Toyota T100?

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

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.

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.

I am interested in the T100 also, it seems to escape the 4x4 taco tax. I know Keith Tanner has a T100

Awesome trucks. Didn't sell well because they were really a mid sized truck, but priced like a full sized truck.

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?

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.

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? Thanks

Have 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.

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.

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.

IIRC, they're the last of the Japanese-built Toyota pickups sold in the US.

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.

Didn't a lot of them do this?

Appleseed wrote: Didn't a lot of them do this?

Must have not lived in the Midwest.

Usually domestics are bent the other way.

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.

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.

Oh, i forgot that t100s ever got the 3.0.

Id vastly prefer a 3.4.

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

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.

Keith wrote: 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.

So, to bring this thread back.
Care to share some more info on this? Turbo specs/which fpr was used... Looking at a 93 t100 to use as a bike hauler/wet weather dd.

Just as an aside, that 3.4 will handle a LOT of power...

I think it was a T3/T4 turbo, hanging off a modified stock manifold. The FPR was one of the BEGi units. It was all fairly cobbled up in reality, but it worked well. Stock clutch and transmission.

Bill's Tundra will never get the twin turbo. He balled it up a couple of weeks ago and just bought one of the new Tundras. It's the size of my Dodge 2500, but without Cummins torque

Anyone interested in a TRD one-off twin turbo setup for a previous generation Tundra, hit up bill@flyinmiata.com. He can also answer technical questions for the turbo T100, that was probably done 13 years ago so don't get your hopes up too far.

Vigo wrote: Oh, i forgot that t100s ever got the 3.0. Id vastly prefer a 3.4.

you know, people say that. and i know they had head gasket issues two decades ago, but...

mine had over 220k trouble free miles when i sold it in 2003. the current owner works near my home. he still drives it every day.

Anecdotes are not data

When I bought my 3.0, the guy who runs our machine shop said "that engine has earned us a lot of money". That was right before I had to replace mine due to an excessive amount of piston chunks in the oil pan.