ChefYota4x4

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Cool Video, and nice work, man! I can't wait to finally have the cabbage and secondary rig to do this. I've been looking for an 84-85 for quite a while... but they're all TOTALLY jackholed up, lol. And they're asking like 3500$ for CRAP! Ridiculous. I found an 85 in Apple Valley for 1000$... No motor, rebuilt trans. Someone snatched it before I could get out there(b4 I could get time off work, grrr.... Holidays+Chef=NO TIME FOR ME! hahaha).

I WILL find one, eventually. Have a good one, bud, ... hope you're having a great New Year!

Mark

RMA

Thanks Mark !!


i hear you on the runners some are pretty beat up and they still want a few grand for them ..but ive also seen a couple of them selling for $1000 .. none cheaper though.

again thanks man , appreciate the complimets .

SuperRunner

no sound on the vid? C'mon!!!

RMA

yea there is bro .. i hear it here on my computer.

ChefYota4x4

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Pretty good sound. Hard to make out at times, as the scooters are runnin around. ....

RMA

yea the kids were tearing that thing up ..

RMA

so this truck just got back from a trip to salt lake city Utah .. the truck averaged 18mpg hwy.. three adults 1 child ,clothes ,smaller spare parts, tools and some food , or snacks . depends on what you consider food
We did nothing to this engine as far as maintenance , installed it just as we bought it , no new plugs wires caps rotors stuff like that and it has 249,000 miles on it .
be intersting to see how much this changes after a complete tune up .

RBX

Well, everyone else here may be impressed with your work, but i'm not! Nope, not til you get a M/T behind the UZ.







P.S. Ok, i lied....I AM impressed, probably a bit jealous also. You should really do an M/T next, you know, just to keep your skillz sharp.(and so i can copy your notes)

Philbert

iTrader: (2)

Wow - great work Robert!! Did you have it in 2WD in Hollister in that video?

RMA

Thanks man , one day hopefully..

yea the truck was in 2wd in parts of the video,we were just testing it out.
and thanks !

SHAGGY21

im doing a 5 speed on my 95 and dont worry im going to take a boat load of pictures and lots of notes. ill have it finished by june is my plan as i want to drive it to vegas for the 4th of july.

RMA

good luck man ! and dont forget to have fun

RMA

so just a little update on this truck .. The A/C is working now .. its using custom stainless steel lines and the LS compressor everything else is the 4runners stuff.

ill post pics of the lines as soon as i get them.

ChefYota4x4

iTrader: (5)

RIGHT ON, RMA! That's great news... I'm REALLY still itching to do this, but I've hit about every snag with this current runner that could happen! lol. Gotta tuck my first trans rebuild away and reseal/gasket up the whole T-case and I'll be thinking/looking on/for a project rig the whole while to do this!

to be honest, I'm a lil torn between this and the 3RZ....but man, that THROATY ROAR! lol.

I'm amazed at what I've learned since I first posted on this thread! hahahaha! Ok, it's not much compared to some...but I'm getting there, lol.

Thanks for the input and occasional shooting of the ......yeah. lol.

RBX

Nice RMA, this is something most guys avoid when putting in the 1UZ, interested to see how you overcame it.

RMA

well RB i really didnt do any of the work on the ac stuff besides letting my friend the owner of this red runner use my shop (Garage ) and the use of my small lathe .. he used it to make a small part , a fitting i guess to connect the hoses to the ac's radiator up front. he was having fun while i was working .. this was the first thing hes ever made with a lathe and it actually worked , and he didnt hurt himself

any way heres some pics .

RMA

so a little update on this 4runner .. its been inspected by the bar and is now legal .. everything working cruise and A/C ..


this truck also got a sunroof installed .. we found one off a 2004 range rover at the junkyard and worked fine so far.

heres a couple cell phone pics .. ill post some better pics later .




and for anyone interested the toyota sheet metal is twice as thick as the range rover sheetmetal.

irab88

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oh, man! that's sweet!

more pics, for sure

if you don't mind posting, how much was the sun roof?

RBX

Nice, it slides. Top notch work, really impressive.

RMA

the sunroof was $50 complete with motor.. the switch ,harness and headliner off the range rover were extra .. it was less than $100.

we spent some time at the pick n pull looking at different sunroofs .. the owner of the 4runner was originaly going with a saturn sunroof , but we got lucky and found the range rover , it had 2 sunroofs one in the front and one at the back .. they were both exactly the same .

its nice and is nicely contained the bottom pan bolts to the sunroof and squeezes the sheet metal real good .

my friend cut the sunroof off the range rover and used the range rovers sheetmetal as a template when cutting his 4runner.

hes going to make a headliner out of both the range rovers and 4runners then have a shop upholster it.


ill get some better pics later.