Been on here for a while but not to active in years. This summer I got ahold of an 85 4Runner up in Elko it has a Ford 302 out of a 95 Mustang. The coolest thing about the truck to me is that my dad did the original 302 swap into an 87 pickup then gave it to me when I was 16. I ended up getting hit by a drunk driver which totaled the truck. We ended up selling the whole truck to the guy that swapped it into this 4Runner. He later sold it to a guy who didn't understand that this truck needs a little more maintenance attention then most Toyotas. He let the hydraulic throw out bearing leak down to where it wouldn't engage the clutch so he did the most logical thing and started power shifting it to get around. one thing led to another and he ended up breaking the shift fork. Long story short it sat for seven years until a friend went and asked about it, he decided he didn't want to deal with all of the gremlins that go along with a swap so I hopped on it and have been working to make it my own since then. Here are some pictures of when I got it, what I've done to it and updates as they come.
How it looked when I saved it
The broken shift fork.
Half doors I've been working on.
Not actually leaning on the 56
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