Hey, this is my 1988 SR5 3.0 4Runner. I bought it four years ago. I've always wanted to lift it n stuff but every time I had the money something major went wrong with car. It is not time to start bringing this runner back to glory.

 

OK, I guess ???.

 

Let us know when it is!

 

This is when I first bought it 4 years ago


heres another


Ands here after one rear end accident and two black ice crashes ( one with a tree)


Pulled everthing off to fix it up a little




And back to normal (almost)

 

Looks much better than mine!

What are you looking to do?

 

at least yours was running when you got it!

my '88, dubbed 'Ole Bob, by my girls... is a project

oh, and you have shiny paint - ha ha.

keep at it.

joel

 

When I bought it it ran but right after i bought it i found out it had wrong size belts and rotors, the brakes all around were shot and i needed a new trans. So yeah it ran but it costed me over 2500 off the bat

 

Thanks, everything in and on this car was/is ghetto rigged, just want to bing it back and do a few upgrades here and there.

 

were your SR5 stripes ever replaced?

Your rear one is going the opposite direction of mine.

 

Never noticed that but you're right they are facing the other way, guess someone before me changed it.

 

i like the blacked out front end.
good luck with the restoration project.

 

Alot of people dont keep up the maintenace as they should. Just stay after it little by little and you will get it bach up to where it should be. Great job getting all of the other damage staightened back out.

 

Oh, BTW, where did you get your front bumper end caps

Joel

 

Rockauto its a website, I'm getting a tube bumper in a couple months so I'll probably sell them cheap though.

 

Nice job bro. Hey I read u also have a 3.0, what kind of milage are u getting on that thing. Mine is completely rebuilt but I've been having some vacuum hose and sensor problems so I've gone from 11mpg to 14mpg but I still gotta do a couple of things here and there to make it get the right mileage.

BTW what part of CA are u from. U obviously knew about the Wilmington junk yard me and Chefyota4x4 went to the other day.
Just curious cuz me and him have been thinking of making an off road trip with a couple of so cal YotaTech buddies. So if u are close enough maybe u might be able to come. Not sure for when yet though.

 

Well then... Keep m mind!

Joel

 

@Redeth005- yeah Ive got the 3vze and its rebuilt, my milage is like 12 city driving like a grandma, but thats probably cause I run 33s on stock gears. Yeah I'm from the south bay, I was at that same pick ur part yesterday. Yeah Id be down to go on a trip as long as its a weekend thing.

@JAvendan- Will do man.

 

Put a Rancho steering stabilizer on, man this thing helps

So when I bought the car the rear seats worked by a L bar across the back holding the seats up and a piece of rebar with metal wire all ghetto rigged to hold the rear seats in place. It was terrible, I couldnt put up with it anymore and found a set of all the rear seat brackets on ebay for 90 freakin bucks, knowing I was getting ripped off I bought them so it could be done. Now trying to install them I found out I have 2nd gen seats.



So I guess I'll be using that L bar a little long till I figure it out.

 

Finally picked up a spare.

 

Lol u must have gotten that one off the same 4runner I did lol.