This video put a smile on my face. 😂😂🤣🤣

That small truck tied on the trailer just make my day. Those Toyotas are the best! Cool proyect!

If I was blindfolded I would know you were starting a Toyota truck by the sound of the starter.

I once pulled a nearly 5000 lb gross weighted 15' Wells Cargo trailer from Kenai, Alaska to Missoula, Montana with my 2002 SR5 2.7L 4x4... yeah I had to downshift to third for some hills, but it more than handled it.

I’d like to see you do some simple compression tests on each cylinder. That would give an idea about how much power is left in the engine compared to new.

I remember sitting in a brand new 2000 Tacoma 3.4L manual. I was waiting for my salesman to appear and got distracted by this curiosity. I had never even dreamed of a truck before. I was at the dealer to purchase a new Celica - 1st year of re-design. PTLOG! Today I am driving a 2020 TRD Off Road and love it! That 1st impression is still fresh decades past. Ultimately, I traded the Celica after only 2 years.

i have a nearly identical Taco... it great everywhere every time except one place... the highway

I had a 96 Tacoma. The LC Engineering cat back exhaust and K&N intake was a great upgrade. Watching this really makes me miss that little pickup.

Those little tacos are great trucks. I love mine I own an 07 single cab . Same engine but mine is a 5 speed

There is a company that makes or used to make a supercharger for the 3RZ-FE engine in that Tacoma.

Andre strong like bear!

The old Tacoma is bulletproof. I've owned several TRD models, one manual and two automatic, and was always happy with my purchases.

I had a 2004 Tacoma, 2wd, 2.4 engine(smaller than this truck), 5 speed. It would tow, but man was it gutless. Towed a 2 axle u-haul trailer full of furniture a couple times, 3000-3500lbs maybe. It did great in terms of being stable, tail not wagging the dog, brakes were up to the task. Just man going uphill on the interstate, it was shift to 4th/floor it before you hit the hill, get it up to 80-85, then you're doing 60 or so at the top lol. Going up that big hill in northern KY outside Cincinnati, ended up having to shift down to 3rd and maybe kept 50-55 the whole time.

Baby Yota needs light sabre fog lamps on the front.

The laughs when the remote controlled Western Star came on top the deck of the trailer...thanks folks, so needed!

I’ve seen many landscape guys load those Toyota’s 3x the payload & tow capacity

Get a 2021 Tacoma with the utility package and 2.7 to compare to. That would be interesting!

i always gotta laugh passing a 53 foot flatbed on the interstate that's running back empty for another load with a tonka toy strapped to the deck lol!

Even though most of the audience is very familiar with the information (engines, tests, etc), I'm glad TFL re-explains it in every video when relavent for when people are new and don't want to watch other videos to understand. Lots of KZfaqrs who don't do that and instead say "watch X video" instead of explaining it.

you can also put bump stops on the leaf springs so it is safer and increases everything

Good stuff and relive my mid to late teen years with this generation taco. Kudos TFL.

Although the track wasn't made for towing, still fan to watch 👍

Yep the baby semi on the trailer was epic. Nice job gentlemen!

I’ve got a 2004, same engine with a proper 5-speed manual transmission, and I live about 40 miles from TFL World Headquarters, if you want to compare towing abilities. Great video.

Kinda interesting how the advertisement before this video was a movie featuring Baby Yoda.

I have a 02 Tacoma Prerunner 2.7L . It tows a three bike trailer with gear, SUP boards or camping gear without a problem. It's a small work horse not a race horse. Added an external trans cooler with the Scanguage 2 and Energy Suspension Master bushing kit. Great truck for small family. Learned lots from the TTORA forum.

On my old first gen Tacoma, stopping was the hardest part. Without trailer brakes it was almost dangerous.

I had a 1982 4x4 Toyota with a 22R in 1992 that I used to tow a boat. Zero problems.

Sweet little truck! Would love to find one with low miles on it for a daily driver/toy to play with.

I dont know why I keep coming back to this channel, but I can't not not watch their stuff.

