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Just bought a 1983. Sunrader 18ft It's in really bad shape inside. Motor has only fifty-eight thousand miles. I worked in the RV business. And Elkhart, Indiana for 30 years I live in Tennessee now. I have 7 Toyota trucks. From the 80s This is my first encounter with one of these are very hard to find here. It still has the five lug on the back. I am thinking about taking 1983 four-wheel drive frame and start getting it ready. To throw the six lug axle on the back Can anyone tell me? Did they do modifications to add the four-wheel drive? Or was it just a regular 4 wheel drive frame?

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2 hours ago, Howard1030 said:

Just bought a 1983. Sunrader 18ft It's in really bad shape inside. Motor has only fifty-eight thousand miles. I worked in the RV business. And Elkhart, Indiana for 30 years I live in Tennessee now. I have 7 Toyota trucks. From the 80s This is my first encounter with one of these are very hard to find here. It still has the five lug on the back. I am thinking about taking 1983 four-wheel drive frame and start getting it ready. To throw the six lug axle on the back Can anyone tell me? Did they do modifications to add the four-wheel drive? Or was it just a regular 4 wheel drive frame?

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Hi there. Im also a newbe. From what i understand the factory 18 ft sunraders are just long bed toyota frames. Only the rear of the frame has extensions for the camper. So using a 4x4 frame would need extension in back added. In my case i have 21ft im keeping the 2x4 frame and converting it to 4x4. Going good so far i got the front done!

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The 4x4 Sunraders were built on 4x4 truck frames and yes they added extensions to the rear. Frame itself didn't need to be extended because the 18 footers have a wheel base of 112 inches same as the long bed trucks. Earlier 21 footers do have internal frame extensions with most having a wheel base of 142 inches. Longer than the later trucks made after Toyota started making their extended truck with a 137 inch wheels base

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