My spare tire carrier on my 86 is completely rusted. Took it off and submerged it in a bucket of used motor oil for a week and still could not free it up. Have you been able to figure out a way to mount it in it's original place without buying a new carrier.
My 1983 2wd pickup bed has rust on the bed panels are your wheel wells and bed floor seperation like mine? Mine have a ton of screws and it APPEARS that you can seperation all the panels from each other and replace certain sections of the bed.
Excellent Truck! I love toyotas. I do have a question... did you need help lifting the bed off? If so.. how people or what did you use? Thanks...my toy is a 1989 and I'm repainting it