1994 FZJ80

[TX_TLC]

Well I have been doing a lot of reading and would like to get some opinions. I have decided to go with an 80 over the old cool 60 for dd reasons (comfort mainly...and the wife) and I have found this one on autotrader.

Carfax looks clean...lived all its life in Texas, then Florida, and now back in Texas.

It has 162k on it the current owner has put about 60k of highway miles on it (salesman drives between Dallas and Lubbock) and hasn't taken it off road at all. He has redone the breaks recently and kept up on oil changes.

It doesn't have the ff/rr locker, but I am not looking to do that much heavy trail use where I would use it anyway, so that is not a negative to me. It is white pearl with blue leather interior...and he is asking $8500...

I know I need to look at the knuckle but all in all is this a bad price? Open for any and all opinions.

 

[semlin]

price seems a little high to me but depends on the actual condition. For that mileage at that price I would expect no accidents and good mechanical records beyond oil changes. Keep in mind you can easily drop $2000 in immediate preventative maintenance on a vehicle with that mileage if it has not been kept up right. A good test is to check the date stamped on the plug wires. If it is 1994, then this vehicle has likely not seen many tune ups. The trouble with these trucks is they are so darn reliable you can get 160k out of them without anything much needing replacing or doing any preventative maintenance. However, you won't get too much further than that.

Go through prior pages looking for similar posts from newbies and have a read and you should find lots of tips on what to look for. Knuckles is one. head gasket symptoms is another (check coolant colour in the overflow and in top of rad). exhaust. apearance of oil. oil leaks underneath. oil usage. compression. If you have state emission testing I would be concerned about the cats and egr system: check if EGR modulator valve filter is blocked and condition of vacuum hoses (are they blocked or split?). If the brake job did not include new front rotors I would check thickness to see if they are within spec (29 mm IIRC?). Check the air filter.

 

[Beowulf]

White pearl and blue leather was not a stock combination. Gray and tan guts only. The desert dune is a little like a white pearl.

Price seems high to me based on some comparable vehicles that have been bought in our area.

-B-

 

[ek1029]

I bought a 93 loaded / no problems so far / well maintained / no lockers / 170k / for $7000 a little over a year ago. I'd try to get him down a little.

 

[Rookie2]

When I was looking for a rig, the folks selling vehicles out of Texas and Florida seemed to present that as something special. I ended up getting one that spent it's life in a south Florida Beach town, and it had a considerable amount of undercarage rust. ... so just something else for you to keep an eye on.


Rookie2

 

[TX_TLC]

Well I am in Texas so that is the special part, I don't have to figure out how to get is 1500 miles back home. Only 1,000 if it is in Houston! haha...Well the "special" thing that they try to play is that, especially in Texas, we don't get enough of a winter to see a salt/sand truck on the road but MAYBE once a year.

Growing up in Nebraska, there wasn't a car/truck on the road that was more than 5 years old that wasn't rusting through already. When I moved down here I was amazed to see vehicles 10, 15, 20, even 25 years old with no body rust.

JMHO