R.I.P. Mike 1.6 million mile Tacoma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frDF0FOf0oY

 

A hero to all Tacoma owners and an unsung hero to the countless patients lives he saved by delivering medication. RIP

 

Saw this earlier today. RIP mike

 

1.6 million miles on the chassis. Second or third engine and one or two transmissions. Either way. It’s pretty awesome.

 

Wow! He put 1.6 million miles on a Tacoma making sure people got their meds? Helluva good guy!

 

A nice video of a true gentleman.

 

Nice of him to put together a goodbye/celebration video.

 

2nd Gen baby! I just came across that video last night, watched it....sucked to hear that the owner of that awesome truck passed. They are doing him right by putting that badboy on display. While watching, I was hoping to hear that Toyota was gonna give him a new one in exchange, like that did for the owner of the first million-mile Tundra. Makes me appreciate my 2nd gen that much more. RIP Mike

 

The 1.6 million mile Tacoma outlived the original owner. Pretty amazing story.

 

His seat looks better than mine and I'm at 250K....I wonder if the seat was ever replaced...
RIP

 

And he was able to do it without a 3in lift, 33in tires, LED light rack, bed rack with gas cans and hijack lifts and shit, winch, steel front and rear bumpers.

 

That's actually one of the reasons why it lasted so long....keeping it stock

 

I love his quote "I can't understand why anyone would drive anything but a Tacoma"

 

It’s amazing his first engine lasted 800k miles.

 

I had to replace my head gasket at 157K!

 

2nd gen!

 

Pretty amazing example of a well designed and well built product that was properly maintained... considering he was doing some pretty good stuff with it id like to think maybe he had some help from above as well.

One of the reasons I am rebuilding mine honestly.

 

I've followed the guy for several years. The original engine needed a new head gasket at 900,000 miles. The engine itself was still fine, just needed a gasket. They decided it made more sense to just replace the entire engine with one from a scrapyard. That engine had 100,000 miles on it when installed. He then put another 600,000 on that engine for a total of 700,000 miles on engine#2 which is still running.

If he ever replaced the transmission I never saw anything about it. In one article he noted that he didn't change the AT fluid until 400,000. He changed oil once per month. He didn't keep up with miles, just once/month, but that averaged 8000-10,000 miles/month.

 

did he always keep the transmission in 3rd gear?
'suming it is the AT transmission mated to the 2.7

 

There is hope for my 227k after all…