What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

that too.

Though with a manual its okay i guess. Be like a motor peppy 5vzfe.

But still.

 

I have a buddy who bought a Gen 3 and came to me asking about a weird engine noise. It was some weird 'pulsating' like a Diesel would sound like. I thought the worst and told him maybe it was an exhaust leak or something like that. He brought it to two Toyota dealers and they both said it's normal.

It did NOT sound normal, it sounded like something was off. I guess that's just how they sound like.

 

Does anyone make a compact truck anymore? I know Ford is bringing back the Ranger but I thought it looked so goddamn ugly. It's also HUGE.

 

The frontier is still normalish size, but really no, the mini truck lives till the last 1st gen taco dies.

 

And then you have the Honda Ridgeline...

Seriously the butt of the truck world. It looks like they were halfway done building an Odyssey and then the Engineers forgot they were supposed to be building a pickup truck and not a soccer mom van.

 

no. Like Zane said, the frontier is as close as you can get. But man they are setup weird.

Otherwise, the mini truck is dead. We are the last!

 

Wanna know a dirty secret.... before I got the Land Cruiser I was going to buy an 08 Ridgeline. I actually like them as a daily driver, but as a truck yeah they're not too useful haha.

 

me either. Horrid vehicles. I don't get the hype after driving them.

wait....what?

 

You know you need one of those.

lol. I've never need to put chains on my truck.

<frantically looks around for a piece of wood>

 

For sure you're getting the Honda reliability, I'd buy a Honda pickup if they made anything like the Tacoma.

And then there was whoever decided that was a smart design. That Land Cruiser is badass though you made the right choice.

I forget what Toyota vehicle had solid axles, I think it was the FJ60? But one day when I do a SAS swap I'll be sticking with Toyota axles. I just like keeping everything Toyota, you know? Kind of why the reason I bought Lexus ES300 seats.

There is the Nissan Titan Gentex mirror I have, but Toyota's version doesn't stack up to it.

 

What????? Dude, you are dead to me for that last disclosure....

 

They're comfortable and the J engine is pretty solid, I was just looking for a daily that I could pickup parts for the taco rebuild in. GF at the time had one they hauled their horse trailer in and I took a liking to it.

 

Mine does, FZJ80 up to 1997. Mine (FJ80 and FZJ80) was the first and last on coils instead of leafs though

 

Probably a question for the SAS BS thread, but why does everyone go for the Dana 60's? I've only seen a few guys use the Toyota solid axles, or any other axle for the same matter.

 

Plentiful and cheap parts, plus everyone makes conversions for them. The FZJ80 axles are offset, the diffs are both on the passenger side of the axle front and rear, the whole drivetrain output is offset on an 80 series. Makes them a bit tougher to adapt.

 

It's no offroad platform but Honda has been making reliable daily drivers forever, I just needed a daily and I like the comfort.

 

Any benefit over using the FJ axles over the Dana 60? Something about front and rear lockers stock or something?

 

But it pretends to be a pickup and it's so fucking ugly.

 

I mean yeah front and rear stock lockers is nice for sure, but not every FZJ80 has those and no FJ80 does, I got lucky finding one with all the lockers and rear full floater, the front diff is high pinion which is cool too for clearance of the DS. Some people have cut the entire suspension system off of FZJ80s and welded them to mini trucks and tacos and it works okay but again the offset diffs makes attaching driveshafts a bit weird. @Gear Head had a taco on 80 series axles for a while. It can be done, and they're solid units, full floating front and rear but it can be easier and cheaper to use dana axles for a new build.

 

I don't like the new ones at all but the older models that didn't have the fake bed/body split and made decent power were pretty decent. Again I wanted a daily with 4WD (didn't know I was coming to AZ yet) that I could haul dirty truck parts in.