Topic: why we 4wheel toyotas

[nvtoyin21]

Mom bought a 87 lil toyota coralla brand new when I was little. Drove the wheels off or it! 430 thou when we sold it for 300 bucks and it still ran. Hooked ever since. I mean that thing survived my college years. I trashed on that thing and never did anthing to that thing exept reg maint. Got an 82 pickup and love it!

[hman1991]

so i can join MC 

i've owned and wheeled 9 toyotas
1 cherokee 
1 57 willy w/chevy 350  ( that was fun until it keep breaking down )
1 97 wrangler 
1  dodge raider
1  isuzu trooper
1 geo tracker w/31's and locked ( i missed that lil guy)

at the end  i still love my toyota

because me and this guy seem to think alike. when i got my first yota "tracker" bought 1 in the same week.  we got togather and realized we had same idea just like the trackers lol. anyways i had tried the samurai and tracker. but came back to the 4 runner. oh and yota guys seem to always help each other out alot more than others, well except suzuki guys they r close.

[tom85 [OP]]

i like the fact the all the ford dodge and chevy guys get mad when you do better off road then them in a yota after they make fun of your truck

[4x4fiend]

I wheel Yota cause all the memories getting firewood with my pops in it. When i turned 16 I bought it off him for 1000bux and learnt to drive on it, learnt to wheel, I couldnt imagine driving anything else. not to mention:
1. she gets me home everytime
2. I honestly really dig the look of older toyotas
3. Parts are reasonable, ie., you can actually find Toyotas in the junkyard
4. Help is plentiful, and the Yota crowd just seems like a gnarly bunch.

[kneedownnate]

I cant count how many times people asked me if I had a lift on my yota when it completely stock   

I can't tell you how many times I've gone to look at a toyota for sale, dealer or private party, and had them claim it had a lift when it was obviously stock    I've even had people insist my first gen was lifted, despite my telling them it was bone stock.  I also can't recall all the different "factory available mods" I've had people tell me were available.

[ROKTOY829]

There like a timex take a licking and keeps on ticking,easy to work on.

[abnormaltoy]

because jeeps blow goat nutz,

Hmmm, I was going to put it a little different than that, but...

[skipnrocks]

because jeeps blow goat nutz,

Had experience with jeeps and goat nutz huh.  I guess that would make you an expert!

[*** YELLER ***]

great another toyotas rule and jeeps drool thread  big fricken whoop  get over it already will ya

[Thomas P]

Had experience with jeeps and goat nutz huh.  I guess that would make you an expert!

 

[Rocksurfer]

 

[m44offroad]

I havent actually wheeled my 87 4runner yet but thats only because i have only had it for 2 weeks and it and  have been busy fixing the t-case. prior to this i have been looking for a yota for over 5 years now and i got my first taste of toyota trucks back in high school wheeling with my buddy daniel (gewehr43 on here) and helping him pull his motor and reassemble everything. because of that i became a toyota tech.

[Rocksurfer]

But being a Toyota tech is kinda like being a Maytag repairman.

[m44offroad]

But being a Toyota tech is kinda like being a Maytag repairman.

theres some truth to that but with some of the stuff toyotas coming out with lately its starting to look a little more like ford

[werty]

Family has had over 15 toyotas over the years. My first wheeling trip was in a old first gen that was named desert rat, uncle had a nice lifted purple one with gold rims Bling for 80s
Mom had 4 or 5 4runners I know she has 2 now, 85 sa and a 93. there was the 91~2 ex cab  and the standard cab in the 90s. dads last on was a 85 excab with sa and efi.
First truck for me was a 87 22rtec. next was a 84 ex cab(dbl exx) and a 89 4runner. Awesome little rigs.

[fatkidskickrocks4x4]

I wheel toyota because i grew up in one. They are extremely easy to fix compared to other vehicles, they get good gas milage, they are very capable and well I HATE JEEP!! Besides that they look good with dents and scratches.

[907yota]

because once i bought my first toyota...

[brandon95]

i wheele toyotas cause they are like the #1 energizer bunny they just keep going and going and going. #2 my chevys are too damn big. #3 jeeps are too damn expensive and yes they just get stuck too much. Another reason is they are easy to fix, a few frends and i went wheelin in the Los Padres national forest (poso) all of us had yotas i was in my '89 V6, I should have checked the why i thew one of the fan belts the day befor but i was too lazy. so when we where wheelin i thew another belt, i poped the hood when the tuck was still running and i seen a large bolt sittin on my intake, it looked familiar so i started lookin arrownd and i seen the crank shaft pully waballing arrownd alot. Some how the bolt had backed its self out and ended up on my intake, but when it did it sheird off the alignment key on the bottom pully and the only thing we had to fix it was electrical tape. i wraped the bolt and the shaft where the key was in tape and tigtened it up with a lug nut wrench from my buddys 85 yota (some how we all forgot our tools) after it was all back together i wheeled the rest of the day and made the hour drive home with the tape in place. and yes that is the same alignment key that keeps the timming belt spinning too with the DOHC i am really lucky and glad it did not jump time on me.

[brandon95]

wow i didnt realize i typed that much untell i seen it lol