I've always wanted a 80 series Cruiser and back in July while searching CL (for something for my 4Runner) I stumbled across and ad that simple said "Car for sale" I clicked on the add and low and behold it was a 94 FZJ80 with a couple of really really bad potato pictures and very simple description "Have too many car, need to sell some. Run's great very looked after"
Long and short of it is the ad made me crack up so I just couldn't resist taking a look, when I met the seller it he explained he "love this truck" and it was a family "aireloom" in fact the reality was it had the appearance that Stevie Wonder had painted and Ray Charles did if any at all the maintenance. Anyways it drove ok ish and me being a sucker for a project I offered the guy $2500 and drove it home (It's triple locked, clean title and CA truck so 0 rust)
Here she is in my shops parking lot when I got her home
Due to my week's being busy as hell with day to day shop work I had to wait till the weekend to go through the rig properly and lets say her "very looked after" and "much loved" PO certainly didn't disappoint, here's a little run down:
Rear upper pan arch leak (very minor)
Front oil pump seal leak (very minor)
Couldn't hold more than 6psi of pressure when testing the cooling system, multiple leaks
Lockers wouldn't engage
Front axle needed rebuild, birf's puking
E-Brake doesn't work - Reminds me I've still not addressed this
Passenger rear window would go down then fall off the track
Both front seats look like Freddy Kruger had a wet dream and won't go back or forward
I'm sure there's more but it's been a while and I've addressed the above as well as a ton of other bits and pieces long since.
Long and short of it is the ad made me crack up so I just couldn't resist taking a look, when I met the seller it he explained he "love this truck" and it was a family "aireloom" in fact the reality was it had the appearance that Stevie Wonder had painted and Ray Charles did if any at all the maintenance. Anyways it drove ok ish and me being a sucker for a project I offered the guy $2500 and drove it home (It's triple locked, clean title and CA truck so 0 rust)
Here she is in my shops parking lot when I got her home
Due to my week's being busy as hell with day to day shop work I had to wait till the weekend to go through the rig properly and lets say her "very looked after" and "much loved" PO certainly didn't disappoint, here's a little run down:
Rear upper pan arch leak (very minor)
Front oil pump seal leak (very minor)
Couldn't hold more than 6psi of pressure when testing the cooling system, multiple leaks
Lockers wouldn't engage
Front axle needed rebuild, birf's puking
E-Brake doesn't work - Reminds me I've still not addressed this
Passenger rear window would go down then fall off the track
Both front seats look like Freddy Kruger had a wet dream and won't go back or forward
I'm sure there's more but it's been a while and I've addressed the above as well as a ton of other bits and pieces long since.
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