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Anybody here ever owned a Toyota Stout?
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 00:05:11 -0700, Ernie Leimkuhler
wrote: A guy has one for sale here in Seattle for cheap, and I am tempted. I have an '85 toyota one ton now, but I used to own a '78 toyota SR5. It is a 1966 Toyota Stout that has been in storage for 15 years. He says it ran before storage, and has an '72 8RC engine. Considering how little he is asking I am really tempted just to tinker with it. I am worried about the unavailability of parts. I had never heard of these until I read his add. I already found several of them in online Junkyard auto parts databases in Washington State. I drove a couple in Zambia in the early seventies. With the original 3R and 5R engines they were underpowered - a bit like a '50 Stude. Stylewise, similar to a late International. Very STOUT in construction. There was also a "Lite Stout". A bit bigger than the Hilux, which is the Pickup normally seen and sold in the US and Canada. The Hilux came with the 8R engine as a minimum here. Body and chassis parts may be a challenge. Some mechanical parts are shared with the early Crown / Mk II |
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Anybody here ever owned a Toyota Stout?
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 00:05:11 -0700, Ernie Leimkuhler
wrote something .......and in reply I say!: Nuh! I _own_ one. G I can't make myself get rid of it, out of soppiness. It was the toughest bus you could imagine, and next to a 4WD, was nigh on unstoppable, even as a ute. I did up the engine (60 psi when I bought it), gearbox (syncro gone), clutch and in the end the diff. It had done a lot of miles. Oh yeah.....and the engine again, frigate! Didn't replace the shaft of the distributor properly in a minor maintenance! Amazing. It drove the oil pump, and the truck didn't have a working oil indicator. If anything the weak point as with most Toyotas IMO is the motor. IT was a 2 litre 100 Hp 5000 RPM beasty, and really was working to haul the old bus around. But it was starting to get tough to find parts. Many parts would come off Landcruisers, of the FJ 40 variety etc, but every now and then you'd just get caught with tnings like brake parts etc. So you don't want to have it as the major vehicle One thing. I did a lot of country Kms in that thing. When the diff went I put a Landcruiser diff in, and went from about 6:1 down to 4:1 or something. It went from screaming its guts out at 90KmH to being way too high geared for farm work. A guy has one for sale here in Seattle for cheap, and I am tempted. I have an '85 toyota one ton now, but I used to own a '78 toyota SR5. It is a 1966 Toyota Stout that has been in storage for 15 years. He says it ran before storage, and has an '72 8RC engine. Considering how little he is asking I am really tempted just to tinker with it. I am worried about the unavailability of parts. I had never heard of these until I read his add. I already found several of them in online Junkyard auto parts databases in Washington State. ************************************************** **************************************** Huh! Old age!. You may hate it, but let me tell you, you can't get by for long without it! Nick White --- HEAD:Hertz Music Please remove ns from my header address to reply via email !! ") _/ ) ( ) _//- \__/ |
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Anybody here ever owned a Toyota Stout?
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:42:09 -0700, Ernie Leimkuhler
wrote something .......and in reply I say!: I went and looked at the Stout today. I am going to pass on it. Just too many parts need work, and it is not driveable as is. If anybody else is interested in one, the guy only want $185 for it and it has new tires. 1966 Stout 41-K, 3RC engine. It is definitely a vehicle for somebody with time on their hands. Unfortunately they did not get the sort of classic status that makes people want to do them up. ************************************************** **************************************** Huh! Old age!. You may hate it, but let me tell you, you can't get by for long without it! Nick White --- HEAD:Hertz Music Please remove ns from my header address to reply via email !! ") _/ ) ( ) _//- \__/ |
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Anybody here ever owned a Toyota Stout?
Toyota stouts are tuff trucks. We used then in a mine in Tasmainia they
sttod up the very gentle miners treatment really well. "Ernie Leimkuhler" wrote in message ... A guy has one for sale here in Seattle for cheap, and I am tempted. I have an '85 toyota one ton now, but I used to own a '78 toyota SR5. It is a 1966 Toyota Stout that has been in storage for 15 years. He says it ran before storage, and has an '72 8RC engine. Considering how little he is asking I am really tempted just to tinker with it. I am worried about the unavailability of parts. I had never heard of these until I read his add. I already found several of them in online Junkyard auto parts databases in Washington State. |
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Anybody here ever owned a Toyota Stout?
Hmmm ... sounds like "Stout" is a misleading name!
Ernie Leimkuhler wrote in message ... In article , Graeme Jamieson wrote: Toyota stouts are tuff trucks. We used then in a mine in Tasmainia they sttod up the very gentle miners treatment really well. Unfotunately, as I discovered when I went to view the one for sale, they were not meant for BIG people. I could barely fit in the seat and operate the pedals. It made my '85 toyota truck feel like a Cadilac as far as leg room goes. "Ernie Leimkuhler" wrote in message ... A guy has one for sale here in Seattle for cheap, and I am tempted. I have an '85 toyota one ton now, but I used to own a '78 toyota SR5. It is a 1966 Toyota Stout that has been in storage for 15 years. He says it ran before storage, and has an '72 8RC engine. Considering how little he is asking I am really tempted just to tinker with it. I am worried about the unavailability of parts. I had never heard of these until I read his add. I already found several of them in online Junkyard auto parts databases in Washington State. |
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Anybody here ever owned a Toyota Stout?
LOL -- Reminds me of when I rented a "car" on Moorea (French Polynesia).
With a name like Mega Ranch we were hardly prepared for a vehicle about 1/2 the size of a golf cart. "Andy Wakefield" wrote in message m... Hmmm ... sounds like "Stout" is a misleading name! |
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