1982 Toyota

Pickup truck

Unspecified

Manual

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Electric

The story; I wanted to convert a vehicle to electric several years ago, and found this little truck. When I bought it, the engine was knocking terribly, and everything else looked ok except the windshield was broken which I later replaced. I knew the expense of the batteries was going to be my downfall, but I thought somehow I would overcome this, but I never did. So that's why the project stalled, I never had the money to spend on the batteries. It has sat for a couple of years, and now knowing I probably never will have the money for the batteries, I am going to sell it. The truck; It's a 1982 Toyota with a 4 speed tranny. It has had a small hit to the passenger side front(picture #2) that someone had beat out before I got the truck. The grill and lights had been replaced with new but the front bumper is missing. I checked the front suspension before I bought it, and it's tight. The tires have very good tread, but the passenger side rear does have a plug in it. The front floorboards have had metal patches installed by someone previous. I just pulled up the floor mat the other day, and they look crusty with rust, but I don't believe they are rusted through, but they will definitely need a clean-up and paint. I see some rust starting at the rear of the cab (picture #3) and there is some rust holes on the driver's side of the rear crossmember(picture #4). The rest of the frame is in good shape. I did find a good used windshield and installed it along with new rubber. You can see the seat needs recovered(picture #5). The conversion; I found a dc motor from a forklift. It's about 12 inches in diameter, and is very heavily built. To mate the dc motor to the toyota tranny, I cut the back of the crankshaft off the toyota gas engine. I had the pinion gear that fit the splines on the dc motor. I had a machine shop turn the crankshaft piece, press it onto the gear, and the weld them together. This made it then possible to use the toyota flywheel(resurfaced) and the total toyota clutch system(brand new clutch kit) to mate the two together. I also replaced the hydraulic clutch master cylinder. While I was getting this work done, I found the input bearing to the toyota tranny was bad, so that was replaced as well. With the dc motor installed I then turned to the controller. I didn't have the money for a PWM controller, so I used a contactor type controller with a large resistor and set it up for two seperate banks of batteries. You can see the 4 2/0 feed wires going from the rear of the cab, through to a safety kill disconnect in the cab (picture #6). They then run into the homemade controller setup, which I never finished. I now have it hooked up temporarily to drive around the yard on a car battery. You can see the cam switch setup in picture #9 with the two red wires running to one contactor. The cam switch has 4 switches with cams that can be adjusted to different throttle positions. If you have the money, you can buy a PWM setup and make this a whole lot simplier. As it is now, it can be moved around with a car battery. In addition; You will be getting the extra stuff pictured in #10. This includes a 300amp gauge(the shunt is already mounted under the hood) 3 new microswitches for the throttle setup, a spare motor(missing some brushes) 2 battery charge gauges, 36 or 48v, and a homemade charger. The charger has a 20 amp variac, bridge rectifier, and a digital amp gauge and volt gauge.