So after being a lurker for 7 years or so and spending oh I'd say 2 years searching on and off for an 80, I'm happy to announce I officially get to join the pink panty club! No stranger to lexus this is my 5th. I've had a 3 SC300's (still own one) and a 2008 GX470 which my family dearly misses it was a cherry.. any who here is the newest member to my fleet. It's a 97 LX450 in champagne pearl with 220 on the odometer, originally a CA rig. The interior and exterior are immaculate looks like there's only 50k of wear, same with the drivetrain, i highly suspect this thing was just a mall crawler. I paid 9k for it. I passed on soooooo many rigs from the east and mid west and south. After committing to a real search for a rig of this vintage I told my self I would not settle for anything with any sort of rust it's just something I don't want to deal with. Found it in Hayden idaho, He bought it in cali from the orignal owner but he quickly decided it was too small for his family, he has 4 kids, so he bought an excursion, yuck.. LOL! I plan to use this thread to chronicle my build and my trips out and about.
a few quick details of the good and bad.
good: came with a brand new arb front bumper, brand new seat gears (just installed the passenger side set going to to do the drivers today) alpine double din screen with apple carplay/android auto back up camera, bluetooth etc.. a pair of new seat heater switches, interior lights swapped to led's and brand new weather tech mats all around. no O.E. roof rack
bad: oil leak from oil pump cover, (wits end hooked it up with a seal kit! weekend project!!!!) freeway vibration/ pulling needs an alignment/wheel balance and probably some bushings but i won't address that till a lift and new wheels/tires are on the way, if anything i will just get the wheels balanced. needs a front O2 sensor, (new part on the way) needs a washer pump, (part on the way) and i need to repaint the mirror caps, (aerosol touch up cans on the way) oh, its also not locked but arb can fix that no problem..
ok photo dump!
a few quick details of the good and bad.
good: came with a brand new arb front bumper, brand new seat gears (just installed the passenger side set going to to do the drivers today) alpine double din screen with apple carplay/android auto back up camera, bluetooth etc.. a pair of new seat heater switches, interior lights swapped to led's and brand new weather tech mats all around. no O.E. roof rack
bad: oil leak from oil pump cover, (wits end hooked it up with a seal kit! weekend project!!!!) freeway vibration/ pulling needs an alignment/wheel balance and probably some bushings but i won't address that till a lift and new wheels/tires are on the way, if anything i will just get the wheels balanced. needs a front O2 sensor, (new part on the way) needs a washer pump, (part on the way) and i need to repaint the mirror caps, (aerosol touch up cans on the way) oh, its also not locked but arb can fix that no problem..
ok photo dump!
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