I'd like to see pictures of overloaded Toyota's. I'd like to here stories, ect.

I'll start:
Up here in Bismarck, North Dakota were fighting a flood which involves many sandbags. I was helping out a friend, so I put my Toyota to work. I put over 90 sandbags in the back and at an average weight of 35-40 lbs, that calculates out to like 3,300 lbs. Thats three times the limit of the truck according to the owners manual and is about the weight of the pickup itself. I put more sandbags in my little Toyota then most people were putting in their full size trucks. I had to show them up.

The pickup handled it fine. Starting out in first gear felt like starting out in second, and second felt like third. The pickup cruised along nicely at 50mph in fourth. It's an 88 with the 22R-E. No damage resulted. I'm glad Toyota made these trucks for people like me.





This picture was from last winter. I wanted to see how much snow you can put in the back of a Toyota Pickup.

 

rocks, mulch,dirt (pay loaded was the heaviest) on 33x12.50 and it still kept on a going braking is totally different story lol

 

 

I love seeing Toyota's put to work and hauling stuff. Love the graphic TFE, must be an '88.

 

well, looks like you guys have got me beat...

ive had 3 50 gallon drums of cow manure in the back of my 85, and the most i ever had in my 88 was dirtbike tires and a 298cc kawasaki horizontal shaft engine (wich is for sale btw if youre interested )

 

No pix, sorry. I had about 1000+ pounds of electrical cable, plus about another 400 pounds of lighting equipment in my truck once. Seemed to take about an inch off the rear height...permanently.

 

this isn't mine... I saw this on another forum:




yes it's a 'yota... a REAL "mini" truck

the most I ever had was probably 1500-2000lbs of flooring wood (it covers about 1000 sq ft) in back of my previa with blown shocks.... it was almost riding on the bump stops and it scraped over the speed bumps as I left home depot! that was about 10 years ago though and definitely no pics... not worthy for this thread/site anyway because it's not a truck... at least it's a toyota!

 

No pic, but I had a full load of topsoil in my bed. Rode on the bumper stops the whole way. After that I did an add-a-leaf but the heaviest thing I think I've had on it has been the big u-haul trailer (empty) and a trailer with a ride-on mower and a 4-wheeler on it.

 

I don't see how the OP can have 3300 lbs in that truck based on volume. I've had my truck FULL of wet sand & it tipped the scales at 1,980 lbs above empty weight. That is a TON (literally) of weight....not something I'd drive very far....

Sorry, no pics of THAT carnage...but here's a much less demanding load:

 

fit a 3/4 scoop of rock for a customer. didi it three times in one day. the rear is lincoln locked and it suprisingly held together. i also have 63's in the rear.
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Dont know how you know that but your are correct haha! Another thing about my toyota is that it hauls loads like that consistently. I have hauled more than 700 loads that size or bigger with it. Just keeps on going.

 

About 1700 pounds in the back of my runner. I make an environmentally safe wood finish, had to transport from the production facility to the warehouse when the fork lift was down. Only went across the street like this. Was on the bumps the whole way. Haha. Running a stock pack plus a #2 from my 92s stock pack.

 

no idea on weight

 

I've had my X wife in the back of my 4runner.... she was heavy enough to drain the life out of me and my dog. Thank goodness the 4runner was strong enough to save us both.

 

what is that thing on the driver's side seat belt?

 

my brother had F350 but couldn't fit thru the gate , so we woudl load my yota full of square bales. we stacked them 5 bales higher than the cab. talk about squatage. also hauled some wood about 2 foot higher than the cab. 33s scrubbed my back fenders

 

3,300 lbs does seem pretty heavy. I was guessing on the weight. I've never weighed one of those sand bags, but we estimated it at 35-40lbs. I've counted 91 of them when I was unloading it. They could have weighed less, thus throwing off my calculations. Tomorrow, I'll see if I can make another one up and weigh it so I can get a more accurate guess. What I can tell you is my suspension was bottomed out after loading half of them.

Update: I found a 35lbs weight and a 40lbs weight and they feel very similar in weight to one of those sand bags. I find it hard to believe that I had over 3,000 lbs in the back of my truck, but its possible. Maybe the sand I used is heavier then the sand you hauled. I still want to weigh one, but I think it'll be between 35-40lbs (it depends on how you fill them).

 

I think those graphics were exclusive to '88's. That and the "EFI" made it more likely to be an '88, as all 1988 4WD's had EFI, seems like most 84-87's were 22-R's.

 

the previous owner of my truck hauled 1 ton of scrap metal every day up i-5 from seattle to olympia every day until he got to sick to drive he then traded the truck to me for fixing his van i have since rebuilt the motor and changed the clutch it runs great if you run it every day other wise it starts hard,the gas drains back to the tank.

 

No picture, but the best I've done is a literal ton of wood pellets in mine (50 40lb sacks). I had about an inch to the bump stops (factory springs). I left the shell on so I had to load/unload them by hand. If I had planned ahead, I would have taken it off so they could just forklift the pallet into the back.