For Sale 1997 LX450 Nicely Built Factory Locked

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SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD SOLD!!!!!!

Sold and moving to Kansas. I believe it will get used like it was meant to and will happily support a great family and a fellow mudder who is adding to his corral.


So here goes the Ad. I'm sure I'll forget tons of things

1997 LX450 with approx 220K miles and factory lockers.
New Radiator and Brakes all around, has new upholstery in front, rebuilt power steering pump and did general tune up with dist, plugs, wires, etc about 3K miles ago. Beautifully black under nieght and not a SPEC of rust anywhere on the vehicle...wait there is one...on rear window wiper arm as I bought it from someone up in PA but i sanded and painted. Have an extra on the parts vehicle if that gets to you.

As for the Mods
Early Complete Slee Lift with 5" Comp Coils (very heavy duty). Have extra spacers for the rear if you want to put in a lot of weight. Without the wait it sits buggy that way.
Slee D.C. Driveshaft
Early F.O.R Bilsteins...much nicer ride though I ran out of adapters and only have one on but I can tell the difference over the OME L's.
Full size roof rack
48" farm jack
315 KM2s with less than 1K miles on them
Extended Brake lines and diff breathers
Slee Skid Plate
Slee Sliders
Slee Rear bumper with tire swing out and full 35" MTR Spare 100% Tread
Has pintle and Ball hook up for those trailer expo guys
ARB Front bumper
Warn 12K Winch with Syn Rope and wireless remote (good for up to 100') Have extra switches for in-cab control as well but figured why with the remote.
PA Speaker so I can yell at people
Keeping my CB but that is what I use
1200W Continuous inverter where the 6CD Changer was...almost perfect fit
LED Lights thruout the entire interior
Aftermarket stereo for Sat radio and Ipod
Put the slimline Polk 6.5" speaks in the front, some phoenix golds in the back and was going to mod the center sub for my interior speaker for the CB but didn't not get there yet.
I've done the 7 Pin mod and put in a CDL switch
Also have OEM Hand Throttle (nice for running that York)
Speaking of which have York onboard Air setup I have not installed yet
I also have a sweet self monitoring Dual Battery setup with 3FE OEM battery tray (INSTALLED).
White face gauges (have not been put in yet as I was going to order a few LED's to replace the D light that was out)
Viper remote start (REMOVED)
Brand spanking new DEPOT headlights. Was going to do the projector MOD to them but again they just came in. I also have the Toyota grill to make these work with the LX450.
Have extra switches and perfect fit grid heaters for the heated mirrors option. Just never got a chance to put them in. I was waiting until we moved to somewhere cold and I could order the seat warmers and put those in as well.
Also have switch and extra security garage door opener (brand new in box) for interior garage door opener.
Left the snorkle with the parts rig up in NC along with the water bottle relocation kit.

Missing the adjuster on the driver side seat but still works, screw in drivers door handle...kinda annoying sometimes. Needs new high pressure hose on powersteering resiviour to pump. I should have replaced it like everyone said to do when I rebuilt. I did not and now it leaks. EGR light on. I tried the redneck fix but it keeps comming back on every couple hundred miles. I guess I need some sort of resistor for it. Has a scratch (rebar on the one time I took it on a side road). Hood is fading. Hmmm also weather stripping around drivers window just seemed to disappear and I can hear the wind comming thru it a bit. Window was always kinda slow when it got below 40 anyway so probably needs the new seals as others have done to fix the slow drivers window. Font end doesn't leak anything and really clean around birfs. That being said the upper trunions on both sides are starting to wear and result in a slight vibration between 50-60MPH. Heater vents missing a few grills but all work fine. Broken antenna mast. Motor works fine but mast is snapped on last few inches. Tape around intake boot.
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Scratches. I have not tried to buff out. I don't think they will completely buff out in the back and on rear fender but all of those forward stand a chance.
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+1 for a great rig..... cleaner than the pictures do it justice. The piece missing from the power seats is in my garage and will be sent down to jason for installation as well as the washer relocation kit.

You forgot to put factory lockers in the add (I know the title says it)
 
+1 for a great rig..... cleaner than the pictures do it justice. The piece missing from the power seats is in my garage and will be sent down to jason for installation as well as the washer relocation kit.

You forgot to put factory lockers in the add (I know the title says it)

Thank you Al. I actually Owe Al a lot of credit for helping me install the bumpers and holding onto all of my parts from my part truck for me. I just wish I had the intestinal fortitude that he has for sticking with his tried and true cruiser when things need reprioritized. Me I'm all over the place. Which makes me believe that I can again some day in the future build another luxury off-roader. I read on a LOT of different vehicles from luxury wannabees, and the truely hard core vehicles and this still is the only vehicle that I have ever found that encompasses it all and can do it in style and comfort at the same time.

I disagree and think the pictures make it look cleaner than it is I guess we can go right down the road and say it looks just like it does in the pictures :D.
 
Also both the panhards and the rear upper control arms are adjustable.
Slee gen 2 arms

Slee DC front driveshaft.
 
Also both the panhards and the rear upper control arms are adjustable.
Slee gen 2 arms

Slee DC front driveshaft.

Haha you probably know this rig better than I do!!!! Problem with the rear upper control arms were they were welded by PO. I don't even have them on the car right now.
 
Keep remembering stuff. Have a bunch of parts on the side of my house as well like OEM roof rack, springs, running boards, control arms.

Changing the whole vehicle lineup so as noted in that big mess of words above I'm open to offers and trades for diesel vehicles (Old MB Diesels) or a much newer Diesel SUV. If it makes financial sense I'm game.
 
I've had quite a few responses from people outside of the area that you could drive from in a weekend. Californians must be hurting for FZJ80's out there.

I'm not lowering the price but I'll incentivise (is that a word?) by offering free shipping anywhere in the lower 48.
 
What's up with the wires ziptied to the front bumper on the driver's side?
 
What's up with the wires ziptied to the front bumper on the driver's side?

I'm using those to hold the bumper on :D. We ususally use them to handcuff terrorists but they work for ARB Bumpers as well.

Seriously though they are just keeping the winch that I don't have hooked up out of the way until I get the Dual batter in and it hooked up.
 
Baby is the size of a lima bean now and my wife tells me in a few weeks it should be able to hear (me cry about selling my land cruiser). So getting a bit more serious.

Bring in the offers and we are starting at $14,900.
 

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