Toyota U-haul

[Nick R]

So I was sitting here trying to relax after work, and I remember something from a few years back. We had gone to pittsburgh to pick up some old furniture from family for us to keep, and some for my grandmother. Anyway we had gotten a small U-haul van- it was based on a Toyota Pick up. I can't believe I hadn't remembered it before now.

That thing had been packed to the gills with ancient mahogany furniture, couches, dressers, etc etc. Was quite a drive from pittsburgh to where my family lives in Ohio. According to my dad that thing had been completely gutless, and the check engine light came on partway through. Not surprising. Not really a story of any import but I thought of it because I have never seen since, a Toyota based u-haul van. Interesting.

 

[ctrcbob]

A friend of mine, just south of you in Balston, had a Toyota Class C moterhome just a few years ago. Used it to vacation in Florida. Had no problems with it

 

[mrsilv04]

I used one of those Toyota based U-Haul vans to move in the middle of a blizzard, in January of 1995.

I'm actually glad I had the smallest truck that they rented. It wasn't that bad in the 40mph wind and snow.

A friend has one of the older Toyota-chassis mini-motorhomes. It has been converted over to a (pre-Vortec) 4.3 GM engine under the hood. He pulls a 5x8 trailer behind it with a Honda ST1300 on it.

 

[02SE]

If the handful of U-Hauls I've driven are any indication, they are severely abused, and poorly maintained.

 

[Chris142]

I worked for U-Haul fixing their vehickes in the mid 90's. The Toyota 3.0 had a terrible track record in normal peoples trucks. Having them in abused U-haul trucks compounded the problems.

Job security those were.

OT: The Diesel engines that they used in the F350 units came totally loaded and were a direct bolt in. They had belts, pully's , Alternators, etc on them already. Even full of oil.

Just unbolt the old engine and bolt in the new one, add coolant and off it went. Me and another guy did an engine swap in a WM parking lot in about 4 hrs for a customer once.

They used 15w40 in every unit. Probly a great choice at the time since they often missed oil changes.