Tacomas doing work

Holy crap! Towing a Yukon. Yet I thought my truck was working hard towing my Mitsubishi Evo

 

built a small woodshed

 

within a month after I got mine I put 1200 lbs of hay in it lol. handled it well. had a bilstein lift kit with an AAL at the time. got a lot of looks on the highway

 

also towed my old car-b-q out of the woods. was a mother... glazed my clutch a bit because my front diff actuator was acting up and I couldn't get it into 4low up hill through a gate. took all day but towed it well.

 

I hope you record your stories for your children and grandchildren. You already have me beat for "an interesting life" by miles.

 

hell yeah! no one knows what I'm talking about when I reference Mister Ed the talking horse. I remember my grandpa putting it on tv when I was little.

 

It was still running on some channels in the 80s per my memory! Give that horse some more peanut butter!

 

Okay, old fence goes to the landfill day. Baby killdozer is pumped to go on the pilgrimage.

 

I thought of posting these on the 60+ forum but a little too sleepy over there.


busting rocks after my wife caught me spending too much time on Tacoma World forum!


drilled and split 1CY boulder for removal. About 8 minutes per hole with rental drill. Years ago did this by hand with star drill, about 12 holes per full day.


hoisting 12" core drill for foundation penetration by stove pipe


using hitch-mounted winch to extract 300# silted out water heater


dumping load


loading wacker compactor


maxxing out pre air-bag suspension


hitch-mounted winching out 18 CY basement hand digout. How to kill yourself without catching Covid.


early pic- S4S oak for stave-cored doors. broke truck springs on later full load in 7'2" bed.


the Home Depot Stimulus Bill at work

 

Ultimate Mall Crawler! Notice body armor for shopping carts and door dingers, fire extinguisher for burning electric vehicles, covered box with seats for the kids, generous roof rack for 100 lb bags of puffed wheat at Costco and high vis. stickers and flashing lights for easy identification in crowded parking lots.

 

Yukon and even more recently a 1500 Denali that had the same issue as the Yukon, except it's frozen lifter gernaded the valve. I've also flat towed a 1st gen 3500 that gernaded it's transfercase, that one was fun having to coordinate braking and starting off.

Manual on 34" tires as well with an extra ~600lbs in the bed between the drawer system and tools. Bit interesting running it through the powerband, but it will go. Definitely interesting in that intake runner spacer mod more and more.

 

Hot damn. My truck is also a manual, but it’s stock except for 1” up tires. It is interesting having to rev this truck up to make it go.

Have you looked into getting a tune? May wake the engine up a bit on the lower end

 

Yeah, It is tuned, also ECU was updated to latest version at dealership as well. Do the ECU update first, fixes the ACIS dip a bit. If you do the ECU update, price ranges between free if you try to get it via TSB to $200 if you can't wait a day or two, depends on dealership.

 

Woodwork

 

We just completed a 1,000 mile round trip between the DC area and the Cape Fear area pulling a moderately loaded 4x8 U-Haul and (mostly) traveling at or just above the posted speed limits (ranging from 55 to 70 mph); my bone stock 2022 TRD Sport DCSB 6MT averaged 18.1 mpg; I was quite pleased with that number. In 10-days we'll be embarking on a 1,250 mile trip to take much of our son's stuff down to him in Miami; I haven't decided whether to try and cram all of his stuff into a 5x8 trailer or spend the extra $100 for the 6x12 tandem axle trailer (with brakes). Stay tuned for the results.

 

Fresh bed load of hickory wood for the smoker.

 

I can fit 8 mini bales in my short bed and still be able to close the topper window hatch gate thing. if I play enough Tetris I should be well trained enough. bet I could fit two more if I really wanted to...

 

Not much weight but the snow and the ice under it made things slightly exciting.

 

Check this out! 2.8L turbo diesel, excellent fuel economy work truck. Drive away for $53490 NZD or $31000 USD. 2024 New Hilux SR5 Hybrid 2.8 4WD Automatic Double Cab - Toyota NZ We get the sissy version here in North America.