The Knitting Circle (2 Viewers)

[Land Speeder]

I've got a locked 80 series. I know the capability. 80s came with tiny street tires. At least jeep put 33s on the rubicons...

A Rubicon on 33s would whip an 80 on 30s. And vice versus.

Can I drive one?! I wanna test it! But you're prolly right. The jeep is smaller and ready to hit the trails right off the bat. Now if body damage is no object... I'm going cruiser.

 

['74 UA FJ]

I'd like to have a rubicon, but I ain't paying the price! Especially when I have a locked 80 on 285s!

 

[justbecause]

they keep the drug money. http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/indian_citizen_stopped_by_madi.html

 

[Land Speeder]

they keep the drug money. http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2015/02/indian_citizen_stopped_by_madi.html

dafuq?! I was all sympathetic until I read "Will likely sue, but haven't filed yet".
Don't like it here? go home. Don't sue.
random dude, walking the streets, looking like he doesn't belong.... ah you thought I was talking about him! I was talking about me! In Ensley! Now let's see what happens to me... prolly worse than this.

Edit: After seeing the video. I was wrong. The officer is an absolute douche and deserves to be fired. That was ridiculous. I support law, he was not enforcing law by his actions. Just wanted to say that.

 

[justbecause]

Cost of ownership: should I buy a 100 series.

aside from the timingbelt, what kind of regular maintenance can you expect for a 2000 200 series with 225k miles?
check brakes, pads, rotors, tires, drive belts, plugs, wires, shocks...

what else?

does the 100 have known issues like the 80's headgasket, birff, PHH?

 

[BMThiker]

I seem to remember hearing (said with some doubt) that the brake master tends to go out on older 100's.

 

[Land Speeder]

The brake issue is a very costly one, like a couple grand... but with any rig at 220k... it's all in how it was taken care of. It could be perfect or it could have been clapped out. I'd prefer NOT to buy a rig driven by a woman because it's likely had 3 oil changes in the 220k miles and only maintenance when something broke...
either way, it don't matter cause it's not an Isuzu so you will say it rides like crap

 

[Godwin]

aside from the timingbelt, what kind of regular maintenance can you expect for a 2000 200 series with 225k miles?
check brakes, pads, rotors, tires, drive belts, plugs, wires, shocks...

North American Land Cruisers post 1997 are of little interest to me but I kinda doubt that the 200 series were available in 2000.

 

[Land Speeder]

North American Land Cruisers post 1997 are of little interest to me but I kinda doubt that the 200 series were available in 2000.

LOL!
WOW! I did not even catch that!

 

[Godwin]

Maybe it's a time warp thing. Zack says some crazy stuff sometimes.

 

[justbecause]

yup, lots of brake threads in the One Hundred series section.

one dude (who was ranting at the time) reported a 4 grand dealer estimate.

The FAQ brake thread dude said his was fixed for 1400 + tax.

 

[justbecause]

apparently there is a toyota dealer that will replace the timing belt and water pump on an 80 series.

http://gadsden.craigslist.org/cto/4899916261.html

 

[tripreed]

apparently there is a toyota dealer that will replace the timing belt and water pump on an 80 series.

http://gadsden.craigslist.org/cto/4899916261.html

Got to be a scam.

 

[BMThiker]

dead links tell no tales.

 

[Land Speeder]

dead links tell no tales.

Hank does that to them. He keeps the drug money

 

[justbecause]

dead links tell no tales.

all the pages and pages of BS that clog craiglist while I try to find a van, but that take that post down... It was a 97 90k miles. "All work done at Toyota dealer" $1900 "all new suspension" "timing belt and water pump replaced."

 

[Land Speeder]

Well I guess I Hank Hird that!

 

[justbecause]

I know its a scam, everything about it tells me so, but I called anyway.

http://montgomery.craigslist.org/cto/4900413630.html

had a "google call" voice mailbox... I wonder what kind of interesting spam I'll be getting since I left my phone number.

 

[Land Speeder]

Anyone in the immediate area with an 80... lemme borrow thier ECU to see if mine is BAD...
I'll buy you lunch for your troubles... I'm tracing down my O2 sensor CEL code... and have arrived at the ECU. Ain't that a B!

 

[bhmmapping]

ECU? how did you figure that one out? You're going to have to find one from an early fzj though.