Topic: keep tacoma or build up 89-94 pickup

[Yota87Truck]

So I own a 98 toyota tacoma and I am debating weither to keep it or to sell it and get a early 90's pickup and SAS it.

Keep tacoma
put 33's on to replace the 31's when 31's go bald
Wheel it's IFS for 4 years and slowly build it up after it's paid off
Be careful not to damage the body panels

VS.

Buy 89-94 ext cab 22RE
SAS it within a year, 35's, 5.29 gears
3-4 years down the road get duals and lockers
Wheel it hard

[bigarms23]

id build the tacoma once its payed off plus it has more power than a 22re

[Quick Draw]

I had a '97 Tacoma that I wheeled for 2 years.  I probably wheeled it a little too hard...  But everything was just getting jacked up on that truck.  It got to the point that it wasn't handling the road or the trail very well.  And I was tired of paying more for everything than the mini truck guys.  So I picked up an '80 because I love that body style.  Now I can beat on my truck pretty damn hard.  And sure it doesn't handle pavement very well, but with the money I got selling the Tacoma, and buying the '80, I bought another car.

I vote for the pickup...  but if you're going to have like $6000 to make the Tacoma a beast when it's paid off, change my vote to that.

[Yota87Truck [OP]]

I had a '97 Tacoma that I wheeled for 2 years.  I probably wheeled it a little too hard...  But everything was just getting jacked up on that truck.  It got to the point that it wasn't handling the road or the trail very well.  And I was tired of paying more for everything than the mini truck guys.  So I picked up an '80 because I love that body style.  Now I can beat on my truck pretty damn hard.  And sure it doesn't handle pavement very well, but with the money I got selling the Tacoma, and buying the '80, I bought another car.

I vote for the pickup...  but if you're going to have like $6000 to make the Tacoma a beast when it's paid off, change my vote to that.

The tacoma would follow the same general build as the pickup except for it costs more to SAS a tacoma so it would take even longer to build up than the pickup.

[<MIKE>]

i was in the same boat as you were last year. i decided to obviously build my Tacoma as a DD/Crawler. i'm no where near done but it took me about 2 months to slowly buy the parts and installed in a couple days. i don't wheel it hard but i do go through the Rubicon no problems with 5.29/5.38, 35's and a stock tcase. so i guess the question is how hard to you want to wheel it. If you really wanna bash down asap then get older gen and build that. or get a DD and build your taco. hope that rant helped you at all.

[TacoStewie]

or you can give me tacoma then build a pickup

[THK Matt]

After seeing how the early F150s use a HP D44, id like to set up a Tacoma the same way.

I voted for the Tacoma.

[BLACKDOG]

Poke around, you'll find that it won't cost more (and probably less) to SA the tacoma at least.  I don't remember the exact years toyota went to D side drop t-case,  Idon't remember if it started with the earliest tacomas or not.  If it did, you could just pick up a D44 driver side drop, the hangers, etc. and go from there.  You can even keep it six lug. 

If it were still pass. you  could go with a toy axle or a pass drop D44 (wagoneer) and same thing.  The D44s tend to be significantly cheaper than a toy axle, and for decent wheeling they'll hold up ok. 

[Toymin8r]

Keep the taco.    Buy a junk 89-94 and gradually build it up.  I don't care what anyone says.  Once you build up a trail truck on 35's or bigger and trail thrash it its no fun as a daily driver.

[Quick Draw]

Poke around, you'll find that it won't cost more (and probably less) to SA the tacoma at least.  I don't remember the exact years toyota went to D side drop t-case,  Idon't remember if it started with the earliest tacomas or not.  If it did, you could just pick up a D44 driver side drop, the hangers, etc. and go from there.  You can even keep it six lug. 

If it were still pass. you  could go with a toy axle or a pass drop D44 (wagoneer) and same thing.  The D44s tend to be significantly cheaper than a toy axle, and for decent wheeling they'll hold up ok. 

All Tacomas are driver drop.  And I've never heard of D44 being cheaper...  But I suppose I have never purchased anything for a D44, so I don't know.  It just always seemed to me that any kit purpose built for the Tacoma has a few extra dollars tacked on to it.

[thegoofster21]

keep the tacoma!

[Yota87Truck [OP]]

I think I will keep the tacoma for a while longer.