Sounds like you have a very cool FJ80, and if you want to pull a small camping trailer, hard side or pop up, that is the way to go. I love Toyota, but I like all other rigs also. I went to a 95' Dodge single cab, longbed, Cummins Diesel, 4:10 gears with an overdrive, 35" tires, and I can get 23mpg driving conservatively here in the Colorado Rcky mtns. I can get 20mpg driving 75-80mpg, and all the power I need for any hill. It is all mechanical, no computer, and I can turn my fuel pump up to give me twice the power, which I don't need right now.
I can run any trail that an FJ80 can run also, I have pics to prove it. I do get some paint pinstriping, but I don't care, and I use my truck for my daily driver. It is my all around rig.
I wish I had a 4BT, or a 6BT Cummins in a Toyota FJ80, but Qbama is cracking down on conversions, that is what our local Emissions Air program told us just 2 months ago.
My Dodge with stock suspension, I do have a 2 inch level spacer up front. I'm hanging with my buddys FJ40 with ARB's, 37" MTR's. Look at the factory flex I get in the rear and up front. He got 16mpg with his throttle body Chevy V8 going to the trail, I got 21mpg on this trip, and he couldn't even come close to staying with me on the highway going up the hills, I didn't even see him in my mirrors.
But I still love the Toyota's. I will probably build one for my hardcore offroad rig next year. The cool thing is, I will be making a queen sized bed in the back of my bed, and all my camping gear will go under the bed. I do, and will finish my build thread over hear. http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28936
I can run any trail that an FJ80 can run also, I have pics to prove it. I do get some paint pinstriping, but I don't care, and I use my truck for my daily driver. It is my all around rig.
I wish I had a 4BT, or a 6BT Cummins in a Toyota FJ80, but Qbama is cracking down on conversions, that is what our local Emissions Air program told us just 2 months ago.
My Dodge with stock suspension, I do have a 2 inch level spacer up front. I'm hanging with my buddys FJ40 with ARB's, 37" MTR's. Look at the factory flex I get in the rear and up front. He got 16mpg with his throttle body Chevy V8 going to the trail, I got 21mpg on this trip, and he couldn't even come close to staying with me on the highway going up the hills, I didn't even see him in my mirrors.
But I still love the Toyota's. I will probably build one for my hardcore offroad rig next year. The cool thing is, I will be making a queen sized bed in the back of my bed, and all my camping gear will go under the bed. I do, and will finish my build thread over hear. http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28936
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