Recent content by Geri O

There ya go... 1. From what I've read here, the #6 cylinder head gasket leak was cleared up in the 2006, maybe 2005 models. In the case of my girlfriend's 2004 4Runner V6, we aren't sure if it was the chicken or the egg, as it were. I've read of issues cropping up with the #6 cylinder getting...

Just a quick update on the 2004... A couple of days after this post, her son listed the truck and its ailments in Craigslist and asked for offers. We were pleasantly surprised when we had an offer from a mechanic in Memphis, TN who is familiar with this truck and is buying and repairing them...

A very fair question, I should have explained further...(and yes, it's a 2011, I corrected the original post. The problem oil change was done by a Toyota dealer in the next town at the time the vehicle was traded in. Then, my girlfriend's son made a "dealer transaction" to get the vehicle to...

Hi, guys, we sold the girlfriend's 2004 4Runner with 200,600 miles on it and the ubiquitous head gasket leak in cylinder #6 (and the buyer showed up with 5 gallon jugs of water and drove it 185 miles back to his home!). She is now the proud owner of a 2011 SR5 4Runner and she loves it! It's a...

I guess we'll add ours to the list, even though we've resolved the issue... 2004 4Runner V6 mis-fire and eventually water in #6. Bad head gaskets. 200,600 miles. Truck belongs to girlfriend. And I was just about to inquire to Toyota about the cracked dash... It's hard to fault the truck in the...

Thanx. I'm not going to run all of this by my girlfriend, but after taking this morning to dig deeper into this engine thing, I can't believe these prices I'm hearing from 3 shop around here! I'm now thinking of getting heads from car-part and getting a "good ol' boy" to replace the heads. Just...

Of course, you are right, except that I'm a little taken aback that because my first post is about this issue, I might be taken as less than genuine. Okay, fine, I get the reasons, fair enough. I had a 99 Ford F150 truck that ran for 300,00+ miles without any internal engine issues, but 3...

2004 4Runner with "that" V6 engine. 200,600 miles. Not a single problem until this. It started leaking coolant into #6 cylinder. G/F let it run out of coolant and overheat badly. Heads warped beyond repair I know it's 18 months later, but I wish we could have found an engine that cheap. The...

This is an amazing and pretty condescending post, IMO. Yes, My first post here was about a head gasket issue. Guess what? Some folks are facing issues such as this and search the great and almighty internet and accompanying forums for answers and idea about their issues. To belittle those posts...

Hi, Mr. Byrne (making an assumption there...:o)), thanx for the response. We were hopeful on having a successful repair on this truck which has been so good to her. Unfortunately, after a few days of diagnostics with 2 shops and a dealer, it's been determined that the head (yep, on #6 cylinder)...

Interesting that I just came across this thread. My girlfriend's 2004 4Runner has 208,000 miles on it and it ha been nearly flawless the entire time (except for that cracked dash thing which we had written off to age, but it looks like that will be taken care of!). Recently, I drove it to...