Just thought I would post some pix of my mainly stock 1995 T100 sr5 with 213,000 miles hauling a 2000 Ford F350 Powerstroke XLT with 98,000 miles into the dealer for repairs.

My truck is my daily driver which means it see's plenty of abuse.

This trucks hauls butt across the desert trails at abusive speed. Bounces through the brush, takes long road trips from here(Idaho) to CA over Donner's pass for Christmas. It hauls hay, chases cows across corrugated fields at 35-50 miles per hour when they get out. Plows through 3 foot snow drifts at 40 miles per hour so the wife can make it through to work. This poor truck only gets the usual stuff like plugs and wires once in a blue moon and the oil changed every 7000 miles and keeps on ticking.

 

wow, didnt think this truck was capable of that. Know what weight that is?

 

Well I'm sure it would have voided the factory warranty if it still had it because I'm sure it was way over the rated limit. The Curb weight of the truck Should be around 7000 lbs with the 7.3 powerstroke diesel in it and If memory serves the trailer is like 1500 lbs or so(could be way off but its a fairly heavy 16' foot hauler with the heavy duty axles and the heavy duty deck). So I'm sure it was more than the factory says it should but it pulled it 45-50 mph down the road with no problems. Even with trailer brakes I wasn't brave enough to drive any faster because even though it pulled it great stopping wouldn't have been terrific. The Ford salesmen ran and hid when I pulled in and I got all sorts of looks from the mechanics.

So I would guess it was around 8000lbs or better to answer your question

 

Manual or auto?

Give yer truck a good checkup (especially if it's an auto) to make sure you didn't incur any damages...

 

I would have paid to see that.

 

still quite unbelieveable. Good to know. Yeah Auto transmission would at LEAST require a nice TRD transmission cooler or something. Heat is what would kill your trans pulling this any distance.

 

This truck is the auto, and this poor girl is a work horse. I try to take pretty good care of the internals as best I can. I only pulled the ford 40 miles to town and I should get the trd cooler for this truck because it would help quite a bit, but Generally everything runs pretty good if I keep her out of overdrive it keeps the rpms high enough it doesn't lug then engine and runs the higher rpms to circulate more fluid through the stock cooling system and such. I will probably upgrade to a v8 tundra someday for the heavy work and keep this for a run around. As of right now I don't generally need a bigger truck but sometimes you find yourself in the situation that someone needs help, or towed to the shop, or pulled out of the mud, snow, ditchbank, etc. And this is the truck that I have and she "ain't scared a nuthin". Generally if I have to tow that kind of weight I shift the transmission by hand according to what I feel is the correct rpm instead of letting the auto do it itself. I always learned when they were working really hard its easier and smoother on the internals to shift it by hand. Another other heavy load she pulled was a stranded GMC Topkick 7500 with a hd dump bed. But that one had the rubber on the ground and we towed it with a strap. Didn't have the camera phone handy though.

Sometimes it just comes down to the fact that as good as you try to be to your rig, there are days it just has a job that needs done, and when your out on the farm or the country or out in the desert you use what you have at hand

 

worked in a trans shop for acouple of years at the end of my wrenching career and the general consensus was that all trucks that are used as trucks should have had an external cooler from the factory. Long-term damage builds up and the clutches take a whoopin'
I love my T-100. 95 red stripper
Robert

 

hot Da&* i love tundras/t100

 

Got any higher res versions of that I can use as a wallpaper?

 

Heh thats pretty good! Sorry I haven't got back on here to reply to you about having a higher res pic or not. I'm afraid I don't have a higher res pic because I stopped on the way and took the pix with my cell phone so what they are is that they are.

Just got done putting new front shocks on the ole girl this last weekend. I'm going to drop the oil in my diffs and transfer case and freshen them up with new as well as new rear brake hardware. The ole' girl won't know what to do with herself.

You have to just love toyota's too. I've tried to take reasonable care of this truck but she has seen some hard times and gone too far on filters and oil at times and the other day when I threw the vacuum gauge to her to check her out she performed like a new ride at 215,xxx miles!

 

should be a 3.4 buhundred!! nice photo work!

 

Yeah it's a good ole' 5vz-fe 3.4L. Bout due for a timing belt though.

 

thats sick!!! how did you stop??