Hey guys,
So I finally got the pics of the luv organized. There are a lot of them so sorry if it takes a long time to load. Here's the cosmetic work I've done on it since I got it (08/21/2010).
This is how the luv looked when I first brought it home.
EXTERIOR
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I had already started painting the bed when I took these.
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Before pic of the Bed.
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And after pics.
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The lady who I bought it from's son left the truck in neutral and it rolled down a hill and hit a stump...
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The only mirror that was on it
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Some rust holes here and there, but the tires were good.
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INTERIOR
Had about 170,000 miles on it.
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Dash cluster.
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Speaker holes that were cut in the 80's. Terrible placement for them too; window hits the speaker in the door so it doesn't go down all the way.
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The dash is HORRIBLE! I still need to replace it. Hopefully I'll have some money when ctmandu finishes up the fiberglass ones.
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No rear view mirror or passenger visor. Still looking for a visor too...
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Always had to bring a jug of coolant with me, the radiator was clogged bad and it overheated sometimes.
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Paint I used for the bed. Good stuff, but it was expensive...
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Slopped a bit, but oh well. I'm gonna repaint it anyways.
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Holes where mirrors were.
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PROGRESS
I had to bang out the front bumper with a sledge hammer, lol
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I tore off the old seat covers and any remaining remnants of the original seats.
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Afterwards, I pulled out the seat and ripped up the old shag carpet and painted the inside of the cab with the same Hammered finish paint I used for the bed. (Sry, horrible pics, and I forgot to take pics after finishing
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After getting it all back together I painted the front bumper and headlight bezels black.
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I put rust neutralizer on the rust holes to turn them black, then Bondo'ed them.
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I also got a "new" tailgate from the junkyard. The old one had nearly rusted off.
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I put one of the old seat covers back on and put the shag back in (couldn't afford nice stuff yet...). Also bought floormats and a center console organizer thing. lol
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When I painted the entire interior with the Hammered paint, I also painted the doors and put duct tape over the gaping speaker holes.
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I decided to turn the entire interior black, so this is a before picture of the roof (light blue).
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I experimented with different door setups. I didn't like this one at all.
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I finally ordered a seat cover. Looks a whole lot better to me.
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I did a lot of rattle canning before this pic. I sprayed the tail light holes black, the three vent holes by the doors black, and the handles, key holes, and the engine compartment also. These are pics after I brushed the primer on.
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I finally decided that I'd spray the entire doors with black also. I bought some speakers to fill the awful holes in the door panels too.
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Here is the "after" pic of the roof. I used industrial sized sharpies to 'color' the vinal black. lol
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The final product of the interior. I decided to keep the blue shag since it matched the seat covers so well, lol. I think it looks alot better than before.
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Haha, I was playing music from my ipod through the original tape deck. I might sell the tape deck for cheap if anyones interested.
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The load of crap I've collected in the bed. Need to clean it out, lol.
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I slopped a bit all over the rear bumper. I'll have to put another coat of bedliner on it.
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The wheel wells were a horrible white-ish brown color that clashed with everything else. So i put a coat of black Rubberized Under-Coating to make it look better. Apparently deadens sound too.
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Here it is with the first coat of actual paint. I like it alot better than the white.
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Engine compartment after paint.
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Unfortunately, right after this is when I discovered the head gasket leak...
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Here is how it sits today. It smokes bad, but I'll start the mechanical work soon (see head gasket thread).
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I painted the mirrors black also. But ugh, I kinda wish I hadn't brush painted the luv. There are brush strokes and runs in it. I originally decided that I'd brush paint it since the previous owner had brush painted it white already. Oh well, I'll sand it down and do it right eventually...
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Yesterday I installed a DVD player head unit that I had from my last car. The wiring was a little difficult. I ended up running a direct wire (with a fuse midway) from the fuse box to the dvd unit. Besides that though, it was pretty straight forward. Sorry about the crappy pics, lol.
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Well thats just about all the work I've done on it so far. I still need to install a new head gasket and head, but cosmetically its just about done (minus a few finishing touches here and there). As soon as ctmandu finishes up those dash boards I'll buy one of those too and buy a grill while I'm at it, lol. I also gotta polish up the wheels, or if I ever get money, put some black rims on it or something. Haha, that'd really finish up the job.
Hope you enjoyed it and please comment about anything I should've done or should still do.
,Brian