Topic: Petersen's 4Wheel Dec. 05 issue

[Duffil]

Has anyone seen this yet?  A buddy o' mine convinced me to buy it because "it has a cool little booklet that has lots of cool Toyota info in it."  Yeah, really helpful stuff, too.  Here's a quote: "All the '79-'85s had four cylinder versions, and the '84-and-newers have the only change during the years--a 1/4-inch-taller 'casewith bigger driveline flanges."
What??? No Quiet Run Gears?  No 8mm or 10mm driveline bolts?  No bearing retainer clips? no Turbo 23 Spline input shaft?  At least they mention both Top and Forward Shift cases(next pgph).  I find it apalling they can force-feed this to people in a magazine that has such a reader base, and most of 'em don't know any better.  You'd think that after speaking with Marlin, NWOR and Downey Off-Road, that they coulda been a little closer to the truth...

[WHITE_TRASH]

Say you go to night classes to learn french and the first day the instructor try's to teach you a lifetime worth of language skills in a 3 hour period.  How much would you remember the next day? 

[Duffil [OP]]

I slept thru my French in HS and still got a b+ on the final...

Really though, if they're trying to educate people, then WTF???  They oughta take notes or something.

[Hyena]

They also said that 84 was the first year of the EFI.  there was prolly some more mistakes, i gotta go get it out of my truck and re-read it.

[Rocksurfer]

Just as a guess they are probably looking at when you could 1st. buy an EFI truck which would have been late 1984 as a 1985 model year kinda like when they went to IFS you had both IFS and solid axles on the lot from which to choose from. I went with my brother when he bought his 86 (new) and there were still some 85's on the lot. 

[Hyena]

"1984- the introduction of the extra cab, which has a shortbed on a longbed frame for 2 more feet of interior room."

Thats what it says in the book.  What have they been smoking?  the cab is only 9 inches longer then a regular cab.

They also said that the 84 and newer t-cases are 1/4 inch taller.  Is this true or is this the wrong information too?

They also said that those same years had bigger drive flanges.  I didn't think they were bigger just a different bolt pattern with bigger bolts.

[Duffil [OP]]

here ya go, although it don't say how much taller...
http://www.marlincrawler.com/tcaseinfo.html

[88runner]

Say you go to night classes to learn french and the first day the instructor try's to teach you a lifetime worth of language skills in a 3 hour period.  How much would you remember the next day? 

No problem at all

[kneedownnate]

I went with my brother when he bought his 86 (new) and there were still some 85's on the lot. 

Oh man, if only you could go back in time and snag all the efi 85s off the lot and brind em back to right now, that'd  be pretty bitchin