Kansas City Tacoma Crew - 816/913

i dont want an old truck to slow to much rust and other issues i have my 98 project car and im good with that im done with old trucks

 

no time frame no but the only thing i liked about the toyota was the manual the ranger and frontier beat it on everything else that i was looking for plus the other two will get better mpg then the tacoma easily

 

the other big plus is that both the frontier and ranger have disc brakes in the rear while the tacoma is drum in the rear still wish toyota would finally do away with that

 

Dunno why thats a big deal…

 

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I seriously doubt the Ranger and Frontier can clock 26 regularly. Maybe..... But I doubt it.

90% of your braking is done with the fronts. Plus parking brake via drum > parking brake via drive line collar

Know what the big heavy haulers use?













Drums.

 

I was being facetious, lol.

 

Lol I knew you were. Excellent execution.

 

I personally really enjoyed not having to change my drums or shoes until ~260k in the car, when suddenly it sounded like a fucking whale was moaning every time I hit the brakes, because I'm a woman and things in my car don't get fixed until it makes a noise or expels a liquid.

Don't drum brakes typically last longer due to more surface area and less heat generation (if you aren't over-zealous with them)?

I know there have to be other pros and cons but that's all I can really think of.

 

Its all cost and design. Either style can work fine.


I've never touched the discs on the back of my frontier in 160,000 miles. Rear brakes don't get nearly as much abuse as the fronts.

 

I’ve always hated drums it’s old shit and needs to go but Toyota is being a cheap ass about it

 

Couldn’t tell you on that I know people that own the ranger and they average (since lifted and larger tires) 21-23mpg which last time I checked any tacoma that gets 33s goes down to 15….

It ain’t no heavy hauler it’s a truck almost every vehicle has disc rear these days besides the tacoma because Toyota is Toyota


And nooooo you don’t say that the front does most of the braking I never knew! Psh

 

Number of times I’ve had a problem with drums = 0
Number of times I’ve had issue with disc = 5+

drums on the rear are totally fine, old or not.

 

Even thou people do the rear disc swap on our trucks to get rid of the drums

 

Oh this one is rather dumb but the frontier has a very satisfying door close sound lol

 

There it is. Time to trade

 

Lotta work for no gain

 

You can brake harder in reverse

 

For real thou it is satisfying haha I was with my dad yesterday and I shut the door and he goes wait opens it and closes it again and says oh that’s nice lmao

 

A pure dad move