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    Posted: 07 March 2014 at 5:34pm
So, I am considering selling y car this summer and getting a truck when I get back to the states.  I would like to put a long travel suspension on it for general hooligan stuff.  I don't want to spend more than 15k for the truck, 10k would be even better.  4x4 is a must.  I'd like to stick to the smaller side of trucks, I don't really need a F-150 or a V8.  I've been looking mostly at Sport Tracs and Tacomas but am open to suggestions. 

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What type of hooligan stuff are we talking about?

I'm a red-blooded, 'Merican-driving, Tojo-hating car enthusiast but even I have to recommend the Tacoma (unfortunately) over the Sport Trac purely because of aftermarket availability. Toyota made a zillion Tacomas that are doing interesting things everywhere, while Ford made a billion Explorers that are sitting at malls and many of them aren't sport tracs. The only bad things about Tacomas are that they generally rot in half. 

I would buy a Ranger over a Sport Trac myself. More choices in cab/bed/powertrain, and there are a lot more out there.

Also, if you have space/can afford it, buy a second vehicle. If you seriously want to beat it up, it is a luxury knowing you can get to work monday. Then you can get cheaper vehicles and not care what happens. Plus, if you get a 3/4 or 1 ton with leafs in the front, suspension lifts are cheap. 
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Similar to the pictures. Maybe some light trails and mud. No rock crawling or anything like that. This would be my DD but I plan on having a 2nd car or motorcycle around.
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check out http://www.yotatech.com they have some nice examples in the 'post your pictures'  section and lots of threads with long travel examples.
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Originally posted by SSOK SSOK wrote:

What type of hooligan stuff are we talking about?

I'm a red-blooded, 'Merican-driving, Tojo-hating car enthusiast but even I have to recommend the Tacoma (unfortunately) over the Sport Trac purely because of aftermarket availability. Toyota made a zillion Tacomas that are doing interesting things everywhere, while Ford made a billion Explorers that are sitting at malls and many of them aren't sport tracs. The only bad things about Tacomas are that they generally rot in half. 

I would buy a Ranger over a Sport Trac myself. More choices in cab/bed/powertrain, and there are a lot more out there.

Also, if you have space/can afford it, buy a second vehicle. If you seriously want to beat it up, it is a luxury knowing you can get to work monday. Then you can get cheaper vehicles and not care what happens. Plus, if you get a 3/4 or 1 ton with leafs in the front, suspension lifts are cheap. 


Toyota trucks rot in half as a down side. up side the engine is pretty much bomb proof. so as long as you don't mind some natural "aerodynamic" changes to the body in the next decade its a safe bet.
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Can you elaborate on "rot in half"?
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the body rusts like it was dipped in a salt bath and left there for a few weeks. this does happen over a long period of time, and may be different outside of the "salt belt".
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Depending on the model year, the Tacomas were riddled with corrosion issues. I don't know why, weather it is poor design or use of recycled steel in Japan or whatever.

I believe Toyota had a complete recall at some point. I don't know which model years. As far as I know, Toyota got their stuff together at some point.

There is a picture of a decent looking Toyota with the frame disintegrated on the lift. The cab is on a two point lift with the bed hanging. May be fake.
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Originally posted by SSOK SSOK wrote:

Depending on the model year, the Tacomas were riddled with corrosion issues. I don't know why, weather it is poor design or use of recycled steel in Japan or whatever.


The frames that were rust-prone to the point of being defective were built by Dana in the US. Just sayin'
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The JT Vins were all made in Japan, aside from the american versions which I believe had the boxes built in usa; tacomas came out mid '95.  IIRC 99.5 to 00 were under recall for frame rust, they bought them back from you, quite a few people looked for them just to get the buyback $$.  I had a 93 which I just sold, it had original paint and there was not a spot of rust anywhere on it.  Was a great truck, but not very comfortable when driving in city traffic.
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