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12-13-2006, 09:13

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06 07 4 Cyl 4WD Tacoma opinions wanted

A flying buddy of mine built himself the ultimate truck, but then he has his own machine shop too.

He bought a low mileage Toyota that was an insurance write-off, it was stolen and stripped. Mind you all they took to make it a write-off was the airbags, seats and wheels and rims.

He then sold the engine and tranny for more than he paid for the whole truck, then he implanted a VW diesel from a TDI Jetta that had been rear-ended while parked on the side of the road. The driver had run it out of fuel on the highway and was thumbing it for some fuel when it got hit.

He had some screwing around to make up things like mounts and bell housing, but he did it just fine. I believe he said it has the 5 speed out of a late 80's Toyota diesel p/up and the gears in the diff. were swapped out, again I think they are from another Toyota, maybe TRD special stuff??

At any rate, he sure is happy with what he ended up with.

Best of luck.

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12-13-2006, 12:42

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There used to be a guy that I saw every now and then at the feed mill, he lived up-country a ways and travelled around making sales calls, no clue what it was he sold though.

He had an older heavy 3/4 ton 2wd Ford pickup, the intersting part was the drivetrain, he had a 6 cyl. Duetz air-cooled engine out of a combine or something in it, he had it mated to two trannies in a row. Apparently the second tranny was only used in 2 gears, sort of like high and low range in a semi-truck. I'm told it wasn't exactly a rocket off the line, but it rolled down the road just fine when under way.

Way back when he was getting 30+ mpg out of it, and had rebuilt most of the truck as the mkileage racked up.

Bet it sure was cheap though!!

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