toyota 4WD had rectangle headlamps.