[CaptHamster]

Don't worry about the transmission. My dad was the one owner of the truck until he gave it to me just recently. It has 141K miles and shifts beautifully smooth. No clunk, no nuthin'. Like everyone has said here, take good care of your vehicle, and it will take good care of you. As much as some people here hate to hear, you might want to take yours to a Toyota steal-, I mean, dealership, and have them check it out. That is one of the only shops my dad's rig has ever seen, and it's been running beautifully. They may charge you a pretty penny, but hopefully they get the job done. Then again, maybe I just got lucky and happen to visit a good dealership, but that's beside the point.

Another quick point I want to make is this: maintenance doesn't always mean taking things apart and spending a week putting it back together again. Maintenance can simply be checking fluids and doing little test runs on the weekends in different conditions. Don't listen to the horror stories, the tranny will last you another 100K miles, as long as you take good care of it and don't wheel it much. It's also worth mentioning the truck was my dad's Daily Driver for 18 years, with only about 2 trips to the desert and super-light wheeling (i.e. dirt roads and some hills.) Daily driving doesn't really do a whole lot to upset the transmission, really. Now letting it get hot while trying to push a 2 1/2 ton rig up a steep hill on a hot summer's day in Death Valley might make it a little unhappy. But that's something other owners can tell you about.