Unique Toyota Tacoma 4×4 stretched and lifted with Cummins Diesel motor at River Run near Jacksonville, Texas – 10/16/10 Truck owned by channel – 07TUNDRA4X4 Truck details: 1991 Toyota P/U with a 3.9 L Cummins, turbo 350 trans, 205 transfer case, welded Dana 60 front and 70 rear with 5.88 gears and 44×19.5 Super Swamper Boggers Be sure to check us out on Facebook at Triple-X Motorsports & Outdoors for all the latest updates! www.facebook.com
hahaha a diesel taco =D
Just my thoughts on diesels and mudding….Dont run so much gear. You need wheel speed to clean the tires and keep foward momentum. Since diesels have so much torque you can run less gear, keep wheel speed up and it will stay on boost longer. Less gear takes more motor to spin the tires, that’s how it keeps it up on boost. Just my thoughts…
@MullinPerformance Makes sense to me bro! 😀
@rekjavicxxx Well I see vids all the time of mud trucks with ten trillion to one gear ratios with a 10mph top speed…Gas motors tend to make less torque but you get greater wheel speed, you can sing them to 7-8 grand. To me, thats the only advantage over a diesel motor in the mud. If either are set-up right you cant go wrong. Oh yea, i just subbed…great channel.
I agree its geared a little low but my problem was getting the transmission to shift properly. Even manually shifting into second it had a bad delay. I bumped 2nd way before it shifted. I have made some changes to the trans that should fix the problem. I knew going into this the rpm limit would be an issue thats why im not running stacked cases or a profab case like some. The roll out in 2nd gear should make good wheel speed if it will shift properly.
Hope to make up for the lack of rpms in the motor by holding a taller gear in the trans. I think working gearing out in the trans gives you more options. Alot of trucks look cool is sloppy mud but are just blowing down in first and cant hold 2nd. then when they get in thick mud they cant get a lower gear cause all they have is 2st
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ford pulling chevys and toys out
yess i love itt
why ruin a toyota???
@hunna122 Creative concept man….
@MullinPerformance The only problem with that concept is if you run too little gear you wont spool the turbo efficiently. It is a VERY fine line with diesels. I’m a diesel finatic but if I ever built a mud truck it would be a gasser. Higher rpms for more wheel speed.. That and diesel cost .50 cents more than gas right now!!! lol It is a cool rig though for sure!!
@rangaman86 Yea I agree, the trick would be to keep the turbo up on boost.Feathering the gas with too little gears would prob build heat in the transmission.You would have to keep a constant wheelspeed up to keep the turbo up on boost.The whole point in mudding is cleaning the tires out with wheelspeed.If you cant do that, then really all you have is a rock crawler.I guess in a really screwed up way of thinking about it, the mud acts like friction on the drivetrain almost like a boost controller
you get him some tires that are worth a dam then he’ll go threw anything there
So, where’s this cummins Tacoma? I only see a cummins Hilux. The Tacoma wasn’t released until 1995. That, would be what’s referred to as a PRE-Tacoma.
@FTORC1 The title character limitation was too short to put “cummins Hilux. The Tacoma wasn’t released until 1995. That, would be what’s referred to as a PRE-Tacoma.”
@FTORC1 The title character limitation was too short to put “cummins Hilux. The Tacoma wasn’t released until 1995. That, would be what’s referred to as a PRE-Tacoma.”
@rekjavicxxx You could have easily put, “CUMMINS DIESEL POWERED TOYOTA HILUX 4X4 MUD TRUCK on 44 Boggers STUCK MUDDIN at River Run!!”. The Tacoma was a later model. It replaced the Hilux in the US. Other parts of the world, never used the Tacoma name.
@FTORC1 I didn’t think the Hilux ever made itself manifest in the US…..Thought that was a Mexico and Europe thing…?
@rekjavicxxx It entered the US in 1964 as the Stout, later renamed as the Hilux in 1969. They ran that name, until it was debadged in 1976. It was still the hilux, and built identical to those overseas. That’s when it became known as “pickup”. In 1995, they released the restyled version named “Tacoma”. That name was US market only, others are still Hilux. The official model name was always Hilux, except the truck never had the model name on it after 1976. Some assume the model was SR-5.
@FTORC1 Yeah, the SR-5….that sounds much more familiar 😉
@rekjavicxxx Did you know, the SR-5 was just a submodel? They had 3 submodels. Base, DLX, and SR-5. They even had SR-5 Tercel’s. It was just their version of the GT. Where GT stood for Grand Touring, SR-5 stood for Sport Rally 5 speed.
@FTORC1 Hmm….that’s cool! I figured it just stood for some type of package, like the TRD or something….
@rekjavicxxx It’s a package also. The SR-5 package, meant it had a 5 speed (rather than a 4 speed), bucket seats (instead of bench), full gauge cluster (with tach, oil press, and voltage instead of just speed, temp, and fuel), carpeted floors, full door skins, and styled wheels.
Where can you buy a little I4 Cummins?