Rolled this weekend : (

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ktmracer01

ktmracer01

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alright, i rolled my FJ80 this weekend going down a dirt road..i know stupid huh?! anyway, i rolled 2.5 times, and didn't do any frame damage or cause any additional damage to the vehicle except the body. The rollover probably says enough about what type of damage my vehicle has.
It's a 1991 FJ80 with a 3.5" OME lift with 1" coil spacers that i made up front, the motor still runs great ( considering that it was on it's side for a good 20 min, it had very little smoke after i rolled it on to it's tires and fired it up.), it has 200,000 miles on it. The tranny shifts smooth and so does the T/Case, all fluids have been checked and all are at normal levels and are still at normal levels after running it for approx. an hour. Axles are still straight ( i didn't even blow a tire when i rolled), steering is still normal, minus power steering fluid leaking out of resevoir when on it's side.
Right now i'm curious to know what it might be worth? I'm going to Military College in Roswell, NM and I don't have any facilities or tools to make it into a buggy, so i'm just scratching the surface a little bit to know what the market is like right now for a rolled 1991 FJ80.

If this is on the wrong page, i'm sorry, please feel free to relocate it. I will post pics as soon as i can figure out how to get them on here.

-Ryan
 
Damn playa! Sorry to hear that! Do you have any pics to post? That will help in the assesment. How did you do it? Washboard and oversteer?
 
oh gawd...

I'm going to bet that you already know this, but a 91-92 are the least desireable of the 80's because of the motor. Then throw in all encompassing body damage? hmm...

Your best bet might be to find a buddy that wheels and see if they want to cut the top off and just use it as a topless wheeler.

Sorry man.

Is all the glass toast? Any good metal left? All of this goes into the consideration of what to do with it.
 
Rolled

Thanks for all the concern, fortunately I wasn't hurt, and neither was anyone else in the vehicle ( my seat belt rule paid off). I rolled due to over correcting and over braking. :o right n ow i'm uploading my pics onto photobucket right now, but i'm sure i'm going to have issues uploading to this site. so i might need some help.
i know that most FJ80's are not very desireable, but for some reason when i purchased my vehicle is was considerably more powerful than any other 91-92 FJ80 that i had ever encountered. I think the previous owner may have had some engine work done. It'll keep up with my family's stock 1994 FZJ80.
 
Locked axles?
 
ktmracer01 said:
but i'm sure i'm going to have issues uploading to this site. so i might need some help.
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Don't upload them to this site. Use embedded HTML. That's what I do. Just link the photobucket URL to here.
 
Problem is, depending on other mods, it might be worth more parted rather than selling outright. I know for SURE my FJ55 was.

It's a hassle, but if you are going to buy another 80. This one will get totalled, buy it back for cheap, take what you want and then sell/part/scrap the rest. Then you can build the next one up.

Hopefully you have State Farm, the REALLY took care of me.
 
At some point it is more cost effective to part it out if you have the time and ability to. I think that it would be a real PITA though.
 
sorry to read that

be sure you didn't spill acid battery everywhere...
 
That sucks man. You will get the most for parting it, but it depends on your time. If it were me, I would have insurance total it, buy it back, buy a FZJ80, swap the parts you want (lift, tire, etc) and sell the rest to someone who owns a toyota boneyard.
 
The stock wheels (and therefore the 15" tires) won't fit an FZJ, the axles are inferior (semi-floating rear and no ABS, not the end of the world but inferior nonetheless), few of the interior parts will swap over and probably show their age anyway, and unless it's low mileage there's not much call for the drivetrain. It's good for someone who owns an FJ80 and needs a few things. Unless you have a use for it, I'd just let the insurance company have it and spend the money on another 80. If the tires are particularly good you might be able to swap them with someone's marginal ones before the insurance company takes it away, and some other parts might be salvaged that way. Depends on whether you have stuff on there that's brand-new or desireable. No matter what, if the body's completely trashed you'd be lucky to get a grand out of it whole, and not considerably more than that in parts.

-Spike
 
Ryan didn't mention insurance in his posts that I could see. Liability coverage only maybe?

If this is the case, he owns it. He may as well get whatever he can out of it before it goes to the bone yard.

Dibs on the alarm/countdown clock in the dash. :-) Front mud flaps too if it still has them. PS slider window lovure cover if it somehow miraculously survived in tact.

If it has cloth non-electric seats maybe those would sell.

Someone will want the PS battery tray.

Um... Electric mirrors... badging? Any glass left... If it rolled on its nose (typical) then maybe the tailgate/hatch would have survived. Hitch...

Sell your old upgrades or keep them for another truck.

With 200K miles this truck was probably worth ~ $2500 before it was rolled. Now... Whatever you can get for the parts.

If it is insured, get them to write you a check for $4K, smile and walk away.
 
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damn.


that sucks.



:frown:
 
What's market for an average condition FJ80 in the '48? About $5000? Less?

I'm afraid that open market for that rig is gonna be under $1000. Maybe way under. :(

Parting it out yourself is the only way I would expectto see any return on the money you have put into it.


Mark...
 
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