yall make good points... a used 4 door taco may be the ticket, easier to toss a chain saw into for clearing the road, and bring the wood back for fire wood, the fj45 is nice... I dont need s chevy v8... already got a gas hog. Truth be told, I think I was just looking for a convincing reason to buy an 80. It was the 80 series that made me 1st notice cruisers back around 86 or 87. I did some work for a guy that had one and a mercedes and a jaquar and he said he liked driving the cruiser a lot more than the others. What sold me on cruisers was getting stuck on I-70 in snow meggedon for 12 hrs in a honda accord with no heat. Even now, even while driving the 100, if I see a well kept 80, it just looks like it belongs out in the woods somewhere. I also think it's the cheapest way to get all 3 dif locks and I believe at least some of them have solid front axles. I could get a 200 and let the 100 be the off roader. I think I just want a 80. Going back hang out in the 100 section...
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Hey man.
An 80 for 'farm use' I recommend against.
An 80 for off roading I highly recommend.
Tootling about a couple hundred acres does not an 80 require.
Off roading in a vehicle with the most off road capability available might.
Which are you doing really?
I speak only for myself, but after reading between your lines let me say that many of us here are a little further up 'the trail' but we all passed that same 'trail marker' that stands before you now.
In my case, yes. Yes to lockers. And ONLY IF it had the lockers. As you posit, IT IS the most cost-effective way to get them. They are worth 3 pennies to every one you might spend on the whole truck. Anything less - as you correctly suspect - is **ssin' in the wind.
Yes they can be added, either aftermarket or rebuilt OEM. Air or electric.
But to simply buy a stock vehicle - the size of an 80 - with pure off road locked capability and A/C and dry storage and room for extended off-grid living necessities/appliances...for $15k average...this sentence is already too long to go on about the value levels we're talking here. Add 1 winch (or 2 - 1 front and 1 rear if you're posh) and you have, simply put, the best off road capability available to human kind. In my humble opinion alone.
If "factory, full-spool" off roading is an absolute necessity, and an 80 isn't immediately available, the Gelanda'v'agon is another choice. It's a pricey little so'n'so tho. No matter what year, Munich's BDSM Mada'am Maintenance is always there for her pleasure.
Or if money is no object, there's always the pricey new Jeep Rubicon for $50k+.
There's the Ram Rebel full-sized pick-up with a rear locker and a winch for $45k.
And they have a new 2500 Ram with a winch and rear locker I think for $55k.
There's always the Ford Raptor with a rear locker and the propensity to catch fire and burn to the ground for an average of 60 thousand of your hard earned $.
The new Ford Ranger in some trim has a rear locker...and a 2 liter 4 banger with bulging veins... for $45k.
A used Nissan Titan @ $45k and rear locker with a V-8...
You get my drift. An 80 is a commitment. And 'farm use' is the wrong kind of it.
OR, you simply get something based on your needs (i.e. the reason you're spending the money) and relegate your adventures to the requirements of farming.
If it turns out that a SxS is a better choice, and protection from the elements for yourself or passengers/items is not a concern at this moment, then the Roxor is really your only robust, work-a-day option. ESPECIALLY if they get a PTO option (which I thought they already had but other posters say no, so Idk). And because THERE IS NO WAY Mahindra would make that thing AND NOT plan for a hard top option/add-on soon-coming.
Just my 4.5 cents.
But really, parts are cheap and abundant, the back can turn into a bed, surprisingly small outside dimensions, 4.0 has all the torque you need, and the best part is the turn radius. Plus if you get the old body style you have to seriously try to make a dent it it because the body pannels are stout where there isn't rust. If you want a truck then jeep made a Comanche pickup that's the same as an XJ but with a bed. Those might be getting to collector status soon though.