Andre cracks me up! Gotta love that bad ass dump Truck! Y'all got me at first, thought we were going tho see a different tow test

I love the charity projects! Keep 'em coming!

Andre, is the man!

I love it. I say this every time I see an old Toyota pickup but I'm still kicking myself for selling my 1994 Toyota Pickup (Pre-Tacoma) with a 3.0L V6, 5-speed manual transmission 4x4 Xtra Cab. I sold it 12 years ago with nearly 300,000 miles and I've been kicking myself ever since.

Enjoyed this. Thank you.

Love you guys! I do tow tests on that road to golden all the time, great mini Ike!!

I look forward to the Yak ranch videos with David. This was a good one Andre. Maybe you guys should install some of those airbags that you inflate and regulate yourself. They are not that expensive. Especially since your putting a structure in the bed. That should help you keep the truck level and safe. Just a thought.

Nice Toyota Tacoma

I have a pickup truck exactly like this. And I hauled an enclosed snowmobile trailer with two snowmobiles in it. It's not a towing beast but it was able to tow them fairly well for being a 4-cylinder. I was definitely very impressed

great video.both those trucks are more relible than romans beloved defender.

That drive to 2nd shift hurt to watch. OD off for first down shift. Then proceed downward.

So far baby yota is one of my favorite trucks y’all have showed on TFL truck

Last Feb I helped a family friend move from Durango to Boulder and I hooked up a 6x12 uhaul trailer to my 09 taco. With the TRD supercharger on the V6, I had no problem climbing wolf creek pass.

love this series and this truck

Not bad for a little truck of that age!

Before i saw the rc truck going on top of there I thought they were gonna load the ram on top of there 😂

I am more excited about this series than I am of most of the other content y'all are putting out. Where didn't he FJ go?

Looks like that route is somewhere between Boulder and golden on 93

Great little truck. Honda wishes they had a truck that held up as well as this Tacoma after 18 years. Actually TFL should compare this truck to a Ridgeline with 185,000 miles on the clock

Awesome! Merry Christmas all!

i use my 87 jeep xj to tow edison work trucks (typically an f350 or 450) out of mud and ice pits. sometimes as much as 12000 lbs. just cause its old doesnt mean its wore out.

Love the vid! You should consider a SC for the 2.7

I've been towing a lot of lawn tractors and other small equipment this past year with my 01 Focus wagon. I'd love to do the Baby Ike if I didn't live over in Wisconsin!

Cool video!

saw you guys towing this huge load down foothills lol

that would be a nice little truck to drive to work and just putter around for abit of fun. As long as you don't need to do anything hard and heavy.

Add some wind resistance and it would really struggle

Nice to see some old school mini trucks. I had a 91 nissan hard body std cab 5 speed manual everything fun truck to drive and they just keep going and going .. would like to see a nissan hard body from that era 4wl drive those where tough trucks ..

You totally should have put Tommy's mini on that trailer. That would have made this the world's cutest Towing test lol

As I write this I’ve already seen the “valve job” and suspension videos. So...The truck towed ~max weight with ~3.66 cylinders (from the numbers on the vid) and the old suspension...I like it a LOT.

Haha Andre.. .. great vid

I had this same truck with a 5 speed and a 4.10 gearing. It’s underpowered compared to the v6 but it’ll tow pretty much anything but just be ready to leave it in 4th on the highway.

Set the scan gage up for transmission temperature..

That toy truck had me rolling lol

In Ontario our CDL allows for one strap over a skid provided it is against the headache rack or the first set of skids that are double strapped...rules are weird.

Lmao I bet people on the roads were like “why tf do they have a toy truck strapped to the back of that trailer” 🤣

I think you guys should do a tow test with an 04-06 double cab Tundra. It's become way more popular and I would be curious how it would do.

That would be pretty funny to. See. "Yeah I pulled a semi truck with my taco.

Definitely embarrassing when you get passed by the mail truck! 😂

I'd love to see you take it on the Ike Gauntlet but just empty and see how it stacks up against everything else

My grandfather had a 84 sunrader motor home made of this truck... u have to drive it like a Diesel .. or u will be 25 mph up a hill in seconds .. but it lasted for decades ..

