Scout Yoho and towing

My wife and I own a 2023 Tacoma TRD off road four door with the long bed. We bought it because my wife always wanted one and it’s what they had. I say that because we don’t off-road it. What we do use it for is towing our motorcycles around where we live in Colorado. We were thinking about selling it and buying an adventure van because we both don’t care for tent camping. Then we saw the adventure van pricing and nope won’t be doing that.

I recently ran across the Scout Yoho and it looked like exactly what we want. Then I emailed them and the person who replied told me the yoho was too heavy and to go with the tuktut. We aren’t interested in that because the bed is so small.

I see lots of people using the yoho with the Tacoma. We already have the blue sumo springs front and rear on the truck. Anyone use a Yoho and still tow? We have several motorcycles, but the most we tow is usually about 1900 pounds between the trailer and two bikes. We usually go places just the two of us, but occasionally have my daughter and haul an atv. Total with that atv, our bikes, and trailer is about 2500-2600.

we would want the yoho loaded with the heater and bed and extension, fridge, and cook top. Is that doable with the setup I mentioned? The truck is an automatic.

 

There are not a lot of people who will load that heavy and tow. It can be done and is done but you need to be aware of what you are asking the truck to do and the limitations.

If you want to go this route, you should consider airbags (minimum) or a full leaf pack upgrade (better solution).

This is the build thread you want to read. https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/ryans-tacoma-build-and-adventures-thread.553569/

@YF_Ryan is the only person on TW I have seen with that camper and a large trailer in tow.

 

Thanks, @LFOD .

@dsm1217 , this is my setup when we're towing heavy. This was on our very first trip with the Yoho. Drove from the Seattle area, down through Utah to do some offroading. Then through Vegas (where this picture was taken) and back north through Nevada. In this picture I'm towing around 4500 pounds. Trailer 1500, UTV close to 2000 with tools, gas cans, spare, etc, 800 for the quad, and another 130 or so for the Scout Legs.



That trip taught me to take it slow. Not cause the truck didn't handle it easily, but because gas mileage was horrendous. Somewhere down there the speed limit was 80, and I was cruising for a long stretch about 85mph and ended up with 6.4mpg for the tank. Slowing down to 60-65 I'm able to keep it in the mid to upper 8mpg range. Still bad, but over 30% better than 6.4!

Now, I want to add that I would never suggest anyone do this. Not this much. I can't wait to get a bigger truck, and we have one in the plan for next year. But towing a couple motorcycles around behind a MUCH lighter truck than mine shouldn't be a huge issue. With my bumpers, winch and sliders my truck is heavy before putting the camper in. You wouldn't have that issue. Your trailer load also sounds about 2000 pounds less.

The minimum I'd suggest is air bags and E-load tires, but if you will be towing and hauling the camper often I'd highly recommend a heavy duty leaf pack and re-gearing your differentials. 5th gear (high gear in a 2nd gen) was completely useless anymore, and I was often dropping to third with my previous, lighter setup. Re-gearing has allowed me to take advantage of all 5 gears again, but it definitely hurts my gas mileage when not hauling heavy, as the engine is now spinning quite a lot faster at the same speed. But overall, that is much easier on your transmission and such, and acceleration is MUCH better. I now have zero issues going any speed I want on any interstate mountain passes. Again, keeping it to 60-65 is definitely the sweet spot and far safer when hauling a heavy load. Even without the trailer, I try and keep it below 65. My best MPG loaded was around 13.5 with just the camper driving 50-55 mph up through Canada and northern Montana.

If you got any questions feel free to hit me up, either in this post or you can click the "Start a conversation" link under my user name on the left, which will start a private thread.