200,000 Mile Club (1st Gen Tacomas)

Just slightly above 200k!

 

wow that is clean. how long have you had it

 

2 days now! I love it!

 

wow! ! how much ?? and is it 2wd or 4wd

 

4WD! $8k

 

Just under 230k on mine:

 

Is that a Taco or a 4Runner? If a Taco, did you do any mods? Thought the 4WD pushbutton on the transfer case shift lever only came on 4Runners?

 

Mine is the same as in the picture (push button for 4 hi). My brother in laws 99 4runner doesn't have the push button so he has to shift into 4 hi).

My interior (you can barely see the 4wd button):


Don't think I have a pic of the interior of my BIL's 4runner though.
(found a pic):

 

Now I am thoroughly confused. So if the 4WD button get's you "4HI", what happens....

Let me try again, a light bulb may have just gone off...

So you normally run around with the transfer case shift lever to the rear in the H position? (I was interpreting H as 4HI.) When you want 4HI (i.e. T-case high range, but power to front and rear), you push the magical 4WD button?

Moving the transfer case shift lever forward to 4LO then gets you Low range on the Transfer case?

Question: Can you shift the transfer case shift lever forward without depressing the 4WD button? Will that get you Low range, but 2WD (rear) only? Or does moving the transfer case shift lever forward automatically engage 4WD (i.e. power to the front axle)?

 

You got it.

Your last question is a good one. Most of the time when I go into 4Lo, the 4WD button is already engaged/pushed in. I want to say that I have went into 4Lo without the 4WD button pushed in and it does exactly that...4WD Lo range regardless of 4WD button position.

If I have time tonight/this weekend I'll test it out to confirm further.

 

There's a fellow around here -- @bwawuz02 -- who has swapped a 4thgen T4R torsen, locking center diff transfer case into his 2nd gen Taco. I think he's working on adding A-TRAC now. And he's running TrueTracs front & rear. My baby is an '04 Taco DC TRD OR, and I think I just figured out that I might be able to swap a locking center diff transfer case from an '01-02 T4R into my truck, and probably also the TRAC-VCS system. So... I was just looking at a 4Runner thread today and other web pages that describe 3rd gen 4Runner transfer cases. I'm still swimming in the different options, but if memory serves, the 3rd gen T4R's had like 3 different kinds of transfer cases, and some had the exact same t-case shift lever as yours (@synergy10). My '04 Taco DC has a J-type t-case shift lever... so I was surprised to learn from you that apparently not all 1st gen Taco's have the J-type t-case shift lever.

 

227k and still ticking. Bought it with 225k and had to do some minor work to it. All very worthwhile though.

 

Tacoma, no mods

 

Nice first post!

Do you have a lift on there yet? If so, what are you running in the front to support the bumper? Do you happen to know what the additional weight of that bumper is over stock?

Lastly, why did you choose the ARB front bumper? Over say a more specialized plate bumper, or a tube bumper? (I'm considering an ARB, because 1) it was engineered for our trucks, and 2) it seems to be one of the less expensive front bumper options.)

 

Just rolled to 270k! Bought it in 2013 w/ 170k.

 

Looks nice. Almost identical miles and dates to my DC. I think you've been nicer to your truck, though.

 

Bought mine in 2013 with around 160k...at just under 230k now.

 

Ha just put a huge scratch and dent in driver side door the other day actually. In the market for a new door now..

 

Nice! I’ve had some loooong commutes in the past. Living in the middle of no where has its disadvantages as well ha.

 

Just discovered car-part.com the other day...