Dirtman
Former Middleweight Moss Fighting Champion
- Joined
- May 28, 2018
- Messages
- 19,304
- City
- 41N 75W
- Vehicle Year
- 2009
- Engine
- 2.3 (4 Cylinder)
- Transmission
- Automatic
- Total Lift
- It's up there.
- Total Drop
- It's down there.
- Tire Size
- Round.
- My credo
- I poop in the furnace.
You should have seen all the frames piled up in the field behind our local Toyota dealer. Amazingly, the problem was never considered newsworthy by the national media. Our local station had a story about it, though, they observed a frame being inspected by the dealer and filmed it. The tech raised the "truck" on a lift and looked it over with a light, if there weren't any holes in the suspect areas, he tapped on it with a 12 oz body hammer and if it didn't go through, the "truck" was pronounced safe and returned to the customer. If I held a sharp punch against a Ford frame and the biggest guy in my shop could punch a hole by hitting it with a sledge hammer, I'd say the frame was weakened. There are no stats for how many people died in accidents because their previously inspected Toyota frame buckled or broke in an accident.
I have bare steel sitting in the snow right now that didn't rust like Toyota frames. There was something tragically wrong with them! As a welding inspector its my job to know metal. To this day I have no logical reason why toyota frames rotted like they did. They had to have dipped them in salt while forming the steel is my only guess lol. Bare carbon steel just doesn't do that! The surface oxidation layer actually protects the steel, this crap rotted from the inside.