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Thought so! Yes, think I will attempt a fix before anything

Thanks. No pre 78's at the moment, will keep eyes peeled for a part truck. Cheers

Such a shame there are no parts for these. Guess I will just have to try and fix it, and keep my eyes open. Cheers

So, have picked up a 1ton 1987 toyota, great running condition, crappy box, for a good price. And am picking up a 1978 toyota chinook omega this weekend also for a good price. The plan was to separate the chinook from the 78 and transplant onto the 1987. But now think that a restoration is a much better idea, while putting the newer efi engine and in...which leads me to the question. Where the heck do you find body parts for these trucks? Everything is in great condition aside from surface rust, but the grill, may or may not be salvageable. Have searched, and cannot find them...aside from on ebay from bangkok Any leads appreciated!

Yep, thought so as well! Haha, just realized that I can use my tipi as a hoisting point to pick the chinook camper off the donor truck. With the size of the tipi, should have enough room to lift the section three feet in the air. Perfect! Nice vinyl floor Definitely have some work to do on the chinook. Probably end up gutting the whole thing and making something more suitable to me.

^nice build Thanks for helping clear some stuff up! Found an 88 1ton with rusty box and clean everything else for 500, and a 78 toyota that will be donating its chinook omega camper, also picking up for 500. Will focus on getting the chinook on the back of the 88 and making it livable, as this will be a winter home, while my tipi will be a summer home. Than start collecting parts for a full float rear end and 4x4 :-D Pretty excited to be getting back into the toyota world. My first truck 14 years ago was an 82 pickup, also, the best all around truck ever owned.

Thanks you all! If there is no real big difference then I won't worry about finding a 1ton, specially now that I have found out about the full float conversions available! Hope to start a new thread soon building my new 4 wheel drive home :-) Have been living in a tipi for a few months now, and find it is just not mobile enough. So decided to sacrifice a little space and comfort for something smaller, but far more convenient...enter toyota motorhome, haha. Who even wants to pay rent and mortgage anyways?! Haha Cheers

Hold on, there may be some truth to the bigger valves... http://www.toyotapartszone.com/Page_Product/PartDetail.aspx?model=TRUCK,PICKUP&year=1987&catalogCode=671440&VAID=2194&selectConditions=(11=CND;1=22REC;3=T1;4=STD;5=MTM;9=10T)&originCountry=(11=CND)&sectionID=1&componentsID=11-04 If you look down the page at intake and exhaust valves, you see that in the manufacture notes they had oversize O/S and standard STD versions of these valves, which where BOTH replaced by a different part number (part number says discontinued). Seems to me that there may have been "options" to get oversized valves at very least. Camshaft on the other hand is the same for 1ton and sr5 and deluxe models, it would seem. Also with that link, could not search for a 1ton version of anything until 1987.

Link http://m.yotatech.com/showthread.php?t=263457&page=2 Last page Thats strange, thought the true 1 tons didn't come out tell 86, and yet that vin is for an 85 1ton. Thanks for that website, once this guy gets home and gets a vin for me, will do some cross references. Cheers Edit: starting to think the engine upgrades mentioned is bs, even toyota brochure put 116hp. Would think if they tuned the engine they would mention it.

So, have been searching around for vehicles, to put together a 4x4 chinook. Found the donor chinook omega on the back of a 78 for cheap and found a 1987 2wd 1 ton as the basis for the chinook build. Neither of which are in my possession at the moment. Through looking around the internet to learn more about the 1 ton toys, came up with some interesting information, though possible hearsay. "Have a 1986 one ton hi lux pickup. They look the same as a half ton but are built much heavier duty. the 22RE has factory enlarged valves and different cam lobes 130hp 1ton. front suspension has larger brake disk/ ball joints/ upper and lower A arms and huge torsion bar. Rear heavier leaf spring's and 8 inch rear end with reinforced axle tube's. The commercial trucks had a dually rear end rtec auto or 4 speed mt/ non-commercial trucks a standered axle configuration with 5 speed mt or rtec auto trans. btw a few one tons where just 22R at 96hp. Stock 22RE truck/celica/4runner is 116hp. I hope this clears up a bunch of misinformation." Can anybody confirm that these engines were in fact tuned up from factory? Seems everything else mentioned checks out, but cannot find any info of engine specs. Also read a rumour that the frame is heavier duty too...higher frame channel height supposedly. Any truth to this? Oh and, hello :-)