Boring but mildly uplifting Toyota story.

[spartacus]

After a crap week last week, (van breakdown due to malfunctioning out of use alarm, then tools stolen from the same van in broad daylight, in a good area at school run time), I thought I should be due a break.

I jumped in my 280,000 mile Hiace yesterday, fired it up and was greeted by a mild grinding noise. It sounded like a shagged waterpump, because it was. It had a lot of play in it. By 14.00 I'd picked up a new one at a local factors so was ready to go this morning.

I arrived at my folks place at about 9.30, had a cup of tea, and by 11.15 I had it all done, it went so well that I didn't even rip my gloves, my hands were so clean after I'd finished I didn't need to wash them!

If only all of our automotive tasks went this smoothly.

[tooSavvy]

.... I thought you had bought some 'wind up more height' ramps!

 

Well done, anyway

 

 

TS

[Junkman]

I mustard mitt that I find those stories where everything goes horribly wrong more entertaining.

They are also more congruent with my own experiences.

[Jim Bell]

Jobs like this are always much easier when someone else does them. Sorry to hear about the gear theft man. Some people are bastard arseholes.

[vaughant]

Nice motors to work on toyotas (as a rule) I will say.

Probably why 90% of the cars in west Africa are toyotas.

[spartacus]

Even the guy who towed it in said the fuel pump didn't look too hard to get at I'm just pleased it wasn't that!

It's a tough old thing and easy to work on, I've done discs and pads in a leisurely couple of hours and rear dampers in an hour or so. Other than that it's not needed anything other than service items in the 60,000 I've owned it.