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Ok so I bought this truck because I needed alot of locking space for my tools when I was working as a carpenter. Now its the daily driver I despise. I figured one person in a thousand might see this truck and want the whole story. I have parts of it, no proof it's true it is all anecdotal evidence from the annals of the internet. It all started with the Hilux we all know and love. Now in the mid 80s the rest of the world had real deal crew cab Hilux trucks, the US did not. The two stories I heard were as follows: 1: Due to the luxury car tax of the time importing a four door crew cab would have made a cheap rugged pickup oddly expensive. 2: Toyota sales execs were not sure there was a market for crew cab trucks in the US. Now in 2019 we laugh because new trucks are all 4 door SUVS with half a bed slapped on. Either way Toyota wanted a pilot program. So they did 200 of these weirdos a year for three years. How'd they do it? They stretched the frame 30 inches with some box channel. Then they sent em to a fiberglass coach-works company out of Santa Monica where a deck was laid down and a half-@$$'d roll-bar bolted in. What did this do to the great Toyota drive train? Wrecked it. The single short driveshaft with nice slip spline action got replaced by a two piece with a carrier bearing. I'm not kidding the driveshaft is like 4 feet long. What did it do to its barley acceptable acceleration? Wrecked it. "My turd rainbow" has the miserable head gasket detonating 3.0 3VZE. it does not respond well to extra weight. What did it do to the rugged rigid frame? - ehh I'm too depressed to keep going. Why is it called a "turd rainbow"? because most of them were tan with a nasty brown lighting bolt or rainbow stripe. At least mine came in cool colors. Thanks all for hearing me rant about it. -There is a reason I own a Comanche now...

Parents have an 00 tundra (4.7 v8) with 330k extremely hard/neglected miles on it. Called me today trying to figure out a noise coming from the engine bay. Turned out to be the idler pulley. . . . . . . . . . . did I mention its the factory original idler pulley? After 330k miles it's the first thing to finally give out in the serpentine system. Dare I say I think the friggin belt is original too. I love my jeeps, but d**n if toyotas aren't well made.

Finally got myself a new work truck, pretty unbelievable deal to boot. BIG thanks to mom and dad who helped me get the loan. Finally going to build some credit. 2002 Toyota tundra SR5, TRD, 4X4, V8 196k on the clock, Single owner. The best part? It's an Arizona truck. ZERO rust. Only been here in Florida for a year or two. All this for 4k. Paint is peeling on roof and hood, it needs timing belt done and a few other minor repairs, but all in all it was a smokin deal compared to everything else. PICTURES!!!

Anyone ever put toyota axles under their mj? Heard they're totally bulletproof, so just curious why, seemingly, no one has ever changed over to them. Think they're actually stronger than the mj's D30?