[img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif[/img] Nah, that's a tundra...with a chevy skin on it! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif[/img]
Now that's funny. I guess the Toyota that started out pulling it broke the rear end (they have been known to do that) and they had to hook it to something else for the pull. I bet Toyota isn't happy about that picture.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Hook_em_Horns</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif[/img] Nah, that's a tundra...with a chevy skin on it! [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif[/img] </div></div> [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img] I bet that toyota is loving that pic circulating on the Net!
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Nice pic. Might have to see if I can print that out and hang it somewhere around work.
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Well duh, the Toyota is a 1/2 ton with a gas engine. By some other pics I saw, they pull a hellasciously heavy trailer and need a heavy diesel to do so. I fail to see what the big deal is. There's no way anybody with brain one would pull it with a Ford F150 gas engine either. I bought a new Tundra and couldn't be happier with it, but I sure kept my diesel for heavy trailer pulling. That's basically what a diesel engine is designed to do.
Comparing apples to apples, direct from Car & Driver's road test of the 5 1/2 tons, Ford 83MPH, 16.7, and Tundra 94MPH, 14.9 in the 1/4 mile. And those 381 horses will still get you 21MPG highway driving.
And the weak rear end, Ford 1 ton diesel ring gear is 10.25", Tundra's a bigger 10.50", they've had no differential problems.
I'm not "brand loyal" although I've had Fords for 30+ years, so I just don't get the juvenile mental-midget mentality of "if it's not what I drive, it's gott'a be a piece of crap".
Those don't look to bad nowdays, they used to be butt-ugly.
I guess the Hino engines are something else. A friend runs a huge Hino powered (Hitachi?) excavator at the local gypsum mine and he says the engine's half the size of the big John Deere and Cat but it outruns the other two in all ways and the hours on the meter are unheard of without ever having an overhaul.
A local drayage company runs a fleet of their straight box trucks and I hear they are pretty bulletproof, but the parts network is spotty and the parts are pretty pricey.
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: LMJD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Well duh, the Toyota is a 1/2 ton with a gas engine. By some other pics I saw, they pull a hellasciously heavy trailer and need a heavy diesel to do so. I fail to see what the big deal is. There's no way anybody with brain one would pull it with a Ford F150 gas engine either. I bought a new Tundra and couldn't be happier with it, but I sure kept my diesel for heavy trailer pulling. That's basically what a diesel engine is designed to do.
Comparing apples to apples, direct from Car & Driver's road test of the 5 1/2 tons, Ford 83MPH, 16.7, and Tundra 94MPH, 14.9 in the 1/4 mile. And those 381 horses will still get you 21MPG highway driving.
And the weak rear end, Ford 1 ton diesel ring gear is 10.25", Tundra's a bigger 10.50", they've had no differential problems.
I'm not "brand loyal" although I've had Fords for 30+ years, so I just don't get the juvenile mental-midget mentality of "if it's not what I drive, it's gott'a be a piece of crap". </div></div>You are 100% correct,there is nobody Foreign or domestic that makes a 1/2 ton that could safely Pull that trailer,that being said, like Packard said it's a bad Page Ranking move on toyota's part to have a trailer with their name all over it being pulled by a competitor's truck,maybe that will spur Toyota's development of a one ton truck,it just gives us Ford Loyalists an easy target for some good natured ribbing. BTW P.M sent
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well i think a time machine trip would be good for them
world war II they made a 5 ton military truck in japan that if restored would make a cool towrig that would out do that chevy maybe some of our fords
and if you look closly you can see it crushed under the weight of the chevy
horrible move on their part
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I've got some pics like that of one of their trailers getting pulled by a Super Duty, someone posted them awhile back.
I find these type of pictures particularly funny when they are the ones toting their trucks pulling big loads on their commercials, but they lack a larger full-size truck to compete in the gooseneck/fifth-wheel pulling segment.
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