This should be on tfl trucks. I almost missed it. Lol😅

Wen u put that toy truck on the trailer I started dying 😂😂😂😂🤣

Would love to see the comparison with a same or similar model year Frontier, Ranger, Dakota, S10, or any other manufacturer with a 4 cylinder. Also how many of these are still on the road in comparison to other manufactures?

Just towed a 3500lb airstream across the country with my 96 v6 Tacoma no issues. Averaged 16mpg

I suggest using the scangauge to also monitor transmission temperature. You have to enter the X-Gauge code manually, but you should monitor temps if at all possible. Please consider an auxiliary transmission cooler as well. The Aisin A340F transmission that little truck is running does NOT like to tow. If the transmission temperature warning light on the cluster illuminates, you may have already cooked it.

Andre, You call it 'Baby Yota' but I prefer the name Anti-Raptor. It was great to see this truck had a 7 pin harness to actuate those trailer brakes.

LMAO. Seeing that little truck tied down via the back camera I couldn't stop laughing.

That was pretty funny but great video

I had a 2004 extended cab, V6, manual trans, TRD. I put over 200K miles on that truck and took it places people wouldn't believe. I always wished I had the money for the supercharger kit. Damn I miss that rig.

Cool test. Why not get these used trucks, change all the fluids and then send them up the same Ike the other trucks get?

Nice! ...and doing so hauling a tri-axle dump... :-)

I had a 1985 Toyota 4X4 pickup that I purchased new. First year of EFI for this truck, so it had the 22RE with 5 speed, 116 HP, and a tow rating of 3500#. With 175,000 miles on it, I front wheel dolly towed a Chrysler LeBaron wagon (curb weight around 3,100#) up the eye5 Castaic grade, which I believe is a 6% grade. About 1/3 into the climb, I had to pull over and lock the hubs so that I could use low range grunt to finish the climb. Once in low range, I went right up the grade, although quite slowly. Sold that truck to a buddy shortly after, who put another 175,000 miles on it before it was stolen. Was never recovered, so our best guess was that it ended up in Mexico.

Andre the Giant lifts a dump truck.

You should have used the Horsepower gauge (HPR) on the Scangauge II, I’m curious to see what that old engine is still making for power these days. Also, you said you were monitoring MPG with the Scangauge II but never heard what you got for MPG while pulling the hill. Do you know what you got during the hill climb?

I’m gonna bid on this truck 🛻

Hey can you guys do this other classics I think it would a cool thing to do like can you do it with your 1992 Chevy pickup truck project I think be cool just to see the evolution of trucks and how well these trucks have aged

I saw a single cab 90's toyota truck with the bed loaded down, flat towing ANOTHER 90's toyota truck with it's bed also fully loaded down, up a steep grade on i20 going about 70mph. Both trucks had a lift and tires on them as well. There is no limit to that old 4 cylinder

I have this exact same truck I’m the second owner of it she has 270000 miles we load it down with quads and everything when we go to the dunes it has never complained it’s a stick shift 2 we have also put at lest 1000 pounds in the bed and drove long distance

Why can’t you do the full Ike on this? Would have been more interesting

for peace of mind you should replace the lower ball joints for new OEM ones like right now, if they have 1mm of play they're toast

What wheels are on that taco?

I seen a semi truck towing a large trailer with a little yellow toy truck.

Now that’s what I call Toyota tough 😂

The trailer weights 3000lbs... The tow rating is 3500😂😂😂

Where can I buy the little red dump truck?

My at the time new, 2003 s10 2.2 would run hot if I ran the a/c without the truck moving.

What was the fuel economy on that run?

Doing a shorter ike test makes no real - world sense. It's not like people go half way up a hill and then say "ok, I got half way up, that's good enough." Just do the whole test and if it fails, it fails.

Man it nearly broke my heart when I realized that it was an automatic transmission with a 4cyl engine definitely not a combo that I would want only way I would that truck or one like it was if I was able to get it in a killer deal