Year: 1998
Miles: 141k-ish
Location: Bethlehem, PA
Mud-Price: $5700 (baby showed up two weeks early so this needs to go!)
Pros: Factory rear/center lockers, rear air, tons of maintenance with OE parts within last 5k miles (details below), runs and drives great, everything works, front seats partially re-covered. Two sets of wheels/tires – factory 16’s and Tundra 18’s – both sets have lots of tread left on stock size Michelins. All factory manuals. Pictures of everything I did to it in progress of doing it.
Cons: Rough around the edges, Maaco body work/paint a year before I bought it (not good), interior is a bit rough in places (I do have some replacement panels though), interior fan speed control is functional but wonky, middle seat doesn’t latch into floor (I imagine that’s an easy fix just haven’t bothered), rust underneath but not enough to be prohibitive – a wire wheel and coat of MasterSeries or Chassis Saver would be all it needs.
There’s a lot of great things going on with my Cruiser (low miles, lots of maintenance done, double locked etc.) but if appearances are at all a concern of yours than this probably isn’t the one for you. I want to get this out of the way first that this guy is a little rough around the edges……and inside……and there’s surface rust underneath. If you can look past that though, you will find a strong truck that I have spent a lot of time and money on to get it caught up on maintenance so that I could have a reliable Cruiser that I wouldn’t care about beating up on some trails. Now that I have that, I’ve decided to go a different direction, leased a Taco and am building a 4x4 short bus. I’m selling this at an incredible price. If it was cleaner and not so beat up it’d be double the price but she’s a butter face.
I’m attaching pics of receipts for all the maintenance items I’ve done on it over the last two years. I’ve only driven it about 5k miles in that time too. I got genuine Toyota parts if they were available.
Full timing set/pulleys/water pump, radiator, radiator hoses, Iridium plugs, all filters, rebuilt the master cylinder, cleaned brake booster motor, front brake pads/drilled slotted rotors, all hub seals/bearings/races up front, front shocks and probably some other small stuff I’m forgetting. I have but have not installed; rear shocks, valve cover gaskets, some interior panels, extra filters.
Feel free to post general questions in this thread but if you really want to talk to me about this it’s best to send me an email at kcernest@gmail.com but I’ll try to check in here at least once a day. I’m usually not available to talk until around 6pm EST but in case I get a window if you want to send me your number and the best time to call I’ll sure give it a shot.
drive.google.com
I'm sticking a couple pics up here but to see a bunch of detail and invoices for all the parts I've changed just click on the google drive link. Strangely, the rust looks a lot worse in the pics than it is and the interior looks a lot better than it is.
Miles: 141k-ish
Location: Bethlehem, PA
Mud-Price: $5700 (baby showed up two weeks early so this needs to go!)
Pros: Factory rear/center lockers, rear air, tons of maintenance with OE parts within last 5k miles (details below), runs and drives great, everything works, front seats partially re-covered. Two sets of wheels/tires – factory 16’s and Tundra 18’s – both sets have lots of tread left on stock size Michelins. All factory manuals. Pictures of everything I did to it in progress of doing it.
Cons: Rough around the edges, Maaco body work/paint a year before I bought it (not good), interior is a bit rough in places (I do have some replacement panels though), interior fan speed control is functional but wonky, middle seat doesn’t latch into floor (I imagine that’s an easy fix just haven’t bothered), rust underneath but not enough to be prohibitive – a wire wheel and coat of MasterSeries or Chassis Saver would be all it needs.
There’s a lot of great things going on with my Cruiser (low miles, lots of maintenance done, double locked etc.) but if appearances are at all a concern of yours than this probably isn’t the one for you. I want to get this out of the way first that this guy is a little rough around the edges……and inside……and there’s surface rust underneath. If you can look past that though, you will find a strong truck that I have spent a lot of time and money on to get it caught up on maintenance so that I could have a reliable Cruiser that I wouldn’t care about beating up on some trails. Now that I have that, I’ve decided to go a different direction, leased a Taco and am building a 4x4 short bus. I’m selling this at an incredible price. If it was cleaner and not so beat up it’d be double the price but she’s a butter face.
I’m attaching pics of receipts for all the maintenance items I’ve done on it over the last two years. I’ve only driven it about 5k miles in that time too. I got genuine Toyota parts if they were available.
Full timing set/pulleys/water pump, radiator, radiator hoses, Iridium plugs, all filters, rebuilt the master cylinder, cleaned brake booster motor, front brake pads/drilled slotted rotors, all hub seals/bearings/races up front, front shocks and probably some other small stuff I’m forgetting. I have but have not installed; rear shocks, valve cover gaskets, some interior panels, extra filters.
Feel free to post general questions in this thread but if you really want to talk to me about this it’s best to send me an email at kcernest@gmail.com but I’ll try to check in here at least once a day. I’m usually not available to talk until around 6pm EST but in case I get a window if you want to send me your number and the best time to call I’ll sure give it a shot.
Land Cruiser - Google Drive
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