T100 Toyota - thoughts?

So I've had my friends 1998 Toyota T100 4x4 for a while.   As with any car that is parked in my driveway (I volunteer with a charity called OnRamptx.org so I have multiple cars in and out of my life), I try to justify keeping them all.  
 

However in the past week, the T100 has proven quite useful.   Hauled my dirt bike, cut and moved branches in my backyard, hauled off old oil, picked up lawn mower gas, helped a lady with her car battery and took my bicycle out to go riding.  Very easy to have a beater truck around.   Plus I have a 15 year old daughter and been teaching her to drive on my Land Cruiser so this can let me stress a bit less while instructing her on the roads.  
 

Do we like these trucks?  They have a cult following and the 3.4 liter motor is timeless.   Actually not a bad place to spend time and I can drive to work, errands, etc.    

Is a Tacoma a better truck for any reason?   It can't tow much but I really don't see many other downfalls.   Thanks all.   

Sounds like yours has the only real flaw solved in that it has the 3.4, not the 3.slow. T100s have essentially the same front suspension as the pre-tacoma pickups. The only difference is longer CVs to account for the wider frame. Tacoma's technically have better front suspensions (coilovers vs torsion bars) but who cares? You like this truck and it's from Toyota's insanely reliable era so why fix what isn't broken?

My dad had one in the mid 90s. Regular cab long bed with the 3.4 and manual trans. Great truck, I see no downsides if you have your hands on a running and driving example with minimal rust. 

I know nothing about them except I sort of want one. It's not a Taco, which is so played out, (ha) but it's still a 90s Toyota.

enjoy!

Do you have a machine gun to mount in the bed? 

A buddy had one.  He complained that-no matter the alignment- he couldn't get more than 20,000 miles out of a set of front tires.  He complained about that for almost 400,000 miles. 

Not much to add other than I remember enjoying our time with a press car BITD. It had the big engine, 2WD and a stick. I believe it was green, too. 

Toyota Tax is real.  Sell and collect.  

I had a 1993, 5 spd, 4x4, single cab long bed.  It was outstanding except for the 3.0 L.  I kinda wanted to swap in a Chevy 4.3, but decided to bail and buy something with a back seat.  If mine had the 3.4, I probably would have found a way to keep it forever and make the kids walk if they wanted to go somewhere.

Like has been said. great truck. It's a handy size. Bigger bed than the Tacoma, but not as much as a Tundra. My best friend drives one and hasn't had a lick of trouble. His is a manual, which makes a big difference in how the vehicle feels.

The last good toyota truck. Great on fuel too

We had one as a shop truck. Bill cut up one exhaust manifold, welded a turbo flange on it and put a T3 (or so) on there. Small intercooler and a rising rate FPR for fuel delivery. It pulled 213 hp and 317 ft-lbs of torque at the wheels on our dyno. Stock clutch.

 If you lugged too hard, it would ping like crazy so it needed some mechanical empathy. We used that thing to tow too-big trailers across the mountains. I forget how many miles it had on it when we sold it, but it was somewhere between 100k and 200k if memory serves. It lived until it was taken out by a drunk driver.

That thing was incredible.

After that experience, I bought an '89 Toyota with the 3.0. That was a mistake because that engine sucks. Replaced it with an early Tundra 4.7 (1999?) which was a really good truck - not that much larger than the T100, it seemed.

An endorsement for the 3.4 - mine's in a 2001 Tacoma, but same engine as the later T100s.  Mine has 258,000 so far, uses no oil between changes, runs beautifully, I expect to have it the rest of my life for truck needs (I don't need to tow stuff, just gather firewood, move stuff, explore the mountains, etc).

Jim Pettengill said:

An endorsement for the 3.4 - mine's in a 2001 Tacoma, but same engine as the later T100s.  Mine has 258,000 so far, uses no oil between changes, runs beautifully, I expect to have it the rest of my life for truck needs (I don't need to tow stuff, just gather firewood, move stuff, explore the mountains, etc).

That's just a baby!  The 3.4 in my 1998 4runner is at 430,000.  It doesn't use oil either.