Hey everyone. New to the forum and new to the GX world. Been thinking about getting one for a few months and have been creeping for awhile. After weeks of reading it's amazing how underrated these vehicles are. It's the typical "soccer mom" platform, but still great off-road capabilities. Anyways...
My name is Ryan located in Little Rock, Arkansas. 26 years old and love the outdoors. I have my own shop and primarily work on foreign cars but still do a little bit of everything. Ive had a '73 Gran Torino, Mustangs, Camaros, trucks. I got into diesels for awhile but DANG does it get expensive! I have always loved the GX's every time they come through the shop and always so surprised at Toyota products not leaking a drop of oil at 120,000+ miles! So I decided I need something a little more practical and sold the truck.
I Found a deal on a 2006 Titanium Metallic Base model, grey interior ( did not want the nav ) with 122k miles on it. Out of the 8 I looked at this one was the cleanest so I jumped on it. Only problem was the dash is cracked to hell but I knew it was normal. Unfortunately no records of the major service was done and it looked like the clutch fan nuts never saw a wrench on them. So before any build gets started spark plugs, timing belt/water pump, t-stat, drivebelt, and all fluids are getting changed.
So far all I've done is take off the step rails and trim the lower black piece of the mud flaps. Typical must do's lol. I'll be starting a build thread here in the next few months when my bank account gets back up to par after the purchase of the vehicle haha. Anyways, glad to be a part of the crew!
My name is Ryan located in Little Rock, Arkansas. 26 years old and love the outdoors. I have my own shop and primarily work on foreign cars but still do a little bit of everything. Ive had a '73 Gran Torino, Mustangs, Camaros, trucks. I got into diesels for awhile but DANG does it get expensive! I have always loved the GX's every time they come through the shop and always so surprised at Toyota products not leaking a drop of oil at 120,000+ miles! So I decided I need something a little more practical and sold the truck.
I Found a deal on a 2006 Titanium Metallic Base model, grey interior ( did not want the nav ) with 122k miles on it. Out of the 8 I looked at this one was the cleanest so I jumped on it. Only problem was the dash is cracked to hell but I knew it was normal. Unfortunately no records of the major service was done and it looked like the clutch fan nuts never saw a wrench on them. So before any build gets started spark plugs, timing belt/water pump, t-stat, drivebelt, and all fluids are getting changed.
So far all I've done is take off the step rails and trim the lower black piece of the mud flaps. Typical must do's lol. I'll be starting a build thread here in the next few months when my bank account gets back up to par after the purchase of the vehicle haha. Anyways, glad to be a part of the crew!
