Hi all,
I've been looking around for a FZJ80 and found a one owner 97 for sale. it was traded in to a Toyota dealer and then sent out to a local car lot. It has slightly over 300k but was maintained meticulously by the previous owner. No major rust issues and looks pretty clean overall. They are asking 3999, but I probably wouldn't offer more than 3k. (No factory lockers, which I'm ok with)
I went to see it today and was able to start it up but I need to go back for an actual test drive. The engine started right up with no issue. Sounded pretty good, responded well to throttle and only let out what looked like some vapor from the exhaust but that went away once it warmed up.
The only thing that was concerning was this rattle sound coming from the lower part of the engine bay on the passenger side. It sounded like something rattling in a tin can. I couldn't pinpoint exactly where it was coming from but it didn't seem to get worse when revving the engine. Definitely couldn't here it from inside of the cabin.
Here are some videos (first one you can definitely hear the sound better)
I understand that this truck has a lot of miles but I don't want to buy something that will need a rebuild out of the gate. If anybody has a solid guess on what this sound may be or if the price is too high let me know!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Rob
I've been looking around for a FZJ80 and found a one owner 97 for sale. it was traded in to a Toyota dealer and then sent out to a local car lot. It has slightly over 300k but was maintained meticulously by the previous owner. No major rust issues and looks pretty clean overall. They are asking 3999, but I probably wouldn't offer more than 3k. (No factory lockers, which I'm ok with)
I went to see it today and was able to start it up but I need to go back for an actual test drive. The engine started right up with no issue. Sounded pretty good, responded well to throttle and only let out what looked like some vapor from the exhaust but that went away once it warmed up.
The only thing that was concerning was this rattle sound coming from the lower part of the engine bay on the passenger side. It sounded like something rattling in a tin can. I couldn't pinpoint exactly where it was coming from but it didn't seem to get worse when revving the engine. Definitely couldn't here it from inside of the cabin.
Here are some videos (first one you can definitely hear the sound better)
I understand that this truck has a lot of miles but I don't want to buy something that will need a rebuild out of the gate. If anybody has a solid guess on what this sound may be or if the price is too high let me know!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Rob