Well I've been stalling on posting up some info in hopes I would have more collected and done by now, but here he is:
'99 4runner Limited
187K miles
4wd/AWD
Few pics from the ad:
And..... it has the Magic button
We were up in Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg, TN the week after Christmas as a family. As many of you kno wI sold my pickup and we were sharing the 80 as a family. Thankfully I had some time off over the holidays and with us heading up to the mountains it helped give me a little more time to find something.
I had been messaging and looking at several Tacomas and 4runners but they were either:
1. Too much $.
2. Rusty
3. Too far away.
After comign really close to buying a few I saw this one posted on CL in Knoxville. He posted it up New Yrs eve and we were headed back home New Yrs day, so it was good we were able to work something out. I had already coordinated to go look at another one on the way home. It has more miles thatn I wanted to have, 187K but he had a stack of reciepts and was the 2nd owner who bought it as a CPO.
I had forgotten how nice these drove, especially compared to the last few vehicles we have had/have. Lori drove a '97 sr5 4wd that we had for around 7 years and I foolishly sold January '10. I actually emailed the guy that bought our old one and asked if we could buy it back.
Unfortunately he blew the rear main after he put another 40K on it and the engine blew. He sold it to a buddy who is supposedly putting a Land Cruiser V8 in it. I am begging him for pics.
After a trip back home and a few pit stops for the kiddos and myself we finally made it home after 200+ miles.
The guy was nice enough to let me keep his tag so I didnt get pulled who knows how many times on the way home.
It needs a few things and since I got it on New Yrs I have noticed a few more needed items.
I placed an order with RHT and my wife went by and picked up the first round of parts.
New valve cover gaskets and associated parts, new plug wires, and new plugs.
I also picked up a B&M tranny cooler to avoid the strawberry milkshake that these have been know to produce when the radiator/internal cooler fail.
There is a clicking noise coming from the passanger front that started after I got home, there is also a hesitation when accelerating gradually at higher speeds (around 70), also need an 02 sensor and a coolant sensor, and some bulbs in the climate control as they are burnt out.
Other than the few little things I need to fix I am overly impressed. I also picked up a set of custom canvas seat covers of eBay, dug throught the garage to find the parts to swap the factory roof rack for some Yakima stuff, and ordered some LED bulbd for the interior and the climate control.
1/2 way installed rear:
Done:
Weekend after we got back from PF/GB with the 4runner I decided to make a parts run to VA. Since the stock rear bumper has a few little dents.
I had found a bumper on CL in Va Beach a few weeks before Christmas but did not want to buy any parts for a vehicle before I bought one. I emailed the guy and he still had this:
SO I drove up the Rocky Mount, NC and visited with my buddy who is moving to WA state next month, we then headed out Saturday morning to Va Beach and picked up the bumper, suprizingly it fit in the back of the 4runner without disasambly. I have to get some mounts made up as he was runing a 3" BL. I should have take a pic of his 4runner and the FJ62 they had in the garage. I am sure the guy who owns the 62 is on MUD, he wasnt working but the guy with the 4runner said he has at least 3. They worked on building up 2 LX470's and shipped them to Haiti to help after the earth quake. Nothing like a 1K + mile trip for friends and parts.
I actually had a front bumper lined up just before Christmas but it sold by the time I bought this rig. Found several other things but distance is a factor as shipping eats into any deal, especially on something as heavy as a bumper. I plan to get the rear bumper paint matched or powder coated, trying to research painting over powdercoat.
I will try to keep this updated as I add things and also get some pics up of the maint work as well as the Yakima rack. I have put over 2K miles on it in 3 weeks time and my wife wishes all the kids fit in it as she loves driving it as much as I do, it is so much smoother than the 80.
'99 4runner Limited
187K miles
4wd/AWD
Few pics from the ad:
And..... it has the Magic button
We were up in Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg, TN the week after Christmas as a family. As many of you kno wI sold my pickup and we were sharing the 80 as a family. Thankfully I had some time off over the holidays and with us heading up to the mountains it helped give me a little more time to find something.
I had been messaging and looking at several Tacomas and 4runners but they were either:
1. Too much $.
2. Rusty
3. Too far away.
After comign really close to buying a few I saw this one posted on CL in Knoxville. He posted it up New Yrs eve and we were headed back home New Yrs day, so it was good we were able to work something out. I had already coordinated to go look at another one on the way home. It has more miles thatn I wanted to have, 187K but he had a stack of reciepts and was the 2nd owner who bought it as a CPO.
I had forgotten how nice these drove, especially compared to the last few vehicles we have had/have. Lori drove a '97 sr5 4wd that we had for around 7 years and I foolishly sold January '10. I actually emailed the guy that bought our old one and asked if we could buy it back.
Unfortunately he blew the rear main after he put another 40K on it and the engine blew. He sold it to a buddy who is supposedly putting a Land Cruiser V8 in it. I am begging him for pics.
After a trip back home and a few pit stops for the kiddos and myself we finally made it home after 200+ miles.
The guy was nice enough to let me keep his tag so I didnt get pulled who knows how many times on the way home.
It needs a few things and since I got it on New Yrs I have noticed a few more needed items.
I placed an order with RHT and my wife went by and picked up the first round of parts.
New valve cover gaskets and associated parts, new plug wires, and new plugs.
I also picked up a B&M tranny cooler to avoid the strawberry milkshake that these have been know to produce when the radiator/internal cooler fail.
There is a clicking noise coming from the passanger front that started after I got home, there is also a hesitation when accelerating gradually at higher speeds (around 70), also need an 02 sensor and a coolant sensor, and some bulbs in the climate control as they are burnt out.
Other than the few little things I need to fix I am overly impressed. I also picked up a set of custom canvas seat covers of eBay, dug throught the garage to find the parts to swap the factory roof rack for some Yakima stuff, and ordered some LED bulbd for the interior and the climate control.
1/2 way installed rear:
Done:
Weekend after we got back from PF/GB with the 4runner I decided to make a parts run to VA. Since the stock rear bumper has a few little dents.
I had found a bumper on CL in Va Beach a few weeks before Christmas but did not want to buy any parts for a vehicle before I bought one. I emailed the guy and he still had this:
SO I drove up the Rocky Mount, NC and visited with my buddy who is moving to WA state next month, we then headed out Saturday morning to Va Beach and picked up the bumper, suprizingly it fit in the back of the 4runner without disasambly. I have to get some mounts made up as he was runing a 3" BL. I should have take a pic of his 4runner and the FJ62 they had in the garage. I am sure the guy who owns the 62 is on MUD, he wasnt working but the guy with the 4runner said he has at least 3. They worked on building up 2 LX470's and shipped them to Haiti to help after the earth quake. Nothing like a 1K + mile trip for friends and parts.
I actually had a front bumper lined up just before Christmas but it sold by the time I bought this rig. Found several other things but distance is a factor as shipping eats into any deal, especially on something as heavy as a bumper. I plan to get the rear bumper paint matched or powder coated, trying to research painting over powdercoat.
I will try to keep this updated as I add things and also get some pics up of the maint work as well as the Yakima rack. I have put over 2K miles on it in 3 weeks time and my wife wishes all the kids fit in it as she loves driving it as much as I do, it is so much smoother than the 80.