For $2k or less, I'd pick that up. Personally, id want an extended cab though.

 

Thats what i was thinking. Id honestly prefer an extended cab over anything but ill take what i can get. It doesnt look like to bad of a deal to me. What kind of engine repairs should i make to make sure she lasts? now just to tell this guy he can buy my exploder

 

the only thing I would do to an engine is adjust the valves as needed and possibly put in a timing chain/tensioner.

And even then, I'd leave the front of the engine alone until it really needed it.

I dropped a valve I suspect in the #1 cylinder. Had it not been for that, I would have continued driving it. I never opened the engine up past pulling the plug and seeing the damage that had been done to the plug and the top of the piston.

I got my truck when I came home from overseas. A gift from my then wife. It ran worth nothing and needed brakes, ball-joints, couldn't get up over 50 mph and ran like junk.

I forget what finally got it running right. That was in 2004.

They are an easy engine to work on and relatively inexpensive to really work on all things considered.

 

Oh how you it sound better each post. Lol. I've been doing ALOT of extensive research on these engines an I can barely find any negatives of them. I prefer to leave it alone until it needs it. Just want to make sure an get backed up. I think I'm going to jump on it. We will see what happens

 

I miss my 4Runner.

If that is the truck you are looking at, the biggest and first thing I would do is put a U-bolt flip kit in it. Get those bolts out of the way so that you can slide over rocks/trees/mud easier. Amazing how much of a difference those made for me when I put them in.
http://www.marlincrawler.com/suspens...-bolt-flip-kit

you need to get the shock mount kit to go with it. Well worth it.

I put them on mine when I decided to also put in rear springs. Figured why not. Best $100 I put into the suspension. Especially since I was looking to have to put U-bolts on any ways. And even the springs I got from JC Whitney for dirt cheap. Now those springs are $134 each.