After failing to find my "dream truck", f150 inline 6, manual that has been well maintained; I opened up the search and found a 94 t100, 145k miles with a cap on the bed, and a v6. $3100 asking price.
Anybody have any intel on these trucks? What should I know before going look at it? Is the t100 from the era of overbuild toyotas?
Thanks
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April 20, 2011 3:25 p.m. Timeormoney Reader
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April 20, 2011 3:28 p.m. 16vCorey SuperDork
They're pretty tough. We just pulled the race car about 25 hours round trip with one (with an auto trans!) that has about 230k miles. It made it just fine, though it didn't like hills much.
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April 20, 2011 3:44 p.m. SyntheticBlinkerFluid Reader
Friends dad has had one since 1993. It's a great truck and the V6 could use a little more gusto, but it holds it's own. Towing is like towing with any other V6 truck.
I have been playing with the idea of finding one of these and swapping a 4.7L V8 out of a 1st Gen Tundra.
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April 20, 2011 3:44 p.m. imirk Reader
I am interested in the T100 also, it seems to escape the 4x4 taco tax. I know Keith Tanner has a T100
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April 20, 2011 3:44 p.m. mtn SuperDork
Awesome trucks. Didn't sell well because they were really a mid sized truck, but priced like a full sized truck.
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April 20, 2011 3:48 p.m. Timeormoney Reader
It's starting to sound really good so far. Anything expensive I need to look out for? Does 3100 seem like a reasonable starting price?
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April 20, 2011 3:53 p.m. 92CelicaHalfTrac SuperDork
Great trucks, rust is about the only really bad thing about them, and they're just barely too small for me to feel comfy about long-haul towing with.
In terms of grunt, try to track down a TRD Supercharged variant. They're um.... quick. With loads of torque.
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April 20, 2011 4:04 p.m. hobiercr Reader
Timeormoney wrote:
After failing to find my "dream truck", f150 inline 6, manual that has been well maintained; I opened up the search and found a 94 t100, 145k miles with a cap on the bed, and a v6. $3100 asking price.
Anybody have any intel on these trucks? What should I know before going look at it? Is the t100 from the era of overbuild toyotas?
ThanksHave you looked in TX for that F150? I found my dually there on Ebay and saved SERIOUS bank buying there and doing a quick fly/drive recovery. I even flew my Dad out with me to co-drive home. Car lots there are wall to wall trucks.
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April 20, 2011 4:11 p.m. Vigo Dork
T100s are great. They're basically a toyota dakota (ftw).
IMO good ones dont go any lower than $3k so the price is fine.
You can find those superchargers out there. If you're concerned about power id look into that. The auto trans is a good one.
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April 20, 2011 4:21 p.m. racerdave600 HalfDork
My brother-in-law has had his for a number of years and it has been an awesome truck. There's no way you'd ever talk him into selling it. He mostly uses it on weekends now to pull his boat and haul stuff from Lowes. It really has zero problems. Great truck, just don't expect a 10k tow rating.
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April 20, 2011 4:22 p.m. ReverendDexter SuperDork
IIRC, they're the last of the Japanese-built Toyota pickups sold in the US.
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April 20, 2011 6:35 p.m. integraguy Dork
No first hand experience, but they must be long-lived, I rarely see 1 offered for sale with LESS than 150K.
Locally, we have more V6 Tundras than T100s to chose from. And I have found F150s with a straight 6 easy to come by but condition varies wildly.
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April 20, 2011 10:21 p.m. Appleseed SuperDork
Didn't a lot of them do this?
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April 20, 2011 11:43 p.m. SyntheticBlinkerFluid Reader
Appleseed wrote:
Didn't a lot of them do this?
Must have not lived in the Midwest.
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April 20, 2011 11:45 p.m. Vigo Dork
Usually domestics are bent the other way.
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April 21, 2011 5:07 a.m. foxtrapper SuperDork
I own a T100. Mine is a great truck.
Wouldn't touch a 94 model if it was given to me free. The 3.0 v6 is one of the worse V6 engines created.
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April 21, 2011 7:16 a.m. T.J. SuperDork
I always thought that the T100's looked like the beds were on backwards. The rear wheel wells are in the wrong place to me. I always thought if you could flip the bed around so the front was the back, effectively moving the rear axle farther back they would look a lot better.
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April 21, 2011 12:36 p.m. Vigo Dork
Oh, i forgot that t100s ever got the 3.0.
Id vastly prefer a 3.4.
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April 21, 2011 12:57 p.m. Merc New Reader
My dad has a t100. So does my wife's uncle. it's a great truck. Easy to work on and reliable. If anything, pick up one with the 3.4 engine as that is a far better engine than the 3.0. The cons: Because they put a smaller engine/trans combo in a bigger truck, clutches can go out faster than normal. Clutches are expensive for this car. Dad has about 150k mi and went through 2 (Lots of Hills here in CO). That's a over $1k per clutch/service @ Toyota. Wife's uncles auto seems to hold up well but feels a bit under powered. All Toyota trucks of this era may also experience lots of brake vibration. Seems like a common occurrence on t100, Tacoma, pick up, and 4runners of this era. Also grounding issues may occur with these era toyota's. Besides that, I haven't seen any other issues. Where I live, rust isn't much a problem so don't ask me about that
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April 21, 2011 2:45 p.m. Keith SuperDork
imirk wrote:
I am interested in the T100 also, it seems to escape the 4x4 taco tax. I know Keith Tanner has a T100
Almost
The FM shop truck for years was a T100. Bill welded a flange on one of the manifolds and attached a T3, a small intercooler and a boost-referenced fuel pressure regulator. Boost was set for around 6 psi, and it dynoed around 213 hp and 317 ft/lbs of torque at the wheels.
We used it for towing our enclosed trailer and race support stuff. The driver did have to display a certain level of mechanical sympathy, mostly paying attention to detonation and dropping down a gear on long climbs. We also double-clutched shifts. After 100,000 miles of this, we sold it and got a Tundra. The truck was 100% reliable and even used the stock clutch through all this abuse. Yup, over 100,000 miles of towing with a stock engine putting out around double the original torque. No complaints about their clutches from me. Astounding.
Bill has a twin-turbo setup ready to bolt on the Tundra someday
Personally, I had a 3.0 pickup for a short period, which I replaced with a Tundra. Then I went over to the dark side and now my tow vehicle has 600 ft/lb from the factory. I liked the Tundra a lot but I needed more pull.
