Guess i have a lemon

Love my tacoma but a wheel bearing went out at 78,000 then a spiral cable at 80,000.Truck never let me down. My brother told me about a generation one tundra v8.
550,000 miles in orange groves working hard
and only changed one fuel injector.So I got a lemon.Man I love my tacoma! Hard to believe any vehical on and off road could last 550,000 miles.
Only TOYOTA !

 

Wheel bearing, common problem.

There is a recall on the spiral cable. FYI

 

A good friend has a '97 Dodge diesel 3/4-ton pick up (farm truck) with over 600,000 on the clock. It looks like it was shot at and missed but shit at and hit.....Still on the job though.

 

All the problems I had were self created, big tires, body lift and I did the install.I'm not complaining best vehical I have owned.Friend has an old ram hemi at 400,000 but 550,000 on gas not bad.

 

body lift

 

Sorry about body lift but a cheap way to keep water out of cab.Expensive to modify these Toyota's

 

Don't worry about others. When they pay for your parts and labor they can have an opinion on what you should and shouldn't install.

 

Thanks for the support bud! Love to put headers and exhaust on but not sure what I could screw up next! Plus got no money

 

Maybe Croth will sponsor you, since he cares.

 

Willing to take donations to but like I said these truck are expensive to modify.Thanks for the idea dcsb...

 

I have some spacers for a spacer lift you can have, if it works. and some extra icon shocks i need to get rid of. as for header and exhaust you should def get them if you have the cash.

 

croth51 thanks for the offer.Truck high enough now .Hoping to get Trd intake and headers next wish there was a group buy to get cost down.

 

im in need of some HP for this 3.4... i agree the TRD headers are so costly... i wanna SC so bad

 

How is this a lemon if you admit to creating the problems?

Lots of people have wheel bearing issues. @BamaToy1997 sells some awesome wheel bearings. Contact him if they got again. :thimbsup:

 

That's big bucks.I have the 4.0 big tires needs a little more hp to get going.plus I'm hoping to gain a little more mpg's

 

Gain mpg with big tires?

 

I was just kidding as I said truck is fantastic love my tacoma most reliable truck I have owned hope she goes for 550,000 like the tundra.I did buy wheel bearing from bama.Thank god for Tacoma World.

 

I'm running 33 tires and gained mileage.Raised gear ratio on back roads getting 20.to 20.8 trying to get 21 to 22mpg.Running 50 psi helps a lot.

 

Raising the psi helps mpg b/c you don't lose as much power in tire flex. But the downside is the tire won't track over objects as well and there is a greater chance of a puncture. But that's really good milage. How's it calculated?

 

One of my friends from my past job as a courier had 1,200,000 miles on his Tacoma, only did oil changes and spark plugs and I think changed the valve body