This ends a very long rebuild for me with this old Toyota forklift. I purchased it around this time last year and started in to rebuild it shortly after. I wanted it to be a fun project and to a point it was only for all the hard long hours it took to get it to this point.
Basically everything had to be done. I had to remove all the paint, rust and crap others had done with it over the years before I could even begin to start the rebuild. the first thing I had to do was build a new engine hood for the beast. Toyota wanted over $3000. just for the hood so I fabricated the one you see on it now out of 1/8th plate. This one will be awhile before it rusts out.
Basically I went right through the complete machine. New rings, bearings, lapped the valves and installed new valve stem oils seals. I rebuilt the mast. all new bearings in it as well and had to rebuild some of the hydraulic cylinders because they were leaking. Some of them had to even be re-chromed due to the pitting on them.
After all that was done I sand blasted, primed and painted it. I fabricated the custom stuff such as the headlamp guards. Custom built the rear light bar and all the lights you see in it are strobes. I built sun visor as well and added some more aluminum plate to the sides to pimp it out a bit. The top have a plexy glass top in it now. I added all new gauges and even fabricated new sections of the dash because it was in pretty bad shape. It even has air horns now along with chrome duel exhaust stacks. I had to design some custom adapters to get them to work on the lift but they sound nice so it was worth it.
I removed the old Toyota charging system and it's external voltage regulator and installed a GM alternator with a built in regulator. Of course that's harder than it sounds because I had to make up new brackets to get it to fit. I also added a cool hook up to the engine cover that I can just plug my booster cables into so I don't have to pull up the lid to do it.
Anyway there's much more to this story but I'm sure you'll see by the pictures there was a lot of work involved. One thing I did learn out of this. Never try and rebuild a forklift unless you have a forklift to help. These buggers a very heavy. I'm happy with the outcome. It's runs like new and will come in handy around the shop. Here's some photo's.
Sorry this site won't let me add photo's.
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OK guys. I'll try this again. I have photo's off all my work on Flickr and Photobucket. I've never been on a site like this before where it wouldn't let me post a photo link. That's why I don't get over here much. I love photo's.
Some of you guys gave me good info when I was restoring this old gal so I wanted to say a big thank you and show you all how it turned out. Hope this works.
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Hello Wildfire. How about sending a few photos to me by email. Low resolution will do and in JPeg format is best for me. Perhaps we can put them on the Forkliftaction website for all to see. Please send to rlamb at forkliftaction dot com
wildfire, there are many places on the web that will allow you to post pictures (flickr and photobucket come to mind) and you could put the link here (leave out the "http" and the "://" and spell out the "dot") I know I would like to see them., maybe you can find my e-mail link in my profile and I could give you a hand posting them on the web somewhere.
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