Mudlover

I know someone who is selling a 94 4runner in good condition with 216,000 on a 3.0 v6. At about 180,000 the head gasket, valve gasket, timing belt, water pump and new cv shafts installed. I know the 3.0 is not a reliable as the 3.4, but would anyone feel that $2000.00 is too much for this truck. It has almost no rust.

I would like anyone's input please.

regularguy412

Drive it and see how it goes. Sounds like a pretty decent price ,IF all the things done to it, as stated. Manual or automatic? I think the manual tranny is preferred, but you'd need to check out the clutch, etc.

I say 'go for it', if it all seems OK. It would be nice to know what headgaskets were used to do the replacement. Hopefully they used Toyota , Rock or Nitroseal -- trade names for the slipperplate steel design.


Mike in AR

Mudlover

Sadly it is an Automatic. I would prefer a stick, but I'll live with it.

littlerunner

sounds pretty good to me,i have a 91 runner with 302000 on,old motor satrting to get pretty weak if you crowd it,thought about selling a while back,was going to ASK $3200,its really amazing what these old things will bring

regularguy412

Don't be too sad. Both manuals and autos have their advantages. I really like the A340H auto in my 92 3.0. I think it mostly depends on what kind of wheeling you intend to do with it. I'm not off-road with mine a lot, so the auto is lots more comfortable in traffic. If you want to crawl rocks, the manual is better -- especially if you want to add a 2nd transfer case.

Mike in AR

tc

The automatic is particularly poorly matched with the 3.0 - turns it into a REAL dog (it's only kinda doggy with the manual LOL). If you have the choice, definitely lean towards the manual tranny.

snap-on

2K isnt the best deal but not the worst either.