On the truck with 350k can you speak of what type of issues, failures you experienced in that time frame, that’s pretty incredible
Two repairs, both times the valley coolant leak. First time at 225k miles and then again at 320k (check previous posts for sanity check on miles). Other than that, oil changes with AMSoil (and
@bjowett 's awesome cap), tires, brakes a couple times, and a little bit of gas. Haha.
"Proactively" replaced stock water pump, starter, and radiator at just over 300,000 miles. No issues but figured it was time.
Best comfort and long distance all-around tires were Michelin LTX Defenders. I went E rated and got 90k+ miles out of sets twice.
Put on Ridge Grapplers last. Loved the look and "basic" trail/deer lease trail work performance. Didn't have it long enough to see life of that tire.
There's some other posts from me that provide more details. But those are the major points.
It did develop a head gasket leak at 345k. My logic was that I was due for other stuff to start wearing out (AC, screen in dash, etc.), and we had to take care of some kid college expenses and business expenses. Sold it for $20,000 with those miles and the head gasket leak. Leak had progressed to wear you couldn't drive more than an hour before having dangerous low coolant levels. I would have dropped a crated engine in it if Toyota sold them. It was an awesome truck.
I think we hit 19 states, a dozen national parks, and more state parks than I remember. Shakedown trip was 4,500 miles in the first month going up into Yellowstone and then through midwest on the way home. Towed 7000# capacity utility trailer often with various loads up to the limit. One of its last vacation trips, we rented a 25' Airstream in San Diego and drove it up the coast into Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. Put the Texas-San Diego run on either side of that.
