From lemon to daily driver.

[bogof]

I picked up this 620 a few days ago, and started tearing into it. The PO told me "The only things bad are dashlights and blinkers dont work... But im sure its an easy fix". Well he lied. The electrical system has a major drain, the floor is rusted through in several places, the ONLY electrical components that work are the lights and fan, it has a big exhaust leak, and the carb was leaking gas BAD.

 

So yesterday I sent the carb out to be rebuilt(it's a Holley).

Today I tore into the interior. The PO has sprayed the sound deadening crap to cover up the rust spots so it was like looking for hidden "treasure" to find the rust. The cab was leaning so I looked at the body mounts, and the pass side front mount has ZERO metal holding the cab to the frame. The wiring harness has several burnt wires that were cut, and sprayed so I can't tell what the colors are, and I'm sure I'll find more crap tomorrow.

 

I bought this as a daily driver, and now it looks like I'm going to have to dump quite a bit of money, and time into it to make it road worthy.

 

Anyway here are some pics.

This is the pic the PO sent me. It looks pretty good here.

 

Here is the hole in the floor around the body mount.

 

Some more rust holes on the drivers side. These aren't to bad. I can fix them pretty easy.

 

Tearing apart the dash.

 

[MicroMachinery]

Sucks when the seller doesn't point out the actual worst things about the vehicle. :angry:

Thanks for sharing. I look forward to seeing this thing made right once again.

[baja4]

Did that happen to come out of Grand Junction? Saw one on craigslist wanted to call on. Too bad the guy wasn't honest. At least now you'll know the truck as your own. Nothing better than to work on it. Still a good looking truck.

[bogof]

Yup same truck.

I fixed the body mount today, and I'm still chasing those electrical gremlins.

[bogof]

While the weather was warm I decided to get some paint done.

 

I also have some sound deadening mat, and carpet on the way.

[sycloned916]

Looks better with the paint,Clean.

[izzo]

While the weather was warm I decided to get some paint done.

 

I also have some sound deadening mat, and carpet on the way.

 

 

was wanting to do something like this down the side of my door, only with more spikes. Looks good

[bogof]

Well I got the sound deader mat in today. Now I'm waiting on the carpet kit, and trying to figure out what I'm going to do about the seats.

 

I also took the carb in to get it rebuilt. Turns out the carb is a Holley off of a vega, and Holley doesn't make rebuild kits for it anymore. I found a rebuild kit on ebey, and hopefully it works out. If it doesn't I guess I'll be looking at a new carb.

[Theghost]

Thats a bummer dishonest sellers suck, but looks like your gonna have a nice truck when your done with it! Keep pics coming as you go.

[elmerfudpucker]

Some guy had a KC 720 over here a while back, he wanted $700 with a "JDM Z20 motor" damned thing had much more rust, I probly could have pushed the cab off bare handed :o , and the motor was beat to hell :poop: Yours is way more fixable than that POS. :console: , best of luck and keep the pics comin! :thumbup:

[bogof]

I shaved the hooks off of the bed rails.

 

I also painted the engine bay.

 

And this picture just looks cool(I think).

 

I still have to install the "new" wiring harness, finish the carpet install, and tune the carb, but it's getting better.

 

 

 

The paint looks pink in the pictures, but it is maroon.

[bogof]

Ok after a while of it sitting I'm starting on this again. Right now I'm debating on re-wiring the whole thing. I'm sure I'll have some more questions, but for right now is there a vehicle wiring diagram somewhere online.

 

edit..

Found it.

[lil89ram50]

you know you could have polished that og paint real nice!

[bogof]

Ok. I took a long break, and contemplated selling it, but now I'm back at it.

 

Some more info on the truck. The 4wd conversion was done by 4 Wheel Drive Engineering. Someone apparently didn't like the carb, and switched it to a holley from a vega(more on this later). The wiring is pretty much toast, but enough works to make it legal.

 

So the carburetor thing. I pulled the carb off, and had it rebuilt. It came back running awful. I took it apart, and found the guy who rebuilt it had just stacked gaskets. After fixing that it still wouldn't run right. I let it sit for a couple years.

 

That brings it up to date. Last week I found a NOS vega carburetor on ebay. I put in on, and the truck is still running bad. It seems to be burning WAY to much fuel, and won't idle without me pumping the gas, and keeping the RPMs high.

 

I'm at a loss on what to do now. I have drained the old gas topped off the coolant, and changed plugs/wires. Now I'm starting to remember why I parked it two years ago.