1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Hmmm there’s a crusty twin locked 80 for 3500 down the road, it’d make a good crawler for someone me thinks

 

The heck is twin locked?

Ad is bare, and I wouldn't touch that for $1k

 

It has the OEM lockers, people go rabid over those

 

You drove it and checked?

You'd be absolutely bat shit insane if you bought that.

 

No I didn’t drive it, just saw it come up on marketplace. I was thinking someone might buy it just for the axles.

 

I have a soft spot for minis after owning one. Hard to explain why but they just have a fun personality to them.

 

Me? I'd pay $1500 max if I confirmed it had working front and rear locking axles. Sure, some will pay more.

Mainly cause people would buy the actuators themselves (there's a demand) and I could part the rest out for some cash.

But you're just guessing it has locking axles. Plus it'd be triple locked if it did.

 

I saw the dial in the photos lol

 

And people saw the dial on a BAT auction, or even in private party purchases, only to find out it wasn't triple locked.

 

I can’t figure this one out.

https://youtu.be/vyPrz88ef7A?si=DSi24rNgR0VnENVC

 

It's sad as hell honestly.

One thread I read on mud, about a year ago or so, had a dude trying to confirm if his lockers were working or not. He couldn't get them to engage no matter what he did (the lights on the dash didn't come on).

People were literally going over how-to but others were making comments like "how do you not know" with others saying "damn imagine if it didn't?".

Well fast forward some hours later and he finally posted pics of his axle housings (front and back) and there was no actuator to be found on either axle.

So yeah, he had this pristine 80 series he purchased some time ago thinking it was triple locked, only to find out some time later it wasn't when he was ready to sell

 

I think they nailed it

 

My truck has TRD stickers on it. I didn't think much of it, but when I got a pre-purchase inspection the mechanic said "You know it's not a real TRD and it doesn't have a locker, right?".

I wasn't expecting it to have a locker--I didn't know enough about Tacomas yet to know that TRD meant locker--but yeah, best not to take anything at face value with used vehicles.

Of course, now I know enough to recognize that the TRD stickers are in the wrong place, and that a regular cab with a 4-cylinder would never have had them from the factory anyway.

 

Yeah if you weren't buying a specific Tacoma for its locker then you're right, doesn't matter

I'd buy/own a Tacoma now with no locker cause I'd just swap it like @time623 is about to do, or some other shit

Wife even said earlier today I should own one again, especially to pick up steel with

 

I just knew I wanted a Tacoma. This one was clean, "low mileage" (200k), not wildly overpriced, and I thought regular cabs were neat. I was stoked to find out it had a/c.

 

will the HOA let you keep a trailer there? I use my car hauler to pick up full sticks of tube/pipe and whatever else lol

 

We don't have an HOA

With the people we have living in our neighborhood (not sure you recall or not), we'll never have an HOA here so no worries there!

Just didn't want to have a trailer but the thought of having a Tacoma again does appeal to me

 

Single cabs are just cool AF