Nice clean looking first gen 4runner! Congrats on the find! You have come to the right place to look for info on your rebuild, Good Luck & welcome to YT!

PS - We love pics so post plenty of them!

 

Ask and you shall receive! I wouldn't recommend pulling this load with the FJ. It's over the factory recommended limit, not safe, blah blah blah. I didn't have any issues keeping it at 60, kept to the right lane as much as possible and had a constant eye on all my FJ vital information. If you aren't willing to be 100% concentrated on the task at hand, don't pull this load with an FJ. My girlfriend got kinda mad since I basically ignored her for the whole 280 mile drive. Oops.




Traded this:

 

A TOY towing a sweet TOY! lol.. Love it! Nice rig, great find, and welcome to Yotatech. Stop in my or many others build threads to find TONS of interesting and common mild mod-lift-lilmorepower-lighting and so on 'tricks', lol. WABFAB, Marlin Crawler, Engnbldr.com and many other GREAT resources on here for EVERYTHING you need.

Happy Thanksgiving, too!

Mark

 

PS> An 87, TOO! Suuuuuuuuuweet! lol.

 

Thanks for the welcome! Excited to begin engine surgery!

 

That Fj looks pretty cool as a tow righ tho... Nice find, that runner look clean!

 

Yeah, it does look sweet in those pictures. It rode well and the 1GR-FE is definitely a strong towing motor. It's clear that the FJ is too light and has too short of a wheelbase for a load that heavy. The 4Runner had fun trying to be the boss of which lane we would be riding in a few times.

The 4Runner is super clean! It's basically a one owner rig since the guy I got it from never titled it to himself. He thought all it needed was a new head but then realized the problem was bottom end and didn't want to mess with it. 245,000 miles all from one owner! Oh, but it has ALL RED interior

I love Toyotas!

 

it is a little taxing but I tow my 86 4runner with my 05 Tacoma all the time and it does just fine. The 4.0 has plenty of power for the job, the trick is havng a good trailer with good trailer brakes to get it to stop.

 

my friend and i drove up mt baldy to check out this seasons first snow

 

Yeah, I had an 07 tacoma for a few months. (Didn't want to deal with the throwout bearing bull S**T so I dumped it. But they have the longer wheel base and a slightly higher tow rating (by 1500 lbs) so I'm sure the tacoma would handle it better.

 

HOLY CRAPOLI..... NOW THAT'S EVEN SEXIER THAN THE COORS LIGHT TWINS! lol. The red one is yer buds, Blackfogt? COOL RAINBOW, MAN!

 

is that a UFO in the background of your rainbow? HAHA

 

Blake your like me, keep my truck in sight at all times. Love the red.

 

haha thanks! actually my screen name is just my real name.. Blake. and yea the red one is my friend's its pretty stock... 35" bfg ATS with a 3" body lift. his parents bought it new and he's taken really good care of it

actually its a hanging light inside del taco :p




yea he has a sick truck

 

I uploaded a new photo album with a bunch of pics I found on my computer.

https://www.yotatech.com/album.php?albumid=2640

 

nice pics RE-RE i love the look of ifs rigs with 35s

 

 

Pics or it didn't happen.

 

Info?

 

My Tacoma is a long bed with an auto trans, I think the long wheel base helps alot. Also set the truck up best I could for towing, brake controller & firestone load leveling air bags. It tows great, just gets really bad gas mileage.