So what exactly are the Top Ten Problems owners of the 86-95 Toyota trucks have?
I'll get the list started with a few

1. Broken/Cracked clutch pedal bracket
2. Bad Corroded Grounds
3. Dimmer switch/contacts
4. Can't get rear brake drums off
5. Surging idle

Might be nice to come up with a list then make links to how each problem was attacked and solved...

 

Seat belts not retracting

 

The Nut behind the wheel is getting old and tired Should be # 1

Really What Vehicle 20 years old does not share some common age related problems??

My big one is the wire off the B terminal of the Alternator gets old and tired from thermal cycling .

Then in the great brine belt anything steel is rusted ..

Rubber hoses are often neglected.

 

1. Blown head gaskets.

2. Burnt valves.

3. Loose steering.

4. cracked dash

 

how about that annoying click under the hood (injector? Fuel pressure regulator?) that seems to not be a problem but drives so many of us insane.

 

Blown head gasket,cracked timing cover,stock rear springs going flat/cracking,tps issues,axle seals leaking,crappy turbo (if turbocharged),top end rocker arm noise,plastic clips on grill all broken. Those are all that I can think of off the top my head. Most of these are do to age and/or wheeling/abuse.

 

Rust.

 

Sloppy, worn out shifter seat. Seems very common!

 

Head gasket. Sagging rear end. Primitive engine management system.

 

factory wiring flaws in headlight circuit and starting circuit.

 

1. Broken/Cracked clutch pedal bracket
2. Badly corroded grounds
3. White fusible power wire fried
4. Dimmer switch/contacts
5. Can't get rear brake drums off
6. Surging idle
7. Seat belts won't retract
8. Blown head gasket
9. Worn out shifter seat and ball
10. Early model starting circuit flaw
11. Dim headlights/Low voltage to headlights

 

1:shock and swaybar bushings. i can't keep shocks in it, and ditched the front swaybar.
2: engines were programmed to run far too lean.
3: rust
4: rust
5: rust
6: bumpers are garbage
7: rust
8: intake boots always break from the poorly thought out wire hose clamps
9: spedo squeal
10: undersized wiring for many circuits
11: 22r/re chain guides
and finally, #12:
RUST! RUST!RUST!RUST! FREAKING RUST EVERYWHERE!


ps, the drum problem is fairly universal to drum brakes period.

 

Front pump seal on trans

 

Rust.

 

Stupid thing always starts and I'm always stuck driving everyone else around in the snowstorm

 

and pulling people out of ditches and climbing over downed trees, etc..... just won't quit, even when broken 12 different ways.

 

Rear window

 

not a mini guru, but i've had two 87s and never had a problem getting the drums off. there are two holes to put bolts in to push the drums off. just thread them in and they push the drums off as they go in

 

get an early model and don't fix the starter wiring. your problem is fixed.

 

oh, and my contribution...suspension. my 87rnr bucks like crazy on the faintest crack in the road.
cheap plastic interior parts