Filed under: toyota chinook, inspiration, scale model | Tags: rv, toyota, chinook, model, rc, scale, remote control
if you’ve ever searched for toyota chinook online, i’m sure you’ve seen this. this amazingly detailed scale model remote controlled chinook. there’s lot’s of photos and descriptions on the scale builders guild forum. and take a look at the videos below. it’s hard to tell if it’s a real chinook or a model!
Filed under: toyota chinook, chinook camping, inspiration, chinook guru, 4x4 | Tags: toyota, chinook, guru, 4x4, Lance Ogden
another chinook 4×4 guru. Lance Ogden. this guys got tons of photos of his chinook project here + check out his videos. he’s got a video of the 4×4 chinook conversion and a video of the finished 4×4 chinook out exploring the wilds of canada
“I originally bought my Chinook in march of 2003 and could not pass it through a safety inspection so it sat till mid march 2010. For the next three weeks ( afterwork and weekends) I switched the Chinook over to a 1980 Toyota longbed chassis , upgraded the suspension and set off on a 5 week vacation around BC s interior and coast. I had a few repairs to do during this time but after that its been all good and I have had a few great adventures in it without incident .”
Filed under: toyota chinook, inspiration, chinook guru, 4x4 | Tags: rv, toyota, chinook, guru, 4x4, timeline, nolan, blew, 1975, motorhome
Blew 4×4 Custom 75 Toyota Chinook Motorhome
This is another one of those projects that started with an idea and slowly progressed. Its a 78 Toyota truck with a 75 Chinook body, with all 82 Toy 4×4 running gear, sports a 7″ lift, power steering, AC, power windows, the rear camper section will have the roof mounted permanent (no pop-top) the small rear door will give way to a single large swing up rear door, all the side windows and compartments will be removed and finished out, and the rear interior will be just an upholstered open shell for hauling stuff. The old saying turbochargers are fine but I’d rather be blown applies, it will run a built 22R with a side mount supercharger. Just another play toy to keep me occupied.
When I bought it, worse shape than an abandoned crack house
Off comes the shell
old cab was trash, not many parts worth keeping
I had this truck patially done so figured it was a good candidate for the shell but need the frame lengthened
frame cut off
rear half rolled out of the way
lengthening the frame
welded together, now just needs filled to make it the same all the way
rolling chassis again
the shell back on
starting on the floor replacement
grinding off all the old glass connection
what the original floor constuction looks like under the top layer
removed the stock wheelwells and built smaller ones
rear step up area was boxed in and made into storage compartment
working on rear door
paneling walls, you can see the steel frame work on roof area, has similar in walls
door hinges built and gas shocks mounted
door fits and body lines look the same
moved gas filler down below floor level and added door lid
filling holes
cut the roof lip out
glassing in the roof and molding it to the same profile as body
building door panels
finished door panels
rewiring
wires, wires, everywhere wires
built a new fuse panel with blade fuses to handle all the added electronics, more fuses under the hood along with many relays
seats
some of the gauges plus quick release steering wheel
more gauges and flat screen monitors for tv ect.
rear door finished
rear interior
dual rear shocks and axle torque arm
front dual shocks and remote oil filter setup
fenderwell cutout to fit supercharger
motorvation
says it all 
oil cooler
fuel filter canister and transfer case
dual mufflers
wrapped exhaust system to help noise
no more hood rod holder upper
headlight upgrade, got lotsa light now
out Chinookin
out rock digging
out rock digging again
more rock digging
and again, another rock digging trip
spiffed up for car show
brownie & blue
Filed under: chinook guru, inspiration, toyota chinook, Uncategorized | Tags: paul marino, the chinook, thechinook.com, toyota
this guy Paul made some funny videos, his own reality tv show about living in a chinook. check out his website here www.thechinook.com. and watch the episodes below!
Filed under: toyota chinook, inspiration, repair manual | Tags: toyota, chinook, manual, 1977, owner's
the 1977 toyota chinook owner’s manual! everything you ever wanted to know about how to operate and enjoy your chinook! did you know there was an option of fold out bunk beds? i wish my chinook had those. be nice if there was a higher resolution scan of this manual, but this is all that’s out there right now. enjoy and download it here.
Filed under: toyota chinook, chinook travels | Tags: toyota, chinook, mendocino, big river, little river, navarro river, travels, on the road
Filed under: toyota chinook, inspiration, chinook guru, 4x4 | Tags: toyota, chinook, guru, brownie, toyotamotorhomes.com, brown, 4x4, conversion, timeline, nolan
Nolan’s 1976 chinook 4×4. here’s some timeline photos from the build and some of the story. you can read the whole story here on toyotamotorhomes.com
“I started cleaning and tinkering, removing broken pieces, worn out pieces, loose pieces, etc. to get down to a starting point, within 3 days of purchase I had a bare frame sitting in the driveway and Chinook parts scattered everywhere, OK now theres a place to start “ha ha” By this time the wife was starting to give me that look, but HEY, if I’m going to do it I might as well do it right, and if we were going to actually camp, sleep, and travel in this thing I wanted to make sure it was safe, dependable, reliable, and looked half way respectable. A few trips and many calls to RV parts sources quickly revealed that these old Chinooks are beyond the point of finding parts for so my many needed pieces that I thought would be easy to replace now needed a new strategy to restore it. So strategy became “I’ll just build it the way I see fit and do what I can” To make things more exciting a friend had wrecked his Toyota 4×4 truck, and I got this great idea that maybe I could incorporate some of the pieces into this project, so along with a completely dismantled Chinook I now had a wrecked 4×4 to add to the collection. By now the wife had figured I had totally lost it and was beyond sanity. Told her if she needed me I would be in the garage for the next few years. With the bare Chinook frame as a starting point I cut the frame in half, grafted on the front section of the 4×4 frame, from there the reconstruction process began.”
Filed under: toyota chinook, wheels, tires | Tags: toyota, chinook, flat, tire, wheel, nail
the chinook got a nail in the rear tire as i was backing it into the shop yard to work on it. so then i had to take the tire off. the lug nuts were not easy to get off. the rust i guess. and with these wheels you gotta loosen the nuts just slightly in the right order, or one ends up being impossible to get off, cause it’s got the whole wheel wedged against it. might have sucked to do this by the side of the road. but i was at the shop and i had the impact driver.
Filed under: toyota chinook, inspiration, chinook ads | Tags: 1976, rv, camper, toyota, chinook, mpg, gazelle, ads, advertisement, omega, round tripper, newport
my collection of toyota chinook, gazelle, round tripper, mpg, newport and omega ads. this is what i’ve been able to find online so far. can’t wait to see more!
Filed under: toyota chinook, exhaust | Tags: 1976, camper, toyota, chinook, pickup, exhaust, leak, clamp, hilux
there’s a small hole in the exhaust right before the catalytic convertor. it’s not a rust hole. it’s deliberate. it must have had some purpose? but right now it’s an exhaust leak. it’s right below the cab so you can smell the exhaust, and it’s louder than it should be. so for now it’s getting this 2″ clamp to cover it up. seems like a simple enough concept. but i’m not a expert on toyota trucks, or any cars. so this is all learning for me.
