93 D21

Picked up this beauty over the summer. Needed a winter beater/hunting rig. And lets face it, Male/Midwest US/#youneedapickup. I had an real nice Ford f150 when I started driving with 83k miles but sold it for a smaller, more fuel effecient manual tranny car.

After a trip through some mud and water..
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Getting a tach and replacing the ignition switch…which turned into toggle switch ALL the things…
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Getting the tailgate prepped for paint. The rest of the body is pretty good for being 20 years old, but I wanted to get a great tailgate on it. But I started a little bevved up and thought it would be a good idea to use a wire brush on a drill to scuff it up. Spent a good 6 hours body filling and sanding and it havent even seen primer. I know the inside of the tailgate will be bedlined, but im not sure on the outside.
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So far all the brakes and bearings have been replaced and are up to par. Friday I am going to start doing steering and suspension work, as I have blown out all the shock absorbers…destroyed tie rods…the works really. The engine is alright. 167,000 miles on the odometer. Pretty sure it skipped a tooth sometime in its life and is running a bit off and the TCT is in need of replace giving me a good rattle at 2500 to 4000 rpm. Hoping to rebuild the engine and transmission in a couple of months. Second gear has at least one tooth missing and fifth gear has been completely ground off. Which is why I got such a good deal on it. Thankfully I still have 4×4 and everything in that department is good.

Why it needs new suspension and steering work
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Plans are to put it up about 3 inches and run 33s. They came stock with 31×10.5s so with 3 inches of lift, I can run 33×12.5s…CB radio…and with the mechanicals fixed, I am going to add some lights on the bull bar, add a rollbar/light bar to the back, and turn it into a somewhat mean offroad pickup. Its only got a 2.4L KA24E, but I can supercharge it with some modifications and a nissan frontier blower or even turbo it…and the best part, its geared at like 4.375 with a 9.25″ ring gear…so its ready to go and I have not gotten stuck in it yet.

Last winter it was my bikes turn to get attention and it got a 100% killer paintjob. Now this winter/spring it will be my pickups turn to get turned into something pretty. Which isnt ideal, as I need it for the snow, but it will have to work.

Thanks for checking it out guys.

UPDATE
Did some more body work and sanding on the tailgate, including a few hours of sanding and body filling. Got to spray some HB primer….got some more sanding and priming to do before I can spray color. Need to figure out what to do….Will post pictures soon.

I did get it primed. Still have some sanding to do before I can start laying down paint. Still not sure what im going to paint on it or what color. I plan on doing at least one good basecoat and coming in with the airbrushes and putting something cool down…but im lost at what I would do. And im limited because I have to do the Nissan logo. I didnt want to grind it flat and fiberglass it….and I do not have the equipment to weld in a panel.