Finally picked up a 100 series and I love it.
Huge thanks to this forum and the wealth of information the community provides. Looking forward to learning more and contributing. The pre purchase inspection video from OTRAMM was incredibly helpful. I even called and talked to Ryan so big thanks to him for giving me a few pointers before I went to look at the truck. Was going to take it to him to look at but turns out the prior owner had him do the inspection just 2 years prior!
Picked up a 2007 Cruiser, no AHC, no rust as it's been mostly a southern car. Everything is in really nice shape. 199k miles. Full maintenence records. No accidents. Came with a bunch of aftermarket stuff, ironman bumper, lift, winch etc not installed brand new in box. Will probably sell most/all of that off.
I'm coming from a fairly built 120 (2005 4runner with the same vvti v8 motor) so I'm pretty familiar with timing belt swaps and AIP bypass for the stupid emissions air valves and pumps. Probably will keep this build a bit more modest.
Plans for now:
Baseline it. Front end bearings, cvs (bit weepy), valve cover gaskets. Bushings as needed etc.
Headlight retrofit (came with a new set of headlights to mess with)
New wheels/tires
White knuckle sliders (have them on my 4runner and they're awesome!)
Thorley headers (picked them up before I bought the truck. Not looking forward to that install!)
Lift (ran radflo 2.5s on my 4runner and they treated me well. Will probably look at radflo again for the cruiser) not much information on the radflos I could find but I'll keep digging.
Full sound system and sound deadening install. Bypass the stereo....read through the nav delete thread but seems some of the required components are no longer available. Just do the resistor trick for now.
First wheeling trip coming up in January so gotta get the tires and some baseline stuff done.
Huge thanks to this forum and the wealth of information the community provides. Looking forward to learning more and contributing. The pre purchase inspection video from OTRAMM was incredibly helpful. I even called and talked to Ryan so big thanks to him for giving me a few pointers before I went to look at the truck. Was going to take it to him to look at but turns out the prior owner had him do the inspection just 2 years prior!
Picked up a 2007 Cruiser, no AHC, no rust as it's been mostly a southern car. Everything is in really nice shape. 199k miles. Full maintenence records. No accidents. Came with a bunch of aftermarket stuff, ironman bumper, lift, winch etc not installed brand new in box. Will probably sell most/all of that off.
I'm coming from a fairly built 120 (2005 4runner with the same vvti v8 motor) so I'm pretty familiar with timing belt swaps and AIP bypass for the stupid emissions air valves and pumps. Probably will keep this build a bit more modest.
Plans for now:
Baseline it. Front end bearings, cvs (bit weepy), valve cover gaskets. Bushings as needed etc.
Headlight retrofit (came with a new set of headlights to mess with)
New wheels/tires
White knuckle sliders (have them on my 4runner and they're awesome!)
Thorley headers (picked them up before I bought the truck. Not looking forward to that install!)
Lift (ran radflo 2.5s on my 4runner and they treated me well. Will probably look at radflo again for the cruiser) not much information on the radflos I could find but I'll keep digging.
Full sound system and sound deadening install. Bypass the stereo....read through the nav delete thread but seems some of the required components are no longer available. Just do the resistor trick for now.
First wheeling trip coming up in January so gotta get the tires and some baseline stuff done.