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NoDrama

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UncleBuck said:
should check out the top gear episode where they try to destroy a toyota pickup.

they drive it into a tree, bury it in the ocean, and even park it on top of a building that gets demolished.

it starts up and runs with no spare parts after each catastrophe.
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That truck was a diesel, you aren't going to be getting a diesel.
You will be getting a 30 year old truck that probably has rust in the bed, a lot of deferred maintenance on these trucks because they don't break down much. If you are going to be doing any serious offroading I suggest getting the ones with a solid axle, so that would be year 85 to qualify for your list. they quit putting them on in '86. The truck will most likely have quite a few miles already and will probably need a knuckle rebuild, pinion seals, front and rear main seals and probably a clutch MC and a Carb Rebuild. Rear Drum brakes will probabaly need some attention, people don't know how they work anymore and leave them alone.

Knuckle rebuilds are true zen with Toyota trucks, figure a whole weekend and a ton of grease and grime and 90 wt oil. Pinion seals are a cinch with the right tools, rear main seal isn't too bad, front is more involved and might as well replace the water pump while in there and all the timing gaskets too. Clutch MC can be replaced in 30 minutes, carb rebuild will take a few hours, but will take days to clean it well enough. Most people will tell you it is difficult to work on carburetors, I can tell you it is simplicity compared to fuel injection.

Have fun.

A car that runs well is worth more than $300.
 
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Dr Kynes

Dr Kynes

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NoDrama said:
That truck was a diesel, you aren't going to be getting a diesel.
You will be getting a 30 year old truck that probably has rust in the bed, a lot of deferred maintenance on these trucks because they don't break down much. If you are going to be doing any serious offroading I suggest getting the ones with a solid axle, so that would be year 85 to qualify for your list. they quit putting them on in '86. The truck will most likely have quite a few miles already and will probably need a knuckle rebuild, pinion seals, front and rear main seals and probably a clutch MC and a Carb Rebuild. Rear Drum brakes will probabaly need some attention, people don't know how they work anymore and leave them alone.

Knuckle rebuilds are true zen with Toyota trucks, figure a whole weekend and a ton of grease and grime and 90 wt oil. Pinion seals are a cinch with the right tools, rear main seal isn't too bad, front is more involved and might as well replace the water pump while in there and all the timing gaskets too. Clutch MC can be replaced in 30 minutes, carb rebuild will take a few hours, but will take days to clean it well enough. Most people will tell you it is difficult to work on carburetors, I can tell you it is simplicity compared to fuel injection.

Have fun.

A car that runs well is worth more than $300.
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i gotta wonder why they japanese think it's a good idea to put the waterpump down in the guts with the timing gears.

waterpumps should be easy to service since they are a wear part, and can easily be situated with the rest of the accessory pumps and the alternator

did a waterpump on a honda and i had the strip the engine down so far i was tempted to just rebuild the whole motor

and you can strip the gunk out of a carb in an hour with a dip tank and some disc brake cleaner spray
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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NoDrama said:
That truck was a diesel, you aren't going to be getting a diesel.
You will be getting a 30 year old truck that probably has rust in the bed, a lot of deferred maintenance on these trucks because they don't break down much. If you are going to be doing any serious offroading I suggest getting the ones with a solid axle, so that would be year 85 to qualify for your list. they quit putting them on in '86. The truck will most likely have quite a few miles already and will probably need a knuckle rebuild, pinion seals, front and rear main seals and probably a clutch MC and a Carb Rebuild. Rear Drum brakes will probabaly need some attention, people don't know how they work anymore and leave them alone.

Knuckle rebuilds are true zen with Toyota trucks, figure a whole weekend and a ton of grease and grime and 90 wt oil. Pinion seals are a cinch with the right tools, rear main seal isn't too bad, front is more involved and might as well replace the water pump while in there and all the timing gaskets too. Clutch MC can be replaced in 30 minutes, carb rebuild will take a few hours, but will take days to clean it well enough. Most people will tell you it is difficult to work on carburetors, I can tell you it is simplicity compared to fuel injection.

Have fun.

A car that runs well is worth more than $300.
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i've done rear drum brakes before, first thing i ever did beyond an oil change. easy stuff.

anything on those early model toyotas is super easy, i bet they were the only engineers in the world to consider the size of a human hand and the vulnerability of knuckles when loosening tough bolts.

the infiniti bluebooks at around $600 in its condition. i could spend $450 on tires and make it worth $900, but then it still needs a $300 flywheel and hours of repair that i have no clue how to do. some lucky fella will probably take it off my hands as a project for about $500. its trade in value is basically nothing.

never gonna offroad the truck, just take some lumber home with it. might have to build a cab on it so the dogs have a place to ride if the cab is too small.
 
