does anybody WORK their truck?

Pulled nearly 4,000 lbs. water 16 miles, including highway and 3 miles of 7-10% grade - no trouble. Tank and trailer weigh 1,090 lbs. Brake controller (Tekonsha P3) worked flawlessly on the dirt and the highway. Love this little truck. I'm stoked!

 

Brought home a bunch of lumber , 6'-20' about 20 pieces in total

 

Use mine everyday for work...





This was my 2007, 5-lug working.

 

Shot this on my way to a job a week ago. 1st gen 5-lug, likely wayyyyy overloaded. He was doing about 70 ish on the highway.

 

Had to pick this up from another project.

 

The wee truck is nimble in the woodlot and can certainly carry a load!

 

Tacoma hauling some shit

 

Of course......

 

Sweet......

 

Git 'er done!!

 

Yes that counts

 

Old photo but still working everyday

 

The reason I bought the taco was for this:



and sometimes this:

 

Well a couple years later and I finally got some Dakars - yesterday. Insain Fab in Thornton, Colorado, put em on with ToyTec coils/Boss shocks. This morning I hauled approx 1,000 lbs. ponderosa pine off the mountain and the ride was awesome. But... getting into the garage was close, 4cm to spare. Perhaps springs will settle as I'd like to go to a larger tire in the future but no clearance for that presently.

 

^^^ the above photo is why I now have Dakars with ToyTec Boss lift (two days old)... two of those 1,200+ loads of hay and things got a little saggy.

 

I'll have to get a couple pics up on here. I work mine everyday. On this past Friday (6/10/16) I carried 2 transmissions (different times), 2 v8 replacement engines (delivering Chevy parts in a Toyota, told the shop when they poked fun at me doing Chevy parts in a Toyota I said to them "I wanted to insure they actually made it here....since after all....these are CHEVY parts being delivered" took them a minute to figure that one out)

 

Yup.