Thread: The DARK Side!

Originally Posted by austastar

Hi,
I believe Toyota sent a rep to the Snowy scheme to assess their vehicles. Broken bits were sent back to Japan for engineers to know what failed and where to improve manufacturing design.
Cheers

I remember an elderly gentleman spoke at the Cooma 2008 dinner.
He was sent out by Land Rover very early in the Snowy scheme to feed back product problems.
He mentioned the scroll rear main seal on the early 80's, back into a pile of dirt/snow and the dirt got into the bellhousing and the scroll seal screwed it into the motor.

He made some comment like " I came to Cooma in 1949 and I'm still here", some clown on another table commented "probably still fixing Land Rover problems......."

Weren't the early Toyota's that came to Cooma 6 cylinder but only 3-speed ?


Colin

Weren't the early Toyota's that came to Cooma 6 cylinder but only 3-speed ?

As were the early Nissans.
I once owned a G60 which was as rough as guts to drive, uncomfortable, noisy and dusty (Much like the early Series Landrovers) and despite having only a 3 speed gearbox and fitted with "armstrong" steering it was Very capable off road.
The poor things body rusted itself to death unfortunately But the running gear and chassis was pretty much unbreakable despite the constant abuse handed out to it during my ownership