Hey all. My name is Doug and I am Retired Air Force. I have a 78 Toyota that was once a motor Home. It was given to me by my Father N Law who owns a used car lot. He took it in on trade in the 1990 with what the guy said was a bad clutch. The transmission had been removed and was in the back of the camper. It got parked out back and forgotten about. The camper leaked and over the years it rotted away and in 2002 he was going to scrap it out and asked if I wanted it. It was one of those things you know you should walk away from but I said sure. To open the doors of the cab we had to lift the wooden parts of the camper up so the doors would open. So saving that portion was not going to happen. We got the back hole out and ripped all the wood out and I put the transmission in without the clutch so we could hook up the starter. Poured gas down the carb and three turnes of the engine and it started. The fuel pump was bad but it ran with gas poured in the carb. The clutch was not bad looking and I put the old one in and found the slave cyl. bad. Replaced it and it has been going strong. Found a wrecked cab and got the roof and back window out of it to replace the parts cut out for the camper. The section below the window was dented bad so I used a piece of 1/8" aluminum to replace it. The frame had an extra 34" welded in between the wheels so I found a 9 1/2' flatbed to mount on it. The bed came with a lift and I have toyed with leaving it on but in the last few months have decided to sell it. The plan has always been to build this as cheep as I could with many used parts and what I can pick up here and there. We put dealer plates on it every so often and drive it around but it will soon be a daily driver. All my build pics are on the computer that crashed so I don't have them now but here is a couple. Plans for the very near future are take one or two leafs out of the rear springs, Replace the steel bed floor with wood, Relplace the hood that is rusted, replace the ford bench seat with a Toyota bench, reinstall the mud flaps and finish painting the cab red.
sweet truck and welcome to TM! if i had a chance to have a lift on a truck i think i'd keep it! seems i always need to move something heavy and have to wait for someone to help..
