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Originally Posted by LastTudor  Very cool. I've heard the Toyo Kogyo's were complete disasters though, right? |
83 & 84 Toyo Kogyo 2-wheel drives, both 4-speed & 5-speed, had a lot of problems, primarily destroying the tail housing, yoke, and sometimes the output shaft. And there are about 7 or 8 different non-interchangeable tail housings in those two years. The only other major thing that I sold when they were the "in" thing was front bearing retainers.
I never did sell much of anything for those 85 and later.
Today the only thing that still sells occasionally is the 83-84 front bearing retainer and a gear now and then. Not only were the 83-84 Toyos a nightmare for tail housings, but the internals were just as bad if not worse. Lots of identically looking parts that would not interchange.
I think 83-84 were experimental years between the earlier Courier Toyos (which never went bad) and the later Toyos which seem to have had the bugs worked out. Once the bugs were gone, they redesigned and re-cased them into the M5OD series and REALLY had problems.
