Yaak_22RE

Watched the old '88 turn over 250,000 miles last year. Keeping it running... forever!

2ToyGuy

I bought my pickup, an 87 2WD, 22R, in early 88. It only had 32,000 mi on it when I bought. I bought it from the dealer, then found out a friend at my job had bought it to tow his motorcycles, but it just wasn't quite powerful enough for his taste.
Anyway, I'd heard so much good stuff about Toyotas from the mechanics at work, that I made myself a vow: IF, and to me it was a big IF, it made it 100,000 mi, I would stop, well pull off the side of the road, anyway, and do a "Happy Toyota Dance" around it. Right there where it turned over the mileage. Being Yuma, Az, there were a LOT of pretty wide shoulders on the roads. After all, the roads were in the flat desert terrain.
Well, since I had over 50 miles one way to/from work every day, the miles added up fast. I kept up the maintenance schedule as specified in the FSM (having professional mechanics for friends comes in handy!). Well, I was going to work one afternoon (weird schedules, don't ask) and I saw the odometer start turning that last tenth to 100,000 miles. I pulled over, danced around my truck a couple time, and Highway Patrol officer pulled in behind me. He politely asked me what the H#$% I was doing. I told him, he checked, and sure enough, 100,000 right on the button. Maybe a half a 10th over, but I did have to pull off the side, after all.
He started laughing, and was still chuckling when he got back in his car and left. Since then, I've done it twice more, with remarkably similar results from the Highway Patrol.

Only done it once with my 4Runner, but since I bought it for going to work when there was bad weather in Yuma, a very rare ocurrance indeed, I didn't pile up the miles like I did on my pickup. Bad weather in Yuma is very rare, but when it's bad, it can be REALLY bad. My 4Runner carried me not only all the way to work, no matter how bad the weather, but let me make it down my access road when it got wet. It was a one lane, if that, dirt road. Actually, a clay, known as colichi. Stuff is slicker than greased ice when it reaches saturation. Locked in the hubs, put it in 4L, and just crawled down the 1/4 mile to home from the paved road. It could take me 20 minutes or more. Since there was a 15-20 foot drop into a farmer's field on one side, and a canal on the other, no guard rails either side, I opted for caution, rather than speed. I'm a chicken, I guess.

Now, I live up in Oregon, nearly the opposite of Yuma. Snow and Ice in the winter, beautiful weather almost all summer. Occasional rain, or a thunderstorm, but that's about it. I drive the 4Runner all winter, and my good ol' pickup all summer. Works great for us. I doubt I'll turn over another 100,000 on either truck in the rest of my life, but if I do, Happy Toyota Dance

Great fortune to you all!
Pat☺

Yaak_22RE

Good Stuff! Thank you.

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409254 88 pickup 22re just finished first timing chain the motor had never been into before this pretty amazing truck