So if anyone's interested, the dealer apparently fixed this problem: said the rear brake mount/backing had come loose from the axle, caused brakes to jam, plus oil seals were fried. All fixed under warranty but I decided to unload.
After about 9 months of ownership, and 7 or 8 trips to the...
Well the trucks at Toyota overnight. They're waiting for parts.
Apparently...rear brake 'assembly' was 'jammed', something about new seals...all under warranty...
Who knows what that means. I'll find out for sure when I pick it up. My money is on axle seals leaking into the drums...
Agreed! But...heat of the moment, a line up of guys in F250's, Rams, etc, and me in the only Toyota in sight...I had to try some throttle.
Buddy told me that actually, the drums have more stopping power than disks, and the rear drums are huge enough that if one locked, it could hold back...
Well, I booked it in for Toyota to have a look next week. We'll see how it goes...
Told them everything, so hopefully they'll find something. Yeah, I'm not going to worry much about the clutch--you gotta slip and burn 'em for years and years. This probably just made it a little smoother...
Well, I pushed pretty much every button on my dash and there are a lot. Turned truck off and on, in and out of 4L. I think going into 4L automatically turns it off?
Still...should that be able to cause the clutch to smoke, or would that be a malfunction of the system?
I have yet to take...
Thanks, yeah I tried reverse, but nothing that way either. I'm guessing traction control or the computer or something, but no error codes or check engine light...
Updated: Bye bye Taco (09 Tacoma bizarre problem: rear wheel locked)
I have an 09 Tacoma TRD Off Road edition with the factory rear locker, V6, and 6 speed manual. A very strange thing happened the other day...
After parking briefly at the bottom of a hard packed gravel driveway, I went to...
If you've been considering buying an imported Japanese market (JDM) diesel 4x4, I recently did a calculation to see if it's worth it (quantitatively speaking, of course).
What I found out is that I'd have to drive and own the JDM import for about 17 years to offset the higher price of buying...
Rumour or not, the FJC's days are numbered. It's a fuel pig niche vehicle with a rapidly shrinking and geographically limited market. And it will be killed off decades before Toyota even thinks of touching the profitable and worldwide Hilux/Prado/4Runner line.
I need to replace my rear wheel wells with new metal, but bending sheet metal myself would result in something truly butt ugly.
Anyone know of a good supplier of replacement body panels for 60's?
Most the stations have winter diesel up here, but the manual for my 2H says you can mix up to 30% kerosene with #2 diesel when it gets really cold (which would probably be really cheap, come to think of it). I run 5% bio year round without any problems so far, but I'm in a warm part of Canada...
After driving my hj60 a couple hundred k's, my ears were ringing. There's a lot of...ambient noise...in the cab. Not sure why: the engine isn't overly noisy, the exhaust is good, the tires run quiet, but the overall noise level is pretty high.
Before I don ear plugs, are there any tricks to...
I'd be worried. You prolly only have another 15-20 years before a pin sized rust hole appears somewhere in the massively overbuilt frame...
(Free sarcasm from the Land of Rusty Cruisers...)