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NoDrama

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Dr Kynes said:
i gotta wonder why they japanese think it's a good idea to put the waterpump down in the guts with the timing gears.

waterpumps should be easy to service since they are a wear part, and can easily be situated with the rest of the accessory pumps and the alternator

did a waterpump on a honda and i had the strip the engine down so far i was tempted to just rebuild the whole motor

and you can strip the gunk out of a carb in an hour with a dip tank and some disc brake cleaner spray
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MAN I can agree with you on that one. I replaced my water pump on my Land Cruiser last year, had to remove the radiator, shroud, T-Stat, all the belts and hoses had to come off too. 12 hours later it was in and running. The old one had no problems, but 32 years of service and 397,000 miles I figured it was due for a new one. Replaced all the hoses and gaskets while I was in there, great thing about these older Land Cruisers is that they have no timing belt, just big gears that never wear out sitting on huge bearings. For a 4.2 Liter inline 6 cylinder engine, its a HUGE beast, 800 pounds for the bare engine alone. Terrible fuel mileage 16 on the Hwy, 12 in town. Never broke down in 32 years though.

You can dip a carb in Berrymans for an hour or two, ( I dip mine for about 20 hours) but you really need to use compressed air and tooth floss to get at all of the small orifices if you really want that carb to work smoothly with no hesitating in any part of the RPM band. Of course it depends on how dirty the carb was to begin with too.
 
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NoDrama

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UncleBuck said:
i've done rear drum brakes before, first thing i ever did beyond an oil change. easy stuff.

anything on those early model toyotas is super easy, i bet they were the only engineers in the world to consider the size of a human hand and the vulnerability of knuckles when loosening tough bolts.

the infiniti bluebooks at around $600 in its condition. i could spend $450 on tires and make it worth $900, but then it still needs a $300 flywheel and hours of repair that i have no clue how to do. some lucky fella will probably take it off my hands as a project for about $500. its trade in value is basically nothing.

never gonna offroad the truck, just take some lumber home with it. might have to build a cab on it so the dogs have a place to ride if the cab is too small.
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Yep, old Toyotas were designed to be worked on. All mechanical affairs with very little computer aided anything. Bonus if there is an EMP, you will still be driving around.

You are in the right part of the country for that truck too, Colorado has a bunch of Toyota 4wd fanatics. I order all my Land Cruiser parts from a guy in Colorado Springs, he gives me a good discount and knows almost everything about these trucks.

Sorry to hear that your Maxima isn't in good shape, but it cost you nothing anyway.
 
sheskunk

sheskunk

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UncleBuck said:
they sold for $6k MSRP back in 1985 and the well taken care of ones still sell for the same today. kinda hard to believe anything holds its value that well nowadays.
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You don't understand much about inflation, do you?


UncleBuck said:
you have to remove the transmission to get to the flywheel on an infiniti i30. and the flywheel itself is $300, that's more than the car is worth..
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To remove a transmission you have to take off a few bolts, disconnect the shift linkage and drop the drive line. If a girl in high school can do it, I'm sure you can.

UncleBuck said:
i've done rear drum brakes before, first thing i ever did beyond an oil change. easy stuff.

never gonna offroad the truck, just take some lumber home with it. might have to build a cab on it so the dogs have a place to ride if the cab is too small.
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Wow, you've done brakes? You're something special, aren't you.

You gonna put a cab on that cab for your cab to have more cab?


I love how you try to brag about shit to gain some type of respect here. I LOL every time.
 
UncleBuck

UncleBuck

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NoDrama said:
Yep, old Toyotas were designed to be worked on. All mechanical affairs with very little computer aided anything. Bonus if there is an EMP, you will still be driving around.

You are in the right part of the country for that truck too, Colorado has a bunch of Toyota 4wd fanatics. I order all my Land Cruiser parts from a guy in Colorado Springs, he gives me a good discount and knows almost everything about these trucks.

Sorry to hear that your Maxima isn't in good shape, but it cost you nothing anyway.
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i think the most i ever did to that thing in 5 years was replace the windshield wipers and a thermostat. and the battery.

did it suddenly get fatter in here?
 
Red1966

Red1966

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Padawanbater2 said:

Holy shit this guy lives in lalaland..

I know Stein's not this stupid, he's playing a role, just like most actors do.. The people watching Fox News are this stupid.. They eat this shit up!
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I see you're watching Fox News and eating it up so much you're quoting it on the internet.
 
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