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Originally Posted by Drak
What a great find!
Awesome catch, I'm sure you'll love it.
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Thank you I do, been putting a lot of miles on it recently
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Originally Posted by jewski_brewski
Nice find! I'm your neighbor to the north and was also struggling to find a rust-free 4th Gen near me. I ended up finding a clean 2005 SR5 V8 in Missouri with only 109,000 miles. I've done a lot of work to mine in the month that I've owned it: changed the timing belt (Aisin kit purchased from Rock Auto), coolant flush, installed NGK iridium spark plugs, new PCV valve, replaced the cabin air filter, new tires, replaced a roof rack end cap that was causing a leak, replaced light bulbs, put in WeatherTech floor mats, and just changed engine oil for the first time tonight. I went with Napa full synthetic 5W-30 (since it was on sale and is re-branded Valvoline) and a Toyota OEM filter. Tomorrow I'll be swapping rear brake rotors and changing differential fluid.
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Originally Posted by jewski_brewski
That seems pretty high to me... as previously mentioned, undercoating means nothing if they don't spray the inside of the frame. From the pictures, yours looks almost completely rust free. In that case, it might be worth it for you to have the undercarriage sprayed and sealed. In my case, my undercarriage has some minor rust so getting a professional undercoating would most likely just conceal any problem areas. After doing a lot of research, I think I'm going to use a product called Fluid Film on my undercarriage. It's a seasonal application that will protect your undercarriage from midwestern road salt, and runs about $10 a can.
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Thank you and glad you were able to find yourself a clean 4Runner too! You've done so much work too it already, I have majority of the things you mentioned on my to do list as well. I've been reading more and more about fluid film as well and it seems to be a good option. I have to figure out the best way to apply it and clean up the surface rust a bit before hand.
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Originally Posted by little_titan
Hard to say if $675 is worth it. Youre gonna have to do some more research or talk to old timers who can look under your t4r and make recommendations.
Hopefully, they have their own car they did it to 5-10years ago and dont mind showing you what it looks like now... that might be the convincing I would need.
Im going try fluid film, just a path that will hopefully work for me. Just need to find a guy in chicagoland area with a shop and air compressor that can do a good fluid film job on my t4r.
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I agree with you and thanks for your input. Please let me know if you manage to find someone. I'm currently looking as well and waiting on a few more quotes. If not, I'll have to do it myself somehow.
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Originally Posted by 46runner
Congrats on finding a good frame! As for plugs I ended up changing the boots too since they were cracked. I have a write-up with pics. The link is in my signature.
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Originally Posted by 46runner
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Appreciate it and thank you for the link!
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