Topic: Toyota Pickup Forum

[madmtnmotors]

My wife suburban (2000) is a piece of crap rust bucket. Rockers, lift gate, arches, etc. I see so many trucks/suvs of the same model being eaten alive by it. Infuriates me! And people complain about Asian steel. Hah! Her truck (and others of the same model) were all made in Canada-

I hear ya. My Dad's 96 Chevy Blazer is literally disintegrating...

>New fuel tank after original one rusted through
>New fuel lines after original ones rusted through
>Original steel brake lines are on the verge of rusting through...
>Rocker panels rusted through
>Severe rust throughout the entire undercarriage.


Although, my 97' Suburban has held up remarkably well! Go figure...

[DaveBarbier]

Damn, rust sucks. I was reading an article on a military government branch that studies nothing but rust. It was actually pretty interesting.

[ofreen]

My wife suburban (2000) is a piece of crap rust bucket. Rockers, lift gate, arches, etc. I see so many trucks/suvs of the same model being eaten alive by it. Infuriates me! And people complain about Asian steel. Hah! Her truck (and others of the same model) were all made in Canada-

I lived in Alaska for 15 years starting in the late '70s.  Every Chev, GMC Suburbans and pickups and Toyota cars and pickups over 5 years old either had perforation somewhere or it was imminent.  Zeibart made a mint there.  Even Ziebarted, you needed to keep the underside clean and most people didn't bother.  I did, which is why our old pickup has survived.  But it has rust I need to address one of these days.  I'll pull the bed off and go through it since it looks like we will keep it forever.  One thing about Toyota frame rust.  I have looked at several (ours included) where it was obvious the metal was burned due to too hot welding.  Burned steel will rust quickly and badly.

The GM stuff all rusted in the same places due to poor design.  There were many nooks and crannies that held dirt, salt and moisture against the steel that were difficult to clean out without some effort.

[RAFster122s]

I think Japan went through a long period where they were recycling steel with new steel and not sorting out impurities as the rusty steel was corrupting the mix. As a result many of the products made from it will rust quickly when compared to steel made traditionally from  iron ore, carbon, etc directly rather than recycling steel into the batch.
China is/was buy a lot of scrap metal, that was what drove the prices way up a fewyears ago.
Lots of cars scrapped for that lucrative market. Thousands of used cars that are viable runners sitting in giant lots that await either used car prices to rebound or steel to go up again.  Saw acres of them amassed when financing was dirt cheap and people were buying a lot of new cars in the 2008-2012 timeframe.
Thousands of used cars with out a market on south side of Tucson where car dealers were stashing them because they couldn't get rid of them.

[DaveBarbier]

Just an update. I finally finished the truck. I've been working a lot so I was only able to work on it a couple hours a weekend. So far it's running great with no leaks.

The truck forums I joined were pretty much useless but the guy from Engnbldr.com was a lot of help. That's where I got the timing kit from.

[Justin]

Love the old Toyota Utes myself. My brother and I had matching 2wd single cab short beds, his '89 (22R and 4 speed manual) and mine '91 (22RE 5 speed manual) We also bought a 90 4Runner that passed from him to me.
Since moving to CA, the catalytic converters disappeared on the 89 and the 4Runner, thieving bastard tweakers.

By the way, if anyone has seen the 89 hilux 2wd, it's still missing, supposedly its in Hermosilla, Mexico.

 

Josh and I would love to park it in the garage again.

Dave, hope that timing chain didn't give you much trouble. I was going to suggest exactly what ofreen said but he's obviously got there first. I'm a bit behind on my SOHC4.net perusal because I've been travelling for the last 2 months.
Long live the hilux


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[DaveBarbier]

Nice Justin. But if I had those I'd be afraid of ruining the rims and scraping the underside, haha.

[RAFster122s]

Car theft was a big problem anywhere near the border as getting them across is pretty quickly done. They are never seen again unless ghey load them up for a return trip and get in a running gun battle. Then they end up wrecked and shot up. Total loss either way.
some unfortunate seller in Tucson of the well used and worn out sork trucks ended up seeing them again in Syria  where they somehow ended up in the fight with Isis on the wrong side with their. Orginal phone number still on the door. The business recieved lots of hateful callers thinking the business had some how managed to send their trucks that far

How they got there was a puzzle to the owners.
The government investigation sgoerd wgikr ghrse trucks are wirn ghd cheap motors end up getting installed and they end up in shipping containers full of trycjd where in overseas markets they sell for big money.

[Justin]

Nice Justin. But if I had those I'd be afraid of ruining the rims and scraping the underside, haha.

That was just how Josh liked it I kept my 91 pretty much factory and the 4Runner got 31.5" meats and eventually got stolen as well. Never saw it again either. Sad if what Raf said is true. I'd honestly love to have the little blue hilux back in the garage. The optimism in me still has hope that the cheeky bugger of a Toyota is still out there.


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[Justin]

Car theft was a big problem anywhere near the border as getting them across is pretty quickly done. They are never seen again unless ghey load them up for a return trip and get in a running gun battle. Then they end up wrecked and shot up. Total loss either way.
some unfortunate seller in Tucson of the well used and worn out sork trucks ended up seeing them again in Syria  where they somehow ended up in the fight with Isis on the wrong side with their. Orginal phone number still on the door. The business recieved lots of hateful callers thinking the business had some how managed to send their trucks that far

How they got there was a puzzle to the owners.
The government investigation sgoerd wgikr ghrse trucks are wirn ghd cheap motors end up getting installed and they end up in shipping containers full of trycjd where in overseas markets they sell for big money.

Your post gets a bit garbled down the end there but I caught the gist of it. The blue Toyota pictured above was taken from the San Francisco Bay Area and supposedly ended up in Mexico. I'd hate to think she got wrecked or sold to the Middle East.


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