Bought a nice little 88 4runner, 22RE, 5spd, Black, gray interior. Has 445,000km's on it but its solid! body is nearly rust free with no bondo, floors are mint, frame is excellent. So far its great, I need to find a few little parts and pieces to make it mint but it wont need much, the rear window even works! Il post up some pictures tommoro. I have alot of questions since ive never owned a 4runner and it has a few little issues, will post up tommoro.

 

congrats on your new runner. How much did you pay for her?

 

Pictures ???.

 

Congrats, post up some pics

 

lots lol. If its got 445K and is in mint con. Thats the most rare find ever lol. Mine only has 141k and its no where near mint lol.

 

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He said it has 445k Kilometer's and that it is solid and that the floors are mint I think meaning no rust which is rare for Canada.

 

Yeah thats what I meant, 445km's is 275mi though. That said its been garage kept for sure, the fenders have some small bubbles coming up but thats about it for rust on it, the paint still shines. The truck itself is in good shape for the amount of km's. I will get pictures tommoro.

 

Its a daily driver, keeping it fairly stock. Im probably only keeping it until the spring when I have my Supra back on the road and the new frame under my 83 Toyota p/u, don't really want to do much to it but we'll see. Getting rid of the Smittybilt rear bumper and building something with a better departure, fixing up the interior which is worse than it looks, but definitely not bad. I got the radio working this morning, sounds great.

 

What do you mean by a better departure? I think that bumper looks nice, even if it is a smittybuilt.

 

those smittybuilt's aren't bad. I know they don't make the front ones anymore for our trucks, I'm not sure about the rears though.

 

It hangs too low, ive bumped the ground a few times already going through cross ditches and such, guess im just used to my other truck. I paid $2500 for the 4runner, what its worth basically.. not a steal but fair price.

 

My yota has 279k on the original engine. Just starting to break it in! Looks like a good find man!

 

thats a sweet lookin runner for having 445000.. it really shows that it was garage kept.. I've got 375000 worth of hard km, I wish the body looked like that..

 

Nice lookin ride man!!!

 

wow no rear sag that is awesome... great looking runner... just got an 85 myself

 

nice runner! decent deal for a canadian yota, it seems toyota's up here are always more expensive than in the states lol

 

Too bad you don't live closer, I'd take that bumper off your hands!

 

Yeah, im sure someone will want it.. its fine for now though.

My wipers are messed up, they park half way up the windshield. I was thinking the arms were installed wrong but I thought about it and that can't be it. On the upstroke they only go to about 3/4 of what normal 4runner ones do, but on the downstroke they go past the window trim onto the cowl, if I adjusted the arms to park at the bottom they would only wipe half the windshield and would jam against the cowl on the downstoke. So someone must have indexed them wrong at the motor. Took a look at it and the motor's been replaced so that must be it, or its the wrong motor which I doubt but il get the P/N off it if I can't figure it out.

 

Fixed it, motor was indexed wrong, work great now!

 

Its snowing out, I was crossing my fingers that the top, sunroof and windshield wouldn't leak, they don't! One problem I noticed is some play in my front suspension, drivers side clunks over bumps, and if I tap the the brakes I can see the play in the tire/wheel, it's really loud if I do that. There is a loud rattle coming from the rear of the truck over bumps, I think its the tail gate arms.