My "new" hunting rig, 1993 Toyota pickup

[huntsonora]

I will have pictures up asap but I have been on the search for a little Toyota truck that I could use for hunting and take to Mexico for my hunting season down there as well. I was torn between a Suzuki Samurai which I have wanted for years and a little Toyota regular cab short box truck. In the end I went with the truck as it was a one owner Arizona truck and has 147,000 well maintained miles on it. I got what I feel was a really good deal so I drove down from Colorado last week to pick it up. I left my house in Windsor CO at 4pm last friday, picked it up around 1pm in Mesa on Saturday and was back in northern CO in time for my shift at the fire station at 6pm on Sunday. I was BEAT!

Plans for now are to just fix the oil pan gasket leak, change all the fluids, put some new tires on it and drive it this season to find out if there are any unknown issues before I head to Mexico for 6 weeks. If anybody has any suggestions on suspension or anything else please chime in

Drummond

[huntsonora]

Pictures I was emailed when I had posted an ad wanting a Toyota with a 22RE engine

[huntsonora]

Loaded onto the trailer in Mesa AZ. It was HOT!

[huntsonora]

I then had to convince these guys...


to help me put this...


on here...

[huntoon]

Cool!

[TACO721]

nice truck man! looks really good for a ’93!

[1911]

The 22RE is one of the best engines Toyota has ever made. It only has one real weakness - the timing chain guides were made of plastic and after 100,000 miles or so they frequently become brittle and break, which leaves enough slack in the timing chain for it to eventually saw through the timing chest into a coolant gallery. The permanent fix is to replace them with (lifetime warranty) metal timing chain guides from DOA Racing Engines: http://www.doaracingengines.com/page13/page13.html In any event, if you don't know for sure that the guides have been replaced, now would be the time to R&R with a full timing set before you go to Mexico.

[huntsonora]

So I got my buddies to help me out and we started in on the ARB...





All done...



Next up I decided to clean up the little bit of oxidation on the paint. Phoenix can be BRUTAL on a paint job

[huntsonora]

The 22RE is one of the best engines Toyota has ever made. It only has one real weakness - the timing chain guides were made of plastic and after 100,000 miles or so they frequently become brittle and break, which leaves enough slack in the timing chain for it to eventually saw through the timing chest into a coolant gallery. The permanent fix is to replace them with (lifetime warranty) metal timing chain guides from DOA Racing Engines: http://www.doaracingengines.com/page13/page13.html In any event, if you don't know for sure that the guides have been replaced, now would be the time to R&R with a full timing set before you go to Mexico.

Metal timing chain guides are definately on the short list of things I am going to proactively replace

[JasonRedwood]

Congrats on the buy. I had a 93 long bed 4x4. It was a great truck. As far suspension I think figuring out a ball park budget and what you intend to drive on is key. truck looks good!